Tag: China

The U.N. Security Council on Monday agreed on its toughest-ever sanctions against North Korea that passed unanimously after the United States softened its initial demands to win support from China and Russia. The sanctions set limits on North Korea’s oil imports and banned its textile exports in an effort to deprive the reclusive nation of […]

Juba, South Sudan — The United States proposed to impose an international arms embargo on South Sudan if there is no positive development in the implementation of the peace agreement. The proposal was made during a joint meeting for the UN Security Council and the African Union Peace and Security Council held in Addis Ababa […]

The United States is calling for a vote as early as Monday on new, harsher sanctions to be imposed on North Korea by the UN Security Council over its recent test of what experts believe to be a hydrogen bomb, though no details have yet been released as to what those sanctions might actually entail. […]

It takes one hour and 45 minutes to fly from Shenyang, a sprawling provincial capital in northeastern China not far from the border with North Korea, to Seoul, the capital of South Korea. It’s the kind of flight in which passengers have to gobble down their beef and rice before the attendants come around telling them […]

No one takes nuclear tests by a despotic madman lightly, but one might expect that the object of his disdain and the primary target for his weapons would be a little more concerned. A recent Gallup Korea poll showed that 58 percent of respondents did not think that there was a possibility of North Korea […]

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and South Korean President Moon Jae-in will ask China and Russia for their support for new sanctions against North Korea, Kyodo News said on Thursday, citing a Japanese official. Abe and Moon, in talks on the sidelines of the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok, Russia, agreed to step up pressure […]

Kim Jong Un’s pursuit of increasingly advanced nuclear weapons and ballistic missile platforms has not only led to military tensions on and around the Korean peninsula, but continued diplomatic tensions within international bodies like the United Nations.  The United States, which has taken on the primary role in enforcing the UN resolutions barring Kim’s development […]

America’s ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, did not mince words in an emergency security council meeting held on Monday, saying “the time for half measures” with North Korea had come to an end. Over the weekend, Kim’s regime successfully tested what is believed to be a two-stage thermonuclear weapon, or hydrogen bomb.  This […]

As the White House and the Kim regime play a game of chicken with each other the media is once again ramping up for a full-scale freak out about North Korea.  Remember the last one a few months back?  Yeah, nothing happened, just like every other time.  There are some new and important developments this […]

The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK, North Korea) tested a nuclear weapon on Sunday, September 3rd, which was its sixth test, according to the New York Times and the first time the country’s claim to have tested a Hydrogen (thermonuclear) bomb might actually be true.  While some analysts doubt the truth of this last […]

It’s no secret that the United States and a number of other military powers around the world are already hard at work implementing uses for robotics on the battlefield.  Drones have revolutionized a number of combat operations, and firms like DARPA have been hard at work on autonomous land-based combat support equipment for years.  The […]

Sometimes “don’t try this at home” hardly seems to cover it. Most of us are familiar with the story of William Tell, the legendary folk hero in Switzerland that was forced to shoot an apple off of his son’s head after failing to bow to the newly appointed Austrian Vogt, Albrecht Gessler.  Tell, according to […]