[email protected]: Just returned from Asia after 12 very successful days. Great to be home!
KCNA: "The reckless remarks spouted by Trump during his junkets cannot but be viewed as the final confirmation of the White House's policy hostile to the DPRK…and an open declaration of war not to allow the existence of the Korean people any more."
KCNA: "Such a depraved guy as Trump, who is dreaming a pipedream of spreading venom of corrupt American capitalism…, will never grasp the truth that injustice can never prevail over justice until his last breath."
KCNA: "Trump, who is no more than an old slave of money, dared point an accusing finger at the sun. He should know that he is just a hideous criminal sentenced to death by the Korean people. He will be forced to pay dearly for his blasphemy any moment."
KCNA: "The worst crime for which he can never be pardoned is that he dared malignantly hurt the dignity of the supreme leadership of the DPRK."
KCNA: "Trump betrayed his true colors as an old lunatic, mean trickster and human reject during his one night and two days stay in south Korea, says Rodong Sinmun on Wednesday in a commentary."
China says it is sending high-level envoy to North Korea amid extended chill in relations due to Pyongyang's nuclear tests
Senior Chinese diplomat to visit North Korea as envoy of Xi
KCNA: "Song Tao, head of the International Liaison Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, will soon visit the Democratic People's Republic of Korea as a special envoy of Xi Jinping, general secretary of the C.C., CPC."
Earthquake of magnitude 4.6 - 75km S of Kota Ternate, Indonesia
Earthquake of magnitude 4.6 - 75km S of Kota Ternate, Indonesia
Manipur: Militants ambush 4 Assam governmentnt in Chandel's Sajik Tampak. 1 militants killed, 2 personnel injured. Firing underway
KCNA: "It is the invariable ambition of the island men to launch continental aggression with the backing of the U.S."
KCNA: "Abe flattered the master and actively fanned up his zeal for a nuclear war against the DPRK. Lurking behind this is his intention to fan up the vanity of old lunatic Trump and keep the situation tense and thus fish in troubled waters."
KCNA: "Japan wishes for the tension on the Korean peninsula more than others. The Abe group…regards the escalation of tension on the peninsula as an excellent pretext for the constitutional revision and for pushing forward its plan for becoming a military giant."
KCNA: "Now, fishery stations are catching hundreds of tons of fish on a daily average by increasing the operational rate of fishing boats to the maximum, raising the frequency of hauling in a net and making a big haul per ship."
KCNA: "Winter fishing is gaining momentum in the East Sea of Korea."
House backs $700 billion defense bill with billions for missile defense to counter North Korea threat - AP
John Bolton: North Koreans are very close now to being able to drop thermo-nuclear warheads on any target in the US. The resolution of this issue is so important because the proliferation impact of North Korea getting nuclear weapons around the world would be considerable.
8 month agoNewly obtained @CENTCOM documents on Afghanistan include references to illicit North Korean weapons. Docs obtained by @SmallArmsSurvey via FOIA
8 month agoUS Air Force RC135S 62-4128 COBRA26 Cobra Ball - Ballistic Missile detection platform airborne. No position showing.
DHS and FBI issue alert on potential cyber attacks on aerospace, finance, and telecom, sponsored by North Korea
Rohingya crisis: Organisation warns of 200,000 extra arrivals in coming weeks
Japan's PM says North Korea still developing missiles despite launch pause
The UK military is "not fit for purpose" and "can't deal" with a North Korean nuclear strike, says General Sir Richard Barrons
Trudeau directly raised concerns with Duterte about his rights-abusing drug war; Duterte says it was a "a personal and official insult":
8 month agoPresident Trump's Asia swing was his 4th foreign trip as president; brings his number of days on foreign trips to 29, and number of foreign destinations to 14:
In speech to East Asia Summit, Pres Trump also raised concerns about China's efforts "to build and militarize outposts in the South China Sea." He said the US supports "the peaceful resolution of all territorial disputes."
8 month agoPres Trump shared his copy of his speech to the East Asia Summit - which was closed to press. In it, he renewed call on all nations to join the US "in ensuring the complete, verifiable, and TOTAL (his caps) denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula."
Chinese President Xi Jinping's attendance at Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation meeting and state visits to Vietnam and Laos chart a new course for major-country diplomacy with Chinese characteristics in the new era, said Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi
A senior U.S. State Department official has told it is Myanmar's leader Aung San Suu Kyi's responsibility to find a solution to the Rohingya crisis
8 month agoPresident Trump also said his trip has "been really good in terms of North Korea and getting everybody together. I think their acts are all together." He said China, Japan and South Korea "have been excellentthat's a very important part of the trip."
President Trump on the arrest of three UCLA basketball players in China: "Hopefully everything is going to work out President Xi has been terrific"
8 month ago"It's been a really great 12 days," Pres Trump told press pool on Air Force One about his Asia trip. "We made a lot of great friends." Sold $300-billion worth of US products, says @POTUS. "And I think that number is going to be quadrupled very quickly."
Cambodia PM calls on Trump to warn diplomats about interference
Deployment of 3 U.S. aircraft carriers, which enter waters off KoreanPeninsula in joint maritime exercise with South Korea, is just "normal operation" with "no big message" intended: Pentagon chief
Chinese president back home after APEC summit, state visits to Vietnam, Laos
Deputy police chief found dead in Tacloban City
Philippines President Duterte: My advice to everybody, the ones I cursed publicly, do not get your documents from the opposition and from the communists because, I said, they are all falsified
8 month agoPhilippines President Duterte says Canadian PM @JustinTrudeau raising human rights, extrajudicial killings is a "personal, professional insult"
Philippines President Duterte says foreigners don’t know what’s happening in the country, should investigate
Philippines President Duterte looking for the UN report that details harmful effects of drugs, including meth or shabu
Philippines President Duterte once more launching into a defense of his drug war. Noting question on why only small fry are being killed, he says he’ll go for the big ones
Philippines President Duterte shifts talk to Philippines National Police, says there are a lot of scalawags there. He says he promised to double their salary so that they won’t see need to go into extortion
Philippines President Duterte talks about tensions in Korean peninsula, says in a nuclear war, the only refuge of the people would be to pray
Philippines President Duterte the overflight in space above and the use of the China sea will proceed and it was a promise of China, unfettered
Philippines President Duterte: China has graciously agreed to a code of conduct and it binds itself to the agreement
Philippines President Duterte says leaders of Asean2017 member states lauded the heroism of Filipino soldiers who fought in Marawi City
Philippines President Duterte says the issue of terrorism was high on the agenda on the Asean2017 meetings
Occupy activists’ appeal against jail terms can proceed, Hong Kong court rules
Philippines President Duterte hands over Asean chairmanship to Singapore PM Lee
Two men and a woman attack opposition leader Rahmatullo Zohirov in Dushanbe with an iron pipe
8 month agoJapanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe holds press briefing at Diamond Hotel
European Council President Donald Tusk has met Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi to discuss the Rohingya crisis
Japan's Abe offers $1 billion in rural aid to Myanmar's Suu Kyi
We have individually strived very hard to fight terrorism and violent extremism. It is time that we jointly address this challenge by intensifying cooperation in this crucial area: Indian PM Modi at 15th India-ASEAN Summit in Manila
India assures the ASEAN of its steady support towards achieving a rules-based regional security architecture that best attests to the region’s interests and its peaceful development: Indian PM Modi at 15th India-ASEAN Summit in Manila
8 month agoIndia’s Act East Policy is shaped around the ASEAN, and its centrality in the regional security architecture of the Indo-Pacific region is evident: Indian PM Modi at 15th India-ASEAN Summit in Manila
Singapore will do all it can to push RCEP negotiations forward as Asean chair: Singaporean PM Lee
Tajikistan Leader of opposition Social-Democrat party Rahmatullo Zoirov was attacked near his home in Dushanbe.
North Korea says US carrier groups raise nuclear war threat
China premier says will protect South China Sea freedom of navigation
Open engagement and ‘creative solutions’ needed in RCEP talks, says Singaporean PM Lee
We will continue our support to @ASEAN for rules-based security architecture for the region: Indian PM @narendramodi to ASEAN leaders
We have suffered due to menace of terror. The time has come for us to unite and think about mitigating terrorism: Indian PM @narendramodi at @ASEAN-India Summit
8 month agoTrudeau: "Talking about human rights is an essential path forward. It has to be done in an honest and frank way. But it has to be done. We have to talk about the high expectations we must have to protect life, to uphold the rule of lawand human rights."
Moon says anything possible if North Korea returns to dialogue
Moon says complete denuclearization of North Korea will take time
Moon says now still time to focus on sanctions, pressure against North Korea
8 month agoIndian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other leaders attend Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Summit, in Manila Philippines
KCNA: "With neither sanctions and pressure nor military threat and blackmail can the U.S. imperialists undermine the position of the DPRK as a nuclear weapons state."
KCNA: "It would be foolish to think that the DPRK, a country which has possessed powerful nuclear deterrence through an arduous struggle, would step back from the path chosen by it in fear of the sanctions and pressure of the hostile forces."
KCNA: "As claimed by all, it is just as foolish as wanting to get a chicken from a boiled egg to expect the dismantlement of the DPRK's nukes at present."
KCNA: "In January, Juche 38 (1949), President Kim Il Sung said that universal, free medical care should be certainly enforced for the people's long life in good health at the state expense."
KCNA: "Hospitalization, outpatient treatment, doctor's visit, medical checkup, experimental check, functional diagnosis, operation, preventive inoculation and all other services for preventing and curing diseases, and medical service at sanitaria are free."
KCNA: "The most advantageous healthcare system has been established in the DPRK. The state has enforced universal, free medical care to take care of people in a responsible manner."
[email protected]: THANK YOU to the amazing staff and their families of the United States Embassy in the Philippines. Keep up the GREAT WORK!
Woman loses right arm in accident at MRT-3 Ayala station
U.S. nuclear envoy hopes North Korea not to start provocations
8 month agoTow truck crashes into bus stop in Sixth Avenue, Singapore
3 arrested for assaulting police officer during brawl at Envy Dance Club, Singapore
Taiwan says shut out of U.N. climate talks due to China pressure
8 month agoASEAN2017 joint statement on climate change to be delivered at climate change conference in Germany
3 injured after car crashes through road divider in Yishun, Singapore
Maritime minister says North Korea's return of South Korean boat may be conciliatory move
8 month agoChina and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) are among the most important partners for each other, ASEAN Secretary General Le Luong Minh said in Manila
8 month agoIndian PM Narendra Modi and other leaders at the 12th East Asia Summit in Manila
South Korea expresses condolences over Iran, Iraq earthquake
[email protected]: Just arrived at ASEAN50 in the Philippines for my final stop with World Leaders. Will lead to FAIR TRADE DEALS, unlike the horror shows from past Administrations. Will then be leaving for D.C. Made many good friends!
[email protected]: After my tour of Asia, all Countries dealing with us on TRADE know that the rules have changed. The United States has to be treated fairly and in a reciprocal fashion. The massive TRADE deficits must go down quickly!
"Until this morning we heard he was unconscious and unable to breathe on his own, but his life can be saved," an ROK military official has told South Korean lawmakers.
8 month agoIndian PM Narendra Modi meets Sultan of Brunei Hassanal Bolkiah
8 month agoPolice continue search for masked gang behind van robbery
8 month agoIndian PM Narendra Modi meets Japan PM Shinzo Abe
8 month agoOfficial UN Statement on DPRK soldier defection
U.S. State Department makes it official: Its top diplomat on North Korea issues is in Seoul through Friday.
8 month agoIndian PM Narendra Modi meets Vietnam PM Nguyễn Xuân Phúc
8 month agoMore photos from Caloocan police station fire. Roof has completely collapsed; sounds of ammunition going off still ongoing. Police still trying to salvage equipment
8 month agoCaloocan police station after fire that reached 4th alarm. Headquarters completely razed; estimated 1M in damages. Case folders destroyed
US Defense Secretary Mattis, asked by a reporter: “Do you have a sense of why (the North Koreans) haven't launched anything in weeks now?, replies “Let me know if you figure it out.”
Chinese President Xi Jinping's visit to deepen friendship, promote comprehensive cooperation: Lao President Bounnhang Vorachit
Japan's Abe discusses 'grave' North Korea threat at ASEAN summit
