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22 September 2017 Kim called Trump "a rogue and a gangster fond of playing with fire" after the President's threat, earlier this week, to "destroy" North Korea.
29 August 2017 North Korea earlier fired a midrange ballistic missile that flew over Japan and fell into the Pacific Ocean.
11 August 2017 We found no evidence that the Russian president made this comment.
11 August 2017 Despite rumors to the contrary, Trump's comments about North Korea were not plagiarized from a Captain America comic book character.
11 August 2017 The exclamation came after President Donald Trump warned Pyongyang of "fire and fury like the world has never seen."
10 August 2017 Japan and South Korea have vowed a strong reaction if North Korea goes ahead with the plan.
9 August 2017 The President vowed "fire and fury like the world has never seen" if North Korea continued to make threats against the United States.
7 August 2017 The U.N. Security Council earlier voted to impose $1 billion in economic sanctions against North Korea.
11 July 2017 Though perhaps imbued with more relevance in light of events on the Korean Peninsula, the test had been planned long before North Korean missile activity.
20 June 2017 Otto Warmbier, sentenced to 15 years of hard labor for allegedly trying to steal a propaganda poster, died shortly after being medically evacuated to the United States.
15 June 2017 Otto Warmbier, serving a 15-year prison term for alleged anti-state acts, was released to his home state of Ohio in a coma.
25 May 2017 Several hyperpartisan web sites falsely attributed an invented quote to the singer.
26 April 2017 Disreputable web sites are falsely reporting that a 2015 video of a nighttime tsunami alert in Chile was a mass evacuation in North Korea.
21 April 2017 Although something may have appeared odd about weapons seen during a North Korean military parade, the claim that the country's missiles are fake is only speculation.
13 April 2017 A news outlet reported that the United States may strike North Korea to head off another missile test.
13 April 2017 The North Korean government apparently issued the warning, but it was not made in response to a U.S. naval strike force's being deployed to the region.
31 May 2016 A North Korean propaganda outlet has backed presumptive U.S. Republican nominee Donald Trump.
16 May 2016 A photograph purportedly showing North Korean generals wearing medals on their pants has been doctored.
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