Erratic North Korea Poses ‘Serious Threat’

Washington DC, Associated Press—An erratic North Korea, with its nuclear weapons and increasingly belligerent tone, poses a serious threat to the United States and East Asia nations, the director of National Intelligence warned Tuesday in the annual accounting of the threats worldwide. In his extensive overview, James R. Clapper told Congress that a less decentralized terrorist network has significantly altered the threats while the Arab Spring uprising in the Middle East and North Africa h...

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UN slaps sanctions on North Korea

United Nations/Seoul, Reuters—The United Nations imposed new sanctions on North Korea aimed at curtailing its nuclear and ballistic missile programs and China, the isolated regime's only major ally, said it wanted the measures fully implemented. The sanctions were approved just hours after North Korea threatened the United States with a preemptive nuclear strike, a largely empty warning since experts believe Pyongyang does not have the capability to hit the US mainland. With tensions hig...

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