North Korea on Thursday warned the incoming Donald Trump administration will have to acknowledge it as a nuclear state, as the South said the maverick billionaire had pledged to protect it. The United States maintains it cannot accept North Korea as a nuclear power, despite it conducting five nuclear tests ...
South Korea and US said on Thursday that North Korea conducted what appeared to be its second failed test in a week of a powerful medium-range missile. South Korean and US military monitors said the missile — believed to be an intermediate-range Musudan — exploded shortly after take-off at around ...