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Illustration on the need to resume talks with North Korea by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

New U.S-North Korea strategy should include negotiations

By Joseph R. DeTrani

In this Thursday, Dec. 14, 2017, file photo, Chinese President Xi Jinping attends a signing ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. Chinese leaders, led by President Xi, promised Wednesday to increase imports and reduce risks in their financial system amid slowing economic growth and pressure from Washington and Europe to open their markets wider. (Nicolas Asfouri/Pool Photo via AP, File)

China covertly offering North Korea missiles, aid to halt nuclear program

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Free Beacon

In this Dec. 29, 2017, photo, a man walks by the official emblem of the 2018 Pyeongchang Olympic Winter Games, in downtown Seoul, South Korea. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said Monday the United States should be aware that his country's nuclear forces are now a reality, not a threat. But he also struck a conciliatory tone in his New Year's address, wishing success for the Winter Olympics set to begin in the South in February and suggesting the North may send a delegation to participate. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

South Korea offers talks with North on Olympic cooperation

By HYUNG-JIN KIM - Associated Press

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Kim Jong-un offers an opening, or a trap

By Wesley Pruden - The Washington Times

South Koreans watch a TV news program showing North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's New Year's speech, at the Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, Jan. 1, 2018. The letters read on top left, &quot;Kim Jong Un delivers New Year's speech.&quot; Kim said the United States should be aware that his country's nuclear forces are now a reality, not a threat. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

Kim says US should know North Korean nuclear force a reality

By ERIC TALMADGE and KIM TONG-HYUNG - Associated Press

FILE - In this undated file photo distributed on Sept. 16, 2017, by the North Korean government, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, right, celebrates what was said to be the test launch of an intermediate range Hwasong-12 missile at an undisclosed location in North Korea. North Korea says it will never give up its nuclear weapons as long as the United States and its allies continue their “blackmail and war drills” at its doorstep. Independent journalists were not given access to cover the event depicted in this image distributed by the North Korean government. The content of this image is as provided and cannot be independently verified. (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP, File)

N. Korea says won’t give up nukes if US keeps up ‘blackmail’

Associated Press

FILE - In this Dec. 15, 2017, file photo, U.S. special envoy for North Korea policy Joseph Yun speaks to media in Bangkok, Thailand. In the first month of Donald Trump’s presidency, Yun, an American foreign policy scholar, quietly met with North Korean officials and relayed a message: the new administration in Washington appreciated an extended halt in the North’s nuclear and ballistic missile tests. It might just offer a ray of hope. (AP Photo/Krit Phromsakla Nasakolnakorn, File)

Ray of hope, then deep hostility between U.S. and North Korea

By MATTHEW PENNINGTON - Associated Press

Trump criticizes China after report of NKorea oil transfer

By MATTHEW PENNINGTON and CATHERINE LUCEY - Associated Press

President Trump showed an interview 18 years ago in which he warned that the U.S. needed to get tougher with North Korea. "I've been saying it for a long, long time," Mr. Trump tweeted. (Associated Press/File)

Donald Trump says Chinese oil shipments to North Korea ‘very disappointing’

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Postcard from Pyongyang: The airport now has Wi-Fi, sort of

By ERIC TALMADGE - Associated Press

In this May 24, 2017, file photo, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Treasury issues sanctions against 2 North Korean officials

Associated Press

In this May 15, 2017, file photo, employees watch electronic boards monitoring possible ransomware cyberattacks at the Korea Internet and Security Agency in Seoul, South Korea. (Yun Dong-jin/Yonhap via AP, File)

North Korean ambassador to the U.N. asks U.S. to prove Pyongyang waged global WannaCry cyberattack

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, left, sits with Finance Minister Taro Aso, right, for a Cabinet meeting at his official residence in Tokyo Friday, Dec. 22, 2017. Abe's Cabinet approved Japan's biggest 5.19 trillion yen ($46 billion) defense budget on Friday to bolster ballistic missile defense capability amid escalating threats from North Korea. (Hitoshi Takano/Kyodo News via AP)

Japan Cabinet OKs record $46 bln defense budget

By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson takes part in a joint media availability with Canada's Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland, not pictured, on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Ontario, Tuesday, Dec. 19, 2017. (Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press via AP)

EDITORIAL: Rex Tillerson gets a brush-off

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

The global WannaCry 2.0 ransomware cyberattack highlights just one example of foreign intelligence threats.

North Korea denies role in WannaCry cyberattack, disputing White House assessment

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

Burkina Faso’s government suspends trade with North Korea

Associated Press

In this Sept. 11, 2017, file photo, White House homeland security adviser Tom Bossert speaks during the daily news briefing at the White House, in Washington. Trump's administration is publicly blaming North Korea for a ransomware attack that infected hundreds of thousands of computers worldwide in May and crippled parts of Britain's National Health Service. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

White House blames North Korea for ‘Wannacry’ ransomware attack

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster gestures as he answers questions from members of the media during the daily briefing in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House, Thursday, Nov. 2, 2017. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) ** FILE **

H.R. McMaster: U.S. will not tolerate a nuclear North Korea

By Sally Persons - The Washington Times

In this Sept. 11, 2017, file photo, White House homeland security adviser Tom Bossert speaks during the daily news briefing at the White House, in Washington. Trump's administration is publicly blaming North Korea for a ransomware attack that infected hundreds of thousands of computers worldwide in May and crippled parts of Britain's National Health Service. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

Trump administration blames North Korea for big ransomware attack

Associated Press

In this Sept. 11, 2017, file photo, White House homeland security adviser Tom Bossert speaks during the daily news briefing at the White House, in Washington. Trump's administration is publicly blaming North Korea for a ransomware attack that infected hundreds of thousands of computers worldwide in May and crippled parts of Britain's National Health Service. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

Trump administration blames NKorea for big ransomware attack

Associated Press