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FILE- In this July 25, 2017 file photo, Korean waitresses play music at the Pyongyang Okryu-Gwan North Korean Restaurant in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The United Arab Emirates says it will stop issuing new visas to North Korean laborers, becoming the latest Gulf country to cut back on ties to Pyongyang amid tensions between North Korea and the U.S. The announcement by the UAE Foreign Ministry on Thursday, Oct. 12, 2017, did not address the thousands of North Korean laborers already working in the Emirates. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili, File)

UAE stops issuing new visas for North Korean laborers

By JON GAMBRELL - Associated Press

Australian Defense Minister Marise Payne, left, speaks as Foreign Minister Julie Bishop listens during their press conference at the border village of Panmunjom in Paju, South Korea, Thursday, Oct. 12, 2017. The foreign and defense ministers of South Korea and Australia will hold talks on Friday expected to discuss North Korea, bilateral cooperation and regional security issues. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

Australia’s foreign minister visits tense Korean border

By HYUNG-JIN KIM - Associated Press

In this Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2017, file photo, President Donald Trump speaks during a briefing at Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, N.J. A new Associated Press-NORC poll finds that North Korea’s nuclear weapons development is spooking most Americans. Two-thirds of them say President Donald Trump’s war of words with the isolated nation’s leader is making the situation worse. Less than one in 10 think Trump’s comments are making it better. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Most Americans say Donald Trump making North Korea situation worse: AP-NORC Poll

By Matthew Pennington and Emily Swanson - Associated Press

Illustration emphasizing U.S./ Azerbaijani cooperation by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

Azerbaijan must be engaged by U.S.

By S. Rob Sobhani

FILE - In this Sept. 18, 2017, file photo provided by South Korea Defense Ministry, a U.S. Air Force B-1B bomber drops a bomb as it flies over the Korean Peninsula during a joint drills, South Korea. A South Korean lawmaker said Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2017, that North Korean hackers may have stolen highly classified military documents that include U.S.-South Korean wartime &quot;decapitation strike&quot; plans against the North, according to South Korean media reports. (South Korea Defense Ministry via AP, File)

S. Korean lawmaker says North Korea hacked war plans

By FOSTER KLUG - Associated Press

This Saturday, Oct. 7, 2017, file photo distributed by the North Korean government shows North Korean leader Kim Jong-un speaking during a meeting of the central committee of the Workers' Party of Korea in Pyongyang. (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP)

Kim Jong-un decapitation plans compromised by hackers: South Korean lawmaker

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

In this image made from Feb. 13, 2017, video provided by Fuji TV, Kim Jong Nam, half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, is stretchered at Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Sepang, Malaysia. Japan's Fuji TV broadcast on Sunday, Oct. 8, 2017, what it described as exclusive airport security videos showing an unconscious Kim being taken on a stretcher to an elevator. It said he was being taken to an ambulance to be transported to a hospital. Kim died on the way to the hospital. (Fuji TV via AP)

Kim Jong-nam case: Murder trial visits lab to examine VX-tainted clothes

By Eileen Ng - Associated Press

This Saturday, Oct. 7, 2017, file photo distributed by the North Korean government shows North Korean leader Kim Jong-un speaking during a meeting of the central committee of the Workers' Party of Korea in Pyongyang. (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP)

Sean Duffy praises Trump’s policy on North Korea, says past policy was ‘path to World War III’

By Sally Persons - The Washington Times

FILE - in this Sept. 13, 2017 file photo activists of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) protest against the conflict between North Korea and the USA with masks of the North Korean ruler Kim Jong Un, right, and the US president Donald Trump, left, in front of the US embassy in Berlin, Germany. The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons wins the Nobel Peace Prize. The Norwegian Nobel Committee honored the Geneva-based group &quot;for its work to draw attention to the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of any use of nuclear weapons and for its ground-breaking efforts to achieve a treaty-based prohibition of such weapons.&quot; (Britta Pedersen/dpa via AP)

Analysis: Nobel says to Korea nuke players: We are watching

By TED ANTHONY - Associated Press

FILE - In this July 25, 1946 file photo, a huge mushroom cloud rises above Bikini atoll in the Marshall Islands following an atomic test blast, part of the U.S. military's &quot;Operation Crossroads.&quot; Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands remains contaminated by radiation, part of a troubling nuclear testing legacy that continues to affect islands and people across the Pacific long after the U.S., Britain and France stopped their testing programs there. (AP Photo, File)

In Pacific, rising tensions evoke troubling nuclear legacy

By NICK PERRY - Associated Press

In this July 27, 2013, file photo, North Korean soldiers carrying packs marked with the nuclear symbol turn and look towards leader Kim Jong Un during a military parade in Pyongyang, North Korea. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E, File)

Questions arise on China’s plans as N. Korea war talk rises

By CHRISTOPHER BODEEN - Associated Press

Indonesian Siti Aisyah, center, is escorted by police as she arrives for court hearing at Shah Alam court house in Shah Alam, outside Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Thursday, Oct. 5, 2017. Aisyah and Doan Thi Huong of Vietnam have pleaded not guilty to killing Kim Jong Nam on Feb. 13 at a crowded Kuala Lumpur airport terminal. They are accused of wiping VX on Kim's face in an assassination widely thought to have been orchestrated by North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. (AP Photo/Sadiq Asyraf)

Kim Jong-nam case: Chemist says VX traces found on both murder suspects

By Eileen Ng - Associated Press

In this Sept. 4, 2017 photo, portraits of late North Korean leaders Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il hang on a wall as a woman stands in a room of a dormitory for workers with the seafood processing factory Hunchun Pagoda, in the city of Hunchun in northeastern China's Jilin province. The workers wake up each morning on metal bunk beds in fluorescent-lit Chinese dormitories, North Koreans outsourced by their government to process seafood that ends up in American stores and homes. Privacy is forbidden. They cannot leave their compounds without permission. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

Nuclear-armed North Korea profits from US, EU seafood sales

By TIM SULLIVAN and HYUNG-JIN KIM and MARTHA MENDOZA - Associated Press

North Korea's Off Ramp Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

North Korea negotiations are the only way

By Joseph R. DeTrani

In this Sept. 4, 2017 photo, portraits of late North Korean leaders Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il hang on a wall as a woman stands in a room of a dormitory for workers with the seafood processing factory Hunchun Pagoda, in the city of Hunchun in northeastern China's Jilin province. The workers wake up each morning on metal bunk beds in fluorescent-lit Chinese dormitories, North Koreans outsourced by their government to process seafood that ends up in American stores and homes. Privacy is forbidden. They cannot leave their compounds without permission. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

NKorean workers prep seafood going to US stores, restaurants

By TIM SULLIVAN and HYUNG-JIN KIM AND MARTHA MENDOZA - Associated Press

FILE - This undated file photo distributed by the North Korean government shows what was said to be the test launch of an intermediate range Hwasong-12 in North Korea. As North Korea steps up its nuclear weapons tests and threats, South Korea’s Unification Ministry faces an almost existential crisis. It wasn’t too long ago that the ministry was one of Seoul’s most powerful government departments. But the political sway is mostly gone after a decade that saw relations between the Koreas go from bad to worse.(Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP, File)

North Korea accuses US of imposing an ‘economic blockade’

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

In this combination of photos, Indonesian Siti Aisyah, left, and Vietnamese Doan Thi Huong, right, are escorted by police as they leave their court hearing at Shah Alam court house in Shah Alam, outside Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Monday, Oct. 2, 2017. Aisyah and Huong, accused of fatally poisoning Kim Jong-nam, the estranged half brother of North Korea's ruler, pleaded not guilty as their trial began Monday in Malaysia's High Court, nearly eight months after the brazen airport assassination that sparked a diplomatic standoff. (AP Photos/Daniel Chan)

Kim Jong-nam case: VX poison killed brother of North Korean leader

By Eileen Ng - Associated Press

The USS Ronald Reagan aircraft carrier arrives in Hong Kong, Monday, Oct. 2, 2017. A senior U.S. Navy commander of the nuclear powered aircraft carrier reportedly participating in joint drills with South Korea later this month told reporters during a stop in Hong Kong on Monday that his strike group is committed to defending U.S. allies in the region. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)

The Latest: US Navy admiral pledges to defend Japan, S.Korea

Associated Press

FILE - In this June 13, 2000, file photo, then North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, left, and then South Korean President Kim Dae-jung shake hands in Pyongyang, North Korea. As North Korea steps up its nuclear weapons tests and threats, South Korea’s Unification Ministry faces an almost existential crisis. It wasn’t too long ago that the ministry was one of Seoul’s most powerful government departments. But the political sway is mostly gone after a decade that saw relations between the Koreas go from bad to worse. (Yonhap Pool Photo via AP, File)

North Korea tension sidelines South’s Unification Ministry

By KIM TONG-HYUNG - Associated Press

Iran's state-run Fars News agency reported that the Iranian military supplied Russia with a copy of a U.S. ScanEagle drone supposedly captured by Iran in 2012. (Insitu Pacific/File)

U.S. military drone dominance challenged by enemies

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times