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Illustration on North Korea's martial mentality by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

North Korea’s nuclear blackmail must be stopped

By Henry F. Cooper and Robert Laidley

Illustration on negotiating with North Korea by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

North Korea brought to heal over oil embargo

By Joseph R. DeTrani

President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak in the Cabinet Room of the White House, Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2017, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Trump: North Korea sanctions ‘small step,’ warns of more

By MATTHEW PENNINGTON - Associated Press

Russian President Vladimir Putin addresses a plenary session titled "The Russian Far East: Creating a New Reality" at the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok, Russia, on Thursday, Sept. 7, 2017. Russian President Putin says he believes President Donald Trump's administration is willing to defuse tensions on the Korean Peninsula. (Sergei Bobylev/TASS News Agency Pool Photo via AP)

Russia supplying N. Korea, evading sanctions

By L. Todd Wood

FILE - In this July 23, 2016, file photo, farmers work their fields outside the Sungri Chemical Factory, an oil refinery in the Rason Special Economic Zone near North Korea's Russian and Chinese borders. North Korea will be feeling the pain of new United Nations’ sanctions targeting some of its biggest remaining foreign revenue streams, like textiles, joint ventures and remittances from its legion of workers abroad. But Pyongyang is almost certainly breathing a sigh of relieve that the Security Council eased off the biggest target of all, North Korea’s access to the oil it needs to stay alive - and to fuel its million-man military. (AP Photo/Eric Talmadge, File)

Oil will keep flowing, but UN sanctions hit North Korea hard

By ERIC TALMADGE - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sept. 20, 2013 file photo, then Army Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Sedki Sobhi attends the funeral of Giza Police Gen. Nabil Farrag in Cairo, Egypt. South Korea's news agency said Tuesday Sept. 12, 2017, that Sobhi, Egypt's defense minister, on a visit to Seoul, announced his country has cut military ties with North Korea. There was no immediate confirmation from the Egyptian government of the agency's report, but the move follows Washington's decision last month to cut or delay $300 million in military and economic aid to Egypt over its human rights record and ties with Pyongyang. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, File)

Report: Egypt cuts military ties with North Korea

By SAMY MAGDY - Associated Press

SKorea seeks to boost slow Olympic ticket sales

By KIM TONG-HYUNG - Associated Press

FILE - In this Aug. 10, 2017, file photo, a man watches a television screen showing U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un during a news program at the Seoul Train Station in Seoul, South Korea. North Korea said Monday, Sept. 11, 2017 it will make the United States pay a heavy price if a proposal Washington is backing to impose the toughest sanctions ever on Pyongyang is approved by the U.N. Security Council this week. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon, File)

UN approves watered-down new sanctions against North Korea

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, right, welcomes Israeli President Reuven Rivlin for a meeting at the chancellery in Berlin, Germany, Thursday, Sept. 7, 2017. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Germany’s Merkel points to Iran talks as model for NKorea

Associated Press

FILE - In this Aug. 6, 2017, file photo, a man takes a photo of a TV news program in Tokyo, showing an image of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. U.N. experts say North Korea illegally exported coal, iron and other commodities worth at least $270 million to China and other countries including India, Malaysia and Sri Lanka during the six-month period ending in August in violation of U.N. sanctions. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi, File)

UN experts: NKorea exported $270 million illegally recently

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

North Korean soldiers salute at Munsu Hill in Pyongyang, North Korea to mark the 69th anniversary of the country's founding Saturday, Sept. 9, 2017. (Kyodo News via AP)

North Koreans celebrate holiday with familiar routines

Associated Press

Protesters shout slogans during a rally against the deployment of an advanced U.S. missile defense system called Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense, or THAAD, near the presidential Blue House in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, Sept. 8, 2017. Dozens of people were injured in clashes between South Korean protesters and police Thursday as the U.S. military added more launchers to the high-tech missile-defense system it installed in a southern town to better cope with North Korean threats. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

The Latest: SKorea faces ‘unprecedented security threat’

Associated Press

U.S. missile defense system called Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense system, or THAAD, are seen at a golf course in Seongju, South Korea, Thursday, Sept. 7, 2017. Seoul's Defense Ministry on Thursday said the U.S. military has completed adding more launchers to a contentious U.S. missile-defense system in South Korea to better cope with North Korean threats. The deployment of the Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense system has angered North Korea but also China and Russia, which see the system's powerful radar as a threat to their own security. (Kim Jun-beom/Yonhap via AP)

South Korea braces for another possible North Korea missile test

By Kim Tong-hyung - Associated Press

China military holds drills in waters near Korean Peninsula

Associated Press

Illustration on the deadly threat of North Korea by William brown/Tribune Content Agency

North Korea and debt ceiling bedevil Trump

By Donald Lambro

President Trump's travel ban suffered another legal setback Thursday after an appeals court ruled that the government's restrictions were too tight, and ordered that many more people have to be admitted from majority-Muslim countries. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

US not disputing NKorea’s claim to have tested H-bomb

By MATTHEW PENNINGTON - Associated Press

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, left, talks with former NBA player Dennis Rodman during a dinner in North Korea in an undated photo. (Rodong Sinmun/Korea News Service via AP) ** FILE **

Dennis Rodman, basketball star, wants to ‘straighten things out’ with his friend Kim Jong Un

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

This undated image distributed on Sunday, Sept. 3, 2017, by the North Korean government, shows North Korean leader Kim Jong Un at an undisclosed location. North Korea’s latest nuclear test was part theater, part propaganda and maybe even part fake. But experts say it was also a major display of something very real: Pyongyang’s mastery of much of the know-how it needs to reach its decades-old goal of becoming a full-fledged nuclear state. The jury is still out on whether North Korea tested, as it claims, a hydrogen bomb ready to be mounted on an ICBM. (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP, File)

Trump says U.S. military action would be a ‘sad day’ for North Korea

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

In this Sept. 5, 2017 photo, trucks transport goods to North Korea through the Friendship Bridge linking China and North Korea, as seen from Dandong in northeastern China's Liaoning Province. While condemning North Korea over its latest nuclear test, the leaders of Russia and South Korea seemed far apart on the issue of stepping up sanctions against the country. (Minoru Iwasaki/Kyodo News via AP)

The Latest: Mexico expels North Korea’s ambassador

Associated Press

This undated image distributed on Sunday, Sept. 3, 2017, by the North Korean government, shows North Korean leader Kim Jong Un at an undisclosed location. North Korea’s latest nuclear test was part theater, part propaganda and maybe even part fake. But experts say it was also a major display of something very real: Pyongyang’s mastery of much of the know-how it needs to reach its decades-old goal of becoming a full-fledged nuclear state. The jury is still out on whether North Korea tested, as it claims, a hydrogen bomb ready to be mounted on an ICBM. (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP, File)

H-bomb or not, experts say North Korea near its nuclear goal

By ERIC TALMADGE - Associated Press