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In this Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2015, photo, a man works on the newly painted Taedong Bridge in Pyongyang, North Korea. North Korea is already in high gear as it prepares to mark the 70th anniversary of the founding of its ruling party. Shock brigades of soldier-builders are toiling around the clock to paint bridges, build stages and finish high-rise apartments. North Korea’s capital now even has bicycle lanes. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)

With a rocket’s red glare? N. Korea gears up for major fete

By ERIC TALMADGE - Associated Press

In this Dec. 12, 2012, file photo, a screen at the General Satellite Control and Command Center shows the moment North Korea's Unha-3 rocket is launched in Pyongyang, North Korea. North Korea said Monday, Sept. 14, 2015, it is ready to launch satellites aboard long-range rockets to mark a key national anniversary next month, a move expected to rekindle animosities with its rivals South Korea and the United States. (AP Photo/File)

North Korea warns it has restarted all nuclear bomb fuel plants

By Hyung-jin Kim and Foster Klug - Associated Press

Korea's Six-Party Talks Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

JOSEPH DETRANI: Resolving the North Korean nuclear threat

By Joseph R. DeTrani

While CIA Director John O. Brennan pushed aside questions about the legitimacy of news reports alleging that deep nuclear and missile cooperation already exists between Iran and North Korea, he stressed that CIA officials are "not going to assume that's not going to happen." (Associated Press)

John Brennan: U.S. watching for nuclear cooperation between Iran, North Korea

By Rowan Scarborough and Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un

L. TODD WOOD: North Korea threatens U.S. nuclear attack

By L. Todd Wood

Pope Francis, left, waves during his visit to the birthplace of Saint Kim Taegon Andrea, also known as Saint Andrew Kim Taegon, the first Korean-born Catholic priest, prior to a meeting with Asian youths at the Solmoe Sanctuary in Dangjin, South Korea, Friday, Aug. 15, 2014. (AP Photo/Issei Kato, Pool) ** FILE **

Will the Catholic Church have a growing role in Korean reconciliation?

By Andrea Gagliarducci - Catholic News Agency

A man watches a TV news program reporting South Korea and North Korea reached an agreement, at the Seoul Railway Station, South Korea, Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2015. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

South Korea halts propaganda broadcasts as Koreas reach deal

By Hyung-jin Kim and Foster Klug - Associated Press

South Korean amy soldiers walk on Unification Bridge, which leads to the demilitarized zone, near the border village of Panmunjom in Paju, South Korea, Sunday, Aug. 23, 2015. South Korean and North Korean officials have resumed the second round of their high-level talks in the border village of Panmunjom on Sunday afternoon in an effort to ease mutual tension, South Korea’s presidential office said. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

Talks between the rival Koreas stretch into a third day

By ERIC TALMADGE and FOSTER KLUG - Associated Press

South Korean army soldiers adjust barricades set up on Unification Bridge, which leads to the demilitarized zone, near the border village of Panmunjom in Paju, South Korea, Saturday, Aug. 22, 2015. The barricade reads: "Vehicles disapproved." (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

Rival Koreas hold high-level talks to defuse war fears

By Eric Talmadge and Kim Tong-Hyung - Associated Press

A man locks a shutter of his shop after an evacuation order is issued to the residents and visitors at the Imjingak Pavilion near the border village of Panmunjom, which has separated the two Koreas since the Korean War, in Paju, north of Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, Aug. 20, 2015. South Korea's military fired dozens of shells Thursday at rival North Korea after the North lobbed a single artillery round at a South Korean border town, the South's Defense ministry said. (Kim Seung-doo/Yonhap via AP) KOREA OUT

South Koreans calm despite North Korean threat

By ERIC TALMADGE and KIM TONG-HYUNG - Associated Press

South Korean army soldiers stood guard near Yeoncheon, South Korea, where a shell fell Thursday. The military retaliated by firing dozens of shells at its rival North Korea. (Associated Press)

North Korea, South Korea exchange artillery fire as rising tensions alarm U.S. officials

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

In this Dec. 26, 2014 file photo, a North Korea's mock Scud-B missile, center, stands among South Korean missiles displayed at Korea War Memorial Museum in Seoul, South Korea. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon, File)

North Korea gives 48-hour ultimatum to South in border standoff

By Kellan Howell - The Washington Times

Illustration on the debasing of America's military strength by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

CLIFFORD MAY: Reversing Obama’s military downsizing job one for next president

By Clifford D. May

South Korean protesters shout slogans during a rally demanding to stop the joint military exercises, Ulchi Freedom Guardian or UFG, between the U.S. and South Korea near the U.S. Embassy in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, Aug. 17, 2015. The UFG exercise kicked off Monday for a 12-day run to prepare for a possible North Korea's attack. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

Seoul: N. Korea resumes loudspeaker broadcasts amid tension

By HYUNG-JIN KIM - Associated Press

In this Dec. 26, 2014 file photo, a North Korea's mock Scud-B missile, center, stands among South Korean missiles displayed at Korea War Memorial Museum in Seoul, South Korea. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon, File)

North Korea threatens ‘indiscriminate’ military strikes on South, nuclear strikes on U.S.

By Kellan Howell - The Washington Times

A North Korean waitress walks through a door under a clock with Chinese emblems at a restaurant in Rason city in North Korea, in this Aug. 29, 2011, photo. North Korea said Friday, Aug. 7, 2015, that it will establish its own time zone next week by pulling back its current standard time by 30 minutes. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)

North Korea push clocks back as a snub to Japan

By Hyung-jin Kim - Associated Press

FILE - In this July 28, 2015 file photo, North Korean Ambassador to China Ji Jae Ryong speaks at a press conference held at the North Korean Embassy in Beijing. If any hopes have been raised that the progress between the United States and Iran to halt Tehran’s development of nuclear weapons could bring a change in Pyongyang, North Korea has gone out of its way to thwart them. In a flurry of public comments since the deal, the North has been blunt - its nuclear weapons are not a bargaining chip, it is already a member of the nuclear club and if Washington wants to talk, it must recognize the North as such or put an immediate end to its hostile policies toward Pyongyang. (AP Photo/Andy Wong, File)

For North Korea, Iran-style nuclear deal not an option

By ERIC TALMADGE - Associated Press

Inside the Ring: Cecil Haney backs Iran deal

By Bill Gertz

Illustration on the Obama Iran nuclear arms deal by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

R. JAMES WOOLSEY, PETER VINCENT PRY: Iran Deal surrenders world to terrorism

By R. James Woolsey and Peter Vincent Pry

Men and women pump their fists in the air and chant &quot;Defend!&quot; as they carry propaganda slogans calling for reunification of their country during the &quot;Pyongyang Mass Rally on the Day of the Struggle Against the U.S.,&quot; attended by approximately 100,000 North Koreans to mark the 65th anniversary of the outbreak of the Korean War at the Kim Il Sung stadium, Thursday, June 25, 2015, in Pyongyang, North Korea. The month of June in North Korea is known as the &quot;Struggle Against U.S. Imperialism Month&quot; and it's a time for North Koreans to swarm to war museums, mobilize for gatherings denouncing the evils of the United States and join in a general, nationwide whipping up of the anti-American sentiment. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)

N. Korea: No interest in something like Iranian nuclear deal

Associated Press