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Key UN committee condemns North Korea’s rights violations

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

Eugene Bell Foundation Chairman Stephen Linton speaks during a news conference in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, Nov. 16, 2018. The U.S.-based nonprofit group called for South Korea to take stronger steps to fight a tuberculosis crisis in North Korea it says has worsened under strengthened U.S.-led sanctions over its nuclear weapons and missile program. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

North Korea running low on TB meds, experts fear epidemic

By ERIC TALMADGE and KIM TONG-HYUNG - Associated Press

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

WannaCry cyberattacks persist more than a year after global outbreak: Report

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

A solider watches code lines on his computer at the French Defense ministry stand during the International Cybersecurity forum in Lille, northern France, Tuesday Jan. 23, 2018. (AP Photo/Michel Spingler) **FILE**

North Korean hackers pose threat through innovative tactics, say experts

By Dan Boylan - The Washington Times

In this Sept. 19, 2018, file photo, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un speaks during a joint press conference with South Korean President Moon Jae-in at the Paekhwawon State Guesthouse in Pyongyang, North Korea. (Pyongyang Press Corps Pool via AP, File)

Donald Trump rejects North Korea ‘undeclared’ missile site report

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

U.S. President Donald Trump answers questions about the summit with North Korea leader Kim Jong-un during a press conference at the Capella resort on Sentosa Island Tuesday, June 12, 2018 in Singapore. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E) ** FILE **

Trump disputes report of secret North Korean missile bases: ‘Nothing happening out of the normal’

By Gabriella Muñoz - The Washington Times

In this June 12, 2018, file photo, U.S. President Donald Trump, right, stands with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Sentosa Island in Singapore. North Korea and the United States are trying to revive stalled diplomacy meant to rid the North of its nuclear weapons. There was much talk of the possibility of success following a meeting in June between Trump and Kim, but in the months since there has been little to quiet skeptics who believe the North will never give up weapons it has described as necessary to counter a hostile Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) **FILE**

North Korea working on hidden missile bases: Report

By Gabriella Muñoz - The Washington Times

In this June 12, 2018, file photo, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, left, and U.S. President Donald Trump shake hands at the conclusion of their meetings at the Capella resort on Sentosa Island in Singapore. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, Pool, File)

US analysts locate secret North Korean missile sites

By MATTHEW LEE - Associated Press

U.S. Vice President Mike Pence, left, meets Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at Abe's official residence in Tokyo Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2018. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

Pence, Abe agree on North Korea sanctions, new trade talks

By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

In this Sunday, Oct. 21, 2018 photo, smokes billows from the chimneys of Pyongyang Power Plant in Pyongyang, North Korea. Twenty years after his father almost bargained them away for a pair of nuclear reactors, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has his nuclear weapons - and a nation still plagued by chronic blackouts. But years of sanctions have spurred the North to cobble together a creative smorgasbord of alternative resources, some off the official grid and some flat-out illegal. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)

Options limited, North Korea lit by flashlights, creaky grid

By ERIC TALMADGE - Associated Press

In this Nov. 11, 2018 photo, South Korean soldiers prepare to load boxes of tangerines near South Korea's Air Force cargo plane C-130 at the Jeju International Airport on Jeju Island, South Korea. South Korea has airlifted thousands of boxes of tangerines to North Korea in return for the North's large shipments of pine mushrooms in September.(Park Ji-ho/Yonhap via AP)

S. Korea sends tangerines to North in return for mushrooms

By HYUNG-JIN KIM - Associated Press

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Donald Trump undaunted as Mike Pompeo meeting with North Korea scrubbed

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

In this June 12, 2018, file photo, U.S. President Donald Trump, right, stands with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Sentosa Island in Singapore. North Korea and the United States are trying to revive stalled diplomacy meant to rid the North of its nuclear weapons. There was much talk of the possibility of success following a meeting in June between Trump and Kim, but in the months since there has been little to quiet skeptics who believe the North will never give up weapons it has described as necessary to counter a hostile Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) **FILE**

South Korean minister: US says N. Korea canceled meeting

By KIM TONG-HYUNG - Associated Press

In this Oct. 23, 2018, photo, local tourists walk on the trail at Mount Kumgang, North Korea. At the height of South Korea's policy of engagement with the North, the &quot;Diamond Mountain Resort&quot; area was a symbol of cooperation. More than 2 million South Korean tourists came to visit and some of the South's biggest corporations poured more than a billion dollars into what they hoped would be a world-class travel destination. Today it's almost deserted after Seoul suspended all travel to Kumgang following the fatal shooting of a South Korean tourist in 2008. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)

Kim’s wooing of investors and slow-walk on nukes bares rift

By ERIC TALMADGE - Associated Press

In this Monday, Nov. 5, 2018 photo released by the North Korean government, Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel, left, and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un raise hands together as they watch watch a gymnastics and artistic performance at the May Day Stadium in Pyongyang, North Korea. 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 language watermark on image as provided by source reads: &quot;KCNA&quot; which is the abbreviation for Korean Central News Agency. (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP)

Kremlin says North Korea’s Kim could visit Russia next year

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President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference in the East Room at the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2018. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Trump says he’s ‘in no rush’ after NKorea talks postponed

By MATTHEW PENNINGTON - Associated Press

In this July 7, 2018, photo, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, right, and Kim Yong Chol, a North Korean senior ruling party official and former intelligence chief, arrive for a lunch at the Park Hwa Guest House in Pyongyang, North Korea. Kim Yong Chol, a senior North Korean envoy's meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Pompeo has been delayed, throwing already deadlocked diplomacy over the North's nuclear weapons into further uncertainty. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, Pool) **FILE**

Pompeo meeting with North Korean envoy delayed

By HYUNG-JIN KIM - Associated Press

FILE - In this June. 12, 2018, file photo, U.S. President Donald Trump, right, meets with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Sentosa Island, in Singapore. North Korea has warned on Friday, Nov. 2, 2018, it could revive a state policy aimed at strengthening its nuclear arsenal if the United States does not lift economic sanctions against the country. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

N. Korea threatens to resume nuke development over sanctions

By KIM TONG-HYUNG - Associated Press

S. Korea’s Moon: N. Korean leader Kim to visit Seoul ‘soon’

By HYUNG-JIN KIM - Associated Press

This combination of two file photos shows U.S. President Donald Trump, left, speaking in the State Dining Room of the White House, in Washington on Feb. 26, 2018, and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un attending in the party congress in Pyongyang, North Korea on May 9, 2016. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, Wong Maye-E, File)

Mike Pompeo plans talks to prepare new Donald Trump-Kim Jong-un summit

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times