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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)

Siti Aisyah, Doan Thi Huong plead not guilty in North Korean Kim Jong-nam’s assassination

By Eileen Ng - Associated Press

Gen. Joseph Dunford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told the Senate Armed Services Committee on Tuesday, "While the political space is clearly very charged right now, we haven't seen a change in the posture of North Korean forces." (Associated Press)

Donald Trump vows to ‘fix the mess’ of North Korea

By Dave Boyer and Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

Gen. Joseph Dunford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told the Senate Armed Services Committee on Tuesday, "While the political space is clearly very charged right now, we haven't seen a change in the posture of North Korean forces." (Associated Press)

North Korean military not geared up for battle, despite heated rhetoric: Joint Chiefs chairman

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

This image made on Tuesday, Sept. 26, 2017, from propaganda video released by North Korea, shows U.S. President Donald Trump. Military analysts say North Korea doesn't have the capability or intent to attack U.S. bombers and fighter jets, despite the country's top diplomat saying it has the right do so. They view the remark by North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho and a recent propaganda video simulating such an attack as responses to fiery rhetoric by U.S. President Donald Trump and his hardening stance against the North's nuclear weapons program. Words say &quot;Madman Trump in the 70th anniversary of the U.S. Air Force babbled that if there will be an attack on the North, the F-35 will lead the way&quot; and &quot;F-35, B-1B and Carl Vinson, lead the attack if you will. That will be the order you head to the grave.&quot; (DPRK Today via AP)

U.S. hits North Korean banks with sanctions

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

White House national security adviser H.R. McMaster, center, listens as 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)

H.R. McMaster: Open war with North Korea a possiblity

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

A B-2 stealth bomber refuels. The U.S. Embassy in Seoul tweeted the photo on March 28, 2013, with the caption: "Two B-2 bombers flew over South Korea today, demonstrating the US’s ability to conduct precision strikes at will." (Image: U.S. Embassy, Seoul) ** FILE **

White House rejects North Korea’s characterization of ‘war’ with U.S.

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

A man walks past a TV screen showing U.S. President Donald Trump speaks at the U.N. General Assembly, in Tokyo Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2017. Trump's threat before the world to obliterate North Korea left no doubt about his determination to stop the communist country's nuclear weapons buildup. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

Trump’s trashing of Iran deal poses problems for NK strategy

By MATTHEW PENNINGTON - Associated Press

President Trump participated in a photo before the beginning of the "Reforming the United Nations: Management, Security, and Development" meeting during the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Monday. (Associated Press)

Donald Trump’s U.N. speech tough on North Korea

By S.A. Miller and Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

North Korea's rapid weapons buildup is expected to be a prime focus of President Trump's week in New York meeting with other world leaders at the U.N. General Assembly. (Associated Press/File)

North Korea secretly building nuclear submarine: Report

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

People walk past a public TV screen showing a file footage of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un during news on North's missile launch, in Tokyo, Friday, Sept. 15, 2017. North Korea fired an intermediate-range missile over Japan into the northern Pacific Ocean on Friday, U.S. and South Korean militaries said, its longest-ever such flight and a clear message of defiance to its rivals. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

UN condemns North Korea’s ‘highly provocative’ missile test

By EDITH M. LEDERER and KIM TONG-HYUNG - Associated Press

TV monitors show the J-Alert (warning siren) at an office of Kyodo News in Tokyo Friday, Sept. 15, 2017. South Korea's military said North Korea fired an unidentified missile Friday from its capital Pyongyang that flew over Japan before landing in the northern Pacific Ocean. (Toshiyuki Kuwana/Kyodo News via AP)

The Latest: Sirens blare, trains stop during missile flight

Associated Press

TV monitors show the J-Alert (warning siren) at an office of Kyodo News in Tokyo Friday, Sept. 15, 2017. South Korea's military said North Korea fired an unidentified missile Friday from its capital Pyongyang that flew over Japan before landing in the northern Pacific Ocean. (Toshiyuki Kuwana/Kyodo News via AP)

North Korea fires missile over Japan in longest-ever flight

By KIM TONG-HYUNG and FOSTER KLUG - Associated Press

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

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

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

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

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

U.S. military vehicle moves as South Korean police officers try to block residents and protesters who oppose to deploy an advanced U.S. missile defense system called Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense, or THAAD, 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. (Lee Sang-hak/Yonhap via AP)

US adds launchers to THAAD as dozens hurt in SKorea protests

By KIM TONG-HYUNG - Associated Press

In this Monday, Sept. 4, 2017, file photo provided by South Korea Defense Ministry, South Korea's Hyunmoo II ballistic missile is fired during an exercise at an undisclosed location in South Korea. South Korean warships have conducted live-fire exercises at sea. The drills Tuesday, Sept. 5, mark the second-straight day of military swagger from a nation still rattled by the North's biggest-ever nuclear test. (South Korea Defense Ministry via AP, File)

Donald Trump says U.S. ‘won’t be putting up’ with North Korea’s actions

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with Congressional leaders in the Oval Office of the White House, Wednesday, Sept. 6, 2017, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump, Xi discuss NKorea as key nations split on strategy

By MATTHEW PENNINGTON and RICHARD LARDNER - Associated Press