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Antony Blinken, Brad Sherman clash over North Korea-Iran nuclear collaboration

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

In this file photo, Chinese president Xi Jinping, center, waves after he is greeted by Ambassador Peter A. Selfridge, left, Chief of Protocol of the United States, upon his arrival at the White House in Washington, Thursday, March 31, 2016. (Andrew Harnik/AP) **FILE**

China backs North Korea punishment but won’t abandon unruly ally, analysts say

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

This photo provided by the Defense Department's Missile Defense Agency, taken Jan. 28, 2016, shows a long-range ground-based interceptor is launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. As North Korea rattles its nuclear saber and threatens to bomb the U.S. at any moment, a nerve-jangling question hangs in the air: If North Korea did launch a nuclear-armed missile at an American city, could the Pentagon's missile defenses shoot it down beyond U.S. shores? (Defense Department's Missile Defense Agency via AP) ** FILE **

NORTH KOREA NUCLEAR THREAT: Allied coordination needed to counter North Korea

By Bruce Klingner

NORTH KOREA NUCLEAR THREAT: NK’s system of privilege, loyalty and ‘human rights denial’

By Robert M. Collins

NORTH KOREA NUCLEAR THREAT: U.S. applying ‘sustained pressure’ on North Korea

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

NORTH KOREA NUCLEAR THREAT: More U.S. defensive measures wise response

By Rebeccah L. Heinrichs

NORTH KOREA NUCLEAR THREAT: Trilateral security can check North Korea nuclearization

By McDaniel D. Wicker

NORTH KOREA NUCLEAR THREAT: Nuke tally could double by 2020

By Jenny Town

Otto Warmbier, a 21-year-old University of Virginia undergraduate student, was convicted and sentenced in a one-hour trial Wednesday morning at the North's Supreme Court. He was charged with subversion. (Associated Press)

Otto Warmbier, U.Va. student, sentenced to 15 years of hard labor in North Korea

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FILE - In this July 28, 2015 file photo, under the portraits of the late North Korean leaders, Kim Il Sung, left, and Kim Jong Il, ambassador of the Permanent Mission of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea to the United Nations Jang Il Hun, right, is joined by councilor Kwon Jong Gun as he speaks during a new conference at the DPRK mission in New York. A U.N. Security Council vote on the toughest sanctions on North Korea in two decades has been postponed until Wednesday morning at Russia's request, the United States and France said Tuesday, March 1, 2016. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)

U.N. approves sanctions on N. Korea; Obama hails as ‘appropriate’

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

In this Saturday, Oct. 10, 2015, photo, soldiers in tanks take part in a military parade to mark the 70th anniversary of North Korea's ruling party celebrations in Pyongyang, North Korea. Ever-wary of threats to its ruling regime and still technically at war with Washington and Seoul, “Military First” is North Korea’s national motto. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)

Branch by branch, a look at N. Korea’s massive military

By ERIC TALMADGE - Associated Press

American student Otto Warmbier, center, arrives at the People's Cultural House, as Warmbier is presented to reporters Monday, Feb. 29, 2016, in Pyongyang, North Korea. North Korea announced late last month that it had arrested the 21-year-old University of Virginia undergraduate student. (AP Photo/Kim Kwang Hyon)

North Korea puts Otto Warmbier, tearful detained American, before cameras

By Eric Talmadge and Jon Chol Jin - Associated Press

A Chinese military refueling tanker flies with fighter jets during a parade commemorating the 70th anniversary of Japan's surrender during World War II held in front of Tiananmen Gate in Beijing on Sept. 3, 2015. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

China bent on ‘hegemony in East Asia,’ Navy Adm. Harry Harris Jr. warns

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Protesters hold placards with defaced images of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un while shouting slogans during a rally in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, Feb. 22, 2016. North Korea responded to an unusually harsh verbal attack by South Korean President Park Geun-hye against the North's leader and its recent nuclear test and rocket launch with a characteristically colorful invective of its own Saturday, calling her policy traitorous and adding that Washington's newly enacted sanctions are "laughable." The placards read: "Denounce Kim Jong Un." (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

White House: N. Korea walked away from possible peace treaty

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

A South Korean driver changes his vehicle number after returning from North Korea's joint Kaesong Industrial Complex at the customs, immigration and quarantine office near the border village of Panmunjom in Paju, South Korea, Thursday, Feb. 11, 2016. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

U.S. stealth jets fly over South Korea amid North Korea standoff

By Lee Jin-Man - Associated Press

Under army patrol, South Korean cargo trucks head to Kaesong, North Korea. South Korea said it will shut down the joint industrial park there and accused Pyongyang of using hard currency from Kaesong to develop its nuclear and missile programs. (Associated Press)

North Korea penalized by U.S., Japan, China, South Korea for hostility

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

"In my 50-plus years in the intelligence business, I cannot recall a more diverse array of crises and challenges than we face today," Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper said at a daylong Senate Armed Services Committee hearing Tuesday. (Associated Press)

James Clapper, intel chief: North Korea has restarted plutonium reactor

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

In this Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2016, file photo, people walk by a screen showing the news reporting about an earthquake near North Korea's nuclear facility, in Seoul, South Korea. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man, File)

North Korea and its provocations: Belligerence as strategy

By Tim Sullivan - Associated Press

South Korean army soldiers watch a news program about North Korea's rocket launch Sunday at Seoul Railway Station. (Associated Press)

North Korea launches rocket; U.S. and South Korea formalize missile shield talks

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

In this Sunday, Jan. 31, 2016, file photo, a man walks past a PAC-3 Patriot missile unit deployed for North Korea's rocket launch at the Defense Ministry in Tokyo. Japan has deployed PAC-3 missile batteries in the heart of Tokyo to defend its airspace from incoming rocket debris. South Korea is reportedly mobilizing two Aegis-equipped destroyers. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi, File)

Experts say launch won’t bring North Korea much closer to ICBM

By Eric Talmadge - Associated Press