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** FILE ** Kim Jong-un inspects North Korea troops in this government photo.

North Korea preparing missile launch on its east coast

By Shaun Waterman - The Washington Times

President Barack Obama talks with Chief of Staff Denis McDonough and Miguel Rodriguez, Director of Legislative Affairs, in the Oval Office, Feb. 25, 2013. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)

Diplomacy downplay: Obama administration minimizes latest North Korean nuke threat

By Guy Taylor and Shaun Waterman - The Washington Times

Soldiers of the U.S. Army 23rd chemical battalion wear gas masks while attending a demonstration of their equipment during a ceremony to recognize the battalion's official return to the 2nd Infantry Division based in South Korea at Camp Stanley in Uijeongbu, north of Seoul, Thursday, April 4, 2013. The 23rd chemical battalion left South Korea in 2004 and returned with some 350 soldiers in Jan. 2013. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

South Korea: North Korea moved missile to east coast

By Hyung-Jin Kim and Sam Kim - Associated Press

A North Korean receives computer training in this government photo

North Korea’s Twitter account hacked amid escalating crisis

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** FILE ** Kim Jong-un inspects North Korea troops in this government photo.

North Korea deploys long-range missile to its east coast

By Sam Kim and Hyung-Jin Kim - Associated Press

** FILE ** Park Geun-hye (center), South Korea's new president, arrives for the official dinner at the presidential Blue House in Seoul on Monday, Feb. 25, 2013. Ms. Park took office as the country's first female president earlier in the day. (AP Photo/Kim Jae-hwan, Pool)

South Korea seeks nuclear technology; A-bomb race in Asia feared

By Shaun Waterman - The Washington Times

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HOLMES: Decoding North Korea’s nuclear rhetoric

By Kim R. Holmes - The Washington Times

South Korean soldiers patrol along a barbed-wire fence in Paju, South Korea, near the border village of Panmunjom, on Sunday, March 31, 2013. North Korea warned South Korea on Saturday that the Korean Peninsula had entered "a state of war" and threatened to shut down a border factory complex that's the last major symbol of inter-Korean cooperation. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

Greatest danger in Korea is ‘miscalculation,’ U.S. general says

By Shaun Waterman - The Washington Times

A Chinese People's Liberation Army Airforce officer, right, guards a J-10 fighter jet while a foreign military attache, left, climbs ladder to take a close look at the cockpit at a base of the PLA Airforce's 24th Division in Yangcun, Tianjin, China, Tuesday, April 13, 2010. The media, along with about 51 military attaches from embassies in Beijing, including the United States, Britain and Israel, witnessed a 15-minute demonstration by four pilots from the 24th Air Division in China's domestically developed J-10 fighters. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan)

Risky business: China continues military buildup near North Korean border as tanks, armor deploy

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Free Beacon

** FILE ** North Korean army officers rally at Kim Il-sung Square in Pyongyang. (Associated Press)

North Korea threatens attack, including nukes, on U.S.

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

A screen shot of the U.S. embassy in Seoul's tweet.

Twitter diplomacy or veiled threat? U.S. embassy sends North Korea this tweet

By Shaun Waterman - The Washington Times

Illustration Nuclear Briefcase by Greg Groesch for The Washington Times

GAFFNEY: ‘No nukes’ could beget nuclear war

By Frank J. Gaffney Jr. - The Washington Times

** FILE ** North Korean leader Kim Jong-un (left) uses binoculars to look at South Korean territory from an observation post at the military unit on Jangjae islet, located in the southernmost part of the southwestern sector of the North's border with the South, on Thursday, March 7, 2013. (AP Photo/Korean Central News Agency via Korea News Service)

‘Reckless’ Kim Jong-un won’t be tolerated; Kerry strikes back at North Korean threats

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un

PRUDEN: Big talk for a little fat boy in North Korea

By Wesley Pruden - The Washington Times

**FILE** Rep. Peter T. King, New York Republican (Associated Press)

Rep. Peter King: Kim Jong-un ‘trying to be the tough guy’

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Korean Broadcasting System employees in Seoul try to recover a computer server on Thursday, March 21, 2013, a day after a cyberattack caused computer networks at the company and six South Korean banks to crash. (AP Photo/Korean Broadcasting System)

South Korea to augment cyberwar defenses after attack on banks, broadcasters

By Shaun Waterman - The Washington Times

In this photo released by China's Xinhua news agency, North Korean missiles on the trucks make its way during a massive military parade to mark the 65th anniversary of the communist nation's ruling Workers' Party in Pyongyang, North Korea on Sunday, Oct. 10, 2010. This year's celebration comes less than two weeks after Kim Jong Il's re-election to the party's top post and the news that his 20-something son would succeed his father and grandfather as leader. (AP Photo/Xinhua, Yao Dawei)

Showdown looming: China mobilizing troops, jets near Korea

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Free Beacon

** FILE ** The F-22 Raptor, one of the world's most sophisticated stealth fighter jets, is at the center of a political battle in which President Obama wants to rein in dysfunctional federal defense-contracting practices. (Associated Press)

U.S. F-22 fighter jets deployed to Korea as North and South increase war threats

By Shaun Waterman - The Washington Times

Associated press photographs

Rising tensions on Korean Peninsula risk accidental war

By Shaun Waterman - The Washington Times

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Embassy Row: Korea’s new course

By James Morrison - The Washington Times