Doctors discovered an “enormous number” of parasitic worms slithering inside the body of a man who defected from North Korea this week, the ghastly find illustrating the food and hygiene problems rampant inside the guarded walls of the Hermit Kingdom. The North Korean defector, who hasn’t been identified, was a soldier who made a desperate […]
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North Korea Says Trump Is Begging For War
Trump had warned North Korea on Wednesday not to underestimate the U.S. as he wrapped up his visit to South Korea. A North Korean spokesman said nothing would deter Pyongyang from pursuing its nuclear weapons program. North Korea said on Saturday that U.S. President Donald Trump’s first trip to Asia showed he was a “destroyer” […]
Trump Urges North Korea To Find Diplomatic Solution
President Donald Trump has said it makes sense for North Korea to “do the right thing” and discuss the possibility of giving up its nuclear weapons. Speaking at a joint press conference Tuesday alongside South Korean President Moon Jae-in in Seoul, Trump said, “North Korea is a worldwide threat that requires worldwide action.” He added […]
Army Deserter Bowe Bergdahl Receives No Jail Time
Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl will not serve any prison time for walking off his post in Afghanistan in 2009, a military judge ruled Friday. The judge, Col. Jeffrey Nance, sentenced Bergdahl to a reduction in rank to private, a payment of $1,000 per month for 10 months and a dishonorable discharge, according to multiple reports. Nance made no other comments, […]
White House Classifies NYC Terrorist As Enemy Combatant
After President Donald Trump raised the possibility of sending the alleged perpetrator of the New York City vehicular attack to Guantanamo Bay prison, the White House press secretary said the administration considers him to be an “enemy combatant.” “I believe we would consider this person to be an enemy combatant,” Sarah Sanders said in response […]
200 Killed In North Korea Nuclear Tunnel Collapse
After North Korea’s most powerful ever nuclear test underground at Punggye-ri in the country’s northeast, Japan’s TV Asahi reports that up to 200 have been killed in a tunnel collapse. In early September, North Korea detonated a nuclear device under a mountain that experts assess to have been a hydrogen bomb about ten times more […]
Key Benghazi Militant Caught By American Forces
American special operations forces captured a militant Sunday who was allegedly involved in the attack on a U.S. diplomatic compound and CIA annex in Benghazi, Libya, two US officials confirmed to Fox News. US officials identified the suspect as Mustafa al-Imam. The attack resulted in the death of the American ambassador and three other Americans. […]
Judge Blocks Trump’s Transgender Ban
A federal court judge in Washington, D.C., has largely blocked President Trump’s controversial ban on transgender people serving in the military. The judge, Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, issued a preliminary injunction on Monday halting two portions of Trump’s presidential memorandum issued in late August, including his reinstatement of the ban on transgender service members that was in […]
Mattis Tells North Korea To Stop The Threats, Urges Diplomacy
Visiting the demilitarised zone in South Korea, Pentagon chief Mattis says the US does not want war with North Korea. The United States does not want war with North Korea, the US military chief said on the demilitarised zone metres away from the communist state, as he warned Pyongyang to stop threatening “catastrophe” with its […]
American Deaths Due IED’s Continue To Rise In Afghanistan
The number of U.S. service members killed as a result of improvised explosive devices (IEDs) in Afghanistan is rising, Foreign Policy reported Friday. From the beginning of April to the end of June of this year, IEDs killed or injured 3,043 people in 1,143 separate incidents in Afghanistan, according to internal slides obtained from the Department of Defense by FP. […]
North Korea Threatens United States With Unimaginable Nuclear Attack
North Korea is warning that the United States will face an “unimaginable” nuclear strike for conducting ongoing joint naval drills with the South Korean military on the Korean peninsula. “The U.S. is running amok by introducing under our nose the targets we have set as primary ones,” the state-controlled news agency KCNA warned Thursday, Newsweek reported. “The U.S. should expect that […]
White House Does Not Dispute Fallen Soldier Family’s Claims
Under pressure over President Donald Trump’s reported handling of a call with the widow of an Army sergeant killed in action, the White House on Wednesday did not dispute details that have emerged about Trump saying the soldier “knew what he was signing up for” when he joined the military. Trump reportedly said this to […]