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BUT, NO PRESSURE: North Korea says ‘a nuclear war may break out any moment’

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — North Korea’s deputy U.N. ambassador warned Monday that the situation on the Korean peninsula “has reached the touch-and-go point and a nuclear war may break out any moment.” Kim In Ryong told the U.N. General [...]

[VIDEO] Chinese Dissident Ai Weiwei Explores the Tragedy of the Refugee Crisis

The famed artist has a new public art project going up in New York City, which coincides with his debut feature film, Human Flow. Ai Weiwei is arguably the best-known contemporary artist alive today. Years of beatings, detention, and house arrest by [...]

South Korea Close to Developing ‘Blackout Bomb’

SEOUL, Oct. 8 (Yonhap) — South Korea has secured technologies to build a non-lethal graphite bomb which can paralyze the North’s power systems in case of war, military sources said Sunday. The so-called “blackout bomb” works [...]

China is Living the Future of Mobile Pay Right Now

Mainland Chinese stores and services are increasingly centered around mobile pay apps like WeChat Pay and Alipay. Chinese mobile payment volume more than doubled to $5 trillion in 2016, according to Analysys data cited by Hillhouse Capital. Mobile [...]

Article 9 and Japan’s Missile Defense Dilemma

After North Korea’s recent missile tests over Japan, new questions have been raised about the ‘pacifist clause’ of the Japanese Constitution and the effectiveness of Japan’s missile defense strategy. How could Shinzo Abe respond? Charles [...]

‘Sweating Profusely’ and Clutching His Head: Kim Jong Nam’s Last Moments

Salhan Ahmad, Nic Robertson and James Griffiths, CNN: “I saw him clutching his head and he was closing his eyes tightly and his face was very red and he was sweating profusely,” Nik Mohd Azrul Ariff Raja Azlan told a Malaysian court [...]

Weibo to Increase Censorship as it Faces Pressure from Chinese Regulators

Chance Miller reports: After facing intensifying pressure from Chinese regulators, Weibo announced this week that it has hired 1,000 “supervisors” whose primary responsibility will be to censor content on the social media platform. The move [...]

[VIDEO] ‘An Inconvenient Border: Where China Meets North Korea’

Bob Woodruff’s daring 880-mile journey along the China-North Korea border examines the delicate relationship between the two countries and the United States. North Korea’s border with China: an uneasy alliance and a fear of war. Bob Woodruff [...]

Thailand: Fugitive Yingluck Shinawatra Gets 5-Year Jail Term

BANGKOK (Reuters) — Thailand’s Supreme Court sentenced former Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra in absentia to five years in prison on Wednesday for mismanaging a rice subsidy scheme that cost the country billions of dollars. Yingluck fled [...]

Shinzo Abe Snap Election Following Swell in Support

Included in Abe’s proposed reform is a revision of the nation’s post-World War II pacifist constitution, which limits its ability to defend against North Korea, and a desperately-needed $48 billion increase in the country’s missile defense [...]

Hong Kong: Man killed After Being Hit by Moving Coffin in Haunted House

A thrillseeker has been killed by a moving coffin as he walked through a haunted house fairground ride yesterday. The 21-year-old man, whose last name is Cheung, was hit by machinery inside an attraction called “Buried Alive” at Hong Kong’s [...]

[VIDEO] EXCLUSIVE: Here We Go Again: North Korea Fires Missile Over Northern Japan

Here they go again. Firing a missile over my head. Early this morning I captured this video with my phone – primarily the audio of the emergency alert – sometime between 7:00 and 7:30 a.m. Iwate, Tony City, Japan is about 625 km south of [...]

Why it Wouldn’t Take Much for China and Japan to Go to War – New Book ‘Asia’s Reckoning’ Explains

Drawing on lessons from history, Richard McGregor’s Asia’s Reckoning explores the complex relationship between China, the US and Japan – and how it might evolve peacefully, or tragically. Asia’s Reckoning: The Struggle for Global [...]

Party Time in Pyongyang: North Korea Urges Nuclear Build-Up on Anniversary

‘No matter how the US and its puppets kick up a ruckus, our republic, which has a strong military and the most powerful Juche bombs and weapons, and whose territory has all turned into fortresses, and all its people armed to the teeth, will [...]

The aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan leaves its home port in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, on Friday. | KYODO

Japan-based U.S. Carrier Leaves Yokosuka on Surveillance Mission Amid North Korea Tensions

YOKOSUKA – The aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan left Yokosuka naval base on Friday for a surveillance mission as international tensions grow over North Korea. The U.S. flattop, which departed the base in Kanagawa Prefecture shortly after [...]

South Korea Simulates Attack; ICBM Launch Plan Suspected

SEOUL (AP) — Following U.S. warnings to North Korea of a “massive military response,” South Korea on Monday fired missiles into the sea to simulate an attack on the North’s main nuclear test site a day after Pyongyang detonated its largest [...]

Pyongyang's favourite newsreader Ri Chun-Hee announces North Korea's possession of a hydrogen bomb (AFP Photo/Handout)

[VIDEO] NORK Newsreader Ri Chun-Hee Goes Cuckoo for Coconuts Announcing North Korea’s H-Bomb Success

Pyongyang’s favourite newsreader – a woman in her 70s — returned to the airwaves Sunday to declare its proud possession of a hydrogen bomb. Ri Chun-Hee has previously told her loyal viewers of the deaths of the country’s [...]

China says North Korea Tensions Reached ‘Tipping Point’

BEIJING: China warned that tensions on the Korean peninsula have reached “tipping point” after North Korea Tuesday (Aug 29) fired a ballistic missile over Japan, but said the United States and South Korea are partly to blame. Foreign [...]

New stamps issued in commemoration of the successful test launch of the Hwasong-14 intercontinental ballistic missile are seen in this undated photo released by the Korean Central News Agency in Pyongyang on Tuesday. Reuters

Lack of Real-World Tests Raises Doubts on U.S. Missile Defense

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — When simulating missile attacks from North Korea or Iran, the U.S. military says its defense system and network of radars allow it to successfully track and destroy incoming warheads. But test conditions do not accurately [...]

Regime Change is the Only Way to Disarm North Korea

If America and its allies believe Kim Jong-un will give up his nuclear arsenal, they are deluded. John Power says Pyongyang under the Kim family sees its weapons as a security guarantee and powerful negotiating tool, and the only way it will disarm [...]

[VIDEO] Emergency Response to Earthquake in Sichuan Province, Southwest China

CCTV footage showing after the China Earthquake Administration activated the level-1 emergency response procedure on Tuesday, following the 7.0-magnitude earthquake which hit Jiuzhaigou County in southwest China’s Sichuan Province. via [...]

Original Godzilla Actor Dies at the Age of 88, Leaving Behind Amazing Legacy

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Chinese Artificial Intelligence Gets Shut Down for Slamming the Communist Party

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[VIDEO] ‘First They Killed My Father’ Trailer: Angelina Jolie’s Khmer Rouge Film

Mike Fleming Jr writes: Here is the first trailer for the Toronto International Film Festival-bound Angelina Jolie-directed First They Killed My Father, a harrowing Netflix drama about young Cambodian girl Loung Ung as she and her family [...]

Japan, US Agree to Take ‘All Necessary Measures’ Against North Korea

Brandon Morse reports: On Monday, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said that he and President Donald Trump have agreed to take further actions against North Korea after the communist country’s latest missile test. North Korea conducted its [...]

North Korea Shows Off Improvements with Latest Launch

Munenori Inoue and Seima Oki report: North Korea’s second intercontinental ballistic missile launch late Friday night reached the highest altitude ever achieved by the nation, possibly enough to threaten the U.S. capital of Washington, according [...]

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, second from right, inspects a Hwasong-14 intercontinental ballistic missile in North Korea’s northwest in this July 4 file photo, distributed by the North Korean government. As North Korea advances its weapons systems, an increasing number of South Korean lawmakers say the south should develop its own nuclear arsenal. Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service AP July 28, 2017 1:07 PM

South Korea Debates Developing its Own Nuclear Weapons

Stuart Leavenworth writes: No longer sure they can rely on the United States, an increasing number of South Korean lawmakers say their country should develop its own nuclear arsenal to deter an attack by Kim Jong Un, their belligerent neighbor to [...]

[VIDEO] How China Is Changing Your Internet

Chinese Tech Firms Forced to Choose Market: Home or Everywhere Else HONG KONG — For teenagers who like to sing along with Ariana Grande and Flo Rida, Musical.ly is a must-have. The app that lets users lip-sync and dance in their own music videos [...]