Washington CNN — Secretary of Defense Mark Esper landed in South Korea on Thursday to navigate renewed threats from an “enraged” North Korea and newly heightened strain in the alliance with Seoul that congressional aides, lawmakers and Korea experts say has been caused by President Donald Trump. On Thursday, Pyongyang condemned US-South Korean joint military exercises, saying it was “enraged” …
LOADING ERROR LOADING WASHINGTON ― President Donald Trump scheduled a dinner for Wednesday with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un at their summit in Hanoi, Vietnam, but only after House Democrats announced that his former lawyer and “fixer” would publicly testify on Capitol Hill at about the same time. The apparent “counterprogramming” of Michael Cohen’s expected damaging testimony concerns arms …
Washington CNN — North Korea is warning that recent US sanctions could take relations with the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea back to the bristling tension of last year and endanger efforts to remove nuclear weapons from the Korean Peninsula. The warnings come after the US Treasury Department issued sanctions against three high-level North Korean officials last week that seemed …
Washington CNN — North Korea is getting increasingly angry at the US, as talks are deadlocked and tensions between the two countries are on the rise, a source familiar with the discussions told CNN. ‘A standoff’ US military officials, foreign diplomats and sources familiar with developments say the two sides are locked in a standoff over who will make concessions …
Asheville, North Carolina CNN — Walking through one of the three hydroponic greenhouses he oversees at the Biltmore estate, Eli Herman notices that the nasturtiums are growing “like crazy.” “I don’t know if you guys have any use for nasturtium greens,” says Herman, Biltmore’s Field to Table operations manager, talking with the estate executive chef Mark DeMarco. “Send him a …
