The remark appears aimed at the Ohio-class US nuclear-powered submarine which arrived at a port in Busan earlier this week, as reported by local state media KCNA.
The US is working hard to ascertain information on Private Travis King's wellbeing and engaged in 'ensuring his safety and return,' US Special Envoy for North Korea Sung Kim said.
US State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller said that the Pentagon had reached out to counterparts in North Korea, but Pyongyang has yet to respond to the incident.
Travis King's unauthorised border crossing plunges Washington into turmoil, raising questions about his motives and igniting a diplomatic crisis with the nuclear-armed state.
The crossing comes amid tensions on the Korean peninsula, with the arrival of a US nuclear-armed ballistic missile submarine in South Korea for a rare visit in a warning to North Korea.
The 15-member Security Council met after North Korea said it tested on Wednesday its latest Hwasong-18 ICBM, adding the weapon is the core of its nuclear strike force.
Report by Ministry of National Defence cited use of US reconnaissance planes and drones and said Washington was escalating tensions by sending a nuclear submarine near peninsula.
It is the first time South Korea has secured a satellite launched by North, military experts said, adding that Seoul had ended salvage operations, which began on 31 May.
Choi Chon Gon, a former South Korean citizen, is accused of helping North Korea’s illegal financial activities in violation of UNSC sanctions after acquiring Russian citizenship.
The Italian term sprezzatura—a studied nonchalance that conceals intention—best captures the spirit of Trump’s foreign policy so far. The pattern is unpredictability, transactionalism, and disruption as diplomacy.
With 20.2 percent of its total loans in default by the end of last year, Bangladesh had the weakest banking system in Asia. Despite reforms, it will take time to recover.
This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.
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