Sullivan: U.S. willing to talk to North Korea on nukes
President Biden's national security adviser said the U.S. is willing to negotiate "without preconditions" after North Korea launched another intercontinental ballistic missile.
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President Biden's national security adviser said the U.S. is willing to negotiate "without preconditions" after North Korea launched another intercontinental ballistic missile.
South Korea's military detected the long-range missile launch from the North's capital region around 10 a.m., the South's Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a statement.
Kim Yo Jong accused the U.S. of sending spy planes over the North's exclusive economic zone.
South Korea's military says North Korea test-fired two short-range ballistic missiles Thursday off its east coast. The launch came as the U.S. and South Korea wrapped up a fifth round of military drills near the Korean border. CBS News chief White House correspondent Nancy Cordes has more.
CBS News partner BBC News spoke with North Korean residents who detailed vivid accounts of food scarcity and starvation following the country's isolation policies and the sealing of its international borders during the COVID-19 pandemic. BBC News Seoul correspondent Jean Mackenzie, who spent a month secretly communicating with people in North Korea, has more.
South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff said Kim Jong Un's military had fire 2 short-range missiles into the East Sea, also known as the Sea of Japan.
Kim Yo Jong, the sister of Kim Jong Un, accused the U.S. of hypocrisy and "gangster-like logic," vowing another military spy satellite launch in the near future.
North Korea confirmed the effort to launch a spy satellite into space Wednesday failed, but the country is already vowing to try again. The botched attempt triggered emergency alerts in Seoul and on the southern Japanese island of Okinawa. Ellen Kim, the deputy director of the Korea Chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, joined CBS News to talk about the failed launch.
North Korea's first attempt at launching a new spy satellite ended in failure earlier Wednesday. It malfunctioned and plunged into the sea shortly after taking off, triggering emergency alerts and brief evacuation warnings in parts of South Korea and Japan. Both countries, as well as the U.S., have condemned the launch as a violation of the U.N. Security Council resolutions. CBS News senior foreign correspondent Elizabeth Palmer has the latest.
North Korea said its attempt to put the country's first spy satellite into orbit failed on Wednesday. Here's why it matters.
A statement published in state media said the rocket carrying the satellite crashed into waters off the Korean Peninsula's western coast after it lost thrust following the separation of its first and second stages.
The U.S. and South Korea began the first of five live-fire military drills near the border of North Korea Thursday. The military exercises, which will run until mid-June, will involve stealth fighter jets, attack helicopters and multiple rocket launch systems. CBS News senior foreign correspondent Elizabeth Palmer is following this story from Tokyo.
As Biden heads for a G7 meeting in Hiroshima, Japan looks poised to put its WWII history behind and become a modern military power, but are its people ready?
North Korean media showed leader Kim Jong Un and his daughter, Ju Ae, examining a finished military spy satellite that may be launched in coming weeks.
President Biden welcomed South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol and his wife to a star-studded state dinner Wednesday after announcing an agreement to keep U.S. nuclear-armed submarines docked in South Korea. Meanwhile, as he gears up for his 2024 campaign, Mr. Biden dismissed questions about his age. Nancy Cordes reports from the White House.
President Biden welcomed South Korea's president to the White House Wednesday. The two leaders announced an agreement to counter North Korea's ongoing nuclear threats. The so-called Washington declaration includes plans to have American nuclear submarines docked in South Korea -- for the first time in more than 40 years. Biden and the first lady later honored Yoon Suk Yeol and his wife at a state dinner in the White House. Ed O'Keefe is there with the latest.
President Biden hosted his South Korean counterpart, Yoon Suk Yeol, at the White house Wednesday. The two leaders met in a show of solidarity to announce a joint nuclear partnership. CBS News senior White House and political correspondent Ed O'Keefe has more.
North Korea announced that it tested the launch of a new solid-fuel intercontinental ballistic missile, which could be faster and easier to deploy, and harder to detect. Ramy Inocencio reports.
Leader Kim Jong Un pledged to further expand his nuclear arsenal to "constantly strike extreme uneasiness and horror" in his rivals.
A South Korean defense official said the missile might have been propelled by solid fuel, which would make it more mobile and harder to detect, as opposed to Pyongyang's usual use of liquid fuel.
The U.S., Japan and South Korea are focusing on North Korea's growing nuclear program and that country's damaging cyberattacks. CBS News senior foreign correspondent Elizabeth Palmer joins "CBS News Mornings" to discuss.
A small radio station in South Korea is one of many outside organizations trying to reach people in isolated North Korea, sharing information about the world, but recent measures have made it harder to communicate with those inside the dictatorship. Elizabeth Palmer has more from Seoul, South Korea.
The launches were the North's seventh missile event this month as it steps up its military demonstrations in a tit-for-tat response to U.S.-South Korea military exercises.
North Korea releases images supposedly showing an underwater drone that could cause a "radioactive tsunami." Elizabeth Palmer reports.
Military analysts are dubious of the latest wild claims from Kim Jong Un's regime, which is furious over the latest U.S.-South Korean joint military exercises.