KOREAN PENINSULA
North Korea conducts tests for 'tactical guided weapon': report
The country's state media, KCNA, reported on Thursday that the "advantages" of the weapon were "the peculiar mode of guiding flight and the load of a powerful warhead".
The report also said that the North Korean leader described its development as one "of very weighty significance in increasing the combat power of the People's Army".
North Korea must deliver 'blow' to those imposing sanctions
North Korean leader places emphasis on 'self-sustainability' following failure to have sanctions lifted by the US.
North Korea needs to deliver a "telling blow" to those imposing sanctions on the country by ensuring its economy is more self-reliant, its leader Kim Jong Un said.
This, Kim was reported as saying, was "to deal a telling blow to the hostile forces who go with bloodshot eyes miscalculating that sanctions can bring [North Korea] to its knees."
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/04/north-korea-deliver-blow-imposing-sanctions-190411050000739.html
Tillerson: US not seeking regime change in North Korea
US secretary of state asks Pyongyang to halt its nuclear programme, telling North Koreans, "we are not your enemy".
US State Secretary Rex Tillerson has said Washington is not trying to topple Kim Jong-un's regime in North Korea, but Pyongyang must halt its nuclear missile programme.
"We do not seek a regime change. We do not seek the collapse of the regime. We do not seek an accelerated reunification of the peninsula," he said during a press conference in Washington, DC, on Tuesday.
"We do not seek an excuse to send our military north of the 38th parallel. And we're trying to convey that to the North Koreans. We are not your enemy. We're not your threat, but you are presenting an unacceptable threat to us, and we have to respond."
U.S. says sinking of S. Korean ship not act of terrorism
he U.S. said on Monday that the sinking of a South Korean warship blamed on the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) is not an act of international terrorism and therefore won't put it back on the U.S. state sponsors of terrorism list.
It was "a provocative action but one taken by the military of a state against the military of another state," Crowley said. "That in our view does not constitute an act of international terrorism. "
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