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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has accepted President Donald Trump’s invitation to visit the White House, according to a June 13 (local time) report from KCNA, the communist regime’s state-run media outlet. Trump has accepted Kim’s offer to visit Pyongyang. News of Kim’s acceptance came shortly after his historic meeting with Trump in Singapore. […]

A group of more than 100 experts met several times a week for the past three months devising a plan to dismantle North Korea’s weapons of mass destruction, according to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. The White House has been mum about the work taking place behind the scenes to prepare for the monumental task […]

Apple Inc. changed its App Store rules on June 4 to limit how developers harvest, use, and share information about iPhone owners’ friends and other contacts. The move cracks down on a practice that’s been employed for years. Developers ask users for access to their phone contacts, then use it for marketing and sometimes share […]

The nation’s oldest and largest war veterans service organization has lauded President Donald Trump for securing a deal with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to repatriate the remains of approximately 5,300 American soldiers. Keith Harman, the head of Veterans of Foreign Wars, urged Trump ahead of the June 12 summit to bring up the […]

Last Thursday, two Australian government officials visited Julian Assange at the Ecuadorian embassy in London. According to the Sydney Morning Herald, this is the first time Australian consular officials visited Assange at the embassy. Assange’s lawyer, Jennifer Robinson, who accompanied the officials said: “Julian Assange is in a very serious situation. He remains in the […]

President Trump showed North Korean leader Kim Jong Un a video resembling a movie trailer in preparation for their meeting. He played the video for the press after the historic meeting in Singapore, where President Trump agreed to stop joint military drills with South Korea and Kim Jong-un agreed to denuclearize. The video was played […]

The Korean War may finally be coming to a close, with North Korea abandoning its nuclear weapons programs and reunification for the Korean Peninsula in the works. Yet, as North Korea begins its transition out of communism, the effects of the ideology based in atheism and struggle have also taken hold in different ways in […]

The United States has unveiled a new $256 million, fortified building in Taiwan’s capital city, Taipei, to be used as its de facto embassy, at a time when the Trump administration has been gradually strengthening its ties with the democratic island nation against Beijing’s increasingly aggressive posturing. Despite not having official diplomatic relations with Taiwan, […]

President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un signed a joint statement on Tuesday. The historic document is the first bilateral agreement between an American president and a North Korean leader. Trump has stated that he would ultimately seek to strike a deal with North Korea that would be approved by Congress. An […]

The Treasury Department sanctioned five Russian companies and three Russian citizens on Monday for strengthening the cyber capabilities of Russia’s military and intelligence units. One of the companies was controlled directly by the Russian Federal Security Bureau (FSB), the internal spy agency that succeeded the notorious KGB. Two other entities provided material and technological support […]

Recent media reports of an alleged proposal to lease a Taiwan-controlled island in the South China Sea to the United State as a military base are completely groundless, according to Taiwan. The allegation originated from a pro-Beijing politician in Taiwan who started to circulate the rumor as early as 2016, The Epoch Times has learned. […]

A top Iranian official has for the first time admitted that the Islamic regime aided terrorists who would go on to fly airplanes into the World Trade Center’s Twin Towers in New York City, the Pentagon in Washington, and a field in Pennsylvania, killing nearly 3,000 people. Mohammad-Javad Larijani, an international affairs assistant in Iran’s […]

QUEBEC CITY—As President Donald Trump seeks to reform decades-old trade practices that have put the United States at a disadvantage, the U.S. partners in the G7 have resisted changes to the status quo. As a result, at least temporarily,  a kind of cold war has broken out between the United States and its allies. The […]

SINGAPORE—President Donald Trump touched down at Singapore’s Paya Lebar Air Base at 8:21 p.m. local time on Sunday, June 10. The president is expected to meet Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong on June 11, before the summit with North Korea leader Kim Jong Un on June 12. “I’ll be on a mission of peace, […]

A lottery winner stepped up to collect her winnings in Jamaica wearing an odd, yet very modern disguise. The woman, known only as N. Gray, went viral after she collected her 180 million Jamaican dollar (US$1.2 million) prize wearing an emoji mask. Simone Clarke-Cooper, assistant vice-president of Group Corporate Communications at Supreme Ventures Limited, told […]

KABUL—Shoppers in the Afghan capital are going online for everything from fashion to furniture to avoid bomb attacks and sexual harassment, with dozens of start-ups doing a brisk trade where there were few on the ground two years ago. Suicide bombings and other attacks in Kabul have killed and wounded hundreds of people this year […]

WASHINGTON—The Trump administration will seek to secure a denuclearization deal with North Korea that would be reinforced by congressional approval, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told reporters on June 7. In doing so, the White House seeks to add the permanency to the deal sought by both sides. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un would […]

The upcoming summit between President Donald Trump and North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un, scheduled to take place on June 12 in Singapore, is highly anticipated and will perhaps be one of the most consequential events in 2018. Here is a rundown of what the principal players other than the United States ( see: In […]

QUEBEC CITY—Leaders of the world’s major industrialized democracies are meeting at the June 8–9 Group of Seven (G7) summit in Charlevoix, Quebec, Canada, where key topics will include economic growth, trade, and shared security issues, according to Larry Kudlow, top White House economic adviser. The leaders are meeting at a time of heightened tensions over […]

SINGAPORE–Singapore airspace will be restricted during the planned U.S.-N.Korea summit next week, according to a notice to airmen posted by aviation authorities on Wednesday, which is likely to result in delays at one of Asia’s busiest airports. The Southeast Asian city-state is set to host an historic meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and North […]