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  • Trump open to US-NKorea talks 'under right circumstances'

    MATTHEW PENNINGTON and KEN THOMAS|Jan 11, 2018

    WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump threw his weight behind the Olympics-inspired diplomatic opening with North Korea, telling South Korea's leader Wednesday that the U.S. was open to talks with Kim Jong Un's government under the right circumstances. A White House statement said Trump and South Korea's President Moon Jae-in still underscored the importance of continuing the "maximum pressure" campaign against North Korea over its development of nuclear weapons — the U.S.-led barrage of international sanctions that is starting to bite the...

  • US short of options to punish NKorea for serious cyberattack

    MATTHEW PENNINGTON and KEN THOMAS|Dec 20, 2017

    WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration vowed Tuesday that North Korea would be held accountable for a May cyberattack that affected 150 countries, but it didn't say how, highlighting the difficulty of punishing a pariah nation already sanctioned to the hilt for its nuclear weapons program. The WannaCry ransomware attack infected hundreds of thousands of computers worldwide and crippled parts of Britain's National Health Service. It was the highest-profile cyberattack North Korea has been blamed for since the 2014 hack of Sony Pictures a...