Gold Silver Reports – Four Ships Banned From All Ports for Violating North Korea Sanctions – The U.N. Security Council has banned all nations from allowing four ships that transported prohibited goods to and from North Korea to enter any port in their country.
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Trump Says U.S. Is Ready to Use ‘Devastating’ Force on North Korea
Gold Silver Reports – Trump Says U.S. Is Ready to Use ‘Devastating’ Force on North Korea – President Donald Trump said the U.S. is prepared to use “devastating” military force against North Korea but encouraged the world to work together to end the country’s nuclear program as he imposed new sanctions on the country’s banks.
U.S. Sees ‘Four or Five’ Ways to Resolve North Korean Crisis
Gold Silver Reports — U.S. Sees ‘Four or Five’ Ways to Resolve North Korean Crisis — The U.S. has gamed out four or five different scenarios for how the crisis with North Korea will be resolved, and “some are uglier than others,” National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster said as tensions remain high between the two countries.
North Korea Claims Right to Down U.S. Jets Outside Airspace
Gold Silver Reports — North Korea Claims Right to Down U.S. Jets Outside Airspace — North Korea can shoot down U.S. strategic warplanes in international airspace as part of its right to self-defense under the United Nations charter, Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho said in New York as tensions between the nations remain high.
North Korea Warns that “More Gift Packages” on Way to US
Gold Silver Reports — North Korea Warns that “More Gift Packages” on Way to US – “The U.S. will receive more ‘gift packages’ from my country as long as its relies on reckless provocations and futile attempts to put pressure on the DPRK,” he added without elaborating.
North Korea ‘Attacks US Aircraft Carrier and Bomber’
Gold Silver Reports — North Korea ‘Attacks US Aircraft Carrier and Bomber’ – The images were from a state-owned propaganda site, DPRK Today and released hours after US Air Force B-1B Lancer bombers, despatched from Andersen Air Force Base in Guam flew close to North Korea’s east coast.
More Sanctions, Fewer Insults Against North Korea
Gold Silver Reports – More Sanctions, Fewer Insults Against North Korea – No one knows how North Korean leader Kim Jong Un will respond to growing pressure on his regime, other than by scouring the thesaurus.