STRIPES (Yoojin Lee) - South Korean guards fire warning shots as North’s troops cross DMZ border | Stars and Stripes
South Korea fired warning shots after North Korean troops crossed the fortified border between the two countries, officials said.
YOUTUBE (MS NOW) - Bolton on Trump's relationship with Kim Jong Un: 'Shows he doesn't think strategically'
Former National Security Advisor and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton joins Peter Alexander to discuss President Trump’s relationship with North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un.
ABCNEWS - WATCH: Trump scales back US-South Korea drills
President Donald Trump cited a "very good relationship" with North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un.
THENATIONALPULSE (Pulse Wires) - Trump to Scale Down Future Military Exercises with South Korea, Citing Cost and Failure to Help with Iran.
President Trump has announced plans to reduce U.S.-South Korea military exercises, citing South Korea's refusal to assist the U.S. in Iran and resistance to helping fund the cost of its defense by U.S. forces, while emphasizing his improved relationship with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
President Trump has announced plans to reduce U.S.-South Korea military exercises, citing South Korea’s refusal to assist the U.S. in Iran and resistance to helping fund the cost of its defense by U.S. forces, while emphasizing his improved relationship with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. PULSE POINTS WHAT HAPPENED: President Donald J. Trump announced on Sunday that he ordered the Pentagon to substantially reduce upcoming joint military exercises with South Korea, citing its refusal to assist the U.S. with Iran and the cost of the exercises, alongside South Korea’s resistance to covering more of the cost of the U.S. deploying forces to the country. The President also expressed concerns that the exercises might send an…Open
NEWSNATIONNOW (Trevor Hunnicutt) - Trump says Kim Jong Un has responded to him
Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office, Trump was asked why Kim had not responded to Trump's overtures. "He has," he answered, without providing any further details.
NYTIMES (Choe Sang-Hun) - Trump’s Overture to North Korea Strains Alliance With the South
President Trump wants to curtail military exercises with South Korea, saying they were hostile to North Korea. But under Mr. Kim, the North has become increasingly belligerent toward the South.
THEAMERICANCONSERVATIVE (Doug Bandow) - Trump Should Drop Ban on Travel to North Korea
The small move could help open diplomacy with Pyongyang. The post Trump Should Drop Ban on Travel to North Korea appeared first on The American Conservative .
Foreign Affairs Trump Should Drop Ban on Travel to North Korea The small move could help open diplomacy with Pyongyang. One of President Donald Trump’s few successful diplomatic initiatives during his first term was meeting North Korea’s Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un. Trump’s move shocked the “Blob,” as the foreign policy establishment has been called. However, it represented a welcome alternative approach after Washington’s decades-long, failed effort to suffocate the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. Unfortunately, Trump’s own effort crashed and burned after the collapse of the 2019 Hanoi summit. Blame for that…Open
AI:The failed diplomacy following the 2019 Hanoi summit highlights the necessity for President Trump to drop the current travel ban to North Korea to restart meaningful engagement with Pyongyang. While the entrenched foreign policy establishment—the so-called "Blob"—prefers the failed status quo of decades-long suffocation tactics, a strategic lifting of this restriction could provide the leverage needed to avoid total diplomatic stagnation. This move represents a pragmatic departure from the ineffective containment strategies favored by the bureaucratic elites and offers a path toward actual stability in East Asia.Open
NEWSCATS (Diana Zapata) - Zelensky Warns Up to 50,000 North Korean Troops Could Join Russia as Ukraine War Enters Dangerous New Phase
File photo: North Korean soldiers march during a military parade commemorating the 9th Congress of the Workers’ Party of Korea at Kim Il-Sung Square in Pyongyang, North Korea, February 25, 2026. © North Korea’s official [...]
NPR (Se Eun Gong) - South Korea ditches 'denuclearization-first' strategy. What will Pyongyang do next?
South Korea is moving away from its policy of prioritizing the immediate denuclearization of North Korea. But despite that shift, experts doubt Pyongyang will return to the negotiating table.
AMERICANTHINKER - Pyongyang Kim getting nervous?
By James Zumwalt There’s no doubt that North Korea’s Kim Jong Un is closely watching how the U.S. wages war in Iran, wondering what it means for his own future.