NUCLEAR WEAPONS

Defense Secretary Ash Carter said Tuesday the U.S. military wouldn’t destroy a North Korean missile as long as it wasn’t a threat to the country.

Trump ordered the head of the NNSA and his deputy to leave their posts on Jan. 20, leaving the agency that secures U.S. nuclear weapons, without a leader.

Kim was honored publicly on his birthday only once so far when former NBA star Dennis Rodman dedicated a special game to his “best friend” and sang “Happy birthday” for the North Korean leader.

On Thursday, the president-elect alarmed nonproliferation experts when he called for the U.S. to "greatly strengthen and expand its nuclear capability."

The Russian president also called for the country’s military to develop missiles that can penetrate any missile-defense system.

A new report by seismologists from Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory concluded that the tremors were “much more like that of an earthquake than an explosion.”

Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry once called Donald Trump a "cancer on conservatism," and "a barking carnival act."

Ri Sol Ju was last seen in public on March 28 this year and her absence had sparked rumors of pregnancy while some said she may have had a serious falling out with the North Korean leader.

The new restrictions largely target coal, Pyongyang’s single-largest export item, and will cut the reclusive East Asian country’s earnings by at least $800 million.

In an ironic twist, President-elect Donald Trump may appoint the former Texas governor as head of a department Perry said he would abolish during the 2011 election race.

Thursday's talks in Tokyo mark the fifth such meeting between the three nations, the first of which was held in Washington in April 2015.

Officials called the United Nations' sanction resolutions “illegal criminal documents” orchestrated by the U.S., adding that Pyongyang's mission to develop its nuclear stockpile will continue.

The Musudan missile, which was allegedly launched Saturday near the northwestern city of Kusong, “did not pose a threat to North America,” the Pentagon said.

Pyongyang conducted its first successful nuclear test on Oct. 9, 2006, and has carried out four more since, the fifth and its biggest yet earlier this year.

The two countries had signed an agreement in August 2000 to dispose at least “34 metric tons of weapon-grade plutonium removed from their respective defense programs.”

The workers were allegedly involved in illegally financing the procurement of arms and ammunition for North Korea’s banned nuclear program, a South Korean daily reported Monday.

The reclusive nation called its diplomat who recently defected to South Korea a “criminal” and “human scum” in its first official response to the defection.

Fifty prominent Republican national security officials, including a former CIA director, call party nominee Donald Trump unqualified to lead the country.

Over 50,000 people attended a memorial ceremony at Hiroshima’s Peace Park where Japanese officials called for a world free of nuclear weapons.

North Korea said that it will continue to bolster its nuclear capabilities and slammed the U.S. for bringing in strategic assets to the Korean Peninsula.

The country’s top official for U.S. affairs dismissed criticism over Wednesday’s missile launch and said that Pyongyang’s real provocation was coming from Washington.