North Korea

Pope Francis said dialogue and not "displays of force" would bring peace to the divided Korean peninsula as he began a visit Thursday to South Korea that the nuclear-armed North marked with a series of rocket launches.
      

North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un guided the military's latest rocket-firing drill, state media said Sunday, confirming the missile launch which was conducted in defiance of UN censure.          

The question to bear in mind, when reading this whole sorry tale, is this. If Americans are, on average, no stupider than Germans, then why are their intelligence services so stupid?

North Korea has offered South Korea to adopt a set of measures intended to open the way for reconciliation and unity.

Bulgaria's Foreign Minister Kristian Vigenin has met International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Yukiya Amano, who is on a visit to Sofia.

North Korea said on Monday it would put two U.S. tourists on trial for committing crimes against the state, dimming any hopes among their families that they would soon be released.
   

North Korea has fired 2 short-range missiles off the eastern coast of the peninsula, a South Korean official has stated.

Perhaps there is a hidden message behind Prime Minster Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s boringly repetitive message that “Turkey will be among the world’s top 10 countries by 2023.” Presently, there are only nine countries in the world that possess nuclear weapons.

Pope Francis announced during his address from the Vatican on Sunday that he will visit Albania on September 21 – his first trip as pontiff to a European country.

The Council of Europe's (CoE) Committee of Experts on the Evaluation of Anti-money Laundering and the Financing of Terrorism has warned its members against financial transactions with people and institutions in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) because the country has not adopted anti-money laundering and terrorism financing legislation.