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North Korea on Saturday fired what appeared to be a ballistic missile from a submarine off its northeast coast, South Korean defense officials said.

SEOUL, South Korea— South Korea’s president said Monday that there are signs that North Korea is preparing for a fifth nuclear bomb test amid reports of increased activity at the country’s main nuclear test site.In a regular meeting with her top advi...

SEOUL, South Korea— North Korea ignored U.N. resolutions by firing a medium-range ballistic missile into the sea on Friday, Seoul and Washington officials said, days after its leader Kim Jong Un ordered weapons tests linked to its pursuit of a long-r...

So far in 2016, North Korea has tested an atomic weapon and long-range missile. The U.N. Security Council responded with sanctions amid hope that China might contain a belligerent ally. The world expects the U.S. to monitor international developments, and those not posing immediate danger or causing global media alarm are often put to the side with a cursory response. “Yet these important but not necessarily urgent problems contain the seeds of a potentially larger disaster and can grow into a deadly menace that is ultimately impossible to ignore,” explains Paul Bracken, author and Yale professor of political science and management. “One danger of being the sole superpower is getting overwhelmed by immediate, urgent issues while other important issues are repeatedly kicked down the road.“ Bracken describes a game theory strategy by which a player distracts a strong opponent with multiple pressure points. The U.S. errs by treating aggression, whether in the South China Sea or from North Korea, as isolated incidents rather than “connecting individual strategies across the fronts creates an altogether more effective approach.”

North Korea fired six short-range projectiles into the sea off its east coast Thursday, South Korean officials said

The United States has asked the U.N. Security Council to schedule a vote Tuesday on a resolution that would impose tough new sanctions on North Korea

The United States and China have reached agreement on a U.N. resolution that would impose tougher sanctions on North Korea as punishment for its latest nuclear test

North Korea responded to an unusually harsh verbal attack by South Korea’s president against the North’s leader and its recent nuclear test and rocket launch with a characteristically colorful invective of its own Saturday, calling her policy traitorous and adding that Washington’s newly enacted sanctions are “laughable.”

As the world focuses on the war in Syria, the refugee crisis in Europe, and the primary slugfest in the U.S., the two Koreas are heading toward a catastrophe in the Far East.