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North Korea Accused of Laundering for Nuclear Program

May 28, 2020 at 4:00 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“North Korean and Chinese nationals are operating a multibillion-dollar money laundering scheme to help fund North Korea’s nuclear weapons program, the Justice Department said in an indictment unsealed Thursday, a case that underscores the Trump administration’s inability to halt Pyongyang’s nuclear weapons program through diplomacy,” the New York Times reports.

Filed Under: Foreign Affairs Tagged With: North Korea

North Korea Blasts Trump as ‘Erratic Old Man’

December 9, 2019 at 9:41 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

North Korea took its most personal swipe at President Trump in more than two years, saying the U.S. leader’s recent comments made him sound like a “heedless and erratic old man,” Bloomberg reports.

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North Korea Threatens to Resume Insulting Trump

December 5, 2019 at 12:55 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

North Korea threatened to resume insults of President Trump and consider him a “dotard” if he keeps using provocative language, such as referring to its leader as “rocket man,” the AP reports.

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U.S. Trying to Get North Korea to Resume Talks

November 10, 2019 at 8:41 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

The United States is “very actively” trying to persuade North Korea to come back to negotiations, South Korea’s national security adviser told Reuters, as a year-end North Korean deadline for U.S. flexibility approaches.

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Kim Jong Un Rides White Horse on Sacred Mountain

October 16, 2019 at 10:04 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“North Korean leader Kim Jong Un was shown riding a white horse in the snow on a sacred mountain, in several photographs released by state media Wednesday that experts said could presage a major announcement,” the Washington Post reports.

Filed Under: Foreign Affairs Tagged With: Kim Jong Un, North Korea

North Korea Berates Pompeo

August 31, 2019 at 11:34 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

A senior North Korean diplomat on Saturday berated Secretary of State Mike Pompeo over his comments describing North Korean behavior as “rogue” and warned that Pyongyang’s hopes for talks with Washington are fading, the AP reports.

“North Korea is extremely sensitive to outside criticism about its authoritarian leadership. It has also repeatedly expressed displeasure about a months-long stalemate in negotiations and ramped up testing of short-range ballistic missiles and rocket artillery in recent weeks in an apparent effort to build bargaining leverage.”

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North Korea Says Missile Launches Were a Warning

August 7, 2019 at 7:01 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Associated Press: “North Korea said Wednesday leader Kim Jong Un supervised a live-fire demonstration of newly developed, short-range ballistic missiles intended to send a warning to the United States and South Korea over their joint military exercises.”

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North Korea Confirms Yet Another Missile Launch

August 2, 2019 at 10:02 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“North Korea said Saturday its leader Kim Jong Un supervised another test-firing of a new multiple rocket launcher system that could potentially enhance the country’s ability to strike targets in South Korea and U.S. military bases there,” the AP reports.

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North Korea Fires More Missiles

August 1, 2019 at 9:19 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

North Korea fired two short range ballistic missiles, both landing in the sea, NBC News reports.

This is the country’s third missile launch in the last two weeks.

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North Korea Fires Two More Missiles

July 31, 2019 at 11:36 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Washington Post: “The missile launch was the second in a week, after Pyongyang also fired two short-range ballistic missiles into the Sea of Japan last Thursday.”

“Although a ballistic missile test is a violation of United Nations Security Council resolutions and the missiles are designed to threaten South Korea, Trump played down the significance of last week’s test, saying many countries test short-range missiles.”

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North Korea Has Ramped Up Its Nuclear Arsenal

July 26, 2019 at 3:52 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Over the past year, there have been handshakes, compliments and extravagant photo-ops—in Singapore, in Hanoi and even at the demilitarized zone separating the two Koreas,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

“President Trump’s summit diplomacy has raised hopes around the world: Is North Korea now willing to surrender its nuclear arsenal?”

“Analysts who pore over satellite images of the isolated country paint a different picture: North Korea’s scientists have ramped up production of long-range missiles and the fissile material used in nuclear weapons.”

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North Korea Might Resume Weapons Testing

July 16, 2019 at 1:46 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Associated Press: “North Korea said Tuesday that upcoming regular summertime U.S.-South Korean military drills are forcing it to rethink whether it should be committed to the promises it has made to the United States. It cited its moratorium on nuclear and missile tests and other steps aimed at improving ties with Washington.”

“The statement said Trump vowed to suspend military drills with South Korea during his first and third meetings with Kim, but the planned summertime drills with Seoul and the deployment of weapons in the South show that Washington is not fulfilling that promise.”

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Ivanka Trump Played Prominent Role In North Korea Trip

July 1, 2019 at 8:28 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Few Americans alive today have set foot inside North Korea, the isolated, nuclear-armed dictatorship sometimes called the Hermit Kingdom,” the Washington Post reports.

“On Sunday, Ivanka Trump became one of them, capping a consequential three-day Asian trip in which the president’s eldest daughter played a very public role that blended family ties with diplomatic work that is usually performed by diplomats.”

“She pronounced the short walk to the other side of one of the world’s most fortified borders ‘surreal.'”

Filed Under: Foreign Affairs Tagged With: Ivanka Trump, North Korea

North Korea Envoy Executed Over Trump-Kim Summit

May 30, 2019 at 7:28 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

A South Korean newspaper reports that Kim Hyok Chol, “who led working-level negotiations for the summit in Hanoi between North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and U.S. President Trump in February, was executed with four other North Korean foreign ministry officials in March,” according to Bloomberg.

“Kim Jong Un’s top aide Kim Yong Chol is reportedly undergoing hard labor.”

Reuters: “The North Korean leader is believed to be carrying out a massive purge to divert attention away from internal turmoil and discontent.”

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North Korea Wanted Basketball Stars as Part of Deal

May 9, 2019 at 2:30 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Ahead of the second summit in Hanoi, North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un requested as part of the agreement between the countries moving forward that the U.S. send ‘famous basketball players’ to normalize relations between the two countries,” ABC News reports.

“The request was made in writing, officials said, as part of the cultural exchange between the two countries, and at one point the North Koreans insisted that it be included in the joint statement on denuclearization. The North Koreans also made a request for the exchange of orchestras between the two countries.”

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Extra Bonus Quote of the Day

May 9, 2019 at 2:25 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“The relationship continues. We’ll see what happens. I know they want to negotiate. They are talking about negotiating, but I don’t think they are ready to negotiate.”

— President Trump, quoted by the Washington Post, on North Korea continuing weapons testing.

Filed Under: Foreign Affairs Tagged With: North Korea

U.S. Seizes North Korean Ship

May 9, 2019 at 12:29 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“U.S. authorities have seized a North Korean ship used to sell coal in alleged violation of international sanctions,” the Washington Post reports.

“Justice Department officials confirmed the ship, the ‘Wise Honest,’ is approaching U.S. territorial waters.”

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North Korea Fires Another Missile

May 9, 2019 at 6:37 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“North Korea on Thursday fired at least one unidentified projectile from the country’s western area, South Korea’s military said, the North’s second weapons launch in the last five days and a possible warning that nuclear disarmament talks with Washington could be in danger,” the AP reports.

“The launch comes as U.S. Special Representative for North Korea Stephen Biegun visits South Korea, and hours after the North described its firing of rocket artillery and an apparent short-range ballistic missile on Saturday as a regular and defensive military exercise.”

Filed Under: Foreign Affairs Tagged With: North Korea

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goddard-bw-snapshotTaegan Goddard is the founder of Political Wire, one of the earliest and most influential political web sites. He also runs Political Job Hunt, Electoral Vote Map and the Political Dictionary.

Goddard spent more than a decade as managing director and chief operating officer of a prominent investment firm in New York City. Previously, he was a policy adviser to a U.S. Senator and Governor.

Goddard is also co-author of You Won - Now What? (Scribner, 1998), a political management book hailed by prominent journalists and politicians from both parties. In addition, Goddard's essays on politics and public policy have appeared in dozens of newspapers across the country.

Goddard earned degrees from Vassar College and Harvard University. He lives in New York with his wife and three sons.

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