Elections in Germany and New Zealand are expected to be in focus during Monday’s Asian trading day. The German election results on Sunday weighed on the euro, while New Zealand’s poll outcome pressured the Kiwi dollar. German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union party looked set to remain the largest party in the next German […]

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Twitter on Saturday North Korea’s Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho and leader Kim Jong Un “won’t be around much longer” if Ri echoed the thoughts of “Little Rocket Man,” an apparent reference to Kim. Ri told the United Nations General Assembly earlier on Saturday that targeting the U.S. mainland […]

U.S. Air Force B-1B Lancer bombers escorted by fighter jets flew in international airspace over waters east of North Korea on Saturday. The Pentagon said the maneuver was a show of force that demonstrated the range of military options available to President Donald Trump. The flight, which was disclosed shortly before North Korea’s foreign minister […]

China said on Saturday it will ban exports of some petroleum products to North Korea, as well as imports of textiles from the isolated North, to comply with a United Nations Security Council resolution. The Ministry of Commerce said in a statement on its website that China would ban exports of refined petroleum products from […]

Japan talking only about sanctions on North Korea rather than dialogue will be seen as going against United Nations resolutions, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi told his Japanese counterpart. Tensions have continued to rise since North Korea carried out its sixth nuclear test on Sept. 3, prompting a new round of U.N. sanctions. Wang told […]

The U.S. won’t just hurt its own credibility if it pulls out of the Iran nuclear deal, it will also make it more difficult to pursue dialogue with North Korea, Chinese state media said in an editorial published on Friday morning. President Donald Trump said Tuesday at the U.N. General Assembly that the 2015 nuclear […]

South Korea on Thursday approved $8 million worth of humanitarian aid for Pyongyang in a move likely to muddle international efforts aimed at isolating the nuclear-armed state. The package will include $4.5 million in nutritional products for children and pregnant women through the World Food Program in addition to $3.5 million worth of vaccines and […]

North Korean Minister of Foreign Affairs Ri Yong Ho said that his country may consider a test of a hydrogen bomb in the Pacific Ocean, according to a report from South Korea’s official news agency Yonhap. Ri said the potential test of “the most powerful detonation of an H-bomb” would be one possible “highest-level” action […]

China is about to get its first new central bank chief in 15 years, and the ultimate selection for the hot seat could demonstrate what Beijing is planning for the world’s second-largest economy. Zhou Xiaochuan, the head of the People’s Bank of China, is expected to retire soon. He’s had the job since 2002, making […]

North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un chastised Donald Trump, calling the president’s United Nations address earlier this week “unprecedented rude nonsense.” “The mentally deranged behavior of the U.S. president openly expressing on the UN arena the unethical will to ‘totally destroy’ a sovereign state, beyond the boundary of threats of regime change or overturn of […]