the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said Wednesday

the director of the Center for Diplomacy and Security at the Korea Research Institute for National Strategy.According to a Reuters report.

KCNA-YonhapBy Jung Da-minNorth Korea watchers said it is not yet the right time for North Korea to accept Washingtons calls for talks.while publicly sending out a strong message to the Biden administration.North Korea could be sending a message to the Biden administration that it would respond when Washington first presents a change in its earlier position.

Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin will travel to Tokyo and Seoul for talks with their Japanese and South Korean counterparts.Just a month ago from mid-February.

Hong also said it was likely that Pyongyang would have guessed Washington was trying to manage North Korea risks including possible military provocations which had been seen in the past before and after elections of new U

Biden described Kim as a thug and said he would only meet him on the condition that he would agree that he would be drawing down his nuclear capacity.told BFMTV late Thursday that his client had apologized as he was taken into custody.

French President Emmanuel Macron condemned the ongoing violence in France on Friday as an unacceptable situation after a third straight night of nationwide protests over the deadly police shooting of a teenager saw cars torched.tensions rose around midnight.

Despite the massive security deployment.shops ransacked and hundreds arrested.