VietPress USA (Oct. 16th, 2017): President Donald Trump today said that he may visit the demilitarised zone along the South Korea border with the North. Details of his trip are still being finalised. Trump said “We’ll take a look at that. I didn’t hear in terms of provoking, but we will certainly,” Trump said when asked if he intended to go to demilitarised zone (DMZ) and if he is afraid of provoking North Korea by going to the DMZ.

Trump said next month he will be travelling to South Korea, China, Japan, Vietnam and may be Philippines. “I look forward to all of them. We haven’t set the details, as of this moment,” he said. 

Ahead of his trip to Asian countries next month, today the Deputy Ambassador of North Korea to UN, Mr. Kim In Ryong, declared that his Country now become a ‘full-fledged nuclear power’ and warns that "the entire US mainland is within our firing range’

North Korea’s deputy ambassador to UN Kim In Ryong says his nation had become a ‘full-fledged nuclear power’, warns that ‘the entire US mainland is within our firing range’

Kim In Ryong, North Korea’s deputy ambassador to the United Nations, said on Monday that his nation had become a “full-fledged nuclear power which possesses the delivery means of various ranges” and warned that “the entire US mainland is within our firing range”. He also called North Korea “a responsible nuclear state”.

“As long as one does not take part in the US military actions against the DPRK, we have no intention to use or threaten to use nuclear weapons against any other country,” Kim said, referring to his country’s formal name.

The comments are similar to other warnings North Korea has made over the past few months as tensions have increased with President Donald Trump’s administration. Kim Jong Un’s regime has repeatedly said it needs the capability to strike the US with a nuclear weapon in order to deter an American attack.

South Korean military officials are preparing for another possible missile launch from North Korea this week to counter the US-South Korea drills, which include an American aircraft carrier and a nuclear submarine. China’s Communist Party will also start its most important political meeting in five years on Wednesday.

‘Coming Disaster’

Russia on Monday urged the US to reduce military drills near North Korea, reiterating a proposal for both sides to step back and calm tensions.

“I don’t remember a situation when the feeling of a coming disaster is so clear,” Tass cited Russian ambassador to North Korea Alexander Matsegora as saying.

Russia’s Interfax newswire reported on Monday that a meeting is possible this week between Joseph Yun, the US representative for North Korea, and Choe Son Hui, head of the North American department at North Korea’s foreign ministry. Both are attending a non-proliferation conference in Moscow this week, it said. Bloomberg