In a joint statement with the foreign ministers of Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, South Korea, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the High Representative of the European Union, the U.S. spoke out against the deployment of North Korean ...

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has accused the United States of ramping up tension and provocations, saying the Korean peninsula has never faced a greater risk of nuclear war, state media KCNA said on Friday.

Kim claimed the U.S. had engaged in a “hostile and aggressive” policy with his country and that, as a result, the two countries had never been closer to nuclear war than now, according to reports from KCNA,