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Kim and Sergei Shoigu talked about military issues and regional security, said North Korean state media.
North Korea has been silent about the highly unusual entry of an American soldier across the Koreas’ heavily fortified border.
An American soldier was detained after crossing the border from South Korea into North Korea, U.S. officials told The Associated Press.
“Congratulate our friends,” former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley said. “Don’t congratulate our enemies."
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Twitter critics tore into the Fox News host for over-the-top praise of the former president.
The agreement will be a conspicuous show of support to Seoul amid growing concern about nuclear threats by North Korea.
North Korea has justified its weapons demonstrations as a response to the expanding military exercises between the United States and South Korea.
Its neighbors say the country has conducted its first intercontinental ballistic missile launch in a month as it extends a provocative run of weapons tests.
The country's weapons tests and U.S.-South Korea military exercises have intensified in a tit-for-tat cycle, underscoring heightened tensions in the region.
North Korea has fired two short-range ballistic missiles into the sea as the United States moves an aircraft carrier to neighboring waters for exercises with South Korea.