JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel condemned the recent nuclear test conducted by North Korea, calling it a continuation of the country’s “pattern of defiant activity.” North Korea carried out the underground test on Sunday, later claiming that it had set off a hydrogen bomb. The explosion was felt in South Korea and China, making it the…
More than two decades ago, as Israel sought peace with Palestinians and Arab states, it also sought to thaw its relationship with North Korea — an effort that diplomats claim might have succeeded had the Mossad, Israel’s spy agency, not intervened. According to the Times of Israel, five Israeli diplomats traveled to Pyongyang in 1992…
Former Connecticut senator Joe Lieberman is defending President Trump’s hot rhetoric against North Korea, saying that it might not be the worst thing to use martial words against the nuclear-armed totalitarian regime. “I know that President Trump’s words were strong, but I’m not upset about them because we’ve tried for years and years, really decades,…
The Senate approved new sanctions on Russia, Iran and North Korea by a vote of 98-2 on Thursday evening, rebuking President Trump’s overtures to Moscow and forcing him to make a difficult choice — sign the bill and anger Russian President Vladimir Putin, or veto it and rebuke not only his fellow Republicans but also…
(JTA) — North Korea has denied torturing Otto Warmbier, the American college student who was detained in the country for over a year and died shortly after returning home in a coma. A North Korean Foreign Ministry spokesman on Friday called itself the “biggest victim” of the incident, insisting that Warmbier’s death was a mystery. “The…
Otto Warmbier’s parents kept his Jewishness — and his love of Israel — a secret throughout his captivity in North Korea, so as not to embarrass the oppressive regime, according to The Times of Israel. Warmbier was sentenced to 15 years of hard labor in March 2016 for stealing a propaganda poster from a Pyongyang…
Otto Warmbier, an American student who was jailed in North Korea, has died, according to a statement released by his family. Warmbier, 22, had been imprisoned in the reclusive nation for 17 months before he was released in early June. When he was received at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center, doctors diagnosed him with…
(JTA) — Otto Warmbier, the University of Virginia student imprisoned by North Korea who remains in a coma since his release this week, was active at the campus Hillel and cared deeply about the Jewish community, its rabbi recalls. Warmbier, 22, a Cincinnati native, was traveling on a student tour of North Korea last year…
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