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The tests came as President Biden wrapped up a trip to the region with a promise to deter the North’s nuclear and missile threat.

During his inaugural speech, Yoon Suk-yeol said his country would play a greater role in promoting freedom and human rights around the world.

In a speech, Kim Jong-un, the country’s leader, vowed to expand his nuclear arsenal ​“at the fastest possible speed​.”

President Moon Jae-in, who is barred from seeking re-election after his five-year term, and the North’s leader had warm parting words amid a diplomatic stalemate.

Though officials said the missile is not yet ready to deploy, President Vladimir V. Putin said the launch of the Sarmat missile “will force all who are trying to threaten our country in the heat of frenzied, aggressive rhetoric to think twice.”

The war in Ukraine is snarling global energy supply.

I watched a hydrogen bomb detonate. I hope no one ever has to see that sight.

The South Korean president-elect’s decision to move both the presidential office and the Defense Ministry comes at a time when North Korea is rapidly escalating tension.

It was the country’s first long-range ballistic missile test since 2017, and it raised the specter of intensified provocations and threats on the Korean Peninsula.

The expansion of the arsenal has become a growing threat to the United States and allies in the region.