Barack Obama On North Korea Bomb

The US policy of trying to persuade North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons "is probably a lost cause" and the best that could be hoped for is a cap on the country's nuclear capability, the Director of US National Intelligence James Clapper said on Tuesday.

The US and South Korean presidents vowed today to impose the "most powerful and comprehensive" sanctions on North Korea after its globally condemned fourth nuclear test.

North Korea said it successfully tested a powerful nuclear bomb on Wednesday, drawing threats of further sanctions even though the United States and weapons experts voiced doubts the device was as advanced as the isolated nation claimed.

To Republican US presidential contenders, North Korea's claim that it tested a hydrogen bomb may further make the 2016 race what they dearly want it to be: a referendum on President Barack Obama's foreign policy and, by extension, Hillary Clinton's.

US Republicans clamored to paint North Korea's surprise nuclear test as yet another failure of Barack Obama's foreign policy on Wednesday, rounding on the outgoing president as he faced a stern new overseas challenge.

A former FBI agent was sentenced to more than three years in prison on Thursday for disclosing confidential national security information about a foiled bomb plot to an Associated Press reporter.

If President Barack Obama has disappointed Syrian rebels by deferring to Congress before bombing Damascus, he has also dismayed the United States' two main allies in the Middle East.

The US policy of trying to persuade North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons "is probably a lost cause" and the best that could be hoped for is a cap on the country's nuclear capability, the Director of US National Intelligence James Clapper said on Tuesday.

The US and South Korean presidents vowed today to impose the "most powerful and comprehensive" sanctions on North Korea after its globally condemned fourth nuclear test.

North Korea said it successfully tested a powerful nuclear bomb on Wednesday, drawing threats of further sanctions even though the United States and weapons experts voiced doubts the device was as advanced as the isolated nation claimed.

To Republican US presidential contenders, North Korea's claim that it tested a hydrogen bomb may further make the 2016 race what they dearly want it to be: a referendum on President Barack Obama's foreign policy and, by extension, Hillary Clinton's.

US Republicans clamored to paint North Korea's surprise nuclear test as yet another failure of Barack Obama's foreign policy on Wednesday, rounding on the outgoing president as he faced a stern new overseas challenge.

A former FBI agent was sentenced to more than three years in prison on Thursday for disclosing confidential national security information about a foiled bomb plot to an Associated Press reporter.

If President Barack Obama has disappointed Syrian rebels by deferring to Congress before bombing Damascus, he has also dismayed the United States' two main allies in the Middle East.