U.S. President Donald Trump starts the new year knee-deep in daunting foreign policy challenges at the same time he'll have to deal with a likely impeachment trial in the Senate and the demands of a reelection campaign.

Kim Yong Chol said Trump’s tweets clearly show that he is an irritated old man “bereft of patience.”

The reported test came as North Korea is stepping up pressure on the U.S. to make concessions in stalled nuclear talks.

North Korea has previously issued deadlines it doesn’t follow through on as a way to try to get what it wants in negotiations.

It was the second time in less than a week that North Korean statements have taken direct aim at Trump, something Pyongyang had avoided since the two sides resumed a largely unproductive process of dialog in 2018.

Separately, a diplomatic source said envoys from the United States and North Korea were holding talks in Sweden

As Trump prepares to return to the international body he has so often derided, there’s a clear sense that America is more isolated now than ever.

North Korea has no intention of meeting U.S. officials during the Winter Olympics that start in South Korea on Friday, state media said, dampening hopes the Games will help resolve a tense standoff over the North’s nuclear weapons program.

Pope Francis also reaffirmed the need to respect the status quo of Jerusalem and refrain from any initiative that exacerbates hostilities.

While accepting her Nobel Peace Prize Sunday, Beatrice Fihn said the world is closer to atomic warfare than it may realize.