Bloomberg US President Donald Trump’s campaign to cut North Korea’s economy off from the world worked. But it also may have accelerated Kim Jong Un’s efforts to build a military less reliant on foreign support. The North Korea awaiting President-elect Joe Biden is more dangerous and more self-reliant, possessing at least three different intercontinental ballistic missiles capable of carrying nuclear ...

Bloomberg Croatia suffered its strongest earthquake in 140 years — for the second time in 2020 — with the tremor devastating the city at its epicenter, killing at least one person and rattling Europeans as far away as Rome and Vienna. The temblor, measured at 6.3 by the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre on Tuesday, was larger than both a 5.2 quake ...

Bloomberg The trade deal that both sides of the English Channel say reflects a new era of cooperation is essentially a sideshow for the City of London, which is still awaiting its own seal of approval from the European Union (EU). EU officials must rule separately that British financial regulations and oversight are strong enough to create a level playing ...