NewsTracker Answers for week of May 01, 2017

Q: President Donald Trump said last week a "major, major conflict" with North Korea was possible over its nuclear and ballistic missile programs. In the same interview, he said he may scrap a trade deal with South Korea and said the nation should pay $1 billion for a U.S. anti-missile system. Where are North and South Korea?

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Q: U.S. officials said later that America would stick with its deal to pay for the anti-missile system that South Korea would then pay to maintain. Many South Koreans oppose the missile system because it could cause trouble with their biggest trading partner . . .

A. China

B. Japan

C. North Korea

D. United States


A. South Korea buys and sells twice as much goods and services with China than it does with the United States. The anti-missile system is intended to ward off any North Korean missile attack, but Chinese leaders complain that its radar can see deep into into China and undermines its security.


Q: Tensions on the Korean Peninsula have increased with recent missile tests by North Korea, which is technically still at war with the South after their 1950-53 conflict ended in a truce, not a treaty. Who lost the most soldiers in the Korean War?

A. North Korea

B. South Korea

C. China

D. United States


C. While more than 39,000 U.S. soldiers were killed in the war, it is estimated that as many as 400,000 Chinese troops were killed. Officially, China says 148,000 of its soldiers died while fighting with the North Koreans.


Q: Trump has not ruled out military action to prevent North Korea from building a nuclear-armed missile that could reach the United States. Where is he looking for the most help in finding a peaceful solution?

A. China

B. Japan

C. South Korea

D. United Nations


A. Trump emphasized China’s role in putting pressure on North Korea and said he has established a good relationship with China’s President Xi Jinping. China has stopped buying coal from North Korea because of its missile and nuclear tests and has hinted it may stop selling oil to North Korea.


Q: Despite China’s public pressure on North Korea, Chinese companies provided many components in North Korean rocket parts retrieved from sea west of the Korean Peninsula. What’s the name of that sea?

A. China

B. Japan

C. Korean

D. Yellow


D. The peninsula is surrounded by the Yellow Sea to the west, the Sea of Japan to the East and the Korean Strait connecting the two seas in the Pacific Ocean.