President Trump and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping vowed to “strengthen coordination” to achieve the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, the White House said in a statement Monday. Here are 15 fascinating facts about North Korea, one of the most isolated and
North Korea has confirmed it carried out a test of a new submarine-launched ballistic missile on Wednesday, describing it as a “significant achievement”, a day after Pyongyang and Washington agreed to resume nuclear talks. The launch marks a departure from the tests of shorter-range missiles North Korea has carried out in recent months. State-run Korea
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North Korea launched at least two unidentified projectiles towards the sea on Tuesday, South Korea’s military said, hours after the North offered to resume nuclear diplomacy with the United States. The South Korean military said the two short-range missiles were launched from a test site in the city of Kaechon, about 80km (50 miles) from
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North Korea fired two missiles into the sea on Friday and launched a scathing attack on “foolish” calls for dialogue from South Korean President Moon Jae-in, rejecting further peace talks with the South. Pyongyang has been increasingly outraged by the joint military drills which began last week between the US and South Korea, which it says clearly breach
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North Korea has fired another unidentified “projectile,” according to South Korea’s military. The weapon was launched from a location near Sino-ri in the NW, on a trajectory toward the east. Sino-ri has been identified in the past as the site of a missile operating base North Korea and the United States are currently deadlocked in
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Kim Jong Un on Monday warned the United States that he has a “nuclear button” on his desk ready for use if North Korea is threatened, but offered an olive branch to South Korea, saying he was “open to dialogue” with Seoul. After a year dominated by fiery rhetoric and escalating tensions over North Korea’s nuclear weaponsprogramme, Kim used
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North Korea slammed fresh UN sanctions imposed over its missile tests as an “act of war” on Sunday, its first response to the latest diplomatic move to punish Pyongyang’s ever-accelerating weapons drive. Tension has been high on the flashpoint peninsula as the isolated but nuclear-armed regime has staged a series of atomic and intercontinental ballistic
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North Korea abruptly ended a 10-week pause in its weapons testing Tuesday by launching what the Pentagon believes was an intercontinental ballistic missile, a move that will escalate already high tensions with Washington. President Donald Trump, who was briefed while the missile was still in the air, later reacted to the launch by saying: “We
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North Korea has issued a chilling warning to Japan to stop putting pressure on Kim Jong-Un to relinquish his nuclear programme, saying it is a “suicidal deed” that will bring “nuclear clouds” to the country. A commentary released by North Korean Central News Agency accused Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of pressuring North Korea purely for political gain, according to the South China Morning
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Last August, a bulk freighter named the “Jie Shun” was flying Cambodian colors but had sailed from North Korea with a North Korean crew and an unknown cargo shrouded by heavy tarps, according to a news report on Sunday. When the ship entered Egyptian waters, customs agents tipped off by the US swarmed the vessel
Read More →Several North Korean missiles were recently spotted moved from a rocket facility in the capital Pyongyang, South Korea’s Korean Broadcasting System (KBS) reported late Friday amid speculation that the North was preparing to take more provocative actions. The report cited an unnamed intelligence source saying South Korean and U.S. intelligence officials detected missiles being transported
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