North Korea

North Korea fires multiple-rocket launcher, South Korea says

North Korea appeared to have fired a short-range multiple rocket launcher on Sunday, South Korea’s military said, amid heightened military tensions on the peninsula after a spate of larger missile launches by the nuclear-armed North. While they garner much less attention than

March 20, 2022

Asia

North Korea Fires ‘Ballistic Missile’ Toward Eastern Waters

North Korea has fired what is suspected to be a ballistic missile into sea while the eyes of the rest of the world are focused on Russian President Vladimir Putin’s attack on Ukraine. The coast guard said that the missile probably landed

February 27, 2022

Asia·Breaking News

North Korea says it successfully tested hypersonic missile

North Korea successfully test-fired a hypersonic missile into the sea this week in the latest weapons demonstration from the rogue nation. Korean Central News Agency, the country’s state media, reported that the test was the first test flight of the “detached hypersonic

September 29, 2021

Asia·Breaking News

North Korea launches ballistic missile into Sea of Japan

North Korea launched at least one unidentified “projectile” from its eastern coast, the South Korean military said Tuesday. The Japanese Defense Ministry indicating the launch appeared to be of a ballistic weapon. No further details were immediately available. Earlier this month, the

September 27, 2021

Asia·Breaking News

Jim Jong Un is Not Dead; South Korea says

South Korea believes North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is not dead. After days of speculation and rumours of the North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s ill health and rumoured death. A South Korean government official has said Kim Jong Un is

April 27, 2020

North Korea·United States

North Korea fires two unidentified projectiles after offering talks with US

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

September 10, 2019

Asia

North Korea says missile launch a warning to South Korean ‘warmongers’

Kim Jong Un inspected the demonstration of a “new-type tactical guided weapon” on Thursday as a warning to South Korean “warmongers” to stop importing weapons and conducting joint military drills, a message that analysts said was also aimed at the United States.

July 26, 2019

Breaking News·United States

North Korea hails ‘historic’ Kim-Trump summit

North Korea on Monday hailed the weekend meeting between leader Kim Jong Un and US President Donald Trump in the Demilitarized Zone as “historic”, as analysts said Pyongyang was looking to shape the narrative to its own agenda. The two leaders agreed

July 1, 2019

World

China’s president Xi to make first visit to North Korea as president on Thursday

Xi Jinping will make the first trip to North Korea by a Chinese president in 14 years this week, state media said Monday, as Beijing tightens relations with Pyongyang amid tensions with the United States. Xi will visit Pyongyang on Thursday and

June 17, 2019

Breaking News

N.Korea ‘executed’ officials after failed Trump summit : report

North Korea executed its special envoy to the United States following the collapse of the second summit between leader Kim Jong Un and President Donald Trump, a South Korean newspaper reported Friday. The Chosun Ilbo said Kim Hyok Chol, who laid the

May 31, 2019

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