North Korea has reportedly test-fired two Musudan mid-range ballistic missiles from its east coast. The first launch appeared to have failed, according to US and Seoul military sources, but it was not clear if the second was successful. “The North launched one missile presumed to be Musudan from areas near[…]
BBC correspondent Rupert Wingfield-Hayes and his team have been expelled from North Korea after being detained over their reporting. Our correspondent, producer Maria Byrne and cameraman Matthew Goddard were stopped by officials on Friday as they were about to leave North Korea. Wingfield-Hayes was questioned for eight hours by North[…]
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Friday hailed the country’s recent nuclear test and launch of a satellite into space, as he opened the first congress of the country’s ruling Workers’ Party in 36 years. Wearing a dark western-style suit and grey tie, the 33-year-old was flanked by his[…]
North Korea has fired two medium-range ballistic missiles into the sea, US and South Korean officials have said. South Korea’s military said the first missile was launched from Sukchon in the country’s southwest at 5:55am on Friday (20:55 GMT on Thursday) and flew 800km before crashing off into the East[…]
North Korea’s Supreme Court sentenced a U.S. student to 15 years in prison with hard labor Wednesday for crimes against the reclusive Asian state, according to reports. Otto Frederick Warmbier, an undergraduate student at the University of Virginia, was arrested in early January for attempting to steal a propaganda banner[…]
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said his country would soon conduct a nuclear warhead test and a test launch of ballistic missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads, the North’s official KCNA news agency reported on Tuesday. Such tests would be in defiant violation of United Nations sanctions that were[…]
North Korea has allegedly developed a miniature warhead that can be fitted into a ballistic missile. The claim, made by the country’s leader Kim Jong-un at a meeting with nuclear researchers, follows threats of a “preventive nuclear strike” on the US. “The nuclear warheads have been standardized to be fit[…]
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has ordered his country to be ready to use its nuclear weapons at any time and the military to be in “pre-emptive attack” mode, state media said. The comments, carried by the North’s official KCNA news agency on Friday, marked a further escalation of tension[…]
North Korea fired six short-range projectiles into the sea in a show of defiance just hours after the United Nations adopted the toughest sanctions to date on Pyongyang over its fourth nuclear test and rocket launch. Limited displays of military firepower have become a routine response by North Korea to[…]
The United States presented a draft Security Council resolution on Thursday it negotiated with China that would dramatically tighten existing restrictions on North Korea after its Jan. 6 nuclear test and create the toughest U.N. sanctions regime in over two decades. The draft, seen by Reuters, would require U.N. member[…]
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