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TAIPEI, Taiwan (AFP) — Taiwan’s Premier Lin Chuan resigned on Monday in a move aimed at reviving dwindling public support for the government of President Tsai Ing-wen. Tsai’s office announced in a statement that Lin offered his resignation on Sunday, saying that he had “accomplished his periodic tasks,” and it was approved by the president. Speculation had been rife that Lin would be replaced. The government’s popularity has been hit by a series of […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) – South Korea and the United States will deploy more anti-missile defenses in response to Sunday’s nuclear test by North Korea, Seoul’s defense ministry said Monday. The Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system already installed in the South has infuriated China, but the ministry said in a statement that the “Four remaining launchers will soon be temporarily deployed through consultations between South Korea and the US to counter growing nuclear and […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) – Japan and China said Monday they had not yet detected any atmospheric radiation from North Korea’s nuclear test, amid fears of a leak from a “cave in” during the underground blast. Japan’s top government spokesman Yoshihide Suga told reporters there was “nothing special detected from monitoring posts across the country,” nor from air samples taken by the Air Self-Defense Force after Sunday’s blast. China’s environment ministry said Monday that radiation levels […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) – North Korea’s nuclear test on Sunday had an estimated strength of 50 kilotons, defense ministry officials told a parliamentary briefing on Monday. That would make it five times the size of the North’s previous test in September last year, and more than three times bigger than the US device that destroyed Hiroshima in 1945. (Agence France-Presse)
COX’S BAZAR, Bangladesh (AFP) – A total of 87,000 mostly Rohingya refugees have arrived in Bangladesh since violence erupted in neighboring Myanmar on August 25, the United Nations said Monday. Thousands of the stateless Muslim minority have fled the mainly Buddhist nation and poured over the border since the latest round of fighting broke out, piling pressure on the already overcrowded camps in Bangladesh. Around 20,000 more were massed on the border between Bangladesh and Myanmar’s […]
by Maaz Khan Agence France-Presse SIBI, Pakistan (AFP) – After hours toiling at construction sites in 50 degree-plus heat, Lakhmir Brahmani finds little relief from the sun other than a donkey-powered fan during the dog days of summer in one of Pakistan’s hottest cities. Scientists have warned that swathes of South Asia may be uninhabitable due to rising temperatures by 2100 — and in the desert community of Sibi in southwest Balochistan province, where […]
by Brian Knowlton with Sebastien Berger in Seoul Agence France Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The United States warned it could launch a “massive military response” to any threats from North Korea following Pyongyang’s provocative detonation of what it claimed was a miniaturized hydrogen bomb. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis spoke out on Sunday after North Korea carried out an unexpectedly strong nuclear test, more powerful than the bomb that levelled Hiroshima in 1945. […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — South Korea’s military launched a volley of ballistic missiles simulating an attack on the North’s nuclear test site Monday, Seoul said, in an exercise responding to a test of what Pyongyang says was a hydrogen bomb. Pictures showed South Korean short-range Hyunmoo ballistic missiles roaring into the sky in the pale light of dawn from a launch site on the country’s east coast. Authorities released video showing South Korean […]
North Koreans cheered as the news of the hydrogen bomb test by their leader was declared a success over state television. A video from North Korea showed people watching the news and cheering after the announcement of the successful H-bomb test. “I am really happy to hear the news of the successful test of a hydrogen bomb for ICBM. I have once again realized that, with the respected Supreme Leader in high esteem, we will […]
https://youtu.be/PKXPrgCXt8A World leaders, including United States President Donald Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, condemned the latest nuclear test conducted by North Korea on Sunday (Sept. 3), saying this action was “unacceptable” and should be punished. US President Donald Trump declared Sunday that “appeasement with North Korea” will not work, after Pyongyang claimed it had successfully tested a missile-ready hydrogen bomb. “North Korea has conducted a major nuclear test,” Trump said. “Their words and […]
BERLIN, Germany (AFP) — Germany, Italy and France on Sunday urged tougher European Union sanctions against North Korea, after Pyongyang “reached a new dimension of provocation” with its latest nuclear test. German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron agreed during a phone call “that North Korea has trampled on international law and that the international community must therefore react with determination against this new escalation,” the chancellery said in a statement. Both leaders […]
by Sebastien Berger Agence France Presse SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea said it detonated a hydrogen bomb designed for a long-range missile on Sunday and called its sixth and most powerful nuclear test a “perfect success,” sparking world condemnation and promises of tougher United States sanctions. Pyongyang residents threw their arms aloft in triumph as a jubilant television newsreader hailed the “unprecedentedly large” blast. It “marked a very significant occasion in attaining the final goal of […]
