Breaking News, Latest Philippines Headlines, World, Entertainment, Politics, Weather & Video News
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) – North Korea faked the launch of what analysts have dubbed its “monster missile” last week, Seoul’s military said Wednesday, adding that the test was, in reality, likely the same intercontinental ballistic missile Pyongyang fired in 2017. North Korea last Friday claimed to have successfully test-fired a Hwasong-17 missile — a long-range ICBM that analysts say may be capable of carrying multiple warheads — which it first unveiled at a military […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) – North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has vowed to build up “overwhelming” and unstoppable military power, state media reported Monday, days after he presided over the nation’s biggest missile launch. Kim’s comments follow Pyongyang successfully carrying out the launch in defiance of crippling international sanctions on Thursday, the first time the North has fired an intercontinental ballistic missile at full range since 2017. Known as the Hwasong-17, the powerful ICBM […]
WASHINGTON, D.C., United States (AFP) – The United States announced new sanctions Thursday on entities and people in Russia and North Korea after Pyongyang’s new ICBM missile test. The targeted persons and organizations are accused of “transferring sensitive items to North Korea’s missile program,” the State Department said in a statement. “These measures are part of our ongoing efforts to impede the DPRK’s ability to advance its missile program and they highlight the negative role […]
WASHINGTON, D.C., United States (AFP) – Two recent missile tests conducted by North Korea were of a new intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) system, the Pentagon said Thursday, marking what one US official called a “serious escalation” that will be punished with fresh sanctions. According to North Korea, the February 26 and March 4 tests were focused on developing a reconnaissance satellite, but the Pentagon said rigorous analysis concluded they were actually experimental precursors to a […]
MOSCOW, Russia (AFP) — Russia on Thursday rejected a US call to cut ties with North Korea in response to Pyongyang’s launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile. “We see this negatively,” Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told journalists in the Belarusian capital Minsk, Russian news agencies reported. “We have repeatedly stated that the pressure of sanctions has been exhausted.” He accused the United States of seeking to provoke Kim Jong-Un’s regime and demanded to know whether Washington […]
SEOUL, South Korea — For the second time in less than a month, North Korea has fired a ballistic missile over Japan, days after the international community further tightened its sanctions over its banned weapons and nuclear program. Here’s how the program got to where it is: Late 1970s: North Korea starts working on a version of the Soviet Scud-B (range 300 kilometers or 186 miles). Test-fired in 1984 1987-92: Begins developing variant of Scud-C (500 km), […]
