Tag: missile

Back-to-back missile launches by North Korea spark concerns

By Sunghee Hwang SEOUL, Dec 18, 2023 (AFP) – North Korea fired another internationally banned “long-range ballistic missile” on Monday, the South’s military said, after Pyongyang voiced outrage over deeper nuclear cooperation between Seoul and Washington. The ballistic launch followed firing overnight Sunday by the North of a short-range missile, extending a record-breaking number of weapons tests this year that have been condemned by the West. The back-to-back launches also come after another bout of […]

Continue Reading →

N. Korea says spy satellite launch successful

SEOUL, Nov 21, 2023 (AFP) – North Korea said Wednesday it had succeeded in putting a military spy satellite in orbit after two previous failures, as the US led its allies in condemning the launch as a “brazen violation” of UN sanctions. A rocket carrying the satellite blasted off Tuesday night from North Phyongan province, flew along its designated path and “accurately put the reconnaissance satellite ‘Malligyong-1’ on its orbit,” state-run news agency KCNA reported. […]

Continue Reading →

North Korea slams G7’s nuclear denuclearization call, demands group’s dismantlement

SEOUL, Nov 14, 2023 (AFP) – North Korea on Tuesday slammed a joint statement by G7 foreign ministers that criticised the country’s nuclear programme, arguing the grouping of rich democracies should be “dismantled immediately”. In a statement issued last week, the top diplomats of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Britain, the United States and the European Union reiterated their longstanding call for the “complete denuclearisation of the Korean Peninsula”. The G7 foreign ministers also demanded […]

Continue Reading →

N.Korea test-fires missiles as part of mock ‘nuclear attack’

SEOUL, Sept 2, 2023 (AFP) – North Korea staged a “simulated tactical nuclear attack” drill at the weekend with mock atomic warheads attached to two long-range cruise missiles that were test-fired into the ocean, state-controlled media reported Sunday. The Korean Central News Agency said the operation early Saturday was a “counteraction drill” in response to joint military activity by US and South Korean forces that KCNA said has escalated tensions in the region. “A firing […]

Continue Reading →

North Korea fires two ballistic missiles into sea

SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — North Korea has fired two short-range ballistic missiles into the sea, Yonhap news agency reported Wednesday, hours after an American nuclear-armed submarine made its first South Korean port call in decades. The launch was reported by South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS), according to Yonhap, who said they were fired early Wednesday from the Sunan area in Pyongyang, and flew some 550 kilometres (340 miles) before splashing into the […]

Continue Reading →

North Korea says conducted new test of solid-fuel ICBM

  By Kang Jin-kyu Agence France-Presse SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un personally oversaw the successful test of the country’s newest intercontinental ballistic missile, state media reported Thursday, days after Pyongyang threatened to down any US spy planes entering its airspace. A beaming Kim, flanked by his wife and key aides, was shown in state media images applauding enthusiastically after the launch of the solid-fuel Hwasong-18 on Wednesday. The ICBM, […]

Continue Reading →

North Korea fires short-range ballistic missiles

Seoul, South Korea | AFP | Monday 3/27/2023 North Korea fired two short-range ballistic missiles Monday, South Korea’s military said, the latest in its flurry of weapons tests in recent weeks. The launch comes as Seoul and Washington are carrying out a joint amphibious landing exercise, and just days after they wrapped up their largest combined military drills in five years. North Korea views all such exercises as rehearsals for invasion and has repeatedly warned […]

Continue Reading →

North Korea says missile test-fired Thursday was an ICBM: KCNA

SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — North Korea said the projectile it test-fired Thursday was an intercontinental ballistic missile known as Hwasong-17, the state news agency KCNA reported. The missile, whose launch was earlier reported by the government in Seoul, was fired amid “provocative and aggressive” joint military drills conducted by the United States and South Korea, the agency said Friday. Thursday’s launch was North Korea’s third show of force since Sunday and took place as […]

Continue Reading →

North Korea fires two ballistic missiles, Seoul says

SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — North Korea fired two short-range ballistic missiles Tuesday, Seoul said, Pyongyang’s second launch in three days and the first since South Korea and the United States began their largest joint military drills in five years. Washington and Seoul have ramped up defense cooperation in the face of growing military and nuclear threats from the North, which has conducted a series of increasingly provocative banned weapons tests in recent months. South […]

Continue Reading →

North Korea fires ballistic missile ahead of US-South Korea drills

North Korea fired a short-range ballistic missile Thursday, Seoul’s military said, Pyongyang’s latest show of force just days before South Korea and the United States kick off major joint military exercises. Relations between the two Koreas are at one of their worst points in decades, with the nuclear-armed North conducting ever more provocative banned weapons tests as Seoul moved to ramp up security cooperation with Washington in response. Last year, Kim Jong Un’s regime declared […]

Continue Reading →

North Korea fires more missiles after US-South Korea nuclear drill

  by Claire LEE Agence France-Presse SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — North Korea said Friday it had fired cruise missiles and claimed that ramped-up US-South Korean military drills “can be regarded as a declaration of war”. It came after the two allies conducted a tabletop exercise at the Pentagon focused on responses to a nuclear attack by Pyongyang. North Korean forces held a “strategic cruise missile launching drill” in the early hours of Thursday, firing […]

Continue Reading →

UN Security Council ‘silence’ on N. Korea missiles ‘dangerous’, US says

UNITED NATIONS, United States (AFP) — The United States on Monday denounced a “dangerous” lack of action by the UN Security Council on North Korea’s missile launches, accusing — but not naming — China and Russia of having “forced” the body “into silence.” The reclusive North Korean state test-fired dozens of missiles in 2022, setting security postures in East Asia on edge. It fired two ballistic missiles Monday, 48 hours after it test-launched an intercontinental […]

Continue Reading →
1 2 3 4 … 26