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BEIJING, China (AFP) — China condemned North Korea’s launch of a ballistic missile over Japan on Friday, but said it was “irresponsible” to blame Beijing for regional tensions after Washington urged it to rein in its ally. After the North’s latest test, US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson called on China to use the oil it supplies to North Korea as leverage to pressure the isolated nation into reconsidering its nuclear program. But Chinese […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — Japan’s defense minister said Friday he believed North Korea “has Guam in mind” after its most recent missile launch, noting it had sufficient range to hit the United States territory. Pyongyang has threatened the US Pacific territory with “enveloping fire,” sparking dire warnings from US President Donald Trump. Itsunori Onodera told reporters that Friday’s missile, which overflew Japanese territory, flew 3,700 kilometers — “long enough to cover Guam,” which is 3,400 […]
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), […]
UNITED NATIONS, United States (AFP) — The UN Security Council will hold an emergency meeting Friday concerning North Korea’s latest missile launch over Japan, the council presidency announced. The United States and Japan requested the meeting, which will be held at 3 pm (1900 GMT), according to the Ethopian council presidency. The meeting will be closed-door, diplomats said. Pyongyang’s latest launch comes after the Security Council imposed an eighth set of sanctions on North […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — Japan condemned Friday’s North Korean missile launch “with strongest words,” the top government spokesman said, saying the country could “never tolerate this repeated extreme provocative action.” “We have strongly protested to the North, telling them of the strong anger of the Japanese people,” Yoshihide Suga told reporters. © Agence France-Presse
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — North Korea fired an unidentified missile eastwards over Japan and into the Pacific on Friday, Seoul and Tokyo said, its latest provocation amid high tensions over its banned weapons programs. The launch, from near Pyongyang, came after the United Nations Security Council imposed an eighth set of sanctions on the country over its ballistic missile and atomic weapons programmes. That was in response to its sixth nuclear test — by far […]
LONDON, United States (AFP) — United States Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Thursday urged China to use the oil it supplies to North Korea as leverage to pressure the isolated nation into reconsidering its nuclear program. The United Nations Security Council unanimously imposed on Monday an eighth set of sanctions on North Korea after its latest nuclear test, banning it from trading in textiles and restricting oil imports. Washington had called for tougher restrictions, […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — A North Korean organization demanded Thursday that the United States be “beaten to death” like a “rabid dog” for spearheading fresh United Nations sanctions on Pyongyang over its latest nuclear test, adding ally Japan should be “sunken into the sea.” The UN Security Council unanimously imposed an eighth set of sanctions on the North Monday, banning it from trading in textiles and restricting its oil imports, a week after Pyongyang […]
by Hwang Sunghee Agence France Presse SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — North Korea vowed Wednesday to accelerate its weapons programs in response to the “evil” sanctions imposed by the UN Security Council following its latest and most powerful nuclear test. The respected 38 North website in the US raised its estimate for the yield from the explosion, which Pyongyang says was a hydrogen bomb small enough to fit onto a missile, to around 250 […]
SEOUL, South Korea (Reuters) — South Korea said on Wednesday (September 13) traces of radioactive xenon gas were confirmed to be from a North Korean nuclear test earlier this month, but it was unable to conclude whether the test had been for a hydrogen bomb as Pyongyang claimed. North Korea conducted its sixth nuclear test on September 3, prompting the United Nations Security Council to step up sanctions with a ban on the reclusive regime’s […]
GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP)–North Korea on Tuesday blasted “vicious” sanctions imposed by the UN Security Council over its latest and most powerful nuclear test, threatening revenge against Washington, who it blamed for leading the charge. “Yesterday the Washington regime fabricated the most vicious sanctions resolution,” Pyongyang’s ambassador in Geneva told the UN Conference on Disarmament in the first North Korean reaction to Monday’s unanimous vote. “My delegation condemns in the strongest terms and categorically rejects the latest illegal […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — North Korea warned on Monday it would inflict “the greatest pain and suffering” on the United States if Washington persists in pushing for harsher UN sanctions following Pyongyang’s sixth nuclear test. The September 3 detonation was the country’s largest and prompted global outrage, with the UN Security Council set to discuss a new draft resolution presented by Washington that would be the toughest-ever imposed against the isolated regime. The US […]
