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SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — A new North Korean missile test failed on Wednesday, the South’s defence ministry said, two weeks after Pyongyang launched four rockets in what it called a drill for an attack on US bases in Japan. “South Korea and the United States are aware of the North Korean missile launch,” said a spokesman for Seoul’s defence ministry, adding they “suspect it was a failure”. The ministry did not identify the type of […]
PYONGYANG, North Korea (Reuters) — North Korea denounced United States Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s warning against them during his Asia trip and said they are ready for war with the US. The North’s state-run television KRT on Tuesday (March 21) cited its foreign ministry spokesperson as saying North Korea has the will and capability to fully respond to any war which the US wants. Last week, Tillerson issued the Trump administration’s starkest warning yet to North Korea, […]
by Dan Martin Agence France Presse BEIJING, China (AFP) — Chinese President Xi Jinping and US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson pledged in talks Sunday to work to strengthen a relationship strained by disputes over North Korea and trade. Xi met Tillerson in Beijing just hours after nuclear-armed North Korea tested the US-China relationship anew by announcing a provocative rocket engine trial, and with delicate negotiations under way for a Xi summit with President Donald […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — North Korea has tested a powerful new rocket engine, state media said Sunday, with leader Kim Jong-Un hailing the successful test as a “new birth” for the nation’s rocket industry. The test was apparently timed to coincide with the visit of US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson to Beijing Saturday, where he warned that regional tensions had reached a “dangerous level”. State news agency said Kim had overseen the operation, […]
By Park Chan-Kyong SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — United States military action against nuclear-armed North Korea is an “option on the table,” Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said Friday after warning the policy of strategic patience with Pyongyang was over. In strong statements that appear to signal a sea change in American policy towards the isolated country, the US’ top diplomat said North Korea’s burgeoning missile and nuclear programs must be halted. “Certainly we do not […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — Japan launched a new spy satellite on Friday, the country’s space agency said, as the region grows increasingly uneasy over North Korea’s quickening missile program. The Radar 5 unit was carried into space on Japan’s mainstay H-2A rocket from a launch site in the country’s southwest. It is meant to replace an existing satellite that is coming to the end of its mission. Japan started putting spy satellites into orbit in […]
BEIJING, China (Reuters) — China’s foreign ministry said on Thursday (March 16) that it’s open to proposals in dealing with Pyongyang after United States Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said the escalating threat from North Korea’s nuclear program showed a clear need for a “new approach.” Two decades of diplomatic and other efforts, including aid given to North Korea by the US, had failed to achieve the goal of denuclearizing Pyongyang, Tillerson said on Thursday […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — United States Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said Thursday that two decades of efforts to stop North Korea’s nuclear ambitions have not worked and that a new approach is needed. “I think it’s important to recognize that the political and diplomatic efforts of the past 20 years to bring North Korea to the point of denuclearization have failed,” he told a press conference with Japan’s foreign minister. “In the face of […]
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AFP) — Malaysia will deport 50 North Koreans for overstaying their visas, the deputy prime minister said Tuesday, in an apparent exception to a departure ban after the assassination of Kim Jong-Nam. The killing of the half-brother of North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-Un last month in Malaysia with VX nerve agent triggered an angry standoff between Kuala Lumpur and Pyongyang that has seen them expel each other’s ambassador and refuse to let their citizens […]
UNITED NATION, United States (AFP) — The United States on Wednesday voiced skepticism about calls for talks with North Korea, saying leader Kim Jong-Un was behaving irrationally and would likely not respond to diplomatic advances. “We are not dealing with a rational person,” US Ambassador Nikki Haley told reporters following a closed-door meeting of the Security Council to discuss North Korea’s latest missile launches. In a reference to China, which is calling for a return […]
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (Reuters) — Malaysia has no plans of cutting diplomatic ties with North Korea after a rise in tensions that led to reciprocal travel bans, soon after the half-brother of the North’s leader was killed in Kuala Lumpur. North Korea barred Malaysians from leaving the country on Tuesday (March 7), sparking tit-for-tat action by Malaysia in a growing row over the murder of Kim Jong Nam, the estranged half-brother of North Korean leader Kim […]
BEIJING, China (AFP) — China on Wednesday called on North Korea to suspend its nuclear and missile activities in exchange for the US and South Korea halting military wargames, to avoid what it called a “head-on collision.” “To defuse the looming crisis on the (Korean) peninsula, China proposes that as a first step, the DPRK may suspend its nuclear and missile activities in exchange for the halt of the large-scale US-ROK exercises,” Foreign Minister Wang […]
