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SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un has declared a recent submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) test the “greatest success”, Pyongyang’s state media said Thursday. The results of Wednesday’s launch proved the North had joined the “front rank of the military powers fully equipped with nuclear attack capability” and that the US mainland and the operational theatre in the Pacific were now “within the striking range” of the North’s army, KCNA news agency […]
by Park Chan-Kyong SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — North Korea on Wednesday test-fired a submarine-launched missile 500 kilometres (around 300 miles) towards Japan, marking what weapons analysts called a clear step forward for its nuclear strike ambitions. The flight distance, which was tracked by South Korea’s military Joint Chiefs of Staff, far exceeded any previous SLBM tests, suggesting significant progress in technical prowess. A proven SLBM system would take North Korea’s nuclear strike threat to […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — A North Korean submarine-launched ballistic missile entered Japan’s air defense identification zone for the first time, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe reportedly said Wednesday. “This is the first time a missile from North Korea was launched from a submarine into our country’s air-defence identification zone,” Abe told reporters, according to public broadcaster NHK. © 1994-2016 Agence France-Presse
BEIJING, China (AFP) — Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi called for calm Wednesday after North Korea carried out a ballistic missile test launch towards Japan, Jiji Press reported. “We hope that (the situation) will not become more tense and complicated,” he told reporters in Tokyo ahead of talks with his counterparts from Japan and South Korea, Jiji Press reported. © 1994-2016 Agence France-Presse
by Park Chan-Kyong SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — North Korea conducted an apparently successful submarine-launched missile test on Wednesday, days after threatening a nuclear strike in retaliation at the start of large-scale South Korea-US military exercises. A statement from South Korea’s military Joint Chiefs of Staff said the missile, launched in the early morning from a submarine in the East Sea (Sea of Japan), flew around 500 kilometers (310 miles) — a substantial improvement on […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Wednesday condemned a ballistic missile launch by North Korea earlier in the day as a “reckless act”, Jiji Press reported. “It is a grave threat to Japan’s security environment,” Abe told reporters, according to the news agency. “It is an unforgivable, reckless act.” © 1994-2016 Agence France-Presse
by Park Chan-Kyong SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — One year after North and South Korea vowed to resume a constructive dialogue, they have instead resurrected a spirit of Cold War-era antagonism, complete with cross-border propaganda shouting matches, spy messaging and defection dramas. Official contact between the two Koreas has never been easy, but the current situation, with all official lines of communication severed and a host of flash-point issues raising tensions, appears to be particularly […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — South Korean President Park Geun-Hye on Monday urged North Korea to abandon its nuclear weapon programme and defended the deployment of a US anti-missile system in the face of repeated “provocations” by Pyongyang. Tensions have been running high on the divided Korean peninsula ever since the North carried out its fourth nuclear test in January, and are expected to spike again when the South launches an annual joint military exercise […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The US State Department updated its already strong travel warning for North Korea on Thursday in light of Pyongyang’s recent warning that it would treat any detained US citizens according to “wartime law.” Although Washington has long warned about the dangers of travelling to North Korea in any capacity, its formal advisories have strengthened in tone with the recent arrest and detention of a number of American citizens. Among the […]
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AFP) — Bangladesh has kicked out a North Korean diplomat after he was caught smuggling more than one million cigarettes as well as electronics into the country in a shipping container, Dhaka officials said Monday. Han Son Ik, the first secretary of the North Korean embassy in Dhaka, has been ordered to leave the country after failing to declare the goods worth nearly half a million dollars to customs. Bangladesh foreign secretary Shahidul […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Wednesday condemned a North Korean test missile that landed 250 kilometres (155 miles) off Japan’s coast as an “outrageous act” which threatened his country. “It’s a serious threat against our country’s security,” Abe told reporters. “This is an outrageous act that cannot be tolerated.” Defence minister Gen Nakatani said the missile landed in the Sea of Japan off the north coast in the country’s Exclusive Economic Zone […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — North Korea on Wednesday test-fired a ballistic missile towards the Sea of Japan, South Korea’s defense ministry said, in an apparent reaction to the planned deployment of a US missile defense system. The missile was launched from near the western city of Unyul at around 07:50 am Wednesday (22:50 GMT Tuesday), it added. The test follows the launch of three ballistic missiles on July 19 in what the North said […]
