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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 […]
by Laurent THOMET / Eva XIAO Agence France-Presse BEIJING, China (AFP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un arrived in Beijing on Tuesday on an unannounced visit for talks with President Xi Jinping, as preparations ramp up for an expected second summit with Donald Trump. China is the isolated, nuclear-armed North’s key diplomatic ally and main source of trade and aid, and the visit is likely to heighten speculation about the potential meeting with the […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) – The United States’ top diplomat defended his country’s foreign policy record on Wednesday, saying progress had been made in the last year to rein in North Korea’s nuclear ambitions and to counter the “immense challenges” posed by Russia, China and Iran. In an opinion piece in the New York Times, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said some 90 percent of Pyongyang’s export earnings had been cut off by a series of international […]
(REUTERS) North Korea said on Sunday a push for further sanctions following its fifth and biggest nuclear test was “laughable”, and vowed to continue to strengthen its nuclear power. The isolated state on Friday set off its most powerful nuclear explosion to date, saying it had mastered the ability to mount a warhead on a ballistic missile, ratcheting up a threat that its rivals and the United Nations have been powerless to contain. A […]
(REUTERS) North Korea conducted its fifth nuclear test on Friday, South Korea and Japan said after meteorological agencies reported a surface-level seismic tremor near the North’s known test site that indicated it was its most powerful yet. The U.S. Geological Survey and European agencies measured the quake, which was recorded at 0030 GMT, with a magnitude of 5.3. Agencies in China, reclusive North Korea’s main diplomatic ally, also recorded the tremor. South Korean President […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un has hailed the successful test of a powerful new medium-range missile, saying it poses a direct threat to US military bases in the Pacific, state media reported Thursday. Kim, who personally monitored Wednesday’s Musudan missile test, said it was a “great event” that significantly bolstered the North’s pre-emptive nuclear attack capability, the official KCNA news agency reported. “We have the sure capability to attack in […]
SEOUL , South Korea (AFP) — Analysis of recent satellite images suggests North Korea may be moving forward with preparations to conduct a fifth nuclear test in the near future, a US think-tank said Saturday. The pictures, dated May 5, show closely parked vehicles at what is believed to be the test command center, some six kilometers (four miles) south of the underground detonation site at Punggye-ri in the country’s northeast. “While the historical record […]
Reuters – North Korea’s state-run television KRT on Tuesday (April 12) released still photographs of soldiers conducting a live-fire drill at night time. KRT said the soldiers trained for a possible surprise landing of an enemy while firing artilleries towards the sea. KRT, however, did not specify the date or the location of the drill. North Korean Director of the General Political Bureau of the Korean People’s Army, Hwang Pyong So, Director of the General […]
SEOUL, South Korea (Reuters) – Officials from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and South Korea held an annual meeting in Seoul to boost cooperation on nuclear issues on Thursday (April 7). IAEA Deputy Director General and Head of the Department of Safeguards, Tero Varjoranta, and South Korean foreign ministry’s Deputy Minister for Multilateral and Global Affairs, Choi Jong-moon, led the fourth South Korea-IAEA High-Level Consultation. The both sides discussed ways to cooperate their response […]
SEOUL, South Korea (Reuters) — South Korean President Park Geun-hye condemned North Korea’s threat to test a nuclear warhead on Tuesday (March 15), saying the North will lead itself to self-destruction unless it changes. “North Korea will lead itself to self-destruction if it does not change and continues to make excessive provocations and confrontation with the international community,” said Park at a cabinet meeting in Seoul. “I think North Korea’s threat shows that it is […]
by Giles HEWITT SEOUL, South korea (AFP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un has ordered an imminent nuclear warhead explosion test and multiple ballistic missile launches, escalating Pyongyang’s face-off with the international community just days after being slapped with tough UN sanctions. The order came after Kim monitored what was described as the successful simulated test of the warhead re-entry technology required for a long-range nuclear strike on the US mainland, the North’s official KCNA […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un has promised to put more satellites in space, even as the international community prepares to punish his regime over a long-range rocket launch just last week. At a banquet to congratulate the scientists, technicians and officials who contributed to the February 7 launch, Kim noted that the mission had come at “a complex time when hostile forces are more bloody-eyed than ever to strangle” the North, […]
