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by Dave Clark and Ayee Macaraig Agence France Presse SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — North Korea vowed Monday that tough new United Nations sanctions would not stop it from developing its nuclear arsenal, as it rejected talks and angrily warned the United States of retaliation. The message of defiance was the first major response to the US-drafted sanctions, which the UN Security Council unanimously approved over the weekend and which could cost North Korea $1 […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — North Korea could field a nuclear-capable intercontinental ballistic missile able to strike America by next year, but Pyongyang must first overcome important technological hurdles, a United States expert warned Monday. North Korea has alarmed the international community by the pace and progress of its missile development program, and this month leader Kim Jong-Un conducted two tests of an ICBM. The first of these trials, which Kim described as a gift […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) – An undersea earthquake off the coast of North Korea was not caused by a nuclear test, the South’s media reported Thursday. The 5.9-magnitude quake struck about 190 kilometers (120 miles) south-east of the reclusive state’s third largest city, Chongjin, in the early hours of Thursday, according to the United States Geological Survey. North Korea has staged five nuclear tests — including two last year — and has made a significant […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — Japan’s chief atomic energy regulator has acknowledged it was inappropriate to say it would be “much better” if North Korea dropped a missile on Tokyo rather than on a nuclear plant. Shunichi Tanaka, head of the Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA), found himself in hot water on Thursday after he spoke to people living near a recently restarted reactor. “If it were me, I think it would be much better to drop (a missile) on central Tokyo,” said Tanaka. He was speaking about a […]
by Gabriel BOUROVITCH Agence France-Presse PARIS, France (AFP) – A project to build a nuclear plant at Hinkley Point in Britain will overrun by £1.5 billion ($1.95 billion, 1.71 billion euros) and may face further delays, its main supplier said Monday. EDF, the state-run French company that has the lion’s share of the controversial scheme, made the announcement after a long review. EDF is part of a French-Chinese consortium that was awarded the […]
VISE, Belgium (Reuters) – Thousands of protesters formed a human chain on Sunday (June 25) to demand the closure of two Belgian nuclear reactors, Tihange and Doel. Organisers said they were aiming to form a chain between Tihange reactor in Belgium to Aachen in Germany, and said some 50,000 people attended the chain, less than the 60,000 they said were needed to cover the 90 kilometres between the two cities. The core tanks at the […]
(Reuters) – South Korea’s civil society groups gathered outside the Ministry of National Defense of the Republic of Korea (ROK) in Seoul on Wednesday to protest the unauthorized transportation of components of the United States Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system into the country. Four mobile launchers were brought into the ROK in addition to two units that had been deployed as part of the THAAD system recently, which failed to be reported to […]
(Reuters) – North Korean leader Kim Jong Un supervised the test of a ballistic missile controlled by a precision guidance system, and ordered the development of more powerful strategic weapons, the North’s state-run television KRT reported on Tuesday (May 30). Video and still photographs aired by KRT showed Kim watching the missile being launched with his top military aides and soldiers cheering. He expressed conviction that the country “would make a greater leap forward in this […]
BEIJING, China (AFP) — China pleaded again for dialogue on Monday to ease regional tensions after North Korea launched its latest missile test in defiance of United Nations sanctions. The Chinese foreign ministry urged Pyongyang in a statement to refrain from activities that go against UN Security Council resolutions. “We hope that related parties can remain calm and restrained, ease the tension on the peninsula, and bring the peninsula issue into the right track of peaceful […]
SYDNEY, Australia (AFP) — Senior Trump administration officials fear a nuclear arms race in Asia-Pacific if an increasingly belligerent North Korea is not reined in, Australia’s foreign minister said Friday after talks in New York. Pyongyang has launched a series of missiles this year, including a Hwasong-12 intermediate-range projectile this month which the North claimed was capable of carrying a “heavy” nuclear warhead, fueling tensions with Washington. It has carried out two atomic tests since […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) – President Donald Trump called North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un a “madman with nuclear weapons” during a telephone call with Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, according to a transcript of the conversation released by US media Tuesday. A White House readout of the April 29 call characterized it as a “very friendly conversation.” Days after the conversation, Trump said publicly that he would be “honored” to meet with Kim. But in the […]
by Carole LANDRY / with Hwang Sunghee in Seoul Agence France Presse UNITED NATIONS, United States (AFP) — The UN Security Council on Monday vowed to push all countries to tighten sanctions against North Korea as it prepared for a closed-door meeting called in response to the latest missile launch. In a unanimous statement backed by China, Pyongyang’s ally, the council strongly condemned the test-firing on Sunday and instructed the UN sanctions committee to redouble […]
