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(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 […]
NAIROBI, Kenya (Reuters) – China-funded Mombasa-Nairobi Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) recently launched a joint speed test in which the train departed from Kenya’s Nairobi South to Emali Station, covering around 200 kilometers. The test comes just in time before the passenger train’s commission on June 1. The passenger train passed by the Athi River Station at the speed of 120 kilometers per hour (kph) which will also be its highest speed once the railway is […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — North Korea confirmed its test-firing of a precision-guided ballistic missile was “successful,” the state-run news agency KCNA reported Tuesday, a day after the projectile landed in waters provocatively close to Japan. North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un supervised the launch of the “new-type precision guided ballistic rocket” — the third missile test by the nuclear-armed regime in less than three weeks and carried out in defiance of United Nations sanctions warnings […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — North Korea on Monday confirmed the “successful” launch of a medium-range ballistic missile, Pyongyang’s state media said, adding the weapon was now ready to be deployed for military action. Leader Kim Jong-Un oversaw the launch, the state-run Korean Central News Agency reported, adding that he “approved the deployment of this weapon system.” KCNA said the missile tested was the Pukguksong-2, a land-based version of Pyongyang’s submarine-launched weapon, which uses solid-fuel […]
by Carole Landry Agence France Presse UNITED NATIONS, United States (AFP) — The United Nations Security Council met behind closed doors on Tuesday to discuss tightening sanctions on North Korea after it fired its latest ballistic missile. United States Ambassador Nikki Haley said the US was working with China, Pyongyang’s main ally, on a new sanctions resolution and warned that all countries must step up action against North Korea or face measures themselves. “We all […]
by Thomas WATKINS Agence France Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The United States slammed North Korea’s latest missile test as a provocation and insisted Sunday it is working closely with China to resolve a crisis that Washington sees as reaching a critical stage. Amid broader fears that North Korea may again test a nuclear bomb, the Pentagon said Sunday’s missile launch was a failure, with the weapon blowing up almost immediately after its early […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — South Korea has successfully test-fired a home-developed ballistic missile with a range long enough to hit any part of North Korea, Yonhap news agency reported Thursday. It comes a day after the North fired its own ballistic missile into the Sea of Japan — which analysts dubbed a warning ahead of a China-United States summit, at which Pyongyang’s accelerating atomic weapons program is set to top the agenda. South Korea […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — President Donald Trump warned in an interview published Sunday that the United States is prepared to act unilaterally to deal with North Korea’s nuclear program if China proves unwilling to help. “Well, if China is not going to solve North Korea, we will. That is all I am telling you,” he said in an interview with the Financial Times of London. Trump’s comments come ahead of his meeting Thursday and […]
by Haitham el-Tabei Agence France Presse CAIRO, Egypt (AFP) — In an endless cacophony of car horns, Mostafa Ekram each day confronts the frenzy of Cairo’s traffic jams: pedestrians darting out into the street, swerving tuk-tuks and even donkey carts. At the wheel of his SUV, in the heart of Egypt’s bustling capital, he doesn’t bat an eyelid as he narrowly dodges a black tuk-tuk, a three-wheeled vehicle, driving in the wrong direction. It’s an […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — North Korea on Thursday warned the incoming Donald Trump administration will have to deal with a “nuclear state”, saying Washington’s push for denuclearisation was an “outdated illusion”. “If there is anything the Obama administration has done… it has put the security of the US mainland in the greatest danger,” said an editorial carried by the ruling party newspaper Rodong Sinmun. “It has burdened the new administration with the difficulty of […]
MIAMI, United States (AFP) — NASA on Tuesday performed its second and last test-fire of a rocket booster for the Space Launch System (SLS), a powerful engine that may one day launch astronauts to Mars, the US space agency said. Fire and gray smoke billowed from the booster, which lay on the ground during the two-minute test fire in the remote hills of Utah at 11:05 am (1605 GMT). NASA has described the SLS as […]
