Nuclear-armed North Korea’s launch of four missiles on Monday was a training exercise for a strike on US bases in Japan, Pyongyang’s official KCNA news agency reported Tuesday. Leader Kim Jong-Un supervised the drill and gave the order for it to start, it said. “Feasting his eyes on the trails of ballistic rockets”, he praised … Read more
North Korea has launched four ballistic missiles towards the Sea of Japan. Three of them fell into Japan’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ) after flying some 1,000km (620 miles), in what PM Shinzo Abe called a “new stage of threat”. They were fired from the Tongchang-ri region, near the North’s border with China, the South Korean … Read more
Nuclear-armed North Korea fired an “unidentified projectile” into waters east of the peninsula early Monday, the South’s defence ministry said. The item was fired from North Pyongan province “around 7:36 am” South Korean time (2236 GMT Sunday), the ministry said in a statement adding it landed in the East Sea, also known as the Sea … Read more
China will suspend all imports of coal from North Korea for the rest of the year, Beijing said Saturday, depriving Pyongyang of a crucial source of foreign exchange following its latest missile test. “(China) will temporarily stop its imports of coal from North Korea for the rest of this year (including coal for which customs … Read more
China on Friday urged a resumption of six-party talks with North Korea on Pyongyang’s nuclear programme, saying a “negative cycle” of nuclear missile tests followed by sanctions must end. “Today, what we see is nuclear test, sanction, nuclear test and then sanction again,” said Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi. “This negative cycle should not continue. … Read more
US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Thursday pledged that Washington would use the full range of its arsenal, including nuclear weapons, to defend allies Japan and South Korea against North Korea if needed. “The United States remains steadfast in its defence commitments to its allies, the Republic of Korea and Japan, including the commitment … Read more
The UN Security Council on Monday unanimously condemned North Korea’s latest ballistic missile launch and threatened to “take further significant measures” against Pyongyang. Council members including China, Pyongyang’s main ally, agreed on a US-drafted statement describing the test-firing of the missile as a “grave violation” of UN resolutions. The United States, Japan and South Korea … Read more
North Korea said Monday it had successfully tested a new ballistic missile, triggering a US-led call for an urgent UN Security Council meeting after a launch seen as a challenge to President Donald Trump. The North’s leader Kim Jong-Un “expressed great satisfaction over the possession of another powerful nuclear attack means which adds to the … Read more
North Korea has confirmed that it “successfully” fired a ballistic missile on Sunday in a test supervised by leader Kim Jong-un. The device was described as a “surface-to-surface medium-to-long-range ballistic missile”, the Korean state news agency KCNA reported. South Korea’s defence ministry called it an armed provocation to test the response of US President Donald … Read more
North Korea confirmed it had “successfully” tested a ballistic missile, the state-run news agency KCNA reported Monday. “A surface-to-surface medium long-range ballistic missile Pukguksong-2… was successfully test-fired on Sunday,” the report said. The missile was launched from Banghyon air base in the western province of North Pyongan, and flew east towards the Sea of Japan … Read more
North Korea has fired a ballistic missile in the first such test since Donald Trump took office as US president. Mr Trump assured Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe that “America stands behind Japan, its great ally, 100%”. The missile flew east towards the Sea of Japan for about 500km (300 miles), South Korean officials say. … Read more
North Korea has fired a ballistic missile in the first such test since Donald Trump took office as US president. Mr Trump assured Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe that “America stands behind Japan, its great ally, 100%”. The missile flew east towards the Sea of Japan for about 500km (300 miles), South Korean officials say. … Read more
President Donald Trump assured Japan it has the full support of the United States following a North Korean ballistic missile launch. “I just want everybody to understand and fully know that the United States of America stands behind Japan, its great ally, 100 percent,” Trump said in a very short statement during a joint news … Read more
North Korea has fired a ballistic missile, South Korea’s military says, the first such test since Donald Trump took office as US president. The missile was launched at 07:55 local time (22:55 GMT Saturday) and flew east towards the Sea of Japan for about 500km, South Korean officials say. Pyongyang has conducted a number of … Read more
North Korea fired a ballistic missile on Sunday, South Korea’s defence ministry said, the first since Donald Trump became US president. The missile, launched around 7:55 am (22:55 GMT Saturday) from Banghyon air base in the western province of North Pyongan Province, flew east towards the Sea of Japan, it said. “The concrete type of … Read more