カテゴリー: North Korea
Joint statement from US, Japan and South Korea urges Pyongyang to return to negotiations and stop its recent spate of ‘destabilising’ missile launchesThe top diplomats of Japan, South Korea and the United States declared their unity against North Korea…
Pyongyang still developing nuclear and ballistic programmes and seeking material and help abroad, says reportNorth Korea has continued to develop its nuclear and ballistic missile programmes, including its capability to produce nuclear fissile material…
After refusing to sign a statement condemning North Korea’s latest missile tests, China called for US to create ‘attractive and practical’ solutionsChina’s ambassador to the UN has called on the United States to be more flexible in its dealings with No…
Pictures appear to capture the missile rising from its launcher and a shot looking back down on Earth North Korea has released images it claims show the test-firing this weekend of its biggest missile for several years, as it attempts to use launches …
Biden official: ‘We reiterate our call for diplomacy’South Korean leader fears return to war threats of 2017The US on Sunday made a direct appeal to North Korea to join direct talks with no preconditions about its nuclear and missile programs, after Py…
Test marks Pyongyang’s seventh weapons launch this month, highlighting expanding arsenal amid stalled denuclearisation talksNorth Korea fired what appeared to be the most powerful missile it has tested since the US president, Joe Biden, took office, p…
Pyongyang’s regime has carried out six tests in January ‘confirming the power of conventional warhead’North Korea has test-fired more long-range cruise missiles and short-range ballistic missiles, state media says, part of a record-breaking streak of l…
Analysis: Kim Jong-un’s pressure on Joe Biden has so far elicited only fresh sanctions. Pyongyang has now signalled it may resume nuclear and ICBM testsNorth Korea has already conducted four test launches of ballistic missiles this year, but they could…
South Korean military says Pyongyang launched two ballistic missiles, which Tokyo says threaten its ‘peace and security’North Korea has launched two suspected ballistic missiles, in the fourth test this month, drawing condemnation from Japan and adding…
South Korea is no promised land for escapees from a brutal regime – loneliness and poverty are common fatesNo one knows what awaited Kim Woo-joo when he arrived back in North Korea, just over a year after he had fled the world’s most oppressive regime …
Freight train marks first time during pandemic that North Korea is known to have opened land borderA North Korean cargo train has reportedly pulled into a Chinese border town in what would be the first confirmed crossing since its anti-coronavirus bord…
Two tactical guided missiles hit their target, state media said, hours after Pyongyang accused US of ‘provocation’North Korea’s third weapons test this month involved the firing drill of a railway-borne missile, state media KCNA has said.South Korea’s …
South Korean military says projectile was fired into the sea, and comes after US imposed further sanctions on regime officialsNorth Korea has fired a possible ballistic missile, Japan’s Coast Guard said on Friday, which would be the country’s third suc…
The regime has launched at least seven cyber-attacks on cryptocurrency platforms, say blockchain expertsNorth Korea has launched at least seven attacks on cryptocurrency platforms that extracted nearly $400m worth of digital assets last year, one of it…
Kim Jong-un personally oversaw test, state media reports, and confirms South Korean belief that launch was more advanced than last week’sNorth Korea’s leader Kim Jong-un personally oversaw the successful test of a hypersonic missile, state media report…