カテゴリー: North Korea
Rail-based ballistic system reflects North Korea’s efforts to diversify its launch options, which now includes various vehicles and ground launch pads North Korea says it successfully launched ballistic missiles from a train for the first time and was …
Launch comes as Chinese foreign minister is in Seoul to discuss stalled nuclear diplomacy and two days after North tests a new long-range cruise missileNorth Korea fired two ballistic missiles into the sea off its east coast on Wednesday, South Korea’s…
US says weapon, claimed to have flown 1,500km, poses ‘threats’ to country’s neighbours and beyondNorth Korea has carried out successful tests of a new long-range cruise missile over the weekend, its state media outlet KCNA said, sparking fresh criticis…
Civil defence units and health personnel wearing gas masks and hazmat suits featured in celebrations in Pyongyang to mark the 73rd anniversary of North Korea’s founding, in a departure from previous militaristic displays Continue reading…
Kim Jong-un pictured waving from balcony, but no ballistic missiles on show at Pyongyang’s Kim Il-sung SquareNorth Korea paraded goose-stepping soldiers but no ballistic missiles in its capital overnight, in a celebration of the nation’s 73rd anniversa…
IOC says suspension is punishment for North Korea refusing to send team to Tokyo Games over Covid fearsNorth Korea has been formally suspended from the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics by the IOC as punishment for refusing to send a team to the Tokyo Games…
Analysis: China’s handling of troubles in Afghanistan, Myanmar and North Korea will differ to the west, and mould its identity as a global powerFirst, it was North Korea. Then, came Myanmar. Now, it is Afghanistan. The three ongoing crises in China’s n…
Thousands of ethnic Koreans left Japan for North Korea decades ago lured by promise of a better lifeA Japanese court has summoned North Korea’s leader to face demands for compensation by several ethnic Korean residents of Japan who say they suffered hu…
Denmark has recorded a rise in cases in nursing homes; UK vaccines watchdog says not enough evidence to roll out Covid jabs to 12- to 15-year-olds; North Korea’s Kim Jong-un has ordered officials to fight Covid in ‘our style’Kim Jong-un rejects Covax v…
Unicef says country wants to send its UN-backed allotment of 3m Sinovac shots to other nations, with some experts believing it may want other vaccinesNorth Korean leader Kim Jong-un has ordered officials to wage a tougher epidemic prevention campaign i…
IAEA ‘deeply troubled’ by indications the 5-megawatt reactor at Yongbyon was operatingNorth Korea appears to have restarted a nuclear reactor that is widely believed to have produced plutonium for nuclear weapons, the UN atomic watchdog has said in an …
Many Koreans born in the early and mid 20th century led extraordinary lives that were buffeted by colonialism and the cruelty of the cold war division of the Korean peninsula. But the life of Cecilia Kim, who has died aged 89, was more extraordinary th…
Regime looking to shift focus from domestic problems with rhetoric around US-South Korea military drills, say analystsNorth Korea’s threat to boost its military capacity to counter hostility from Washington before joint US-South Korea military drills i…
Kim Yo-jong, a key adviser to North Korean ruler, interrupts surprise thaw in relations on Korean peninsulaThe influential sister of the North Korean ruler, Kim Jong-un, has called Seoul authorities “treacherous” over the South’s joint military exercis…
More than 1,100 homes in North Korea were damaged, thousands of people evacuated and farms and roads washed away after days of heavy rains brought flooding, state media reported.North Korea floods damage more than 1,000 homes, state media rep…