カテゴリー: Nuclear weapons
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…
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…
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…
Second launch in less than a week designed to put pressure on US and follows condemnation at UNNorth Korea has test-fired a suspected ballistic missile that may be an improved version of a “hypersonic missile” it launched only last week, in a move desi…
Regime conducts first such launch of the year, with South Korea’s military saying the missile appears to have landed in the seaNorth Korea fired a suspected ballistic missile early on Wednesday, the first such test by Pyongyang of the new year, drawing…
US, Russia, China, the UK and France who are permanent members of the UN security council agree ‘nuclear war cannot be won’Five of the world’s most powerful nations have agreed that “a nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought” in a rare joint…
Some observers said he would survive a few months as the head of a nuclear-armed state but, a decade later, the North Korean leader has proved them wrongMissile tests, horse rides and executions: Kim Jong-un’s leadership in picturesIt was not, perhaps,…
Questions mount about pact’s ultimate purpose and implications for other Asean countriesIt was initially seen as an audacious enlistment by Joe Biden of Australia into the 21st-century struggle against China, elevating the country in the process to a s…
Physicist hailed as the father of Pakistan’s atomic weapons industry who confessed to smuggling nuclear secretsThe father of Pakistan’s atomic weapons industry and the greatest proliferator of nuclear weapons in history, Abdul Qadeer Khan, who has died…
South Korean spies used advanced techniques to analyse why Kim Jong-un appears to have lost 20 kgNorth Korean leader Kim Jong-un has recently lost about 20 kilograms (44 pounds) but remains healthy and is trying to increase public loyalty to him in the…
Analysis: China recently tested a nuclear-capable manoeuvrable missile and Russia and the US have their own programmesA new focus on hypersonic glider weapons, after a reportedly successful Chinese test, is helping drive an arms race that is eclipsing …
State media report that device launched on Tuesday had ‘lots of advanced control guidance technologies’North Korea says it has successfully tested a “new type” of submarine-launched ballistic missile, as the nuclear-armed country pursues ever more impr…
PM pays tribute to ‘national icon’ who turned country into atomic power but later admitted smuggling nuclear secretsAbdul Qadeer Khan, considered to be the father of Pakistan’s nuclear weapons programme and later accused of smuggling technology to Iran…
Analysis: Fear and uncertainty of the Obama years could return as Kim Jong-un revives nuclear ambitionsNorth Korea’s recent missile launches signal that the regime has reverted to familiar tactics to attract the attention of the US. Although the rest o…