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North Korea fires multiple short-range ballistic missiles North Korea fired ballistic missiles after a failed spy satellite launch. Kim's regime claimed satellite launch failures. The UN Security Council will meet to discuss the launch.
30 May, 2024, 08.49 AM ISTMilitary agreement fractures as tensions rise with North Korea South Korea responds to North Korea's spy satellite claim by suspending parts of the 2018 military agreement. Prime Minister Han Duck-soo confirms the immediate resumption of reconnaissance activities toward North's forces, previously restricted und...
23 Nov, 2023, 08.07 AM ISTNorth Korea to welcome China and Russia with military display after pandemic isolation After years of pandemic isolation, North Korea has invited its friends back this week, hosting senior Chinese and Russian delegations for 70th anniversary commemorations of the Korean War and the struggle against the United States and its allies.
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North Korea warns of turning Pacific into 'firing range' after latest missile test The launches come just two days after North Korea fired an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) into the sea off Japan's west coast, prompting the United States to hold joint air exercises with South Korea and separately with Japan on Sunday. N...
20 Feb, 2023, 11.41 AM ISTIndia condemns recent intercontinental ballistic missile launch by North Korea India's Permanent Representative to the UN Ambassador Ruchira Kamboj told the UN Security Council meeting on North Korea on Monday -- the Council met for the second time this month on the issue -- that New Delhi condemns the recent intercontinental ...
22 Nov, 2022, 10.10 AM ISTNorth Korea's expanding missile capabilities North Korea has launched more than 60 missiles this year, including 23 missiles of various types in a single day on November 2. Its record schedule began in January with the launch of a new "hypersonic missile" and went on to include long-range crui...
18 Nov, 2022, 05.40 PM ISTNorth Korea keeps up missile barrage with suspected ICBM that spooked Japan While South Korean officials didn't immediately release more specific flight details, the longer-range missile may have been fired on a high angle to avoid reaching the territory of the North's neighbours. Japan's Defence Minister Yasukazu said one ...
03 Nov, 2022, 07.10 AM ISTN. Korea fires missile, artillery shells, inflaming tensions South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a statement the short-range missile lifted off from the North's capital region at 1:49 a.m. Friday (1649 GMT Thursday; 12:49 p.m. EDT Thursday) and flew toward its eastern waters.
14 Oct, 2022, 09.18 PM ISTWhen will North Korea test a nuclear weapon? North Korea has finished all technical preparations for a new test in the underground tunnels at the Punggye-ri Nuclear Test site, which has been shuttered since 2018, leaving the question of timing in the hands of leader Kim Jong Un, South Korean o...
11 Oct, 2022, 11.47 AM ISTNorth Korea fires more missiles, seventh launch in two weeks North Korea fired two ballistic missiles into the sea early Sunday, Seoul's military said, the seventh such launch in two weeks, just hours after a nuclear-powered US aircraft carrier wrapped up joint drills off the Korean peninsula.
09 Oct, 2022, 01.54 PM ISTNorth Korea fires more missiles, eight in two weeks, South Korean media reports The South Korean military's Joint Chiefs of Staff announced that the launches -- the seventh and eighth in two weeks -- came from the southeast of the country, without giving further details.
09 Oct, 2022, 08.26 AM ISTNorth Korea fires two cruise missiles from west coast town of Onchon The launches come as South Korea and the United States kicked off their four-day preliminary joint drill on Tuesday in preparation for the long-suspended live field training Ulchi Freedom Shield, which takes place from Aug. 22 to Sept. 1.
17 Aug, 2022, 11.18 AM ISTS Korea's Yoon Suk-yeol faces early challenge amid hints of N Korea nuclear test Yoon on Wednesday nominated Kim Kyou-hyun, a former veteran diplomat with expertise in North Korea and U.S. relations, to be director of the National Intelligence Service, overseeing oversee inter-Korean affairs and denuclearisation talks. Yoon's ne...
11 May, 2022, 01.07 PM ISTUS hopes NKorea will 'engage diplomatically': Blinken "I hope that North Korea will take the opportunity to engage diplomatically and to see if there are ways to move forward toward the objective of complete denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula," he said after talks with his UK counterpart Dominic ...
03 May, 2021, 10.52 PM ISTAntony Blinken urges China to convince North Korea to denuclearise ``Beijing has an interest, a clear self-interest in helping to pursue denuclearisation of (North Korea) because it is a source of instability. It is a source of danger and obviously a threat to us and our partners,'' Blinken told a news conference.
18 Mar, 2021, 03.01 PM ISTS.Korea, China cast doubt over reports N.Korean leader Kim gravely ill South Korean and Chinese sources on Tuesday cast doubt on reports North Korean leader Kim Jong Un was gravely ill after media outlets said he had undergone a cardiovascular procedure in hospital and was in "grave danger".
21 Apr, 2020, 12.15 PM ISTNorth Korea media says denuclearisation includes ending "US nuclear threat" The United States deployed nuclear weapons in South Korea from 1958 to 1991.
20 Dec, 2018, 11.06 PM ISTDonald Trump talks of peace, says world has seen more than enough conflict Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un issued a joint statement after their meeting in Singapore on June 12 that reaffirmed Pyongyang's commitment to "work towards complete denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula".
16 Jun, 2018, 02.42 PM ISTTrump wants to stop provocative 'war games' with South Korea "I want to get our soldiers out. I want to bring our soldiers back home," Trump said, adding "But that's not part of the equation right now. I hope it will be eventually".
12 Jun, 2018, 06.04 PM ISTUS, South Korea and Japan discuss denuclearisation, summit talks US National Security Adviser HR McMaster met his South Korean and Japanese counterparts in San Francisco for talks over the weekend on denuclearization and the summit talks.
19 Mar, 2018, 09.58 AM IST