Tag: North Korea
North Korea says missile test was ‘new’ submarine-based launch
PYONGYANG: North Korea says its latest weapons test was of a submarine-launched ballistic missile that marked a "new phase" in its defence capability, just...
Kim sends missile ‘warning’ to S Korea, US as tensions rise
PYONGYANG: North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un says the country's latest missile launches were a warning to Washington and Seoul over their joint war...
N. Korea threatens more launches after fourth test in 12 days
PYONGYANG: North Korea threatened Tuesday to carry out more weapons tests after it fired its fourth pair of projectiles in less than two weeks...
North Korea says new missile a ‘solemn warning’ to South
PYONGYANG: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has said two missiles fired under his supervision were newly designed tactical weapons that sent a "solemn...
US hopes North Korea talks will go ahead despite Pyongyang threat
WASHINGTON D.C.: The United States said Tuesday it hoped to hold denuclearization talks with North Korea after Pyongyang warned that US-South Korean military exercises...
New North Korea constitution calls Kim head of state, seen as...
SEOUL: Kim Jong Un has been formally named head of state of North Korea and commander-in-chief of the military in a new constitution observers...
US ‘hell-bent on hostile acts’ despite wanting to talk: N. Korea
North Korea’s mission to the United Nations accused the United States on Wednesday of being “more and more hell-bent on hostile acts” against Pyongyang,...
South Korea’s Moon calls Trump-Kim summit end of hostility
SEOUL: South Korea's president on Tuesday called a recent United States-North Korean summit at the Korean border an end of mutual hostility between the countries,...
Birds at border prompt S. Korea to launch jets, issue alert
SEOUL: Ending a brief media frenzy, South Korea’s military said it turned out to be a flock of birds that prompted it to launch fighter...
Trump and Kim’s DMZ meeting mixes show and substance
PANMUNJOM: “Ok, let’s do it.” With those words, a deliberate step and a pat on the arm of Kim Jong Un, President Donald Trump became the...
Trump steps into North Korea, in historic first
NORTH KOREA: Donald Trump stepped onto North Korean soil on Sunday as he met Pyongyang's leader Kim Jong Un in the Demilitarized Zone dividing...
Trump heads for historic DMZ meeting with North Korea’s Kim
SEOUL: President Donald Trump is on his way to the Korean Demilitarized Zone for a historic meeting with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un.
Trump departed...
N. Korea says Trump’s offer to meet Kim ‘very interesting’
SEOUL: North Korea says President Donald Trump’s offer to meet leader Kim Jong Un at the Korean Demilitarized Zone is a “very interesting suggestion.”
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Trump says he could meet North Korea’s Kim at DMZ
OSAKA: Eyeing a history-making photo opportunity, President Donald Trump on Saturday issued a Twitter invitation to North Korea’s Kim Jong Un to join him...
Australian student feared detained in North Korea
CANBERRA: Australia said it was "urgently seeking clarification" Thursday on the fate of a 29-year-old tour guide and student feared detained in North Korea.
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North Korean leader receives ‘excellent’ letter from Trump: KCNA
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un received a personal letter of "excellent content" from US President Donald Trump, the country's state media said Sunday,...
Xi pens friendship letter to North Korea before rare visit
BEIJING: Xi Jinping will burnish China's fragile alliance with North Korea by making his first trip to Pyongyang as president this week -- and on...