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.” The...

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. Alek...

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...