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NKorea test-fires sea-to-surface strategic cruise missile: KCNA
AFP, Published on 26/01/2025
» SEOUL - North Korea has test-fired sea-to-surface strategic guided cruise missiles, state news agency KCNA reported Sunday, adding that the weapons "precisely" hit their targets.
8,000 North Korean troops likely to fight Ukraine
Kyodo News, Published on 01/11/2024
» WASHINGTON - The United States foreign and defence secretaries said Thursday that North Korean soldiers in Russia are expected to enter combat against Ukrainian forces "in the coming days."
North Korea fires intercontinental ballistic missile
Published on 31/10/2024
» North Korea said on Thursday that it test-fired an intercontinental ballistic missile in the morning on the orders of leader Kim Jong Un, with the test demonstrating the credibility of the country's "most powerful strategic deterrent."
Global power play
Oped, Postbag, Published on 01/10/2024
» Re: "China and fulcrum of peace, security", (Opinion, Sept 12).
Japan sends first warship through Taiwan Strait, defying China
Bloomberg News, Published on 26/09/2024
» TAIPEI - Three United States allies sent warships through the Taiwan Strait in a rare defiance of China in those waters, on the same day Beijing fired its first intercontinental ballistic missile into the Pacific Ocean in 44 years.
Russian moves block UN probe of North Korea
Oped, Published on 05/04/2024
» In a classic under-the-political radar ploy, Russia has vetoed a UN committee investigating North Korean nuclear missile and banking sanctions violations. The low-profile but highly significant sanctions committee regularly monitors illicit actions by Pyongyang to develop, improve and implement the regime's nuclear weapons and offensive missile programmes.
Pyongyang launches suspected ballistic missile
Published on 30/08/2023
» SEOUL: North Korea has fired a suspected ballistic missile, the Japanese defence ministry and South Korean military said late Wednesday, hours after the United States separately deployed B-1B bombers for allied air drills.
Kim Jong Un oversees military parade with new drones, ICBMs
AFP, Published on 28/07/2023
» PYONGYANG: Flanked by visiting Russian and Chinese officials, Kim Jong Un oversaw a North Korean military parade featuring new attack drones and Pyongyang's nuclear-capable intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), state media reported Friday.
Russian, Chinese officials to visit North Korea
Published on 25/07/2023
» SEOUL: North Korea will this week welcome Russia’s defence minister and a high-level Chinese delegation to Pyongyang for Korean War armistice anniversary celebrations, state media said Tuesday, marking a key shift in the nuclear-armed country’s stringent Covid-19 border restrictions.
North Korean missile test snubs dialogue
Oped, Published on 21/07/2023
» North Korea's unannounced launch of another ballistic missile early this week became a ho-hum event, given the rash but predictable actions by Pyongyang. After all, we have seen this bellicose stunt many times before and thus have become dangerously numb and nearly indifferent to its ultimate threat and consequence.