Although prepared for “the enveloping fire at Guam”, the North said it would watch what “the foolish Yankees” do before taking a decision, according to the BBC. Last week’s threat against Guam escalated the sharp rhetoric being exchanged between the ...
Read More »North Korea ‘Considering Missile Strike on US Guam Base’
The North’s official news agency said on Tuesday the plan involved firing medium-to-long-range rockets at Guam, where US strategic bombers are based, according to the BBC. US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, flying into Guam, said there was no imminent ...
Read More »U.S. student who was returned from North Korea in coma has died
U.S. student Otto Warmbier, who was imprisoned in North Korea for 17 months before being returned home in a coma less than a week ago, has died in a Cincinnati hospital, his family said in a statement on Monday, according ...
Read More »U.S. student freed from North Korea has severe brain injury
Otto Warmbier, 22, who arrived in the United States on Tuesday, is stable but “shows no sign of understanding language, responding to verbal commands or awareness of his surrounding,” said Dr. Daniel Kanter, medical director of the neuroscience intensive care ...
Read More »North Korea fires suspected land-to-ship missiles as South Korea delays THAAD
The launches, the latest in a fast-paced series of missile tests defying world pressure to rein in its weapons program, come less than a week after the United Nations Security Council passed fresh sanctions on the reclusive state, according to ...
Read More »North Korea fires Scud-class ballistic missile, Japan protests
The missile was believed to be a Scud-class ballistic missile and flew about 450 km (280 miles), South Korean officials said. North Korea has a large stockpile of the short-range missiles, originally developed by the Soviet Union, according to Reuters. ...
Read More »Two women accused of killing North Korea leader’s brother Kim Jong-nam
The women are Indonesian Siti Aisyah, 25, and Vietnamese national Doan Thi Huong, 28 and they are set to appear at a court in Kuala Lumpur on Tuesday, according to the BBC. The CCTV footage from the departure lounge of ...
Read More »North Korea leader Kim guides test of new anti-aircraft weapon
The North’s KCNA news agency did not report the exact nature of the weapon or the time of the test but said it was organized by the Academy of National Defence Science, a blacklisted agency that is believed to be ...
Read More »North Korea fires medium-range ballistic missile
South Korea, which called the launch “reckless and irresponsible,” said the missile flew about 500 kilometers (300 miles) from an area near Pukchang, in western North Korea, according to CNN. Japanese Defense Minister Tomomi Inada said the missile hit the ...
Read More »New ferry links North Korea and Russia despite U.S. calls for isolation
The launch of the weekly service linking Vladivostok and the North Korean port of Rajin also came despite North Korea’s test-firing of a new type of ballistic missile on Sunday that landed in the sea near Russia, according to Reuters. ...
Read More »North Korea missile test was ‘new type of ballistic rocket’
The missile, launched at a steep angle on Sunday, reached an altitude of 2,000km (1,242 miles) and travelled about 700km, landing in the sea west of Japan. North Korea said on Monday it was a test of the abilities of ...
Read More »North Korea fires missile days after new South Korea leader pledges dialogue
The U.S. Pacific Command said it was assessing the type of missile but it was “not consistent with an intercontinental ballistic missile”. Japanese Defence Minister Tomomi Inada said the missile could be of a new type, according to Reuters. The ...
Read More »North Korea claims US ‘biochemical’ plot to kill Kim Jong Un
In an extraordinary 1,800-word report Friday, which offered no evidence other than account laced with fantastical language, North Korean state news agency KCNA said a “hideous terrorist group” conspired with the CIA and South Korea’s Intelligence Service (IS) to mount ...
Read More »North Korea test-fires ballistic missile in defiance of world pressure
North Korea test-fired a ballistic missile on Saturday shortly after U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson warned that failure to curb Pyongyang’s nuclear and ballistic missile programs could lead to “catastrophic consequences”, according to Reuters. U.S. and South Korean officials ...
Read More »Reuters: Trump says ‘major, major’ conflict with North Korea possible, but seeks diplomacy
“There is a chance that we could end up having a major, major conflict with North Korea. Absolutely,” Trump told Reuters in an Oval Office interview ahead of his 100th day in office on Saturday. Nonetheless, Trump said he wanted ...
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