Its most powerful explosion to date follows a test in January that prompted the U.N. Security Council to impose tightened sanctions that increased North Korea’s isolation but failed to prevent it from accelerating weapons development, Reuters reports. South Korean President ...

The missiles were fired from a region south of the capital Pyongyang just after noon local time (0300 GMT) and flew about 1,000 km (600 miles), hitting Japan’s air defense identification zone, the South’s Office of the Joint Chiefs of ...

The main body of the missile landed in Japan’s economic exclusion zone, a Japanese defence official said, escalating regional tensions that were already high after a series of missile launches this year and the decision by the United States to ...

The officer has not been named, but the defence ministry in Seoul said he was a senior colonel in the Reconnaissance General Bureau and left last year, the BBC reports. South Korea’s Yonhap news agency quoted a source as saying ...

North Korea released another propaganda video showing multiple rocket attacks on Seoul, The Guardian reports. It was uploaded on Monday to the DPRK Today website, which had released another video 10 days earlier depicting a nuclear attack on Washington The ...

The projectile was fired from a region near the North’s east coast, a South Korean military official said by telephone, Reuters reports. It was a short-range surface to air missile, another official at the office of the Joint Chiefs of ...

A video released by North Korea has depicted a nuclear attack on Washington, as an angry Pyongyang continued to hit out against joint military drills between South Korea and the United States, Al Jazeera reports. The four-minute state media video ...

North Korea fired five short-range projectiles into the sea off its east coast on Monday, South Korea’s military said, amid heightened tension over the isolated country’s nuclear and rocket programs, Reuters reports. The unidentified projectiles were launched from south of ...

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un watched a ballistic missile launch test and ordered the country to improve its nuclear attack capability by conducting more tests, Reuters reports citing the official KCNA news agency. The report did not say when ...

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un ordered his country to be ready to use its nuclear weapons at any time and the military to be in “pre-emptive attack” mode in the face of growing threats from its enemies, state media ...

North Korea claimed on Wednesday it conducted its first hydrogen bomb test. Yesterday, the U.S. sent the Boeing B-52 strategic bomber which is capable of carrying nuclear missiles in a show of force just 45 miles from North Korea. Now, the ...

According to a source from the South Korean government, the failure took place in the Sea of Japan, Joinfo.ua reports with the reference to Asian Review. There is no evidence yet that a missile ever got airborne, the source said ...