Seoul: North Korea earlier this week conducted the first test-firing of the weapons system of the new “Choe Hyon-class” warship it recently unveiled, state media KCNA reported on Wednesday. Cruise and anti-air missiles were launched and artillery fired as part of the test-firing attended by leader Kim Jong Un and senior officials, the report said….
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia considers South Korea’s decision to impose sanctions against Russian individuals and entities as an “unfriendly” move and will respond in due course, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Wednesday. South Korea has imposed sanctions against two Russian vessels which it says were carrying military cargo to North Korea. Seoul…
SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea has no interest in dialogue with Japan, state media KCNA reported on Friday, citing foreign minister Choe Son Hui. Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has said he wants to hold talks with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un “without any preconditions” and is personally overseeing efforts to realise the first…
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un gestures as he guides a training of the fire division, in North Korea on March 18, in this picture released on March 19, 2024, by the Korean Central News Agency. Photo: KCNA via Reuters North Korean leader Kim Jong-un supervised a live-fire drill of nuclear-capable “super-large” multiple rocket launchers designed…
SOUTH KOREA: A South Korean missionary arrested by Russia on charges of spying was sent to do purely humanitarian and missionary work and had no role in helping North Korean workers defect, the head of his Christian aid group said. Ties between Russia and South Korea have been increasingly strained by Moscow’s growing relations with…
SEOUL: North Korea‘s first spy satellite is “alive”, a Netherlands-based space expert said on Tuesday, after detecting changes in its orbit that suggested Pyongyang was successfully controlling the spacecraft- although its capabilities remain unknown. After two fiery failures, North Korea successfully placed the Malligyong-1 satellite in orbit in November.Pyongyang’s state media claimed it has photographed…
SEOUL: The influential sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said there is no impediment to closer ties with Japan and there may come a day Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida visits Pyongyang, state news agency KCNA said on Thursday.Kishida, whose nation has no formal diplomatic ties with Pyongyang, has said he was exploring…
North Korea‘s Supreme People’s Assembly has voted to cancel all agreements with South Korea regarding economic cooperation, according to the North’s official KCNA news agency. The decision comes as relations between the two Koreas continue to deteriorate. The assembly, which is responsible for adopting policy decisions of the ruling Workers’ Party, also voted to abolish…
SEOUL: North Korea appears to have torn down a huge arch in its capital that symbolized reconciliation with South Korea, a week after leader Kim Jong Un dismissed decades of hopes for peaceful reunification with the war-divided peninsula’s south, according to satellite photos analyzed by The Associated Press on Wednesday. South Korea‘s military also said…
SEOUL: North Korea fired several cruise missiles towards the Yellow Sea on Wednesday, Seoul’s military said, the latest in a series of tension-raising moves by the nuclear-armed state.Pyongyang has accelerated weapons testing in the new year, including tests of what it called an “underwater nuclear weapon system” and a solid-fuelled hypersonic ballistic missile.“Our military detected…
