N Korea fires fifth missile in three days
Posted by admin on May 20, 2013 | Leave a Comment
SEOUL: North Korea fired a fifth short-range missile into the Sea of Japan on Monday, defying warnings from UN chief Ban Ki-moon and South Korea after a flurry of similar tests at the weekend.
The latest firing — the fifth in three days — was confirmed by a spokesman for the South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff, who said it was unclear if the North was testing guided missiles or rockets from multiple launchers.
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North Korea fires three shortrange missiles as part of drill
Posted by admin on May 18, 2013 | Leave a Comment
SEOUL: North Korea on Saturday launched three short-range missiles into the Sea of Japan, apparently as part of a military drill, South Korea’s defence ministry said.
US and South Korean forces had been on heightened alert for a medium-range ballistic missile test in recent weeks amid tensions triggered by North Korea’s nuclear test in February.
“North Korea launched two guided missiles in the morning...
North Korea removes missiles from launch site US officials
Posted by admin on May 07, 2013 | Leave a Comment
WASHINGTON: North Korea has moved two missiles from launch sites on the country’s eastern coast, after weeks of concern that Pyongyang had been poised for a test-launch.
A US defence official said on Monday that Washington did not believe the Musudan missiles had gone to an alternate launch site and that they were now believed to be in a non-operational location.
The move coincided with preparations by US President...
US citizen to face trial in N Korea KCNA
Posted by admin on Apr 27, 2013 | Leave a Comment
SEOUL: A US citizen will go on trial at North Korea’s Supreme Court on charges including trying to overthrow the communist regime, the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said Saturday.
It said Pae Jun-Ho had admitted to the charges and would face the court “at an early date”.
Pae was arrested in November as he entered the northeastern port city of Rason, which lies inside a special economic zone...
US military Black Hawk crashes near N Korea border
Posted by admin on Apr 16, 2013 | Leave a Comment
SEOUL: A US military helicopter crashed Tuesday near the North Korean border, a South Korean defence official said, with no reported casualties.
The helicopter, identified by the Yonhap news agency as a UH-60 Black Hawk, came down in Cheolwon county, which touches on the border with North Korea, a defence ministry spokesman told AFP.
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Kerry presses China to help end N Korea tensions
Posted by admin on Apr 13, 2013 | Leave a Comment
BEIJING: US Secretary of State John Kerry met top officials of North Korea’s key ally and aid provider China on Saturday to press them to rein in a defiant Pyongyang, seeking Beijing’s help to defuse soaring nuclear tensions.
Kerry met first with China’s foreign minister Wang Yi after flying in from talks in South Korea with President Park Geun-Hye, where he offered public US support for her plans to...
US will never accept a nucleararmed North korea Kerry
Posted by admin on Apr 12, 2013 | Leave a Comment
SEOUL: US Secretary of State John Kerry Friday demanded North Korea abandon an expected missile launch as Pyongyang turned its nuclear threats on Japan amid a chilling new evaluation of its offensive capability.
Kerry, visiting Seoul to give fulsome US backing to military ally South Korea, joined President Barack Obama in decrying North Korea’s incendiary rhetoric — and urged China to step in.
The air of crisis...
Obama urges North Korea to end belligerent approach
Posted by admin on Apr 11, 2013 | Leave a Comment
WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama on Thursday called on North Korea to end its “belligerent approach,” as the world waited for Pyongyang to carry out an expected missile launch.
Obama, who spoke alongside UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon after talks in the Oval Office, said “nobody wants to see a conflict” with the North, but that the United States is ready to take necessary measures to defend...
North Korea warns foreigners to leave South amid new threats of war
Posted by admin on Apr 09, 2013 | Leave a Comment
SEOUL: North Korea intensified threats of an imminent conflict against the United States and the South on Tuesday, warning foreigners to evacuate South Korea to avoid being dragged into “thermonuclear war”.
The North’s latest message belied an atmosphere free of anxiety in the South Korean capital, where the city centre was bustling with traffic and offices operated normally.
Pyongyang has shown no sign...
N Korea urges foreigners in South to evacuate
Posted by admin on Apr 09, 2013 | Leave a Comment
SEOUL: North Korea said Tuesday the Korean peninsula was headed for “thermo-nuclear” war and advised foreigners in South Korea to consider evacuation, in the latest in a series of apocalyptic threats.
The warning followed a similar evacuation advisory the North gave Friday to foreign embassies in its capital Pyongyang, saying it could not ensure the safety of their personnel if a conflict broke out.
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