South Korea, on Jan. 14, 2024. North Korea fired a ballistic missile toward the sea on Sunday, its neighbors said, in its first missile launch this year, and the North is expected to further raise regional animosities in an election year for its...
On Sunday, North Korea's state media published a photo of Kim inspecting a 12-axel vehicle that would be the the country's biggest missile launch platform. That sparked speculation that the North could be developing a more powerful intercontinental ballistic missile ...
The new launches from North Korea comes a day after it vowed “offensive and overwhelming” responses to a new U.S. military drill with South Korea and Japan.
Adm. John Aquilino, head of the U.S. military's Indo-Pacific Command, was quoted Monday by Japan's Kyodo news agency as saying that all of North Korea's "increased missile capabilities and testing — from ICBM all the way to the space launch vehicle last month — is concerning." But ...
The last time North Korea performed a missile launch that was publicly announced was Dec. 18, when ittest-fired its Hwasong-18solid-fueled intercontinental ballistic missile, the North’s most advanced weapon. The Hwasong-18 is the country’s only known solid-fuel ICBM and it’s d...
North Korean intercontinental ballistic missile launch meant as message to 'rivals' Just days before the United States’ presidential election, North Korea conducted a new provocation by test-launching an intercontinental ballistic missile believed to be capable of reaching the U.S....
North Korea launched a possible ballistic missile on Wednesday, Japan's Ministry of Defense said in a tweet. The missile launch comes as North Korea's leader Kim Jong Unarrivesin Russia for ahigh-stakes meetingwith Russian President Vladimir Putin. ...
expressed regret over what it called “a short-range missile launch” by the North. South Korea’s military earlier said the object fired from North Korea’s mountainous northern Jagang province flew toward the waters off the North’s eastern coast. Further details of the launch were being ...
The South Korean military stated that a North Korean missile launched from its capital region exploded shortly after Wednesday's launch of a clearly failed weapon, leading to speculation that North Korea is preparing to launch its longest range missile,
North Korea confirmed that it recently launched a “perfected” Hwasong-19 intercontinental ballistic missile, which reportedly achieved the longest flight time yet for a North Korean missile, at 86 minutes. CNN’s Marc Stewart reports.