SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea fired multiple short-range ballistic missiles toward the sea on Thursday, its neighbors said, days after North Korean leader Kim Jong Un vowed to put hisnuclear forcefully ready for battle with its rivals. South Korea's Jo...
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea on Wednesday test-fired multiple ballistic missiles toward its eastern seas, the South Korean and Japanese militaries said, adding to its military demonstrations as tensions with Washington and neighbors escalate. The launches come days a...
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.
All of North Korea's launches violate United Nations Security Council resolutions that ban missile development by the Kim regime. Kim, however, insists his isolated nation needs to develop its weapons, including its nuclear missiles, to defend against the threat of an attack by the U.S. and i...
The article reports on four short-range missiles that have been launched by the North Korean government into the East Sea in February 2014 in protest of the U.S.-South Korean military drills. For North Korea, the military drills signal a preparation for war. One indicator of South Korea's...
Built-in solid propellants make missile launches harder to detect than liquid-fueled missiles, which must be fueled before launch and cannot last long. North Korea has a growing arsenal of solid-fuel short-range missiles targeting South Korea, but its existingHwasong-12intermediate-range ...
North Korea has test-fired its biggest missiles nearly straight up into the air to avoid neighbors' territory. But the country is more likely to launch the new solid-fuel missile at a normal ballistic trajectory when testing it with a hypersonic warhead in the future, t...
A day before the start of the drills,North Korea also fired cruise missiles from a submarine.The North’s state media said the submarine-launched missile was a demonstration of its resolve to respond with “overwhelming powerful” force to the intensifying military maneuvers by “the U.S....
A short while after the initial news broke, South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff confirmed they had detected two short-range ballistic missiles fired from the Sunan area into the East Sea. People watch a television screen showing a news broadcast with file footage of a North Ko...
North Korea has fired a pair of short-range ballistic missiles off its east coast on Monday, South Korea's military said, two days after the Northresumed testing activities with an intercontinental ballistic missile launch. South Korea detected the two launches from a western coastal town, just ...