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...
000 kilometers (4,350 miles) exceeded corresponding data from previous North Korean missile tests. Lee, the South Korean military spokesperson, said South Korea has a similar assessment on Thursday's launch.
The early warning and control aircraft, known as Wedgetails, would enable South Korea to detect missiles and other threats more swiftly and from greater distances than ground-based radar systems. "This proposed sale will improve the Republic of Korea's ability to meet current and future th...
North Korea has developed a new type of tactical missile with a range of 220 km. Five launches were conducted on 14 August, South Korea's Yonhap News Agency reported, citing a statement made by South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff. The new missile is expected to receive the South Korean/...
North Korea didn’t immediately confirm Wednesday’s missile launches. They followed a previous round of ballistic tests last week as Kim vowed to have his nuclear force fully ready for battle with its rivals. The North said the launches on Sept. 12 involved its “super...
North Korea fired a newly developed anti-aircraft missile on Thursday, state media KCNA reported on Friday, the latest in its recent series of weapons tests amid deadlocked denuclearisation talks with the United States. The test conducted by the Academy of Defence Science, a military weapons ...
North Korea's vice defense minister, Kim Kang Il, on Monday called the U.S. aircraft carrier's deployment "reckless" and "dangerous." North Korea has previously called major U.S.-South Korean drills invasion rehearsals and reacted with missile tests. ...
North Korea confirms missile tests as Kim visits munitions site North Korea has been ramping up its testing activity in recent months, including six rounds of weapons launches so far in 2022. But the diplomacy derailed after the collapse of the second Kim-Trump meeting in 2019, when the Americ...
North Korea’s rapid succession of major missile tests in the last six months has not come without some failures. At least four tests included misfires, duds or explosions, including a test only weeks ago in which an ICBM—possibly equipped with a newer type of engine—disintegrated only a ...
North Korea has said it successfully fired a solid-fuel “hypersonic” missile for the first time, demonstrating Pyongyang’s increasingly sophisticated missile capabilities as the regime deepens defence co-operation with Russia. The intermediate-range ballistic missile was launched from a site near Pyon...