The back-to-back launches, the North's first ballistic missile tests since Oct. 14, came on the final day of South Korea's annual 12-day "Hoguk" field exercises, which also involved an unspecified number of U.S. troops this year. Next week, South Korean and U.S. air forces plan t...
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...
Before Monday’s launches, North Korea last carried out missile tests in mid-February by firing cruise missiles into the sea. Animosities on the Korean Peninsula remain high in the wake of North Korea’s barrage of missile tests since 2022. Many of the tests involved nuclear-cap...
North Korea's test of a ballistic missile capable of longer ranges poses an immediate challenge to newly elected South Korean President Moon Jae-in, who campaigned on an engagement-oriented approach to dealing with Pyongyang. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is showing no sign of making that ...
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...
SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea on Sunday fired what appeared to be the most powerful missile it has tested since President Joe Biden took office, as it revives its old playbook in brinkmanship to wrest concessions from Washington and neighbors amid a prolonged stalemate in diplomacy. ...
SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea on Sunday fired what appeared to be the most powerful missile it has tested since President Joe Biden took office, as it revives its old playbook in brinkmanship to wrest concessions from Washington and neighbors amid a prolonged stalemate in diplomacy. ...
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A timeline of North Korea's nuclear tests Here's the list of North Korea's missile tests -- short-, medium- and long-range -- going back to its first test in 1984. 2017 February 12th, 2017: North Korea launches intermediate-rangePolaris-2 (or KN-15) ballistic missile into the East ...
North Korea “will never change course on the line of strengthening nuclear forces”, Kim added. The test, Pyongyang’s first launch of an ICBM potentially capable of striking the US mainland in almost a year, reached its highest-ever altitude and lasted 86 minutes, the longest-ever flight ...