Washington and its allies have never shot down any North Korean ballistic missiles, which are banned by the United Nations Security Council, but the question drew new scrutiny since Kim Jong Un's regime suggested it would fire more missiles over Japan. "The Pacific Ocean does ...
Seoul [South Korea]:North Korea has fired short-range ballistic missiles as per local media reports in South Korea and Japan. South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said it detected the launches at about 6:50 am from the North's Kaechon area in north of Pyongyang, and...
North Korea fired off three ballistic missiles into the Sea of Japan on 5 September as the leaders of the Group of Twenty (G20) advanced and emerging economies held a summit in the Chinese city of Hangzhou. The missiles, believed to be No Dong (also known as Rodong) intermediate-range ...
South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff said it detected the missiles launched from North Korea's capital flying 360 kilometers (about 220 miles) before landing in the waters between the Korean Peninsula and Japan. Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida instructed official...
SEOUL, South Korea --South Korean and Japanese officials said North Korea fired four banned ballistic missiles on Monday that flew about 620 miles, with three of them landing in Japan’s exclusive economic zone. The firing was an apparent reaction to huge military drills by Washington and S...
Tensions on the Korean Peninsula are at their highest point in years, after Kim accelerated his weapons development to an unprecedented pace while issuing provocative nuclear threats against the United States, South Korea and Japan. The United States and its Asian allies in response have strengthened...
North Korea has fired several rounds of short-range ballistic missiles into waters east of the Korean Peninsula. On Thursday, this was reported a little more than a week after North Korea marked a key state anniversary. The projectiles were launched from Pyongyang, the North Korean capital, befo...
The launches came a day after U.S. and South Korean officials said the North fired short-range weapons presumed to be cruise missiles into its western sea over the weekend.
SEOUL--South Korea’s military said Sunday that North Korea fired several cruise missiles that flew over waters near a major military shipyard on the country’s eastern coast, extending a streak in weapons tests that are worsening tensions with the United States, South Korea and Japan. ...
North Korea fired suspected short-range ballistic missiles off its east coast, South Korea's military said, a day after South Korea and the U.S. flew powerful fighter jets in a joint drill.