The South Korean joint chiefs condemned the launches as a provocation that “seriously threatens peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula.” It said in a statement that South Korean and U.S. militaries were closely monitoring North Korean activities while maintaining a combi...
A suspected North Korean hypersonic missile flight wake is seen from the seaside in Yantai, China, June 26, 2024, at 5:36 am North Korean time.Costfoto/NurPhoto via Getty The Associated Press reported that South Korea later conducted live-fire drills along its disputed western sea boundary wit...
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is showing no sign of making that easy as he continues to defy international demands that he halt nuclear weapons activities and missile testing.KELSEY DAVENPORTArms Control Today
Lee Sung Joon, spokesperson of South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff, said the South Korean military believes North Korea was exaggerating the capabilities of the system, saying the missile covered less distance and that there was no second peak. Lee said the test was likely a followup to anot...
The White House on Wednesday warned North Korea "needlessly" raised tensions with the test launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile.
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea and the United States flew advanced stealth fighters in a joint missile-interception drill Friday over the Korean Peninsula, S…
the new missile can likely carry a north korean warhead as far as kim jong-un could want—including anywhere in the continental us. in the last two years, as kim jong-un dramatically ramped up north korea's icbm development and testing, the country has been gradually surmounting the list...
“The big thing about 2022 is that the word ‘test’ is no longer appropriate to talk about most North Korean missile launches – they are hardly testing missiles these days,” said Ankit Panda, a nuclear policy expert at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. “Everything we’ve se...
28, 2025, by the North Korean government shows the test firing of what it says is a strategic cruise missile off the country’s west coast Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2025. Independent journalists were not given access to cover the event depicted in this image distributed by the North Korean ...
Lee said the test was likely a followup to another hypersonic intermediate-range ballistic missile test last April and said it would be difficult to use such systems in a relatively small territory like the Korean Peninsula. He said the South Korean and U.S. militaries were continuing to analy...