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North Korea Fires Ballistic Missile Ahead Of South Korea-Japan Summit
The North Korean ICBM flew towards the Korean Peninsula's eastern waters after being launched from Pyongyang at a steep angle and flew approximately 1,000 kilometres (620 miles) before landing in the waters between the Korean Peninsula and Japan, according to South Korea's military
Read MoreNorth Korea Launches Two Missiles Into Sea As Allies Conduct Drills
The missiles were launched from the southwestern coastal town of Jangyon and flew across North Korea before landing in the sea off the country's east coast, according to a statement from South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff
Read MoreSeoul's Mayor Calls For South Korean Nuclear Weapons To Counter North Korean Threat
Seoul Mayor Oh Se-hoon, in an exclusive interview with Reuters, added new fuel to a growing debate over how South Korea should arm itself as the North races to perfect its ability to strike the South with tactical nuclear weapons
Read MoreUS, South Korea Begin Largest Joint Military Drills In Five Years
The US-South Korean exercises, dubbed Freedom Shield, are set to begin on Monday and will focus on the “changing security environment” caused by North Korea's redoubled aggression, according to the allies
Read MoreSeoul's Military Announce North Korea’s Fires Missile Ahead Of South Korea-US Military Exercise
According to reports hours after the leader, Kim Jong Un was on the ground to witness "a powerful volley" organised by an artillery unit, an attempt ready to respond to the actual war
Read MoreNorth Korea Developing Solid-fuel ICBMs: South Korea
As per the NHK World news, South Korea's National Intelligence Service under the defence, according to an attendee, South Korea's National Intelligence Service under the defence ministry made a comment at a closed-door briefing to the parliamentary intelligence committee on Wednesda
Read MoreN Korea's Missile Tests, Nuclear Ambitions Pose Serious Threat: South Korean Prez
Speaking to The Associated Press at the presidential office in Seoul, the president reiterated his call for closer security cooperation with the United States and Japan to counter the dangerous situation created by North Korea
Read MoreNo Talk On Joint Nuclear Exercises With South Korea: Biden
Earlier, the South Korean president said in a newspaper interview that Seoul and Washington were in “talks on joint planning and exercises involving US nuclear assets to counter North Korea's nuclear threats”
Read MoreSouth Korea Plans Joint Nuclear Exercises With US In Response To N Korea's Nuke Test
Yoon's disclosure about South Korea's plan for joint nuclear exercises with the US comes a day after North Korea's ruler Kim Jong Un stated that his country plans to develop new intercontinental ballistic missiles and expand its nuclear arsenal
Read MoreNorth Korea's Kim Orders Big Expansion Of Country's Nuclear Arsenal
Regional tensions over the North's nuclear programme are likely to persist, but some experts believe Kim will eventually try to use his expanded arsenal to extract concessions such as sanctions relief from his adversaries
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