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  • DPRK fires another short-range missile Media

    Beijing, May 20 (Xinhua-ANI): The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) fired another short-range missile between 4 p.m. and 5 p.m. local time after launching a missile on Monday morning, Yonhap News Agency reported. "North Korea fired one KN-02 short-range missile between 11 a.m. and 12 a.m. and a second one between 4 p.m. and 5 p.m. on Monday. The second missile is the same type as the ...

  • North Korea fires two more short-range missiles

    North Korea Monday fired two more short-range missiles, a day after UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon urged the regime to return to talks on its controversial nuclear programme. "North Korea fired one KN-02 short-range missile between 11 a.m. and 12 noon and a second one between 4 p.m. and 5 p.m. on Monday. The second missile is the same type as the KN-02 short-range missile launched on Monday ...

  • DPRK says missiles launch part of normal military training for self-defense

    Beijing, May 20 (Xinhua-ANI): The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) said Monday that the country' s missiles launch is only part of normal military training for self-defense, the official news agency KCNA reported. The army military training, as a powerful deterrent to cope with the U.S. and the South Korea' s machinations of starting a nuclear war, "is the legitimate right of a ...

  • Ban concerned about provocations after latest DPR Korea missile test Ban concerned about provocations after latest DPR Korea missile test

    19 May 2013 150 Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has voiced his concern about provocations and tensions on the Korean Peninsula following reports that the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) launched short-range guided missiles into the sea on Saturday. The latest action comes despite repeated calls by the international community, including Mr. Ban and the United Nations Security ...

  • North Korea Test-Fires 4th Short-Range Missile

    North Korea fired its fourth short-range missile in the past two days into waters off its east coast on Sunday, despite calls for restraint from South Korea and other countries in the region, as well as the United Nations. The latest launch into the Sea of Japan, confirmed by South Korean Defense Ministry officials, follows three coastal launches on Saturday that rattled the ...

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  • N. Korea fires another projectile into the sea South says

    North Korea launched several short-range guided missiles into the sea off the Korean Peninsula's east coast May 18, South Korea's semi-official news agency Yonhap cited the South Korean Defense Ministry as ...

  • Pyongyang fires sixth ‘missile’ in three days

    SEOUL - North Korea fired two more ';projectiles'; into the Sea of Japan on Monday, the latest in a series of drills condemned by South Korea and U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki Moon. The latest firings — bringing the total to six in three days — were confirmed by a spokesman for the South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff, who said it was unclear if North Korea was testing ...

  • China urges North Korea to release Chinese fishing boat 16 crew owner says ransom demanded

    BEIJING, China - China is urging North Korea to release a Chinese fishing boat whose owner says it was seized by gun-toting North Koreans earlier this month and held for ransom, in the latest irritant in relations between the neighbouring allies. Boat owner Yu Xuejun, who wasn't aboard, first publicized the seizure on his microblog late Saturday, and on Monday posted that his terrified ...

  • North Korea continues apparent short-range missile tests

    South Korean soldiers look through binoculars at the North from a military check point in Paju, South Korea, near the border village of Panmunjom, May 19, ...

  • Interactive Meet North Koreas first family

    The North Korean dictatorship established by Kim Il Sung after World War II was taken over by his son Kim Jong Il in the 1990s. Now Kim Jong Il’s health is failing and a transfer of power appears imminent. Click here to learn about his heir-apparent, Kim Jung Un, and other members of the Kim family, who hold powerful positions throughout the North Korean ...

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