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  • Missile launched from North Korea Missile launched from North Korea

    North Korea has fired three short-range missiles from its east coast. South Korean officials have been carefully monitoring the missile firings as tensions rise again in the Korean Peninsula. The missiles were fired on Saturday morning and afternoon in a north-east direction. Analysts have said the missiles were not as dangerous as the intermediate-range missiles which Pyongyang had ...

  • DPR Koreans win mixed doubles at table tennis worlds

    DPR Korea's Kim Hyok Bong and Kim Jong claimed the mixed doubles title at the World Table Tennis Championships here. This is the first individual title at the world championships that was won by a non-Chinese player or pair since it was last held here 10 years ago. China has cleans wept all titles since, reports Xinhua. The two Kims defeated Lee Sangsu and Park Yongsook of South Korea in the ...

  • UN chief calls on North Korea to return to talks

    UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon Sunday said he was concerned over North Korea's latest short-range missile launches and called on Pyongyang to return to the six-party talks on its controversial nuclear programme. The communist regime broke off talks with South Korea, China, the US, Japan and Russia on its nuclear programme in 2009, after the UN Security Council passed a resolution condemning ...

  • Japan clarifies report on North Korean missile launches

    While confirming North Korea's missile launches Saturday, the Japanese government clarified none of the missiles landed in its territorial waters, Xinhua reported. South Korea's Yonhap News Agency, citing its country's defence ministry, had reported that North Korea launched three short-range guided missiles into the Sea of Japan. The ministry had detected two missiles being launched in the ...

  • North Korea fires short-range missiles for two days in a row

    Reuters © North Korean soldiers look at a Chinese tourist boat as they work on the Hwanggumpyong Island, located in the middle of the Yalu River, near the North Korean town of Sinuiju, opposite the Chinese border city of Dandong, May 19, 2013. REUTERS/Jacky ...

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  • Japan PM vows to seek talks with North Korea over kidnapping

    Shinzo Abe made the comment after a surprise visit to North Korea by one of his advisers last week has irritated the United States and South Korea as a possible damper to their efforts to forge a united front against Pyongyang. "I want to pursue negotiations or dialogue" with North Korea, he told reporters in Fukuoka, southern Japan, according to Japanese media. "I will definitely ...

  • North Korea Launches Short-Range Missile Again – Report

    TOKYO, May 19 (RIA Novosti) – North Korea launched on Sunday another short-range missile, a day after firing three short-range missiles into the Sea of Japan, Yonhap news agency reported, referring to South Korea’ Defense Ministry. The missile was reportedly launched in the second half of the day from North Korea’s eastern coast and fell into the Sea of Japan. There were no ...

  • North Korea trying to improve its missiles accuracy say experts

    Although it's a usual practice for North Korea to test its missiles, but the latest series of three short-range guided missiles fired by it into its eastern waters has left the South Korea worried.In March, North Korea launched what appeared to be two KN-02 missiles off its east coast. Experts believe the country is trying to improve the range and accuracy of its arsenal.North Korea ...

  • N. Korea fires projectile into waters off eastern coast

    SEOUL, South Korea – South Korea says North Korea has fired a projectile into waters off its eastern coast a day after launching three short-range missiles in the same area. The South's Defense Ministry says the firing occurred Sunday afternoon. It did not say whether it was a missile or artillery. North Korea routinely test-launches short-range missiles. The launches come during a ...

  • North Korea tests another missile South

    NORTH Korea has test-fired a short-range missile off its east coast, its fourth in two days, a Seoul official says. The guided missile was fired into the East Sea (Sea of Japan) on Sunday afternoon, a defence ministry spokesman said without elaborating. On Saturday the communist state fired three short-range missiles off the east coast, apparently as part of a military drill, at a time when ...

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