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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 launches three missiles

    North Korea Saturday launched three short-range guided missiles into the Sea of Japan, Yonhap News Agency reported, citing South Korea's defence ministry. It was reported that the defence ministry detected two missiles launched in the morning and the last one was in the afternoon. The defence ministry said the launching might be a training or a test launch, according to their observation, and ...

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  • North Korea fires projectile into eastern waters

    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 ...

  • N. Korea test-fires another short-range missile – official

    SEOUL – North Korea on Sunday test-fired a short-range missile off its east coast, its fourth in two days, a Seoul official said. The guided missile was fired into the East Sea (Sea of Japan) on Sunday afternoon, a defense ministry spokesman told AFP without elaborating. On Saturday the communist state fired three short-range missiles off the east coast, apparently as part of a military ...

  • DPRK fires short-range missile into East Sea media

    The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) on Sunday fired a short-range missile into the East Sea, Yonhap News Agency said quoting a Seoul military official.The launch came a day after the DPRK fired three short-range guided missiles into the same body of water, according to the ...

  • UN chief says worried over DPRK missile launch

    /enpproperty--> MOSCOW - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Sunday urged the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) to return to the negotiating table with international mediators. Ban was concerned over the DPRK's latest short-range missile launches and urged the country "to refrain from further such acts, " Ban told the RIA Novosti news agency. The DPRK launched ...

  • N Korea urged to end missile tests

    UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has called on North Korea to refrain from carrying out any further missile tests. His comments came a day after Pyongyang test-fired three short-range missiles from its east coast. Speaking in Russia, Mr Ban called on North Korea to lower the tensions in the region and "resume dialogue" over its nuclear programme. Tensions were high across the region ...

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