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North Korea fires short-range missiles into the sea in its latest weapons test

5:54am April 22, 2024

by The Associated Press

North Korea on Monday test-fired suspected short-range ballistic missiles into the sea, the country's neighbors said, as speculation swirled that it could soon launch a banned satellite into orbit.

North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un walks to a meeting with then-President Donald Trump in the Demilitarized Zone that straddles the Koreas on June 30, 2019.

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Why North Korea wants another chance with Donald Trump

8:27am February 28, 2024

by Thomas Schäfer

Germany's former ambassador to North Korea provides insights from his time in the country, and explains why the regime would prefer a Trump win in 2024.

Loudspeakers in a village of Yeonpyeong island, near the Northern Limit Line sea boundary with North Korea, on Jan. 6, a day after North Korean shelling. North Korea fired an artillery barrage near two South Korean border islands on Jan. 5, Seoul's defense ministry said, prompting a live-fire drill by the South's military.

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As North Korea launches missiles and artillery, this island's residents are terrified

5:02am February 01, 2024

by Anthony Kuhn

Residents of a South Korean island attacked by North Korea in 2010 fear it could become a flashpoint again. They hid in air raid shelters in early January after North Korea conducted artillery drills.

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In this photo provided by the North Korean government, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, center, inspects as he tours munitions factories in North Korea on Jan. 8-9, 2024.

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North Korea launches ballistic missile, thought capable of hitting distant US bases

8:24am January 14, 2024

by The Associated Press

North Korea fired a suspected intermediate-range ballistic missile toward the sea on Sunday, South Korea's military said.

In this photo provided by the North Korean government, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un delivers a speech during a year-end plenary meeting of the ruling Workers' Party, which was held between Dec. 26 and Dec. 30 in Pyongyang, North Korea.

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South Korea says the North has again fired artillery shells near their sea border

8:45am January 06, 2024

by The Associated Press

The new round of artillery drills near the two countries' disputed sea boundary came a day after the North's similar exercises prompted South Korea to respond with its own firing drills.

A South Korean tank fires during exercises at the Northwest Islands area of South Korea on Friday.

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North and South Korea conduct provocative military drills along their sea boundary

12:53pm January 05, 2024

by The Associated Press

The rival Koreas fired artillery rounds into the sea as part of provocative drills along their disputed sea boundary Friday, in violation of the fragile 2018 inter-Korean agreement.

This photo provided by the North Korean government, North Korean women attend the National Mothers' Meeting in Pyongyang, North Korea on Dec. 3, 2023. The content of this image is as provided and cannot be independently verified.

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North Korea confronts a modern-day challenge: a declining population

5:00am December 13, 2023

by Se Eun Gong

In a rare admission, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un says his country's birth rate is too low. Experts see no working solution for a looming population crisis.

A man watches a television screen showing a news broadcast with a picture of North Korea's latest satellite-carrying rocket launch, at a railway station in Seoul on Nov. 22.

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What North Korea's shift toward Russia means for its global strategy

5:00am December 07, 2023

by Anthony Kuhn

Since the collapse of nuclear talks between Pyongyang and Washington in 2019, analysts see a major shift in North Korea's foreign relations. It has turned increasingly to Moscow.

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In this image from video provided by SpaceX, South Korea launches its first military spy satellite from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on Friday.

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South Korea launches its first spy satellite after rival North Korea does the same

12:49am December 02, 2023

by The Associated Press

South Korea had no military reconnaissance satellites of its own in space and has partially resorted to the United States' spy satellites to monitor moves by North Korea.

This photo provided by the North Korean government shows what the country said is the launch of the Malligyong-1, a military spy satellite, into orbit on Tuesday, Nov. 21, 2023. Independent journalists were not given access to cover the event depicted in this image distributed by the North Korean government.

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South Korea says it boosts surveillance after North claims spy satellite launch

2:08am November 22, 2023

by The Associated Press

The South Korean announcement — which will likely infuriate North Korea — came hours after the North claimed to have placed a military reconnaissance satellite into orbit.