SEOUL, May 22 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has approved the deployment of a new intermediate-range ballistic missile for combat use as the country succeeded in test-firing it, Pyongyang’s state media said Monday. North Korea’s leader observed the launch of the ground-to-ground Pukguksong-2 missile, expressing satisfaction with its accuracy in hitting targets, [...]
SEOUL, May 15 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korea said Monday it has successfully tested-fired a new mid- and long-range ballistic missile that can carry a large nuclear warhead, claiming that the U.S. mainland is within its striking range. North Korea said that a “large-size heavy nuclear warhead” can be fit on its new ground-to-ground missile, [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 14 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s spy agency said Tuesday the latest missile launched by Pyongyang that reached a top speed of Mach 8.5 is capable of flying more than 2,000 kilometers. During the meeting with the National Assembly’s Intelligence Committee, the National Intelligence Service (NIS) said the missile was launched at a [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 13 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korea has claimed it successfully test-launched a new medium-range ballistic missile that is capable of carrying a nuclear warhead, the country’s state-run media said Monday. The Korean Central News Agency said the Pukguksong-2 strategic weapon system was successfully test-fired Sunday. It added that the missile launched from a [...]
WASHINGTON, Oct. 20 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korea fired a Musudan intermediate-range ballistic missile on Thursday (Korean time), but the launch ended in failure, the U.S. Strategic Command said. “U.S. Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM) systems detected what we assess was a failed North Korean missile launch” at 7 a.m. (Korean time) near the northwestern city of [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 6 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korea’s state-run newspaper Rodong Sinum released photos of the country’s latest missile launches, which took place on Monday, as an apparent show of force amid the G20 summit in China. The launch also came four days before the 68th anniversary of the establishment of the North Korean regime. [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 5 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korea on Monday fired off three ballistic missiles into waters off its east coast, South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said, escalating tensions on the peninsula days ahead of its key anniversary. The communist regime test-fired the three ballistic missiles from Hwangju in North Hwanghae Province at [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 3 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korea on Wednesday fired off a ballistic missile into waters off its east coast, the South Korean military said, in an apparent show of force against the deployment of an advanced U.S. missile defense system. North Korea launched a missile into the East Sea from its western province [...]
SEOUL, July 27 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korea has launched a total of 31 ballistic missiles in the past five years under Kim Jong-un, twice the number of missiles test-fired when his late father was in power, the defense ministry here said Wednesday. North Korea has test-fired 16 short-range Scuds with a range of 300 [...]
“I call for your understanding because the working-level official’s response does not mean a test-launch plan. Major General Yang made remarks that could mislead (an audience) into believing that there is a plan to test-launch 800-km missiles.” “The remarks indicate that South Korea has a place big enough to accommodate the test-launch of missiles with [...]