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Kim Jong-un made the statement as he praised his top military officials over the staging of a massive military parade according to state media on Saturday. Source link

North Korea has condemned the joint drills as rehearsals for war, and they have been scaled back in recent years amid efforts to engage Pyongyang in diplomacy, and because of Covid-19 restrictions. Source link

Incoming leader Yoon Suk-yeol wants Washington to redeploy nuclear bombers and submarines to the Korean peninsula as Kim Jong-un’s missile tests continue and China seems to have stopped ‘leaning on the North to behave’. Source link

Comments by Kim Jong-un’s powerful sister come amid tensions over the North’s accelerating weapons tests, including its first test of an intercontinental ballistic missile since 2017. Source link

South Korea’s president-elect Yoon Suk-yeol on Thursday said he would sternly deal with North Korea’s misbehaviour and reset ties with China, hinting he would shift back to the hardline posture taken under his conservative predecessors.United States President Joe Biden called Yoon to congratulate him on his election victory and they …

North Korea has fired an “unidentified projectile”, South Korea’s military said early Sunday. If confirmed it would be Pyongyang’s eighth launch this year after a month of relative calm on the peninsula during the Beijing Olympics.Pyongyang carried out a record-breaking blitz of weapons tests last month, including of its most …

North Korea has been launching missiles without the support of America’s global positioning system, instead turning to Russia’s satellite navigation network, according to observers.In its fourth test this month, Pyongyang on Monday fired what appeared to be two short-range ballistic missiles into the sea off the east coast of the …