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North Korea wants to turn the Pacific into a firing range. The South is playing just as hard

North Korea has fired off a record number of ballistic missiles in the past 18 months, but the threats are being met by an emboldened South Korea, which is muscling up and strengthening alliances old and new.

ABC News

Tokyo Prepares to Shoot Down NKorea Satellite if it Falls on Japan

Japan's Defense Minister Yasukazu Hamada on Saturday ordered the country's military to prepare to shoot down a North Korean spy satellite should it fall within Japan's territory. Hamada ordered the Self-Defense Forces to make necessary preparations as he could potentially "order the destruction of ballistic missiles", the Defense Ministry said…

Asharq Al-Awsat

North Korea lambasts G-7, says its nukes are 'stark reality'

North Korea’s foreign minister has called the Group of Seven wealthy democracies a "tool for ensuring the U.S. hegemony” as she lambasted the group's recent call for the North’s denuclearization

The Independent UK

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North Korea readying launch of nation's 1st spy satellite: report

North Korean state media announced Wednesday (April 19) that the country has built its first spy satellite and is preparing it for launch.

Space

NKorean Leader Orders Launch of 1st Spy Satellite as Planned

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has said preparations for the planned launch of the country's first spy satellite should go ahead to counter what he called threats from the United States and South Korea, state media reported on Wednesday. Analysts say the military satellite is part of the reclusive,…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Kim Jong Un orders launch of spy satellite to proceed

Putting a surveillance satellite into orbit is a key goal of North Korean leader’s military strategy.

Al Jazeera

Exclusive: South Korea's Yoon opens door for possible military aid to Ukraine

South Korea might extend its support for Ukraine beyond humanitarian and economic aid if it comes under a large-scale civilian attack, President Yoon Suk Yeol said, signalling a shift in his stance against arming Ukraine for the first time.

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Kim says N Korea finishes development of 1st spy satellite

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un says his country has completed the development of its first military spy satellite and ordered officials to go ahead with its launch

The Independent UK

North Korean leader orders launch of first spy satellite as planned

Reuters

Japan, S Korea, US conduct drill amid tension with N Korea

Drills between the three countries follow North Korea’s test of a solid-fuel intercontinental missile.

Al Jazeera

US, allies conduct more drills in face of N. Korean threat

The United States, South Korea and Japan will conduct a joint missile defense exercise in waters near the Korean Peninsula as they further expand military training to counter the growing threats of North Korea’s nuclear-capable missiles

The Independent UK

North Korea celebrates building 10,000 modern homes in Pyongyang

North Korea held a ceremony on Sunday to celebrate the completion of 10,000 new modern homes in the newly built Hwasong District in Pyongyang, state media KCNA reported.

Reuters

S Korea, Japan, US to deepen security ties amid N Korea threat

Allies condemn ‘in the strongest terms’ Pyongyang’s latest weapons test, and urge end to ‘destabilization’.

Al Jazeera

North Korea and Japan’s difficult history

Long-term tensions between North Korea and Japan have risen dramatically after residents of Hokkaido were evacuated from their home when the hermit kingdom test-fired what could be a new type of ballistic missile.

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Al Jazeera

What’s solid-fuel technology and why’s North Korea developing it?

A look at the characteristics of solid-fuel technology and how it can help North Korea improve its missile systems.

Evening Standard

North Korea tests new inter-continental missile thought to be its most powerful

Kim Jong Un said the test would ‘strike extreme uneasiness and horror’ into his nation’s enemies

Asharq Al-Awsat

N. Korea Says It Tested New Solid-Fuel Long-Range Missile

North Korea said Friday it flight-tested a solid-fuel intercontinental ballistic missile for the first time, a possible breakthrough in its efforts to acquire a more powerful, harder-to-detect weapon targeting the continental United States. North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency issued the report a day after the country’s neighbors detected…

The New Daily

North Korea says missile test should horrify enemies

North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un said its latest missile test should make enemies 'experience a clearer security crisis'.

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Al Jazeera

North Korea tests first ever solid fuel ICBM, Hwasong-18

A longer-range solid-fuel ICBM has long been on leader Kim Jong Un’s weapons wish list.

WEKU

North Korea tests a powerful new kind of missile

North Korea has successfully tested a solid-fueled ICBM, a type of missile that can be launched far more quickly than its current ones.

Daily Mirror

Kim Jong Un watches 'most powerful' missile launch with daughter, 10, in chilling images

New images released by North Korea appear to show the country's leader seeing off his latest missile launch together with his young daughter. On Thursday a missile launch triggered an evacuation warning after fears it would fall near a Japanese isla

Reuters

North Korea says it tested new solid-fuel ICBM, warns of 'extreme' horror

North Korea announced on Friday it had tested a new solid-fuel intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), a development set to "radically promote" its forces, which experts said would facilitate missile launches with little warning.

The Independent UK

N. Korea says it tested new solid-fuel long-range missile

North Korea says it has tested a newly developed intercontinental ballistic missile intended to target the mainland U.S. North Korea’s state media said Friday its recent weapons test involved a new long-range missile powered by solid propellants, which it described as “the most powerful” piece of its growing nuclear arsenal…

The Independent UK

Seoul: North Korea launches ballistic missile toward sea

South Korea says North Korea has launched a ballistic missile off the North’s east coast

Wales Online

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un vows ‘offensive’ nuclear expansion

State media has said the enhancement is due to 'frantic' military exercises from his rivals

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