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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

Japan military on alert for Pyongyang missile

 TOKYO: Japan ordered its military on Saturday to prepare to shoot down a North Korean ballistic missile after Pyongyang said this week that it was ready to launch its first military spy satellite.

Bangkok Post

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

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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.

The Week

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…

Asharq Al-Awsat

N Korea says tested another underwater nuclear attack ‘drone’

Second underwater drone test comes as Pyongyang continues efforts to expand and modernise its weaponry.

Al Jazeera

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‘Brink of nuclear war’: North Korea warning on military drills

Pyongyang’s state media publishes warning as United States and South Korea continue joint military exercises.

Al Jazeera

US flies nuclear-capable bombers as tensions soar with N Korea

The South Korean and US militaries expand joint exercises in response to Pyongyang’s nuclear and missile tests.

Al Jazeera

Foreign Office staff were terrified of contact with ‘bully’ Raab, official claims

Working there was like going to Pyongyang or Moscow, ‘a place where staff face significant risks’, ex-employee says

The Independent UK

White House: Russia, N. Korea engaged in food for arms deal

The White House says it has new evidence that Russia is looking again to North Korea for weapons to fuel the war in Ukraine, this time in a deal that would provide Pyongyang with needed food and other commodities in return

The Independent UK

Pyongyang unveils smaller nuclear warheads

SEOUL: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has called for stepped-up production of “weapon-grade nuclear materials”, state media said on Tuesday, as Pyongyang unveiled what appeared to be a new, smaller tactical nuclear warhead.

Bangkok Post

U.N. urges North Korea to confirm fate of forcibly disappeared people

The United Nations Human Rights office in Seoul called on North Korea on Tuesday to confirm the fate and whereabouts of people who have been disappeared under its regime, accusing Pyongyang of violating the rights of the victims and their loved ones for decades.

Reuters

North Korea fires 2 missiles, piling more pressure on US

North Korea test-launched two suspected short-range ballistic missiles, adding to its barrage in recent weeks as Pyongyang protests joint military exercises by the U.S. and South Korea.

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Al Jazeera

North Korea fires ballistic missiles after protesting US drills

Pyongyang’s latest missile launches come after claiming to have tested nuclear-capable underwater attack drone.

Daily Mirror

North Korea vows to make rivals despair in ‘radioactive tsunami’ nuke drone test

Pyongyang has ramped up its weapons demonstrations in recent months in response to military exercises between the United States and its ally South Korea, leading to increased nuclear tensions

Daily Mirror

North Korea launches MORE cruise missiles after simulating nuclear attack on neighbour

Today marks the fourth round of tests in direct response to the US and South Korea military drills held last week - which Pyongyang claims is tantamount to an invasion rehearsal of its Hermit Kingdom

The Conversation

How just walking around – even when accompanied by an adult – is empowering for children

The 15-minute city has, in recent months, become the focus of conspiracy theories. Politicians and pundits have described it variously as “an international socialist concept”, a “dystopian plan” and a surveillance tool “that would make Pyongyang envious”.

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Daily Mirror

North Korea bizarrely claims 800,000 youths joined army to fight US in single day

The claimed mass sign-ups supposedly came after Kim Jong-un's North Korea shot dozens of long and short-range missiles into the seas near Japan and South Korea - both countries which Pyongyang considers its enemies

Reuters

South Korea announces list of banned items for third-party export to North

South Korea on Tuesday announced a "watch-list" to prevent export of items linked to North Korea's satellite development, days after Pyongyang launched an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) into the sea between the Korean peninsula and Japan.

Reuters

US, China, Russia argue over North Korea at United Nations

The United States, China and Russia argued during a United Nations Security Council meeting on Monday over who was to blame for spurring North Korea's dozens of ballistic missile launches and development of a nuclear weapons program.

Daily Mirror

North Korea simulates NUCLEAR attack on neighbours with ballistic missile launch

Pyongyang has responded angrily to the largest joint military exercises in years between the United States and South Korea, with Kim Jong-un ordering a series of military drills and missile launches

Al Jazeera

N Korea’s Kim led drills ‘simulating nuclear counterattack’: KCNA

Latest show of force from Pyongyang comes as it bristles at military drills by South Korea and the US.

Reuters

U.S. accuses China of trying to hide North Korea atrocities

The United States accused China on Friday of attempting to hide North Korea's atrocities from the world by blocking the webcast of an informal meeting of United Nations Security Council members on accusations of human rights abuses by Pyongyang.

Foreign Policy

South Korea Could Get Away With the Bomb

The global norm against nuclear proliferation is strong, but Seoul’s political and economic ties are stronger.

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