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SEOUL—North Korea conducted its sixth weapons test since Jan. 5, South Korea’s military said, flying two suspected short-range ballistic missiles off its east coast. The missiles were launched around 8 a.m. local time Thursday, from an area near the country’s northeastern city of Hamhung. They flew about 118 miles at…

NEW DELHI — In Indian-controlled Kashmir, a region mostly off-limits to foreign reporters that is rife with communications blackouts and curfews, local journalists remained one of the few reliable sources of information, even as they operated under difficult conditions. But this week, the Indian-run administration shut down the Kashmir Press…

North Korea said Wednesday that it’s considering resuming nuclear and missile tests, citing a “hostile” United States. As reported by The Hill, the country had previously self-imposed a moratorium on nuclear tests and long-range missiles. Kim Jong Un led a meeting to “discuss and decide immediate work and important policy…

Kim Jong Un signaled he may end a four-year-old freeze on major weapons tests, threatening to ratchet up tensions with the U.S. and force North Korea’s nuclear program back onto the Biden administration’s agenda. Kim ordered ruling party leaders Wednesday to “promptly examine the issue of restarting all temporarily suspended…

Kim Jong Un regime needs to prepare for long-term confrontation with U.S., says Politburo, ruling Workers’ Party’s top decision-making body Read More

SEOUL, South Korea — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un called for strengthening the country’s strategic military forces as he observed the test of a hypersonic missile, state media said on Wednesday, officially attending a missile launch for the first time in nearly two years. On Tuesday authorities in South…

Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast SEOUL—North Korea is placing as much emphasis on producing manure as it is on firing missiles, and it doesn’t matter whether it comes from people or animals. While test-firing two missiles in less than a week, North Korea has been waging “the battle for…

By HYONSHEE SHIN, JOSH SMITH, Reuters Published January 12, 2022 6:02am SEOUL, South Korea - North Korean state media said on Wednesday that the country has conducted a successful test of a hypersonic missile, state media reported, with leader Kim Jong Un attending the launch for the first time in…

SEOUL (Reuters) -North Korean leader Kim Jong Un called for boosting the country's strategic military forces as he observed the test of a hypersonic missile https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/nkorea-launches-possible-ballistic-missile-japan-says-2022-01-10, state media said on Wednesday, officially attending a missile launch for the first time in nearly two years. On Tuesday authorities in South Korea…

SEOUL —  Not long after nightfall on New Year’s Day, a short, slight man picked a spot along one of the most heavily fortified borders in the world, a quarter-mile from the nearest platoon of soldiers, and scaled a 10-foot-tall wire fence. Warning lights flashed and an alarm blared. The man…