All posts tagged "North Korea"

  • Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, left, accompanied by Defense Intelligence Agency Director Lt. Gen. Vincent Stewart, testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2016, before a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on worldwide threats. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
    North Korea restarts plutonium reactor: Intelligence chief

    Director of National Intelligence James Clapper says North Korea has been operating the reactor long enough that it could begin to recover plutonium “within a matter of weeks to months.” WASHINGTON (AP) — North Korea has expanded a...

    • Posted February 9, 2016
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  • Seen here is a part of the long-range rocket the South Korean military authorities picked up two days after North Korea fired it on Feb. 7, 2016. (Photo courtesy of the Ministry of National Defense)
    N. Korea’s satellite achieves orbit: Defense Ministry

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — The satellite North Korea launched into space earlier this week has achieved orbit, but whether it is operating normally has not been verified, the Defense Ministry said Tuesday. On Sunday, the North launched a...

    • Posted February 9, 2016
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  • North Koreans dance on the Kim Il Sung Square to celebrate a satellite launch Monday, Feb. 8, 2016, in Pyongyang, North Korea. People in Pyongyang danced and watched fireworks the day after a rocket launch that has been strongly condemned by many countries around the world. (AP Photo/Jon Chol Jin)
    North Korea’s new satellite flew over Super Bowl site

    TOKYO (AP) — Here’s a bit of Super Bowl trivia: North Korea’s newest satellite passed almost right over the stadium just an hour after it ended. Whatever motives Pyongyang may have about using its rocket launches to...

    • Posted February 8, 2016
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  • South Korean soldiers patrol along the coast of South Korea`s western island of Yeonpyeong, which borders North Korea, on Aug. 26, 2015. The South Korean military has reduced its military alert position since North Korea lifted the quasi-war state of its armed forces following the two Koreas` agreement the previous day on defusing tensions after four days of intensive inter-Korean talks. (Yonhap)
    S. Korea on high alert over further N. Korean provocations

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — South Korea’s presidential office said Monday it is on high alert for any signs of additional provocations by North Korea in the wake of the country’s long-range rocket launch a day earlier. North Korea...

    • Posted February 8, 2016
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    North Korean patrol boat crosses NLL in Yellow Sea

    By The Korea Times Seoul staff Amid heightened tension on the Korean Peninsula, a North Korean patrol boat on Monday crossed the de facto western maritime border, a South Korea military official said. The boat crossed the...

    • Posted February 8, 2016
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  • In this image released by Japan's Kyodo News agency, an unidentified object is photographed in the sky from Dandong, China, near the North Korean border, Sunday, Feb. 7, 2016, at the same time a North Korea rocket was allegedly launched. North Korea on Sunday defied international warnings and launched a long-range rocket that the United Nations and others call a cover for a banned test of technology for a missile that could strike the U.S. mainland. (Minoru Iwasaki/Kyodo News via AP)
    UN condemns N. Korea launch, pledges significant new sanctions

    SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The U.N. Security Council on Sunday strongly condemned North Korea’s launch of a long-range rocket that world leaders denounced as a banned test of dangerous ballistic missile technology and another “intolerable provocation.”...

    • Posted February 7, 2016
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  • A North Korean long-range rocket is launched into the air at the Sohae rocket launch site, North Korea, Feb. 7, 2016. ( Yonhap)
    N. Korea fires long-range rocket

    North claims satellite enters orbit; South also indicates launch was successful By Yi Whan-woo, Jun Ji-hye North Korea launched a long-range rocket in what seems to be an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), Sunday, despite the international community’s...

    • Posted February 7, 2016
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