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He made the remarks in a meeting with visiting Vice Chairman of North Korea’s Supreme People’s Assembly Pak Chol-min in Tehran on Tuesday. Larijani said that North Korea adopted an “intelligent” decision in the face of Washington’s “unilateral demands,” adding that “the Americans are not after striking a true deal with North Korea, but they merely want to disarm the country…

North Korea has conducted several short-range tests recently, but refrained from launching longer-range missiles in order to foster denuclearization talks with the US. Experts argue Washington cannot expect to have it both ways.  The issue of new missile deployments for Asia has flared up following Washington’s withdrawal from a Cold War-era arms pact. New US Secretary of Defense Mark Esper, on…

Commenting on the issue, US President Donald Trump tweeted that South Korea has agreed to pay more money to the United States in order to “defend itself from North Korea”. Since taking office, Donald Trump has always demanded that South Korea increase its share of the cost of the US military presence in the country. In February, South Korea and…

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said Pyongyang’s latest missile launches were meant as a warning to Washington and Seoul over their joint war games, state news agency KCNA reported Wednesday. It said Kim had watched the demonstration early Tuesday, which verified the “war capacity” of the “new-type tactical guided missiles”. With the demonstration carried out satisfactorily, “Kim Jong Un…

“We won’t be defeated by Japan again,” said South Korean President Moon Jae-in during a rare live television broadcast of his cabinet meeting. Moon further threatened countermeasures against Tokyo after the cabinet of Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe approved the removal of South Korea’s fast-track export status effective late August. Dropping Seoul from a so-called “white list” of favored export destinations…

The nuclear-armed North is barred from ballistic missile tests under UN resolutions and its actions have drawn condemnation from European members of the Security Council but a comparatively sanguine response from Trump, who has met North Korean leader Kim Jong Un three times, generating global headlines on each occasion. “I have no problem. We’ll see what happens but short-range (missiles)…

The Russian embassy in Pyongyang says North Korea has released a Russian fishing vessel along with its crew after it was seized over alleged violation of entry rules. North Korean border guards detained the ship belonging to the Russian North-Eastern Fishing Company as well as 15 Russian and two South Korean crew members on July 17 for “violating the rules of entry…

Japan warned on Saturday that the new North Korean projectiles have trajectories that are not typical for conventional ballistic missiles which makes it difficult to intercept them. The new North Korean projectiles had irregular trajectories and flew at lower altitudes than conventional ballistic missiles which makes it difficult to intercept them, the Japanese Defense Ministry said, as quoted by the…

North Korea early on Thursday test-fired two new short-range ballistic missiles in a first since leader Kim Jong-un’s meeting with Trump at the demilitarized zone (DMZ) between the Koreas last month, where they agreed to resume stalled denuclearization talks. Despite Pyongyang’s calling the tests a “solemn warning” to its southern neighbors, Trump said that “they’re short range missiles, and many…

North Korea on early Thursday test-fired two new short-range ballistic missiles in a first since Kim’s meeting with US President Donald Trump at the demilitarized zone (DMZ) between the Koreas last month, where they agreed to resume stalled denuclearization talks. “We cannot but develop non-stop super-powerful weapon systems to remove the potential and direct threats to the security of our…