North Korea tests five short-range missilesOctober 12th, 2009 SEOUL - North Korea Monday test-fired five short-range missiles off its eastern coast, the Yonhap news agency reported, citing government sources. The missiles were launched from the bases between North Hamgyeong and Gangwon provinces, it said.
North Korea appears to be preparing new missile tests: ReportOctober 12th, 2009 SEOUL - North Korea appears to be preparing to conduct new missile tests, a South Korean news agency reported Tuesday. After five rocket tests on Monday on North Korea's east coast, there were signs that further short-range rockets could be fired from the country's west coast, the Yonhap agency reported, citing an unnamed official in Seoul.
Yonhap news agency says that North Korea has fired 2 short-range missiles off its east coastOctober 12th, 2009 Report: North Korea fires 2 short-range missilesSEOUL, South Korea — Yonhap news agency says that North Korea has fired two short-range missiles off its east coast. Yonhap quoted an unidentified South Korean government official as saying that the North test-fired the missiles on Monday afternoon.
North Korea tests short-range missilesOctober 12th, 2009 SEOUL - North Korea Monday test-fired two short-range missiles off its eastern coast towards the Japan Sea, the South Korean Yonhap news agency reported, quoting government sources. Further details were not immediately available.
US prepared for direct talks with North KoreaSeptember 15th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton suggested the US is prepared to engage in direct talks with North Korea to encourage the communist country to rejoin negotiations over its nuclear programme. But Clinton said there had been no formal decision on whether to accept a North Korean invitation for the US special envoy Stephen Bosworth to travel to Pyongyang.
North Korea says it is in final phase of uranium enrichmentSeptember 4th, 2009 SEOUL - North Korea said Friday that it was entering the final testing phase of uranium enrichment, which could give it a second way to produce nuclear weapons. It also said that it was reprocessing plutonium for atomic weapons from spent fuel rods, a process believed to have produced the fuel for its two nuclear tests.
North Korea says it's in final phase of uranium enrichmentSeptember 3rd, 2009 SEOUL - North Korea said Friday that it was entering the final phase of uranium enrichment and was reprocessing plutonium for nuclear weapons from spent fuel rods. "Experimental uranium enrichment has successfully been conducted and entered into the completion phase," North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency reported, according to South Korea's Yonhap News Agency.
North Korea must give up nuclear programme: SeoulJuly 13th, 2009 STOCKHOLM - North Korea must give up its controversial nuclear programme, South Korean President Lee Myung-bak said Monday after talks with Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt. Lee said he supported sanctions adopted by the UN Security Council after North Korea on May 25 conducted an underground test of a nuclear device, which raised tensions in the region.
Seoul to spend billions on thwarting North Korea threatJuly 3rd, 2009 SEOUL - South Korea Friday announced plans to spend billions on sophisticated technology to counter the perceived threat of a North Korean nuclear attack. The defence ministry, reacting to the latest rocket tests by North Korea, said it would be budgeting a total of 178 trillion won (about $140 billion).
North Korea fires two missiles, claims South KoreaJuly 2nd, 2009 SEOUL - North Korea Thursday fired what appeared to be two short-range missiles off its east coast, a South Korean Defence Ministry spokesman said. North Korea had last fired a series of short-range missiles in the week after its May 25 nuclear test.
North Korea ready to match UN resolution with new nuke test: CIA to ObamaJune 12th, 2009 WASHINGTON - U.S. President Barack Obama has been told by his intelligence officials that North Korea intends to conduct another nuclear test in response to the passing of a U.N.
North Korea threatens military strike against South KoreaMay 27th, 2009 SEOUL - North Korea Wednesday warned it will respond militarily to South Korea joining a US-led initiative to intercept ships carrying illicit weapons, the South Korean Yonhap news agency said.
North Korea restarts nuclear facility: ReportMay 27th, 2009 SEOUL - North Korea appears to have restarted its nuclear reprocessing facility at Yongbyon to produce weapons-grade plutonium, a South Korean news report said Wednesday. Analysis of satellite images indicated that the facility, which had been mothballed by North Korea following a denuclearisation deal signed in February 2007, has been restarted, the Chosun Ilbo newspaper said, quoting informed sources.
US seeks a further UN resolution on North KoreaMay 26th, 2009 WASHINGTON - The US said Tuesday it wanted a further, tougher UN resolution in response to North Korea's latest nuclear and missile tests. "We want a resolution that provides a strong response from the Security Council to this provocation of North Korea," said State Department deputy spokesman Ian Kelly.
North Korea starts reprocessing nuclear fuelApril 25th, 2009 SEOUL - North Korea said Saturday it has again started to reprocess spent nuclear fuel rods to produce weapons-grade plutonium. 'The reprocessing of spent fuel rods from the pilot atomic power plant began as declared in the Foreign Ministry statement dated April 14,' the state-run Korean Central News Agency cited a foreign ministry spokesman, who referred to work at North Korea's Yongbyon nuclear facility.
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