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Russia Today
| 1 year ago
A ship heading to South Korea and China from Germany has been impounded in a Finnish port after a shipment of dozens of American Patriot anti-aircraft missiles and explosives was found aboard...And this time the major players are the world's two...
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
| 1 year ago
The UN Security Council on Monday tightened sanctions against North Korea over its failed rocket launch and warned of new "action" if the isolated state stages a new nuclear test...The council ordered new "entities and items" to be added to the...
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Voice of America
| 1 year ago
Unidentified diplomats are quoted as saying council members have reached agreement after three days of talks behind closed doors. They say the statement will be released Monday morning in New York unless objections are raised overnight. Details of...
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Zee News
| 1 year ago
After several days of closed-door haggling, the UN Security Council is hoping to adopt a statement on Monday condemning North Korea's botched rocket launch, council diplomats said. US Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice said on Friday that...
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United Press International
| 1 year ago
South Korea and China say they have agreed on stricter punishments for illegal fishing in South Korean waters, officials said Sunday. The countries also agreed to strengthen punishments for maritime violence and that Chinese boats will keep fishing...
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Ledger-Enquirer
| 1 year ago
China's foreign ministry said Sunday that Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi talked with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and South Korean Foreign Minister Kim Sung-hwan. A ministry statement appealed for all sides to "remain calm and...
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United Press International
| 1 year ago
Failure of the North Korea rocket led to U.S. and South Korean speculation the North would stage a new nuclear test as a "provocative action," officials said. Preparations for a nuclear test, seen by some as a way for new leader Kim Jong Un and the...
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GMA News
| 1 year ago
South Korea stepped up an operation Saturday to retrieve debris from North Korea's failed rocket launch, officials said, apparently in competition with Russia and China. The operation began on Friday after the North's rocket exploded mid-air about...
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Taiwan News
| 1 year ago
North Korea on Friday launched a rocket bearing a satellite, but it crashed into the sea less than two minutes after being launched. The failure drew a sigh of relief from the international community, which had been closely monitoring the development...
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Inquirer.net
| 1 year ago
North Korea has been developing a new long-range ballistic missile in a separate programme from the one that led to a failed rocket launch this week, a South Korean TV station reported Saturday. YTN quoted an intelligence source as saying the...
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Al Jazeera
| 1 year ago
49 The North Korean government had earlier agreed to suspend nuclear and missile tests in return for the food aid [AFP] The United States has called off plans to send food aid to North Korea, after the impoverished state launched a rocket in defiance...
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Kuwait Times
| 1 year ago
In a highly unusual move, the North, which still claims success with a 2009 satellite that others say failed, admitted in a state television broadcast seen by its 23 million people that the latest satellite had not made it into orbit. The failure is...
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Christian Science Monitor
| 1 year ago
Honolulu What the North Koreans intended as a long-range, three-stage rocket flight sputtered ignominiously when the rocket broke apart and fell into the Yellow Sea less than two minutes after its launch yesterday. The regime in Pyongyang claims the...
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Arab News
| 1 year ago
India is within days of test-firing a long-range rocket capable of reaching deep into Asia and Europe, a move that would bring the emerging power into a small club of nations with intercontinental defense capabilities. Scientists are preparing to...
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Yedioth Ahronoth
| 1 year ago
Breaking News US says stops food aid to North Korea after missile launch The United States will not go forward with planned food aid to North Korea, the White House said on Friday, after the impoverished nation unsuccessfully tried to launch a long-...
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China News
| 1 year ago
A high-level Chinese delegation is due to arrive in South Korea over the weekend to discuss Chinese investment in its neighbor's culture, real estate and new energy industries. Wei Jianguo, a former deputy commerce minister, said the governments of...
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Voice of America
| 1 year ago
Korean Missile Launch Stephanie Ho Beijing Photo: Reuters A man looks at a portrait of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un by Chinese artist Yan Lei at the China International Gallery Exposition 2012 in Beijing, April 13, 2012. China is calling for calm...
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The Star
| 1 year ago
Malaysia has strongly condemned North Korea's action in proceeding with its rocket launch despite concerns raised internationally over the move which had violated international law. Foreign Minister Datuk Seri Anifah Aman said the North Korea regime'...
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SF Gate
| 1 year ago
Jung Yeon-je / AFP/Getty Images South Koreans in Seoul watch a TV screen showing a graphic of North Korea's rocket launch. The rocket apparently broke up, collapsing soon after liftoff. Images More News Seoul -- Defying weeks of international...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 1 year ago
April 2012 is deplorable as it defies the firm and unanimous stance of the international community," Ban said in a statement read out by a UN spokeswoman in Geneva. North Korea admitted its much hyped long-range rocket failed to deliver a satellite...
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Baltimore Sun
| 1 year ago
North Korea said its much hyped long-range rocket launch failed on Friday, in a very rare and embarrassing public admission of failure by the hermit state and a blow for its new young leader who faces international outrage over the attempt. The...
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Sacramento Bee
| 1 year ago
South Korea North Korea defied international warnings of censure and further isolation today, launching a rocket that the United States and its allies called a provocative pretext for developing an intercontinental ballistic missile that might one...
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Kuwait News Business
| 1 year ago
Korea rocket launch Beijing, April 13, 2012 (AFP) -China -- North Korea's sole major ally -- on Friday urged "calm and restraint" from all sides after Pyongyang's failed rocket launch drew strong condemnation from the United States and its allies.
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Yedioth Ahronoth
| 1 year ago
Breaking News Mitt Romney, the likely Republican nominee to run against US President Barack Obama in the upcoming elections, criticized the president's handling of North Korean, saying that its weapons program poses a clear and growing threat to the...
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The Jakarta Post
| 1 year ago
World North Korea's much-anticipated rocket launch ended quickly in an embarrassing failure early Friday, splintering into pieces over the Yellow Sea soon after takeoff. Within minutes of the early morning launch, the US and South Korea declared it...
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Inquirer.net
| 1 year ago
Korea says satellite failed to enter orbit' 12:07 pm Friday, April 13th, 2012 Seoul, South KoreaNorth Korea said Friday its satellite had failed to enter its preset orbit, as the launch sparked international condemnation. The earth observation...
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New Zealand Infotech Weekly
| 1 year ago
North Korea's much hyped long-range rocket crashed into the sea about a minute after launch today, South Korean and other officials said, dealing a blow to the prestige of the reclusive and impoverished state. Pyongyang had defied international...
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Asian Wall Street Journal
| 1 year ago
North Korea launched a multistage rocket Friday morning, again defying countries that want it to stop pursuing advanced weapons, but it apparently blew up less than two minutes into flight. As competition in the more than $200 billion global...
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Channel NewsAsia
| 1 year ago
North Korea's rocket exploded mid-air before splashing down in the Yellow Sea off South Korea, Seoul's defence ministry said Friday. "North Korea's rocket flew about one or two minutes before it exploded mid-air," the defence ministry said in a...
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Channel NewsAsia
| 1 year ago
The UN Security Council ordered an emergency meeting for Friday to condemn North Korea's failed rocket launch, but is unlikely to order immediate new sanctions against the isolated state. Japan and South Korea would like tougher action against the...
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The Sun UK
| 1 year ago
North Korea early today and flew for just one minute before crashing into the sea. The rocket, carrying a weather satellite, was reported to have broken up almost at once after it blasted off from a site on the west coast. Officials in neighbouring...
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Sydney Morning Herald
| 1 year ago
Nor does a failure signal an end to the nuclear ambitions of the reclusive regime...There were plenty of failures in the missile development by other countries too. Besides, in the tightly-controlled North Korean media, the rocket will be seen to be...
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Epoch Times
| 1 year ago
April 12, 2012 South Koreans stop in a train station in Seoul to watch a TV report about North Korea's rocket launch on April 13. (Jung Yeon-Je/AFP/Getty Images) A defiant North Korea went ahead with the launch of its highly controversial long-range...
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Jerusalem Post
| 1 year ago
Launch seen as stepping stone to developing long-range nuclear ballistic missile fails, dealing blow to reclusive regime. North Korea's much hyped long-range rocket launch on Friday ended in apparent failure, South Korean officials said, dealing a...
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Xtra News
| 1 year ago
NZ condemns North Korea satellite launch National Party, Fuseworks April 13, 2012, 11:51 am Foreign Affairs Minister Murray McCully has joined the widespread international condemnation of North Korea's satellite launch today using ballistic missile...
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
| 1 year ago
North Korea's neighbours had been on high alert for the launch of the rocket, which Japan, South Korea and the United States insisted was a disguised missile test. The US and South Korea reported the launch this morning but US press reports said the...
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The Daily Telegraph
| 1 year ago
The rocket took off at 7.39am local time from a new launch facility in the country's northwest corner and flew south over the Yellow Sea on a path toward Japan's Ryuku Islands, the Philippines, Indonesia and Australia, The Wall Street Journal...
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International Business Times
| 1 year ago
A spokesman for the South Korea n Defense Ministry in Seoul told reporters at a briefing that the launch at taken place at 0739 local time (2239 GMT) and that South Korea and the United States were checking whether it had been a success, Reuters...
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International Herald Tribune
| 1 year ago
The three-stage rocket, called the Unha-3, blasted off from the Soehae launch site near North Korea's western corner with China , at about 7:39 a.m., the South Korea Defense Ministry said. There was no immediate announcement of the launch from the...
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The Age
| 1 year ago
Story continues below The Unha-3 rocket took off from a new launch site on the west coast of North Korea, near the Chinese border, and if successful will enhance Pyongyang's ability to build an intercontinental ballistic missile capable of delivering...
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ThecounT.com
| 1 year ago
North Korea North Korea snubbed their noses at the world and launched a rocket Friday, according to South Korean media , in a power-politically-charged move that has ignited concerns across Asia and the rest of the world. Called the Unha-3 rocket,...
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Sydney Morning Herald
| 1 year ago
A spokesman for the Defence Ministry in Seoul told reporters at a briefing that the launch at taken place from North Korea's Sohae Satellite Launching Station at 7.39am local time and that South Korea and the United States were checking whether it...
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Voice of America
| 1 year ago
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is urging North Korea to heed the call of the International community and stop its plan for the imminent launch of a rocket carrying a satellite into Earth orbit. However, even Ban indicates he does not expect his appeal...
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International Business Times
| 1 year ago
Articles Over that time, he built a powerful cult of personality for himself to secure his unquestioned rule and laid the foundation for a political dynasty which would eventually pass onto his son, Kim Jong-il, and more recently his grandson, Kim...
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The Economist
| 1 year ago
North Korea's ruling family, nothing if not solipsistic, is showering itself with birthday presents. As The Economist went to press, the Unha-3 rocket (pictured) was fuelled and ready to carry a satellite into orbit, ostensibly to monitor weather...
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News 24
| 1 year ago
North Korea's five-day window to launch a rocket opened on Thursday with no confirmed firing, but Asian countries remained on alert as Washington rallied world opinion against the communist state. The morning timeframe in which North Korea plans to...
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United Press International
| 1 year ago
Korean launch window passes This undated Department of Defense photo shows a sign in the Demarcation Line (MDL) separating North and South Korea. On Monday, May 25, 2009 North Korea allegedly detonated a nuclear device during an underground test and...
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International Business Times
| 1 year ago
Articles When Pyongyang opened its launch window on Thursday morning, many nations have turned their heads towards the country with nervousness, especially its neighbours...The country has scheduled the launch of satellite ostensibly to monitor...
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Washington Post
| 1 year ago
Gallery Graphic Change of course for North Korea's rocket The North Koreans are of the firm view that a Cold Warrior mind-set has misled the Americans to mistake the launch of an observation satellite for that of a ballistic missile test, the...
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Taiwan News
| 1 year ago
Taipei, April 12 (CNA) The military has formed a joint emergency response center to closely monitor developments in a North Korean satellite launch plan, the Ministry of National Defense said Thursday. North Korea announced in late March that it is...
