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United Press International
| 1 year ago
North Korea's rocket test last week was a technological dud and political embarrassment for Pyongyang's enigmatic leadership but hold the applause. The so-called Hermit Kingdom may have another shoe or two to drop in its unending quest for worldwide...
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The Courier-Mail
| 1 year ago
legitimate right to launch satellites," the foreign ministry said in a statement carried by state media. The statement came after the Security Council ordered tightened sanctions on North Korea over its failed rocket launch Friday and warned of new...
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International Business Times
| 1 year ago
EDT North Korea has spent lavishly on the gala celebrations of the birth centenary of its founder Kim Il-sung. According to local media reports, Pyongyang has spent W19 billion (£90 million) on the spectacular fireworks on Sunday's celebrations, more...
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International Business Times
| 1 year ago
North Korea held a massive dance and military parade routine in the capital Pyongyang over the weekend to mark the 100th birth anniversary of the nation's founder Kim Il-Sung. Thousands of North Koreans gathered at the central square in Pyongyang to...
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Asia Times Online
| 1 year ago
In early February, Iran launched its third successful commercial satellite in three years. The Barack Obama administration, the United Nations and the news media barely acknowledged the accomplishment. North Korea, on the other hand, has created a...
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Jerusalem Post
| 1 year ago
Senior US military officer says all options are being examined in bid to discourage N...The United States is looking at "all options" as it seeks to discourage North Korea from conducting a third nuclear test, a senior US military officer said on...
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The Hindustan Times
| 1 year ago
South Korea has expressed support for the UN Security Council decision to tighten sanctions on North Korea for its botched rocket launch, and called for Pyongyang to refrain from further provocations. The UN Security Council on Monday ordered...
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Courier & Press
| 1 year ago
North Korean policy as regards the outside world seems to run on a tape loop: a provocative act, followed by an agreement not to repeat it in exchange for aid; renege and then repeat. Last month, the Obama administration reached an agreement to...
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The Independent
| 1 year ago
As the orchestrated mass celebrations commemorating the centenary of the birth of its "Eternal Supreme Leader" Kim Il-Sung drew to a close, North Korea's latest abortive rocket launch was met with opprobrium from the UN Security Council and the...
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United Press International
| 1 year ago
North Korea said days after the failure of a rocket launch that it plans to develop an earth-orbiting satellite and a large space-launch vehicle. The pro-North Korean newspaper Choson Sinbo of Japan said the North would begin development of the...
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Fox News
| 1 year ago
FoxNews.com The very public failure of North Korea's latest missile launch lays the groundwork for more testing and potentially more provocative acts by the budding regime of Kim Jong-un, U.S. officials told Fox News. The rocket tested last week...
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Jerusalem Post
| 1 year ago
Diplomatic source tells South Korean news agency that Iranian officials traveled to N. Korea specifically to watch rocket launch, receive test data; S...A dozen Iranian officials traveled to North Korea to observe the country's rocket launch, South...
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United Press International
| 1 year ago
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said in his first televised speech -- and only days after an embarrassing failed rocket launch -- that he will boost the country's military strength. The policy of "military first" remains the cornerstone of the...
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The Independent
| 1 year ago
North Korea's new leader, Kim Jong-un, spoke in public for the first time yesterday, choosing the massive ceremony on the centenary of the birth of his grandfather, the "Great Leader", Kim Il-sung, to read from a prepared text vowing to build on the "...
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Russia Today
| 1 year ago
55 People watch a fireworks display to mark 100 years since the birth of North Korea's founder Kim Il-Sung in Pyongyang on April 15, 2012 (AFP Photo / Ed Jones) (11.7Mb) embed video A massive fireworks display in Pyongyang capped two weeks of...
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Christian Science Monitor
| 1 year ago
He spoke before a massive crowd in Pyongyang for the 100 th anniversary of the birth of his grandfather, North Korea's Great Leader Kim Il-sung.
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Epoch Times
| 1 year ago
April 15, 2012 North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un salutes as he watches a military parade to mark 100 years since the birth of the country's founder and his grandfather, Kim Il-Sung, in Pyongyang on April 15. (Ed Jones/AFP/Getty Images) Kim Jong Un, the...
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Japan Times
| 1 year ago
Pyongyang Former lawmaker and wrestling star Antonio Inoki met with Kim Yong Il, a senior official of North Korea's Workers' Party of Korea, in Pyongyang on Sunday, the Korean Central News Agency reported. It was no immediately known what Inoki,...
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KSAZ
| 1 year ago
North Korean dictator Kim Jong Eun spoke publicly for the first time Sunday, declaring before a giant crowd gathered to commemorate his grandfather's 100th birthday that the country will continue putting military matters above the economy and trying...
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United Press International
| 1 year ago
North Korea will bolster its military strength, Kim Jong Un said Sunday in his first public speech since being named the country's leader. The 38-year-old who assumed power from his late father in December spoke for 20 minutes at a rally of thousands...
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DAWN
| 1 year ago
In their leaders' shadows A tram filled with passengers drives past the roundabout in front of Pyongyang railway station. Two slogans flank the portrait of the nation's Eternal President on the top of the building. They read: Long live the Great...
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International Business Times
| 1 year ago
The third Kim to rule North Korea made it clear before the applauding crowd that the military first policies of his nation will not change over the future. "In order to enhance the dignity of Songun (military first) Chosun (Korea) and to accomplish...
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ITN
| 1 year ago
An apparently new missile was unveiled at the parade, appearing to add to an arsenal that has raised international concerns...In his speech, Kim Jong-Un made it clear that the military will continue to have a dominant role in running the country. He...
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Novinite
| 1 year ago
Photo by CNN North Korea has reportedly revealed a new missile during celebrations marking the 100th anniversary since the birth of late North Korea founder Kim Il-sung. According to international media, Japanese and South Korean military analysts...
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Inquirer.net
| 1 year ago
South Korean activists launched leaflets across the border to the North Sunday criticizing the Kim dynasty on the day the communist state marks the centenary of the birth of its founding leader. Ten activists in the Imjingak park near the border sent...
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Sydney Morning Herald
| 1 year ago
The missile was shown on Sunday during celebrations for the centennial of the birth of late North Korean founder Kim Il Sung. It is a possible addition to an arsenal that has raised international worries heightened by its simultaneous development of...
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Seattle Post Intelligencer
| 1 year ago
A crowd of North Korean military members clap in a stadium in Pyongyang, North Korea, during a mass meeting called North Korea's ruling party on Saturday, April 14, 2012. North Korea will mark the 100th birth anniversary of the late leader Kim Il...
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
| 1 year ago
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has delivered his first ever public speech at a major military parade in Pyongyang to mark 100 years since the birth of the country's founder, Kim Il-sung. The commemorations came just two days after a satellite launch...
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The Guardian
| 1 year ago
Reuters in Pyongyang Kim Jong-un addresses North Koreans in Pyongyang. Photograph: Reuters North Korea 's new leader has delivered his first major public speech as the impoverished state celebrates the centenary of its founder's birth. Kim Jong-un ,...
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BBC South Asia
| 1 year ago
N Korea's Kim Jong-un speaks publicly for first time North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un has made his first televised speech, as the country marks the centenary of the birth of the country's founder...As part of the celebrations, a huge military parade...
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Washington Post
| 1 year ago
Superiority in military technology is no longer monopolized by imperialists, Kim said, according to a translation by the Associated Press. The speech itself was a surprise, marking a stark reversal from the style of late leader Kim Jong Il, whose...
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Sydney Morning Herald
| 1 year ago
AP North Korea's new leader Kim Jong-un has delivered his first ever televised public speech during a major military parade to mark the centenary of the birth of his grandfather, state TV showed today. "I offer the purest respect and the greatest...
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Inquirer.net
| 1 year ago
Korea's Kim Jong-Un delivers first televised speech 9:33 am Sunday, April 15th, 2012 North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, left, waves as North Korean military officers clap in a stadium in Pyongyang during a mass meeting called by the Central Committee...
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The New York Times
| 1 year ago
Mr. Kim ordered the promotions on Friday as one of his first actions after becoming chairman of the National Defense Commission, the country's top governing agency, earlier in the day. The post was the last of the top military, party and state titles...
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Reuters
| 1 year ago
Topics North Korea leader Kim Jong-un (R) is applauded by military officers as he waves to soldiers and civilians during a ceremony in Pyongyang April 14, 2012, one day before the centenary of the birth of North Korea founder Kim Il-sung on Sunday.
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Russia Today
| 1 year ago
North Korea has made an unprecedented move, allowing Western journalists to take photos of an up-to-date ballistic missile due for launch this week to put a weather satellite in orbit. Alarmed Japan and South Korea are preparing to shoot it down.
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Washington Post
| 1 year ago
One day after the humiliation of a failed satellite launch, a showpiece of might breaking apart and dropping into the sea, North Korea got along with the usual agenda of extolling its leadership. More than 50,000 on Saturday packed Kim Il Sung...
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Taiwan News
| 1 year ago
Hours after a failed rocket launch criticized abroad as a covert test of missile technology, North Korea's new leader underlined the country's "military first" policy with a budget that allocates a sizable chunk of funding to defense spending.
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Channel NewsAsia
| 1 year ago
A senior Japanese defence official on Saturday urged "crisis-management measures" ahead of a possible nuclear test by North Korea after its humiliating failure to launch a rocket. The launch was supposed to be the centrepiece of weekend...
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The Courier-Mail
| 1 year ago
Korea has been developing a new long-range ballistic missile in a separate program from the one that led to a failed Friday rocket launch, a South Korean TV station reported today. YTN quoted an intelligence source as saying the communist state...
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The Journal Gazette
| 1 year ago
North Korea's unsuccessful launch of an Unha-3 rocket with a satellite attached marks not only the 100th birthday of the country's founder Kim Il Sung, but also the end of the Obama administration's year-long effort to open up a new path for...
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The Herald Times
| 1 year ago
North Korea North Korea's much-touted satellite launch ended in a nearly $1 billion failure, bringing humiliation to the country's new young leader and condemnation from a host of nations. The United Nations Security Council deplored the launch but...
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Seattle Times
| 1 year ago
LEE JIN-MAN / AP South Korean soldiers in Seoul buy train tickets to return to base. North Korea defied warnings and launched a rocket, but the launch failed. A recent portrait of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un Click the graphic above to see an...
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The Globe & Mail
| 1 year ago
Video Video Photos Pyongyang's latest aborted effort to loft a satellite into orbit roughly the same rocket science could deliver a nuclear warhead to a target half a world away was the faint silver lining to the latest international gloom over...
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Canada.com
| 1 year ago
The United States kept a wary eye on North Korea after the reclusive state's unsuccessful launch of a long-range rocket and President Barack Obama said on Friday Pyongyang faced further isolation if it continued to defy the international community.
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Toronto Star
| 1 year ago
A missile launch Friday to mark the centenary of King Il Sung's birth ended in failure. Jong Un, North Korea's third-generation leader, suffered a public humiliation unlike any faced by his father or grandfather after the totalitarian state admitted...
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The Independent
| 1 year ago
For the last few weeks online neo-Nazis have been uncomfortably close to the conservative media in a... The excitement which has greeted Borussia Dortmund's rise to power over the last two years reached i... In an unfailingly mischievous manner,...
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Leader Post Online
| 1 year ago
North Korea's abject humiliation in front of the world after failing to launch a rocket into space Friday has led to concerns that the unstable regime will step up plans to detonate a nuclear device. The rocket, which military experts say was...
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Los Angeles Times
| 1 year ago
Security Council condemns North Korea launch, mum on sanctions The United Nations Security Council on Friday condemned North Korea for its rocket launch, saying the action flew in the face of two previous resolutions that slapped sanctions on the...
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The Tribune
| 1 year ago
Almost immediately after the launch Thursday, Republican presidential challenger Mitt Romney accused Obama of trying to appease the communist regime by dangling a food aid deal "that proved to be as naive as it was short-lived."...Deputy national...
