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News Source: Times Online
| 5 months ago
North Korea’s cities last week, its soldiers gloried in their nuclear weapons and readiness for battle. “Our party and our army have total confidence now that we have nuclear weapons and long-range missiles,” declared a lieutenant-colonel at...
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News Source: Lexington Herald-Leader
| 5 months ago
Since early April, North Korea has launched a long-range rocket, abandoned nuclear disarmament talks and conducted an underground atomic test in quick succession, earning international condemnation and new U.N. sanctions aimed at punishing the regime...
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News Source: Channel NewsAsia
| 5 months ago
Kim Jong-Il's third son, the likely successor to the North Korean leader, has been appointed acting defence chief under his ailing father, a Japanese newspaper reported on Saturday. Kim Jong-Un started supporting his father as acting chairman of...
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News Source: Financial Times
| 5 months ago
The Pentagon has sent a warship to shadow a North Korean vessel suspected of carrying illegal arms in an effort to shine the spotlight on countries that facilitate weapons proliferation. The USS McCain is following the Kang Nam, a North Korean vessel...
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News Source: Epoch Times
| 5 months ago
South Korea—A high-ranking North Korean official was spotted arriving in Beijing on June 13. The source indicated that this official is related to the newly appointed successor’s mother, Ko Young-hee. Even though the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)...
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News Source: Russia Today
| 5 months ago
According to the general, Russia has no intelligence regarding the exact date of the possible launch. Earlier, Japanese media, citing sources in the national Defense Ministry, said a new test-firing of a North Korean strategic ballistic missile will...
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News Source: Christian Science Monitor
| 5 months ago
A daily summary of global reports on security issues. The US military has deployed antimissile systems to Hawaii to beef up the islands' defenses in response to intelligence reports that North Korea may test-fire long-range ballistic missiles toward...
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News Source: Channel NewsAsia
| 5 months ago
A South Korean newspaper has said the health of North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il is rapidly worsening and Pyongyang is trying to import expensive medical equipment through China. The North is also seeking to bring in an emergency helicopter, the South'...
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News Source: Australian Broadcasting Corporation
| 5 months ago
South Korea's largest selling newspaper says the Stalinist North is seeking to bring in an emergency helicopter and other expensive medical equipment through China. Quoting a North Korean official in Beijing, the Chosun Ilbo paper reports that Mr Kim'...
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News Source: Al Jazeera
| 5 months ago
The US defence secretary says steps are being taken to protect against a possible North Korean missile launch across the Pacific. Robert Gates said on Thursday that the US had positioned more missile defences around the state of Hawaii. The news...