Tag: Pyongyang

Washington: Former NBA star Dennis Rodman is slated to arrive in North Korea on Tuesday for his fifth visit amidst mounting tensions between Washington and Pyongyang, the media reported. North Korean officials confirmed to CNN Rodman’s arrival in Pyongyang but did not give any details of the visit. Rodman was also spotted at the Beijing […]

Seoul: North Korea on Sunday launched an unidentified projectile, just a week after Pyongyang carried out its most successful ballistic missile test, South Korean military has confirmed. “North Korea fired an unidentified projectile from a site in the vicinity of Pukchang in Pyeongannam-do, South Pyeongan province, and it flew for about 500 km,” Yonhap news […]

Seoul: US President Donald Trump is looking forward to working closely with his South Korean counterpart Moon Jae-in and is willing to make peace with North Korea through engagement if the conditions are right, according to a top Seoul envoy. Trump made the remarks on Wednesday during a 15-minute meeting with special envoy Hong Seok-hyun […]

Pyongyang: North Korea on Monday confirmed the test firing of a medium long-range ballistic missile one day earlier. The official Korean Central News Agency said the test fire of a new gorund-to-ground strategic ballistic missile “Hwasong-12” was successfully carried out on Sunday by scientists and technicians in the field of rocket research. North Korea top […]

Pyongyang: North Korea on Friday slammed the United States Congress for passing a new law to tighten sanctions against the Pyongyang regime. The Foreign Affairs Committee of the Supreme People’s Assembly of North Korea has sent an open letter of protest to the US House of Representatives, strongly condemning and resolutely rejecting the “North Korea […]

Seoul: North Korea on Tuesday marked the 85th founding anniversary of its military with a massive live fire drill in an apparent show of force amid tensions over Pyongyang’s nuclear and missile programmes. Instead of conducting a nuclear test or missile launch, North Korea staged the drill near the eastern city of Wonsan on the […]

Pyongyang: North Korea on Tuesday started its annual parliamentary session amid growing tensions provoked by the deployment of a US nuclear aircraft carrier and the possibility of new weapons tests by Pyongyang. The fifth session of the 13th Supreme People’s Assembly coincided with the fifth anniversary of leader Kim Jong-un’s rise to power, according to […]

Kuala Lumpur: The Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia on Sunday accused the North Korean ambassador of manipulating the investigation into the murder here of Pyongyang’s leader Kim Jong-un’s half-brother Kim Jong-nam. The statement by Ahmad Zahid Hamidi came after the Foreign Minister announced the expulsion of North’s Ambassador Kang Chol from the country for not […]

Beijing: China will restrict oil exports to and ban textile imports from North Korea, the commerce ministry announced today, as Beijing joined global efforts to enforce tighter UN Security Council sanctions on Pyongyang for its provocative nuclear and missile tests. China, the closest ally of North Korea, accounts for about 90 per cent of Pyongyang’s foreign […]

Pyongyang: Chinese President Xi Jinping, in an op-ed published in an official North Korean newspaper on Wednesday, said his upcoming visit to Pyongyang will help achieve progress in the negotiations on the Korean Peninsula’s denuclearization issue. Xi’s opinion piece was published in Rodong Sinmun ahead of his visit on Thursday, reports Efe news. The two-day […]