Tag: North Korea
N. Korea confirms blowing up roads, railways to ‘hostile’ South
The North also accused Seoul of using drones to drop anti-regime propaganda leaflets on the capital Pyongyang, with Kim convening a security meeting to direct a plan of "immediate military action" in response, state media reported Tuesday.
North Korea blows up roads, rails to South
North Korea blew up sections of the deeply symbolic roads and railways connecting it to the South on Tuesday, Seoul's military said, adding it had conducted a "counter-fire" operation in response.
Pyongyang to ‘permanently’ shut border with South Korea
North Korea's army said on Wednesday it was moving to "permanently shut off and block the southern border" with the South and had informed the US military to prevent an accidental clash.
North Korea claims it tested ballistic missile with ‘super-large’ warhead
North Korea claimed Thursday that its latest weapons test had been of a tactical ballistic missile capable of carrying a "super-large" warhead, and a strategic cruise missile, state media reported.
North Korea fires multiple short-range ballistic missiles
North Korea fired a salvo of short-range ballistic missiles early Wednesday, Seoul's military said, Pyongyang's second such weapons test in a week.
North Korean defects to South, says Seoul military
Seoul's military said it picked up "one suspected North Korean individual on the eastern front and handed them over to the relevant authorities".
Seoul fires warning shots as N. Korean soldiers cross border again
Dozens of North Korean soldiers briefly crossed the heavily fortified border Tuesday but retreated after warning shots were fired, Seoul said, the second such incident in two weeks as Pyongyang reinforces its frontiers with the South.
South Korea resumes loudspeaker propaganda, North vows ‘counteraction’
Seoul this month suspended a 2018 military deal aimed at reducing tensions on the peninsula after Pyongyang sent hundreds of balloons carrying bags of garbage, including cigarette butts and plastic waste, paving the way for the resumption of the loudspeaker broadcasts.
South Korea on alert for more trash balloons from the North
In two waves last week, North Korea sent hundreds of balloons with bags of trash into the South, describing them as a response to anti-Pyongyang propaganda balloons sent the other way by South Korean activists.
Yongbyon: North Korea appears to restart nuclear reactor
North Korea appears to have restarted its Yongbyon nuclear reactor, the UN atomic agency has said
