Pyongyang, July 18 (IANS) North Korea condemned “military collusion” among the United States, Japan and South Korea, saying it undermines regional peace and stability, the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported on Saturday, citing the country’s Ministry of National Defence.The Trilateral Chiefs of Defence meeting of the three countries convened Wednesday in Washington showed an attempt to “attain a military superiority in the region and seek their hegemonic geopolitical interests th…
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Seoul, July 17 (IANS) North Korea denounced Friday an ongoing U.S.-led multinational military exercise taking place in Hawaii, calling it a “war rehearsal” that will trigger a “chain of countermeasures” from countries in the region.The North’s state media carried the criticism in an op-ed on the Rim of the Pacific Exercise (RIMPAC), in which South Korea is leading the combined maritime component command this year as the first Asian country to do so, Yonhap news agency reported.”RIMPAC is not mer…
Pyongyang, July 11 (IANS) North Korea condemned “the United States and its vassal forces” for the inter-camp confrontation intention displayed at the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) Summit, a foreign ministry spokesperson said Saturday.The spokesperson made the remarks in a press statement reported by the official Korean Central News Agency, saying the trans-Atlantic bloc is exacerbating the security environment of Europe and creating instability in the Asia-Pacific.The US-led NATO all…
Seoul, July 11 (IANS) North Korean leader Kim Jong-un denounced corruption in the military as he attended a joint meeting of the ruling party, government and army, state media said Saturday.The rare meeting was held in Pyongyang on Friday “to give a warning to all sorts of anti-revolutionary, anti-socialist, anti-people acts going against the trend of the times,” the North’s Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said in an English dispatch.In particular, the meeting addressed the case of Pak Hui-cho…
Seoul, July 5 (IANS) North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has overseen tests of strategic cruise missiles and other weapons from a new 5,000-tonne naval destroyer, ordering the warship to be commissioned into the Navy within two months, state media reported Sunday.Kim observed tests of cruise missiles, naval artillery, automatic guns, and electronic warfare means from the destroyer Kang Kon on Friday, according to the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA).In June last year, North Korea launched the destr…
Pyongyang, June 26 (IANS) North Korea’s Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un has overseen tests of multiple firepower systems in a bid to modernise the country’s artillery and missile forces, the official Korean Central News Agency said Friday.The tests, on Thursday, involved the upgraded 240 mm-calibre 24-tubular multiple rocket launcher system, tactical ballistic missile, and 155mm self-propelled gun-howitzer shells with an extended firing range, the report said.The upgraded rocket launcher system emplo…
Seoul, June 23 (IANS) North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has called for efforts to further increase his country’s nuclear arsenal “with a goal of overtaking the world,” Pyongyang’s state media reported Tuesday.According to the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), the ruling Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK) convened the second plenary meeting of its ninth central committee for three days from Saturday, presided over by leader Kim, to assess how the country’s policies have fared in the first half of the y…
Seoul, June 18 (IANS) Kim Yo-jong, the sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, on Thursday denounced international calls for denuclearisation, describing the country’s nuclear weapons as its “core interests” and denuclearisation as a “line of no retreat that can never be crossed,” Pyongyang’s state media reported.In a statement carried by the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), Kim Yo-jong criticised the United States and its allies for making what she called “anachronistic” demands for North …
Seoul, June 13 (IANS) North Korea on Saturday blasted a recent joint statement adopted by South Korea and the European Union (EU) that condemned Pyongyang’s military cooperation with Russia, saying it will continue to treat Seoul as “a hostile state.”In a press statement issued on the state-run Korean Central News Agency, the North Korean foreign ministry said South Korea is “an invariable enemy state obsessed with hostility and confrontation.”South Korean President Lee Jae Myung and EU leaders …
Seoul, June 7 (IANS) The sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has said her country’s status as a nuclear-armed state is absolutely irreversible, calling it a “line of no retreat” and vowing not to tolerate any threats against it, the North’s state media reported on Sunday. Kim Yo-jong made the remarks in a statement carried by the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), in which she reiterated Pyongyang’s position that its nuclear weapons program is nonnegotiable while rejecting international ef…