All posts tagged "nukes"

  • South Korean and U.S. marines depart a South Korean marine base in the eastern coastal city of Pohang to participate in a joint landing drill that started on March 7, 2016, as part of joint military exercises that will run through April 30. (Yonhap)
    North Korea again threatens nuke strikes on US, South Korea

    SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea on Monday issued its latest belligerent threat, warning of an indiscriminate “pre-emptive nuclear strike of justice” on Washington and Seoul, this time in reaction to the start of huge U.S.-South...

    • Posted March 7, 2016
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  • People watch a TV news program showing North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, at Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, March 3, 2016. North Korea fired several short-range projectiles into the sea off its east coast Thursday, Seoul officials said, just hours after the U.N. Security Council approved the toughest sanctions on Pyongyang in two decades for its recent nuclear test and long-range rocket launch. The screen reads "Sanction on the North Korea." (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
    North Korea says its readying nukes

    SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has ordered his country’s nuclear weapons made ready for use at a moment’s notice, the official state news agency reported Friday. Kim also said his country will...

    • Posted March 3, 2016
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    US: North Korea offered peace talks with US, bailed over nukes

    WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House said Monday that North Korea sought to discuss a peace treaty but bailed after the U.S. insisted denuclearization be part of the discussions. Spokesman Josh Earnest said the U.S. considered a...

    • Posted February 22, 2016
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    N. Korea claims it has miniaturized nuke weapons

    SEOUL, May 20 (Yonhap) — North Korea said Wednesday it has already made nuclear warheads small enough to fit on a missile, further escalating tensions sparked by its recent test-firing of a submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM). In...

    • Posted May 20, 2015
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    N. Korea threatens nuke attacks on US

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — North Korea threatened on Monday to target the United States with its nuclear weapons, saying its front-line targets include the Pacific Ocean, not just South Korea. The communist party’s official newspaper, the Rodong Sinmun,...

    • Posted April 27, 2015
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  • This Rodong Sinmun photo released on June 27, 2014, shows the test-fire of the North's newly developed tactical guided missiles. (Yonhap)
    N. Korea yet to miniaturize nukes: Seoul

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — North Korea does not appear to have miniaturized nuclear warheads to fit on its ballistic missiles despite having advanced its technology to “a considerable level,” Seoul’s defense ministry said Thursday. Officials and experts from...

    • Posted February 26, 2015
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    N. Korean missiles could reach US mainland: S. Korea

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — North Korea appears to have achieved “a significant level” of technology to miniaturize nuclear warheads to fit on its ballistic missiles that could potentially reach the United States mainland, South Korea’s defense ministry said...

    • Posted January 6, 2015
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