A North Korean delegation led by Foreign Trade Minister Yun Jong Ho has left for Iran. According to TASS, the Foreign Trade Ministry’s delegation departed Pyongyang on April 23. North Korean officials last visited Iran in 2019.
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North Korea test-fired a new intermediate-range ballistic missile (IRBM) Hwasongpho-16B equipped with a ‘hypersonic gliding warhead.’ North Korean leader Kim Jong Un personally guided the test launch of the new missile, which covered a distance of 1,000 kilometers (over 620 miles) reaching a maximum altitude of 101.1 kilometers (almost 63 …
Read More »North Korea launches two ballistic missiles: report
North Korea launched two missiles, presumed to be ballistic ones, in the early hours of Monday, the Japanese coast guards said. Both projectiles have already fallen. No information about their type is available at this point. Their flight lasted around five minutes, TASS reported. According to the country’s NHK television, …
Read More »North Korea Fires ICBM Able to Reach U.S. Mainland
North Korea fired a suspected intercontinental ballistic missile Friday, Seoul’s military said, the second launch in two days as Pyongyang continues a record-breaking blitz that has sent fears of a nuclear test soaring. A South Korean defense official told AFP that they “estimated that North Korea had fired an ICBM”, …
Read More »U.S. Test of Hypersonic Missile Fails Again
A flight test of a hypersonic missile system in Hawaii ended in failure due to a problem that took place after ignition, the Pentagon said, delivering a fresh blow to a program that has suffered stumbles. It did not provide further details of what took place in the Wednesday test, …
Read More »World Headed to ‘Dangerous Territory’
The number of nuclear weapons in the world is set to rise in the coming decade after 35 years of decline as global tensions flare amid Russia’s war in Ukraine, researchers said Monday. The nine nuclear powers — Britain, China, France, India, Israel, North Korea, Pakistan, the United States and …
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