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South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol speaks during a ceremony to celebrate Korean Liberation Day from Japanese colonial rule in 1945, at the presidential office square in Seoul on August 15, 2022. Picture: AHN YOUNG-JOON / POOL / AFP.

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South Korea offering large-scale aid package for North's nukes

By AFP

The proposal comes days after the North threatened to "wipe out" Seoul authorities over a recent Covid-19 outbreak and less than a month after leader Kim Jong...

  • FILE: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. Picture: AFP

    N Korea declares 'victory' over COVID, says Kim had fever

    Kim's powerful sister, Kim Yo Jong, said the top leader himself had been ill during the outbreak, according to another KCNA report.

    4 days ago
  • This picture taken on 30 September 2021 and released from North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on 1 October shows a test-fire of a "newly developed" anti-aircraft missile carried out by the Academy of Defence Science of the DPRK. Picture: STR/KCNA VIA KNS/AFP

    S. Korea, US fire ballistic missiles in response to N. Korea tests

    The Joint Chiefs of Staff said the allies launched the ground-to-ground Army Tactical Missile System (ATACMS) missile at targets in the East Sea, also known as the Sea of Japan, in the early morning.

    70 days ago
  • People watch a television screen showing a news broadcast with file footage of a North Korean missile test, at a railway station in Seoul on 27 February 2022.

    North Korea poised to conduct nuclear test with Biden due in Seoul

    Touted as proof of the US "pivot" to Asia, Biden's first trip as president to the region looks set to be overshadowed by an increasingly belligerent North Korea bent on staging a new "provocation".

    88 days ago
  • FILE: A total of 56 deaths and nearly 1.5 million cases of "fever" have been reported in North Korea since the country announced its first Covid case a week ago, according to the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA). Picture: AFP

    UN warns that North Korea's COVID-19 response could have 'dire consequenses'

    Leader Kim Jong Un has ordered nationwide lockdowns to try and slow the spread of the disease through the country's unvaccinated population, and deployed the military after what he has called a botched response to the outbreak.

    90 days ago
  • FILE: North Korea has one of the world's worst healthcare systems, with poorly-equipped hospitals, few intensive care units, and no Covid treatment drugs or mass testing ability, experts say. Picture: STR/KCNA VIA KNS/AFP

    Kim Jong Un slams North Korea pandemic response, deploys army

    More than a million people have been sickened by what Pyongyang is referring to as "fever", state media said, despite leader Kim ordering nationwide lockdowns in a bid to slow the spread of disease through the unvaccinated population.

    91 days ago
  • Image copyright: actiongp/123rf.com

    North Korea reports first COVID cases, Kim orders national lockdown

    The nuclear-armed country had never admitted to a case of COVID-19 and the government had imposed a rigid coronavirus blockade of its borders since the start of the pandemic in 2020.

    95 days ago
  • Kim Jong-un, "Supreme Leader" of North Korea. (Image by Victoria_Borodinova from Pixabay)

    North Korea fires ballistic missile in latest show of force

    Pyongyang has conducted 14 weapons tests since January, including firing an intercontinental ballistic missile at full-range for the first time since 2017.

    103 days ago
  • FILE: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un vows to boost North Korea's nuclear arsenal. Picture: STR/KCNA VIA KNS/AFP

    At military parade, Kim vows to boost North Korea's nuclear arsenal

    Despite biting sanctions, North Korea has doubled down on Kim's military modernisation drive, test-firing a slew of banned weapons this year while ignoring US offers of talks - as analysts warn of a likely resumption of nuclear tests.

    111 days ago
  • This file photo taken on 2 March 2019 shows Kim Yo Jong, sister of North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un, attending a wreath-laying ceremony at the Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum during a visit to Hanoi. Picture: AFP.

    Kim's sister says North Korea nukes could 'eliminate' South

    Kim Yo Jong's warning, carried in state media, was her second angry retort in three days to comments made by South Korea's defence chief Suh Wook last week.

    132 days ago
  • North Korea faked the launch of what analysts have dubbed its "monster missile" last week, Seoul's military said on 30 March 2022, adding that the test was, in reality, likely the same intercontinental ballistic missile Pyongyang fired in 2017. Picture: AFP

    South says North Korea faked launch of so-called 'monster' missile

    North Korea last Friday claimed to have successfully test-fired a Hwasong-17 missile - a long-range ICBM that analysts say may be capable of carrying multiple warheads - which it first unveiled at a military parade in 2020.

    138 days ago
  • This picture taken on 17 June 2021 and released from North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on 18 June 2021 shows North Korean leader Kim Jong Un attending the third day sitting of the 3rd Plenary Meeting of the 8th Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea in Pyongyang. Picture: STR/KCNA VIA KNS/AFP

    US 'strongly condemns' North Korea missile launch

    Pyongyang has launched nearly a dozen weapon tests this year in an unprecedented spree in defiance of UN sanctions and the latest is the most powerful one since 2017.

    144 days ago
  • People watch a television screen showing a news broadcast with file footage of a North Korean missile test, at a railway station in Seoul on 27 February 2022.

    US says North Korea testing new ICBM system

    According to North Korea, the 26 February and 4 March tests were focused on developing a reconnaissance satellite, but the Pentagon said rigorous analysis concluded they were actually experimental precursors to a likely full-range ICBM launch.

    157 days ago
  • People watch a television screen showing a news broadcast with file footage of a North Korean missile test, at a railway station in Seoul on 27 February 2022.

    North Korea fires ballistic missile, restarting weapons tests blitz

    North Korea fired a ballistic missile, Seoul said, resuming a weapons-testing blitz following a month of relative calm during the Beijing Winter Olympics.

    169 days ago
  • US President Joe Biden talks to reporters during a news conference in the East Room of the White House on 19 January 2022 in Washington, DC. Picture: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images/AFP

    Biden battles accusations of 'weakness' against US rivals

    The Republican opposition, including its moderate fringe, have reproached Biden for ruling out preemptive sanctions against Moscow to discourage an attack on Ukraine.

    193 days ago
  • This picture taken on 11 January 2022 and released from North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on 12 January 2022 shows what North Korea says a hypersonic missile test-fire conducted by the Academy of Defence Science of the DPRK at an undisclosed location. Picture: STR / AFP / KCNA VIA KNS

    North Korea test-fires most powerful missile since 2017

    Pyongyang has never test-fired this many missiles in a calendar month before and last week threatened to abandon a nearly five-year-long self-imposed moratorium on testing long-range and nuclear weapons, blaming US 'hostile' policy for forcing its hand.

    197 days ago
  • This picture taken on 11 January 2022 and released from North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on 12 January 2022 shows what North Korea says a hypersonic missile test-fire conducted by the Academy of Defence Science of the DPRK at an undisclosed location. Picture: STR / AFP / KCNA VIA KNS

    North Korea's Kim urges more 'military muscle' after hypersonic missile test

    Hypersonic missiles are listed among the "top priority" tasks for strategic weapons development in North Korea's five-year plan.

    215 days ago
  • People walk past a television screen showing a news broadcast with file footage of a North Korean missile test, at a railway station in Seoul on 11 January 2022, after North Korea fired a "suspected ballistic missile" into the sea, South Korea's military said, less than a week after Pyongyang reported testing a hypersonic missile. Picture: Anthony WALLACE/AFP

    North Korea fires second suspected missile in less than a week

    The early-morning launch came as the UN Security Council met in New York to discuss last week's test of what Pyongyang called a hypersonic missile, although Seoul has cast doubt on that claim.

    216 days ago
  • FILE: A meeting of the UN Security Council at United Nations headquarters in New York on 26 February 2020. Picture: Johannes Eisele/AFP

    UN Security Council to meet Monday on North Korean missile launch

    The meeting was requested by the United States, France and the United Kingdom - three of the five permanent members on the Security Council - as well as Ireland and Albania, the sources said Thursday.

    220 days ago
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