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N Korea fires 3 ballistic missiles amid 1st virus outbreak

May 12, 2022 at 1:19 p.m.

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea fired three short-range ballistic missiles toward the sea on Thursday, its neighbors said, the latest in a series of weapons demonstrations this year...

North Korea says it test-fired biggest ICBM, U.S. adds sanctions

March 25, 2022 at 10:14 a.m.

North Korea said Friday it test-fired its biggest intercontinental ballistic missile under the orders of leader Kim Jong Un, who vowed to expand the North’s “nuclear war deterrent” while preparing...

North Korean missile tests signal return to brinkmanship

January 17, 2022 at 9:42 p.m.

Grappling with pandemic difficulties and U.S.-led sanctions over his nuclear ambitions, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un could be reviving his 2017 playbook of nuclear and missile brinkmanship to wrest...

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Facing $11B tax bill, Samsung heirs donate massive art trove

April 28, 2021 at 5:55 a.m.

Samsung’s founding family will donate tens of thousands of rare artworks, including Picassos and Dalis, to help them pay a massive inheritance tax bill following last year’s death of company...

Missing Seoul Mayor Park Won-soon’s body found after massive search

July 9, 2020 at 10:39 a.m.

The missing mayor of South Korea's capital, reportedly embroiled in sexual harassment allegations, was found dead early Friday, more than half a day after giving his daughter a will-like message...

Play ball: Korean baseball league begins in empty stadiums

May 5, 2020 at 10:15 a.m.

The new baseball season began in South Korea on Tuesday with the crack of the bat and the sound of the ball smacking into the catcher鈥檚 mitt echoing around empty...

Globe braces for long battle against virus as cases spread

February 26, 2020 at 8:43 a.m.

Crews scrubbed everything from money to buses, military bases were on high alert and quarantines were enforced Wednesday from a beachfront resort in the Atlantic to an uninhabited island in...

President Donald Trump, right, talks with Kim Yong Chol, former North Korean military intelligence chief and one of leader Kim Jong Un's closest aides, as they walk from their meeting in the Oval Office on June 1, 2018.

Top North Korean official reappears days after purge report

June 2, 2019 at 9:01 p.m.

A senior North Korean official who had been reported as purged over the failed nuclear summit with Washington was shown in state media on Monday enjoying a concert alongside leader...

North Korea says it test-fired new tactical guided weapon

April 17, 2019 at 10:17 p.m.

SEOUL, South Korea -- North Korea said Thursday that it had test-fired a new type of "tactical guided weapon," its first such test in nearly half a year, and a...

FILE – In this April 8, 2012, file photo, a soldier stands in front of the Unha-3 rocket at a launching site in Tongchang-ri, North Korea. North Korea is reportedly restoring facilities at its long-range rocket launch site that it had dismantled as part of disarmament steps last year. A major South Korean newspaper reports that the country’s spy service gave such an assessment to lawmakers in a private briefing on Tuesday. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder, File)

North Korea said to be rebuilding structures at rocket site

March 6, 2019 at 11:16 p.m.

North Korea is restoring facilities at a long-range rocket launch site that it dismantled last year as part of disarmament steps, according to foreign experts and a South Korean lawmaker...

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