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Fresh Fear: North Korea's New Mobile Missile

The KN-08 no longer seems like such a fake

(Newser) - With a new generation of intermediate-range rocket being moved around the country on mobile missile launchers, North Korea is increasingly worrying American intelligence agencies, reports the New York Times . US officials don't expect the KN-08 missile to be ready for operational deployment in the immediate future, but the realization...

Kim Calls for Korean Unity in Rare Public Address

North Korea gets first New Year broadcast from leader since 1994

(Newser) - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un appears to share his father's fondness for rockets—but not his aversion to public speaking. Kim spoke to North Korea in a televised New Year's Day address, the first such broadcast in 19 years, the BBC reports. Kim Jong Il almost never...

Kim Jong Un Promoted to Army's Top Rank

Cements his role atop North Korea's power structure

(Newser) - Kim Jong Un removed any doubt that he's No. 1 in North Korea today, by ascending to the rank of marshal of the army—right after ousting Vice Marshal Ri Yong-ho , who had been the country's top military official and closely allied with Kim's father. Kim now...

Chief of N. Korea Military Removed Mysteriously

Officially gone because of illness, but analysts skeptical

(Newser) - The top general in the North Korean military has been removed from all of his posts, military and political, reports the BBC . Officially, Ri Yong Ho has left his positions because of illness, but North Korea-watchers are skeptical. "It's quite a rare case that the North promptly and...

North Korea: We Could Defeat US In 'Single Blow'

Top military official boasts of 'powerful modern weapons'

(Newser) - If bluster were power, North Korea would have taken over the world this week—and today it's boasting that it could pretty much do just that. One of the nation's top military officials today bragged that his nation "is armed with powerful modern weapons" that "can...

North Korea to Launch 3rd Test 'Soon'

'Preparations are almost complete,' source says

(Newser) - North Korea isn't done thumbing its nose at the world, and is now preparing to launch a third nuclear weapons test, a senior source tells Reuters . When asked if North Korea was planning another nuclear test, following its much-condemned 2006 and 2009 demonstrations, the official replied, "Soon. Preparations...

North Korea: 'Special Actions' Will Crush South's Leadership

North Korean army promises 'unprecedented peculiar means and methods'

(Newser) - North Korea's military says it will launch "special actions" soon meant to wipe out conservative South Korean President Lee Myung-bak's administration. The army statement carried by state media Monday said the actions will last 3 to 4 minutes and be carried out "by unprecedented peculiar means...

Kim Jong Il's Will: Keep Peace by Building Nukes

But purported document advises waiting for a new president in South Korea

(Newser) - Kim Jong Il's last wish was for peace with South Korea—or at least, it was according to a document that a pair of South Korean think tanks claim is the dear leader's will. In it, Kim writes that North Korea should renounce its war with South Korea,...

Kim Gives 1st Public Speech
 Kim Gives 1st Public Speech 
HAPPY B-DAY, KIM IL SUNG
Apr 15, 2012 9:43 AM CDT

Kim Gives 1st Public Speech

Great spectacle designed to show military might, support of new leader

(Newser) - That whole rocket launch may not have worked out so well, but such minor inconveniences didn't stop North Korea from putting on a display of pomp for the occasion of founder Kim Il Sung 100th birthday that belied the nation's enduring poverty. Kim Jong Un himself surprised the...

Rocket Failure? Kim Jong Un Still Promoted

And North Korea re-confirms 'military-first' policy

(Newser) - If at first you don't succeed, bomb, bomb again. In the wake of its failed rocket launch , North Korea is doubling down on its "military-first" policy, promoting 20-something Kim Jong Un to first secretary of the powerful National Defense Commission—that officially makes him the country's leader,...

No NK Rocket Launch Yet— but Will It Even Work?

North Korea's past launches all failed, experts believe

(Newser) - Thanks to bad weather, North Korea's anticipated rocket launch did not come to pass today, but Pyongyang still appears determined to go through with the launch—or, as the US and other allies see it, a long-range missile test—sometime before Monday, the AP reports. But the Los Angeles ...

North Korea Injecting Rocket Fuel 'as We Speak'

'We don't care about outside opinions,' says official, to no one's surprise

(Newser) - Ignoring international protests, North Korea says it is fueling its satellite rocket "as we speak" and could be ready to launch as early as tomorrow, reports Reuters . Once the fueling is complete, chemicals that cause corrosion need to be injected into the rocket, pushing the urgency of a launch....

Korea Neighbors Reroute Flights on Rocket Path

White House warns media not to get 'co-opted' by Pyongyang propaganda

(Newser) - North Korea's threatened rocket launch has rerouted about 20 flights around the Philippines and closed three air corridors from Thursday to Monday as the region braces, reports the AP . North Korea said it chose a southerly path for the launch so that debris would not affect its neighbors,...

Kim Jong Un to Korean Troops: Sink Enemies

North Korean leader is hell-bent on rocket test, warns against interference

(Newser) - Kim Jong Un has a message for anyone who would mess with North Korea's planned rocket test (ahem, America and South Korea): We will "send all the intruders into the bottom of the sea." Bluntly underscoring again that his father's flair for the dramatic did not...

North Korea Building Missile That Could Hit US

And they have 10K experts working on such rockets

(Newser) - North Korea is working on a rocket so big that it makes the long-range Taepodong-2 missile it's preparing to test-launch look modest, South Korean government sources tell the Chosun Ilbo . Based on satellite images, they've determined that the North is working on a missile with a booster so...

N. Korea to South: We&#39;ll Attack
 N. Korea to South: We'll Attack 
ON EVE OF WAR GAMES
Feb 26, 2012 8:36 AM CST

N. Korea to South: We'll Attack

Kim Jong Un vows retaliatory strike if US or South intrude '.001 millimeter'

(Newser) - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un threatened a powerful retaliatory strike against South Korea if provoked, state media said today, a day before the annual South Korean-US military drills that Pyongyang calls an invasion rehearsal. South Korean and US officials have said the 12-day, largely computer-simulated war games are defensive...

North Korea Well Positioned for War: Report

Pyongyang would have advantage in early days of conflict with South Korea

(Newser) - North Korea’s offensive-minded military strategy is in some ways superior to South Korea’s defensive-minded one, and would give it an edge in the early days of an all-out war, a Korean-based think tank concludes in a new report. With 1.2 million military personnel and a record number...

Does Shared Power Loom in N. Korea?

Intelligence experts debate whether new arrangement only transitional

(Newser) - After six-plus decades of the Kim family's ironclad dictatorship, North Korea's opaque leadership structure could be changing: Kim Jong Un is so young and untested that he will be forced to govern as part of a collective group, to include his uncle Jang Song-thaek and the military, reports...

North Korea Test-Fires Missile
 North Korea Test-Fires Missile 
Dec 19, 2011 6:34 AM CST

North Korea Test-Fires Missile

In event that probably has nothing to do with Kim Jong Il's death

(Newser) - North Korea raised some eyebrows this morning by test-firing a short-range missile into the sea off its east coast, South Korea’s Yonhap news agency reports. The test garnered extra attention because it came just hours after the death of Kim Jong Il , but South Korean officials tell the AP...

Koreas Hold First Talks Since Island Attack

Look to set stage for higher-level talks later

(Newser) - Colonels from North and South Korea held talks inside the heavily guarded Demilitarized Zone today in the rivals' first official dialogue since the North's deadly artillery barrage of a South Korean island in November. In the border village of Panmunjom, the two sides worked to set a date and logistics...

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