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Guam heightens alert level after North Korea threats
Guam has raised its official threat level and on Thursday tested its emergency alert system after warnings from North Korea identifying the island as a potential missile target. With a North Korean missile test expected at any time, authorities said the US territory in the western Pacific was on yellow alert, the middle phase of [...]
Probe says North Korea behind cyber attack: Seoul
An official investigation into a major cyber attack on South Korean banks and broadcasters last month has determined North Korea’s military intelligence agency was responsible, officials said Wednesday. The probe into access records and the malicious codes used in the attack pointed to the North’s military Reconnaissance General Bureau as the source, the Korea Internet [...]
Iran unveils new uranium mines, production facility
Iran unveiled on Tuesday a new uranium production facility and two extraction mines, only days after talks with world powers on its disputed nuclear programme again ended in deadlock. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad hailed the advances and boasted of mastery over “the entire chain of nuclear energy,” while demanding that the work be accelerated. The announcements [...]
North Korea preparing for fourth nuclear test: South
North Korea appears to be preparing a fourth nuclear test as well as a provocative missile launch, South Korea said Monday, despite an unusually blunt call from China for restraint. Unification Minister Ryoo Kihl-Jae told lawmakers there were “signs” that another test was in the pipeline, with intelligence reports showing heightened activity at the North’s [...]
North v South: military strengths on the Korean peninsula
North Korea’s army says it has approved plans for nuclear attacks on US targets, the latest in a series of apocalyptic threats that have sent tensions soaring on the divided Korean peninsula. Many analysts say the North’s rhetoric is for internal consumption, intended to bolster the authority of young leader Kim Jong-Un over the powerful [...]
North Korea highlights British need for nuclear deterrent: PM
Prime Minister David Cameron on Thursday warned that Britain would be left defenceless against the “highly unpredictable and aggressive” North Korean regime if it wound down its Trident nuclear deterrent programme. Writing in the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Cameron said the recent actions of North Korea coupled with concerns over Iran’s nuclear programme meant it would [...]
North Korea moves missile after warning of nuclear strike
North Korea has moved a medium-range missile to its east coast, South Korea said Thursday as the United States strengthened its Pacific missile defences amid intensifying threats from Pyongyang. Seoul’s defence minister Kim Kwan-Jin said the missile could reach a “considerable distance” but not the US mainland. “It could be aimed at test-firing or military [...]
North Korea approves nuclear strike on United States
North Korea dramatically escalated its warlike rhetoric on Thursday, warning that it had authorised plans for nuclear strikes on targets in the United States. “The moment of explosion is approaching fast,” the North Korean military said, warning that war could break out “today or tomorrow”. Pyongyang’s latest pronouncement came as Washington scrambled to reinforce its [...]
Norway sees rise in Russian military jet activity
Norway said Wednesday it had observed an increasing number of Russian military jets near its airspace last year, amid President Vladimir Putin’s massive rearmament plan. The Scandinavian country scrambled fighter jets on 41 occasions to inspect Russian military aircraft flying past its airspace although the planes always stayed in international territory, the Norwegian air force [...]
