US soldier arrested in North Korea after crossing border from South<\/a> <\/li><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2023//05//31//north-korean-spy-satellite-crashes-into-the-sea-after-failed-launch/">North Korean spy satellite crashes into the sea after failed launch <\/a> <\/li><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2023//07//12//north-korea-fires-icbm-in-protest-over-alleged-us-spy-plane-presence/">North Korea fires ICBM in protest over alleged US spy plane presence<\/a> <\/li><\/ul>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re closely monitoring and investigating the situation,\u201d US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin told a Pentagon news conference, noting he was foremost concerned about the troop\u2019s well-being. \u201cThis will develop in the next several days and hours, and we\u2019ll keep you posted.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It wasn\u2019t known whether and how the US and North Korea, which have no diplomatic relations, would hold talks. In the past, Sweden, which has an embassy in Pyongyang, provided consular services for other Americans detained in North Korea. But its embassy\u2019s Swedish diplomatic staff reportedly haven't returned to North Korea since the country imposed a COVID-19 lockdown in early 2020 and ordered out all foreigners.<\/p>\n<p>Some observers say North Korea and the US could still communicate via Panmunjom or the North Korean mission at the UN in New York.<\/p>\n<p>Cases of Americans or South Koreans defecting to North Korea are rare, though more than 30,000 North Koreans have fled to South Korea to avoid political oppression and economic difficulties since the end of the 1950-53 Korean War.<\/p>\n<p>Tae Yongho, a former minister at the North Korean Embassy in London, said North Korea is likely pleased to have \u201can opportunity to get the US to lose its face\u201d because King's crossing happened on the same day a US submarine arrived in South Korea. Tae, now a South Korean lawmaker, said North Korea won't likely return King because he is a soldier from a nation technically at war with North Korea who voluntarily surrendered to the North.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6669921875\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//76//17//18//808x539_cmsv2_323fa903-bcbc-508d-a005-0f5974a3609f-7761718.jpg/" alt=\"Ahn Young-joon/Copyright 2023 The AP. All rights reserved.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/76\/17\/18\/384x256_cmsv2_323fa903-bcbc-508d-a005-0f5974a3609f-7761718.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/76\/17\/18\/640x427_cmsv2_323fa903-bcbc-508d-a005-0f5974a3609f-7761718.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/76\/17\/18\/750x500_cmsv2_323fa903-bcbc-508d-a005-0f5974a3609f-7761718.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/76\/17\/18\/828x552_cmsv2_323fa903-bcbc-508d-a005-0f5974a3609f-7761718.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/76\/17\/18\/1080x720_cmsv2_323fa903-bcbc-508d-a005-0f5974a3609f-7761718.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/76\/17\/18\/1200x800_cmsv2_323fa903-bcbc-508d-a005-0f5974a3609f-7761718.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/76\/17\/18\/1920x1281_cmsv2_323fa903-bcbc-508d-a005-0f5974a3609f-7761718.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Barricades are placed near the Unification Bridge, which leads to the Panmunjom in the Demilitarized Zone in Paju, South Korea, Wednesday, July 19, 2023.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Ahn Young-joon/Copyright 2023 The AP. All rights reserved.<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Panmunjom, located inside the 248-kilometres-long Demilitarized Zone, has been jointly overseen by the UN Command and North Korea since its creation at the close of the Korean War. The bloodshed has occasionally occurred there but has also been a venue for diplomacy and tourism.<\/p>\n<p>Known for its blue huts straddling concrete slabs that form the demarcation line, Panmunjom draws visitors from both sides who want to see the Cold War\u2019s last frontier. No civilians live at Panmunjom. North and South Korean soldiers face off while tourists on both sides snap photographs.<\/p>\n<p>Tours to the southern side of the village reportedly drew around 100,000 visitors a year before the coronavirus pandemic, when South Korea restricted gatherings to slow the spread of COVID-19. The tours resumed fully last year.<\/p>\n<p>A small number of US soldiers went to North Korea during the Cold War, including Charles Jenkins, who deserted his army post in South Korea in 1965 and fled across the DMZ. He appeared in North Korean propaganda films and married a Japanese nursing student who had been abducted from Japan by North Korean agents. He died in Japan in 2017.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6669921875\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//76//17//18//808x539_cmsv2_0d8ec66c-283c-59fc-9ce1-5c3b422e39e1-7761718.jpg/" alt=\"Manuel Balce Ceneta/Copyright 2023 The AP. All rights reserved.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/76\/17\/18\/384x256_cmsv2_0d8ec66c-283c-59fc-9ce1-5c3b422e39e1-7761718.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/76\/17\/18\/640x427_cmsv2_0d8ec66c-283c-59fc-9ce1-5c3b422e39e1-7761718.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/76\/17\/18\/750x500_cmsv2_0d8ec66c-283c-59fc-9ce1-5c3b422e39e1-7761718.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/76\/17\/18\/828x552_cmsv2_0d8ec66c-283c-59fc-9ce1-5c3b422e39e1-7761718.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/76\/17\/18\/1080x720_cmsv2_0d8ec66c-283c-59fc-9ce1-5c3b422e39e1-7761718.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/76\/17\/18\/1200x800_cmsv2_0d8ec66c-283c-59fc-9ce1-5c3b422e39e1-7761718.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/76\/17\/18\/1920x1281_cmsv2_0d8ec66c-283c-59fc-9ce1-5c3b422e39e1-7761718.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin speaks during a news conference with Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley at the Pentagon in Washington, Tuesday, July 18,<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Manuel Balce Ceneta/Copyright 2023 The AP. All rights reserved.<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>In recent years, some American civilians have been arrested in North Korea for alleged espionage, subversion and other anti-state acts, but were released after the US sent high-profile missions to secure their freedom.<\/p>\n<p>In May 2018, North Korea released three American detainees who returned to the United States on a plane with then-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo during a short period of warm relations. Later in 2018, North Korea said it expelled American Bruce Byron Lowrance. Since his ouster, there have been no reports of other Americans detained in North Korea before Tuesday\u2019s incident.<\/p>\n<p>Their freedoms were a striking contrast to the fate of Otto Warmbier, an American university student who died in 2017 days after he was released by North Korea in a coma after 17 months in captivity.<\/p>\n<p>The United States, South Korea and others have accused North Korea of using foreign detainees to wrest diplomatic concessions. Some foreigners have said after their release that their declarations of guilt were coerced while in North Korean custody.<\/p>\n<p>Sean Timmons, a managing partner at the Tully Rinckey law firm, which specializes in military legal cases, said if King is trying to present himself as a legitimate defector fleeing either political oppression or persecution, he would be dependent on North Korea\u2019s leadership to decide if he can stay.<\/p>\n<p>He said it will likely be up to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to decide King\u2019s fate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s going to be up to the whims of their leadership, what they want to do,\u201d Timmons said.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1689706587,"publishedAt":1689743188,"updatedAt":1689756846,"expiresAt":0,"canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2023\/07\/19\/north-korea-silent-about-its-apparent-detention-of-the-us-soldier-who-bolted-across-the-bo","images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/76\/17\/32\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_1d70768e-c8ca-5df5-b066-a20854e7f9a1-7761732.jpg","altText":"A North Korean military guard post, rear, and South Korea post, bottom, are seen in Paju near the border with North Korea, South Korea, Tuesday, July 18, 2023. 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","summary":"A North Korean spy satellite crashed into the sea after its unsuccessful launch, causing alerts to be issued in neighbouring Japan and South Korea. ","url":"north-korean-spy-satellite-crashes-into-the-sea-after-failed-launch","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"North Korea announced on Wednesday that it had failed to launch its first \"military reconnaissance satellite\", which it says plunged into the sea near South Korea. \n\n\"The new Cheollima-1 satellite transport rocket crashed into the West Sea,\" North Korea's state news agency KCNA said, adding that the failure was caused by \"a loss of thrust due to an abnormal start-up of the second-stage engine after the first stage separated during normal flight.\" \n\nNorth Korea's Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un has made the development of satellites a military priority, a programme that Washington says is in breach of UN sanctions. \n\nAn evacuation order sent by mistake to the residents of Seoul following the launch caused panic in the South Korean capital.\u00a0 \n\nThe alert, which urged residents to prepare for an evacuation by putting \"children and the elderly first\", was later cancelled with the Interior Ministry saying there was an error. \n\nA missile alert was also issued by the Japanese Department of Okinawa, calling on residents to take shelter. The alert was then lifted\u00a0by the government 30 minutes later. \n\nThe South Korean military said it was salvaging an object presumed to be part of the crashed North Korean rocket in waters 200 kilometres west of the southwestern island of Eocheongdo.\u00a0 \n\nThe country's Defence Ministry later released photos of a white, metal cylinder it described as a suspected rocket part. \n\nThe satellite is a violation of UN Security Council resolutions that ban the country from conducting any launch based on ballistic technology.\u00a0 \n\n","htmlText":"<p>North Korea announced on Wednesday that it had failed to launch its first \"military reconnaissance satellite\", which it says plunged into the sea near South Korea.<\/p>\n<p>\"The new Cheollima-1 satellite transport rocket crashed into the West Sea,\" North Korea's state news agency KCNA said, adding that the failure was caused by \"a loss of thrust due to an abnormal start-up of the second-stage engine after the first stage separated during normal flight.\"<\/p>\n<p>North Korea's Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un has made the development of satellites a military priority, a programme that Washington says is in breach of UN sanctions.<\/p>\n<p>An evacuation order sent by mistake to the residents of Seoul following the launch caused panic in the South Korean capital.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.5625\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//64//23//48//808x454_cmsv2_eea7ef57-dab3-5b81-b02b-8bb25ef0bc5a-7642348.jpg/" alt=\"AP Photo\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/64\/23\/48\/384x216_cmsv2_eea7ef57-dab3-5b81-b02b-8bb25ef0bc5a-7642348.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/64\/23\/48\/640x360_cmsv2_eea7ef57-dab3-5b81-b02b-8bb25ef0bc5a-7642348.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/64\/23\/48\/750x422_cmsv2_eea7ef57-dab3-5b81-b02b-8bb25ef0bc5a-7642348.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/64\/23\/48\/828x466_cmsv2_eea7ef57-dab3-5b81-b02b-8bb25ef0bc5a-7642348.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/64\/23\/48\/1080x608_cmsv2_eea7ef57-dab3-5b81-b02b-8bb25ef0bc5a-7642348.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/64\/23\/48\/1200x675_cmsv2_eea7ef57-dab3-5b81-b02b-8bb25ef0bc5a-7642348.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/64\/23\/48\/1920x1080_cmsv2_eea7ef57-dab3-5b81-b02b-8bb25ef0bc5a-7642348.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">A woman looks at her mobile phone with an emergency evacuation warning text message sent to Seoul residents.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">AP Photo<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The alert, which urged residents to prepare for an evacuation by putting \"children and the elderly first\", was later cancelled with the Interior Ministry saying there was an error.<\/p>\n<p>A missile alert was also issued by the Japanese Department of Okinawa, calling on residents to take shelter. The alert was then lifted\u00a0by the government 30 minutes later.<\/p>\n<p>The South Korean military said it was salvaging an object presumed to be part of the crashed North Korean rocket in waters 200 kilometres west of the southwestern island of Eocheongdo.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The country's Defence Ministry later released photos of a white, metal cylinder it described as a suspected rocket part.<\/p>\n<p>The satellite is a violation of UN Security Council resolutions that ban the country from conducting any launch based on ballistic technology.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1685513857,"publishedAt":1685526393,"updatedAt":1685549344,"expiresAt":0,"canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2023\/05\/31\/north-korean-spy-satellite-crashes-into-the-sea-after-failed-launch","images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/64\/23\/48\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_e083810c-0648-52b8-9bd0-9331643bb4a2-7642348.jpg","altText":"A public TV screen broadcasts news of North Korea's 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to test 'solid-fuel' intercontinental ballistic missile","leadin":"The Korean Central News Agency says the launch of the Hwasong-18 missile, supervised by leader Kim Jong Un, is the most powerful weapon in his nuclear stock that would enhance counterattack abilities in the face of external 'threats'","summary":"The Korean Central News Agency says the launch of the Hwasong-18 missile, supervised by leader Kim Jong Un, is the most powerful weapon in his nuclear stock that would enhance counterattack abilities in the face of external 'threats'","keySentence":null,"url":"north-korea-claims-to-test-solid-fuel-intercontinental-ballistic-missile","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Pyongyang said it has successfully tested a solid-fuel intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), which state media hailed as a key breakthrough for the country's nuclear counterattack capabilities on Friday. \n\nNorth Korea said its latest weapons test was of a 'solid-fuel' intercontinental ballistic missile, with leader Kim Jong Un saying it marked a major step in Pyongyang's capacity to conduct a nuclear counterstrike, state media said Friday. \n\nThe new \"Hwasung-18 ICBM\u2019 was test fired on Thursday as the key means of strategic military force,\" the Korean Central News Agency reported. \n\nKim said the ICBM's development \"will greatly reorganise our strategic deterrence and reinforce the effectiveness of our nuclear counterattack,\" according to KCNA. \n\nSeoul's military said Thursday it had detected one \"medium range or longer\" ballistic missile launched on a lofted trajectory -- up not out -- from the Pyongyang area at 7:23 am which flew 1,000 kilometres. \n\nAll of Pyongyang's known intercontinental ballistic missiles are liquid-fuelled and solid-fuel ICBMs that can be launched from land or submarines and have long been at the top of Kim's wish list. \n\nSuch missiles are easier to store and transport, more stable and quicker to prepare for launch, and thus harder to detect and 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Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The new \"Hwasung-18 ICBM\u2019 was test fired on Thursday as the key means of strategic military force,\" the Korean Central News Agency reported.<\/p>\n<p>Kim said the ICBM's development \"will greatly reorganise our strategic deterrence and reinforce the effectiveness of our nuclear counterattack,\" according to KCNA.<\/p>\n<p>Seoul's military said Thursday it had detected one \"medium range or longer\" ballistic missile launched on a lofted trajectory -- up not out -- from the Pyongyang area at 7:23 am which flew 1,000 kilometres.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6669921875\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" 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detect and destroy pre-emptively.<\/p>\n<p>At a military parade in Pyongyang in February, North Korea showed off a record number of nuclear and intercontinental ballistic missiles, including what analysts said was possibly a new solid-fuel ICBM.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement comes days before North Korea is set to mark one of its most important political anniversaries, the Day of the Sun on April 15.<\/p>\n<p>The date commemorates founding leader Kim Il Sung's birthday and has typically been celebrated with significant weapons tests or military parades.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1681440948,"publishedAt":1681461792,"updatedAt":1681461795,"expiresAt":0,"canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2023\/04\/14\/north-korea-claims-to-test-solid-fuel-intercontinental-ballistic-missile","programDeliverable":{"slug":"sujet","format":"default"},"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/53\/32\/18\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_0a16cd24-65d1-5a2e-8ec9-4dc930c48893-7533218.jpg","altText":"This photo provided by the North Korean government, shows leader Kim Jong Un, inspecting what it says is the test-launch of Hwasong-18 intercontinental ballistic missile.","caption":"This photo provided by the North Korean government, shows leader Kim Jong Un, inspecting what it says is the test-launch of Hwasong-18 intercontinental ballistic missile.","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"\u671d\u9bae\u901a\u4fe1\u793e\/KCNA via 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government ordered the citizens of Hokkaido island to take shelter.","keySentence":null,"url":"japan-outraged-by-north-korea-missile-launch","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Japan's government urged Hokkaido residents to take shelter Thursday morning after a North Korean missile launch, but local officials later said the missile would not land near the northern region. \n\n\"Evacuate immediately. Evacuate immediately,\" the government said in an initial warning, telling residents of Hokkaido to take shelter in a building or underground. \n\nThe warning said the missile was expected to land around 8:00 am local time (2300 GMT). \n\nBut not long after, Asahikawa City in Hokkaido tweeted that there was no longer any concern of danger. \n\n\"After we confirmed the information, there is no possibility that the missile will fall on Hokkaido or areas around the region,\" the account said, citing the national government's emergency network. \n\nThe missile landed\u00a0in waters off the east coast of the Korean Peninsula. \n\nJapan\u2019s Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno told reporters\u00a0the firing action was an \"outrage that escalates the provocation to the entire international community.\" \n\nOne expert said the event was comparable to Russia launching a missile over Florida. \n\nLast October, North Korea launched, without warning, a missile over Japan for the first time in five years. \n\nIn November, Kim Jong-un broke world records by firings as many as 22 rockets in one day. \n\nAn unnecessary scare \n\nMany residents were critical of the decision to send the alert. \n\n\u201cWhat is the use of the J-Alert, which warns of a missile falling when you do not know where it will fall?\u201d asked one Twitter user. \u201cIn the end, it serves no purpose other than to instil in the Japanese people the feeling that Japan is being targeted, and to scare them.\u201d \n\nAnother Twitter user said that even had the alert been warranted there would have been too little time to find shelter.","htmlText":"<p>Japan's government urged Hokkaido residents to take shelter Thursday morning after a North Korean missile launch, but local officials later said the missile would not land near the northern region.<\/p>\n<p>\"Evacuate immediately. Evacuate immediately,\" the government said in an initial warning, telling residents of Hokkaido to take shelter in a building or underground.<\/p>\n<p>The warning said the missile was expected to land around 8:00 am local time (2300 GMT).<\/p>\n<p>But not long after, Asahikawa City in Hokkaido tweeted that there was no longer any concern of danger.<\/p>\n<p>\"After we confirmed the information, there is no possibility that the missile will fall on Hokkaido or areas around the region,\" the account said, citing the national government's emergency network.<\/p>\n<p>The missile landed\u00a0in waters off the east coast of the Korean Peninsula.<\/p>\n<p>Japan\u2019s Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno told reporters\u00a0the firing action was an \"outrage that escalates the provocation to the entire international community.\"<\/p>\n<p>One expert said the event was comparable to Russia launching a missile over Florida.<\/p>\n<p>Last October, North Korea launched, without warning, a missile over Japan for the first time in five years.<\/p>\n<p>In November, Kim Jong-un broke world records by firings as many as 22 rockets in one day.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>An unnecessary scare<\/strong><\/h2><p>Many residents were critical of the decision to send the alert.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat is the use of the J-Alert, which warns of a missile falling when you do not know where it will fall?\u201d asked one Twitter user. \u201cIn the end, it serves no purpose other than to instil in the Japanese people the feeling that Japan is being targeted, and to scare them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another Twitter user said that even had the alert been warranted there would have been too little time to find shelter.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1681364967,"publishedAt":1681377277,"updatedAt":1681377281,"expiresAt":0,"canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2023\/04\/13\/japan-outraged-by-north-korea-missile-launch","programDeliverable":{"slug":"sujet","format":"default"},"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/53\/02\/14\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_c2aad8d6-4145-539c-baa8-ca109ccf5636-7530214.jpg","altText":"A man watched a missile launch on the television.","caption":"A man watched a missile launch on the television.","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Lee Jin-man\/Copyright 2023 The AP. 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the sea.","summary":"North Korean leader Kim Jong Un supervised a drill simulating an attack on South, a day after Seoul detected the North firing at least one short-range ballistic missile toward the sea.","keySentence":null,"url":"kim-jong-un-supervises-north-korean-troops-simulating-attack-on-south","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"North Korean leader Kim Jong Un supervised a live-fire artillery drill simulating an attack on a South Korean airfield and called for his troops to be ready to respond to the enemies\u2019 \u201cfrantic war preparation moves\u201d \u2014 apparently referring to the recent series of military drills between the United States and South Korea. \n\nThe North Korean state media report Friday came a day after South Korea\u2019s military detected the North firing at least one short-range ballistic missile toward the sea from a site near the western coastal city of Nampo. The South\u2019s Joint Chiefs of Staff was assessing whether more missiles may have been launched simultaneously. \n\nThe United States has recently sent long-range B-1B and B-52 bombers for several rounds of joint aerial drills with South Korean warplanes. The allies are also preparing this month for their biggest combined field training exercise in years to counter the growing threat of Kim\u2019s growing nuclear arsenal. North Korea views regular US-South Korean military exercises as invasion rehearsals. \n\nPyongyang\u2019s official Korean Central News Agency said Kim urged his troops to be prepared to \u201coverwhelmingly respond to and contain\u201d the military action of the North\u2019s enemies, which he said were proceeding with \u201call sorts of more frantic war preparation moves.\u201d \n\nHe said frontline units should sharpen their capabilities to carry out their two main \u201cstrategic missions, that is, first to deter war and second to take the initiative in the war.\u201d \n\nSouth Korea\u2019s Unification Ministry later Friday urged North Korea to stop raising tensions with \u201creckless nuclear and missile programs and military provocations.\u201d Vice spokesperson Lee Hyo-jung told reporters that North Korea must focus instead on caring for people's livelihoods and take a path toward building peace on the Korean Peninsula. \n\nThe KCNA report did not specify what types of weapons were involved in Thursday\u2019s exercise or how many rockets were fired. Some of the North\u2019s newer short-range weapons targeting South Korea include large-sized multiple rocket launchers that experts say blur the boundaries between artillery and ballistic missile systems. \n\nNorth Korea describes some of its more advanced short-range systems as tactical weapons, which implies an intent to arm them with lower-yield battlefield nuclear weapons. \n\nKim\u2019s comments were in line with an escalatory nuclear doctrine the North set into law last year, which authorises preemptive nuclear strikes in situations where it may perceive its leadership as under threat, including conventional clashes. \n\nKim\u2019s campaign is aimed at forcing the United States into accepting the North as a nuclear power and negotiating badly needed economic concessions from a position of strength, analysts say. Diplomacy between the US and North Korea has stalled since 2019.","htmlText":"<p>North Korean leader Kim Jong Un supervised a live-fire artillery drill simulating an attack on a South Korean airfield and called for his troops to be ready to respond to the enemies\u2019 \u201cfrantic war preparation moves\u201d \u2014 apparently referring to the recent series of military drills between the United States and South Korea.<\/p>\n<p>The North Korean state media report Friday came a day after South Korea\u2019s military detected the North firing at least one short-range ballistic missile toward the sea from a site near the western coastal city of Nampo. The South\u2019s Joint Chiefs of Staff was assessing whether more missiles may have been launched simultaneously.<\/p>\n<p>The United States has recently sent long-range B-1B and B-52 bombers for several rounds of joint aerial drills with South Korean warplanes. The allies are also preparing this month for their biggest combined field training exercise in years to counter the growing threat of Kim\u2019s growing nuclear arsenal. North Korea views regular US-South Korean military exercises as invasion rehearsals.<\/p>\n<div\n data-stories-id=\"7414330\"\n data-event=\"widget_related\"\n class=\"widget widget--type-related widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <ul class=\"widget__related_list\"><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2023//02//20//tension-mounts-on-north-korean-peninsula-as-pyongyang-fires-second-ballistic-missile/">Tension mounts on North Korean peninsula as Pyongyang fires second ballistic missile<\/a> <\/li><\/ul>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Pyongyang\u2019s official Korean Central News Agency said Kim urged his troops to be prepared to \u201coverwhelmingly respond to and contain\u201d the military action of the North\u2019s enemies, which he said were proceeding with \u201call sorts of more frantic war preparation moves.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said frontline units should sharpen their capabilities to carry out their two main \u201cstrategic missions, that is, first to deter war and second to take the initiative in the war.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>South Korea\u2019s Unification Ministry later Friday urged North Korea to stop raising tensions with \u201creckless nuclear and missile programs and military provocations.\u201d Vice spokesperson Lee Hyo-jung told reporters that North Korea must focus instead on caring for people's livelihoods and take a path toward building peace on the Korean Peninsula.<\/p>\n<p>The KCNA report did not specify what types of weapons were involved in Thursday\u2019s exercise or how many rockets were fired. Some of the North\u2019s newer short-range weapons targeting South Korea include large-sized multiple rocket launchers that experts say blur the boundaries between artillery and ballistic missile systems.<\/p>\n<div\n data-stories-id=\"7412258\"\n data-event=\"widget_related\"\n class=\"widget widget--type-related widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <ul class=\"widget__related_list\"><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2023//02//19//north-korea-carries-out-first-missile-test-of-the-year-landing-in-japanese-waters/">North Korea carries out first missile test of the year landing in Japanese waters<\/a> <\/li><\/ul>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>North Korea describes some of its more advanced short-range systems as tactical weapons, which implies an intent to arm them with lower-yield battlefield nuclear weapons.<\/p>\n<p>Kim\u2019s comments were in line with an escalatory nuclear doctrine the North set into law last year, which authorises preemptive nuclear strikes in situations where it may perceive its leadership as under threat, including conventional clashes.<\/p>\n<p>Kim\u2019s campaign is aimed at forcing the United States into accepting the North as a nuclear power and negotiating badly needed economic concessions from a position of strength, analysts say. Diplomacy between the US and North Korea has stalled since 2019.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1678427279,"publishedAt":1678444452,"updatedAt":1678444455,"expiresAt":0,"canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2023\/03\/10\/kim-jong-un-supervises-north-korean-troops-simulating-attack-on-south","programDeliverable":{"slug":"sujet","format":"default"},"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/45\/53\/90\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_a935e2aa-5d7f-5579-aab6-71eeb3b9b620-7455390.jpg","altText":" An intercontinental ballistic missile Hwasong-15 launched at the international airport of Pyongyang in North Korea in 2023.","caption":" An intercontinental ballistic missile Hwasong-15 launched at the international airport of Pyongyang in North Korea in 2023.","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"AP 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operations being carried out by South Korea and the United States.","summary":"It is the second launch carried out by the North Korean regime since Saturday and according to Pyongyang, it is in retaliation to the joint military operations being carried out by South Korea and the United States.","keySentence":null,"url":"tension-mounts-on-north-korean-peninsula-as-pyongyang-fires-second-ballistic-missile","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"North Korea fired two short-range ballistic missiles on Monday, Pyongyang's second launch in 48 hours as Kim Jong Un's powerful sister warned of turning the Pacific into a \"firing range\", Seoul says. \n\nSouth Korea's military said they had detected the launch of \"two short-range ballistic missiles fired from Sukchon areas in South Pyongan province between 07:00-07:11 local time.\" \n\nTokyo also confirmed the launch, with the Prime Minister's Office warning that Pyongyang had launched \"a suspected ballistic missile\" and the coastguard issued alerts over multiple projectiles. \n\nNorth Korea issued a statement saying it had \"fired two shots using 600mm multiple rocket launchers\", into the East Sea, also known as the Sea of Japan. \n\nThe launch comes less than 48 hours after Pyongyang conducted what it called a \"surprise\" drill to fire an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) Saturday, which it said demonstrated North Korea's capacity to carry out a \"fatal nuclear counterattack\". \n\nJapan said Saturday's ICBM had flown for 66 minutes and landed in its exclusive economic zone (EEZ). In response, Seoul and Washington staged joint air drills on Sunday, featuring a strategic bomber and stealth fighter jets. \n\nIn a statement issued early Monday, North Korean leader Kim's sister Kim Yo Jong warned that Pyongyang would continue to take \"corresponding counteraction\" to any perceived threats. \n\n\"The frequency of using the Pacific as our firing range depends upon the US forces' action character,\" she said in a statement carried by the official KCNA, which also strongly criticised outside assessments of Saturday's ICBM launch. \n\nRelations between the two Koreas are at one of their lowest points in years, after North Korea declared itself an \"irreversible\" nuclear state and leader Kim called for an \"exponential\" increase in weapons production, including tactical nuclear weapons.","htmlText":"<p>North Korea fired two short-range ballistic missiles on Monday, Pyongyang's second launch in 48 hours as Kim Jong Un's powerful sister warned of turning the Pacific into a \"firing range\", Seoul says.<\/p>\n<p>South Korea's military said they had detected the launch of \"two short-range ballistic missiles fired from Sukchon areas in South Pyongan province between 07:00-07:11 local time.\"<\/p>\n<p>Tokyo also confirmed the launch, with the Prime Minister's Office warning that Pyongyang had launched \"a suspected ballistic missile\" and the coastguard issued alerts over multiple projectiles.<\/p>\n<div\n data-stories-id=\"7412258\"\n data-event=\"widget_related\"\n class=\"widget widget--type-related widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <ul class=\"widget__related_list\"><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2023//02//19//north-korea-carries-out-first-missile-test-of-the-year-landing-in-japanese-waters/">North Korea carries out first missile test of the year landing in Japanese waters<\/a> <\/li><\/ul>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>North Korea issued a statement saying it had \"fired two shots using 600mm multiple rocket launchers\", into the East Sea, also known as the Sea of Japan.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6668333333333333\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//41//43//30//808x539_cmsv2_82aa9d24-212a-57e5-9ed0-ecbccdabc3d3-7414330.jpg/" alt=\"Ahn Young-joon/Copyright 2023 The AP. All rights reserved.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/41\/43\/30\/384x256_cmsv2_82aa9d24-212a-57e5-9ed0-ecbccdabc3d3-7414330.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/41\/43\/30\/640x427_cmsv2_82aa9d24-212a-57e5-9ed0-ecbccdabc3d3-7414330.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/41\/43\/30\/750x500_cmsv2_82aa9d24-212a-57e5-9ed0-ecbccdabc3d3-7414330.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/41\/43\/30\/828x552_cmsv2_82aa9d24-212a-57e5-9ed0-ecbccdabc3d3-7414330.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/41\/43\/30\/1080x720_cmsv2_82aa9d24-212a-57e5-9ed0-ecbccdabc3d3-7414330.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/41\/43\/30\/1200x800_cmsv2_82aa9d24-212a-57e5-9ed0-ecbccdabc3d3-7414330.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/41\/43\/30\/1920x1280_cmsv2_82aa9d24-212a-57e5-9ed0-ecbccdabc3d3-7414330.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">A TV screen shows a file image of Kim Yo Jong, the sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, during a news program at the Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea, 20 Feb<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Ahn Young-joon/Copyright 2023 The AP. All rights reserved.<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The launch comes less than 48 hours after Pyongyang conducted what it called a \"surprise\" drill to fire an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) Saturday, which it said demonstrated North Korea's capacity to carry out a \"fatal nuclear counterattack\".<\/p>\n<p>Japan said Saturday's ICBM had flown for 66 minutes and landed in its exclusive economic zone (EEZ). In response, Seoul and Washington staged joint air drills on Sunday, featuring a strategic bomber and stealth fighter jets.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement issued early Monday, North Korean leader Kim's sister Kim Yo Jong warned that Pyongyang would continue to take \"corresponding counteraction\" to any perceived threats.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.558\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//41//43//30//808x451_cmsv2_d92926fb-af0f-5a7a-8b3b-54303adeb1c2-7414330.jpg/" alt=\"KRT via AP\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/41\/43\/30\/384x214_cmsv2_d92926fb-af0f-5a7a-8b3b-54303adeb1c2-7414330.jpg 384w, 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On Tuesday, Kim Jong Un brought his daughter to visit troops as he lauded the \u201cirresistible might\u201d of his nuclear-armed military. \n\nState media have signaled a lofty role for Kim Ju Ae. She's been called \u201crespected\u201d and \u201cbeloved,\u201d and a photo released Wednesday showed her sitting in the seat of honor at a banquet, flanked by generals and her parents. \n\nOther North Korean photos released on Thursday showed Kim, wearing a black coat and fedora, attending the parade with his wife and daughter. Kim smiled and raised his hand from a balcony as thousands of troops lined up in a brightly illuminated Kim Il Sung Square, which is named after his grandfather, the nation\u2019s founder. \n\n\nNorth Korea\u2019s official Korean Central News Agency said all of the soldiers and spectators at the square raised \u201cstormy cheers of \u2018hurrah!\u2019\u201d and chanted the name of their ruler, a \u201cgreat brilliant commander\u201d who is \u201cbeefing up the military muscle with his outstanding military strategic ideas.\u201d \n\n\nThe parade marked the 75th founding anniversary of North Korea\u2019s army and came after weeks of preparations involving huge numbers of troops and civilians mobilized to glorify Kim\u2019s rule and his relentless push to cement the North\u2019s status as a nuclear power. \n\nState media photos showed transport and launcher trucks carrying about 10 of the country\u2019s Hwasong-17 ICBMs, which demonstrated a range that would allow them to reach deep into the US mainland during a flight test in November.\u00a0 \n\nThose missiles were followed by another large missile encased in a canister and transported on a 9-axle vehicle. \n\nIt wasn\u2019t immediately clear whether the missile was a mockup or an actual rocket, but Kim Dong-yub, a professor at Seoul\u2019s University of North Korean Studies, said the missile was likely a version of a solid-fuel ICBM the North has been trying to develop for years. 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On Tuesday, Kim Jong Un brought his daughter to visit troops as he lauded the \u201cirresistible might\u201d of his nuclear-armed military.<\/p>\n<p>State media have signaled a lofty role for Kim Ju Ae. She's been called \u201crespected\u201d and \u201cbeloved,\u201d and a photo released Wednesday showed her sitting in the seat of honor at a banquet, flanked by generals and her parents.<\/p>\n<div\n data-stories-id=\"7202086,7105178,7087600\"\n data-event=\"widget_related\"\n class=\"widget widget--type-related widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <ul class=\"widget__related_list\"><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2022//10//10//nkorea-marks-ruling-party-anniversary/">NKorea marks ruling party anniversary<\/a> <\/li><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2022//11//19//north-korea-kim-jong-un-reveals-secret-daughter-at-missile-launch-site/">North Korea: Kim Jong-Un reveals 'secret' daughter at missile launch site<\/a> <\/li><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2022//10//06//north-korea-carries-out-sixth-missile-launch-in-two-weeks/">North Korea carries out sixth missile launch in two weeks<\/a> <\/li><\/ul>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Other North Korean photos released on Thursday showed Kim, wearing a black coat and fedora, attending the parade with his wife and daughter. 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Other photos showed her with her hair pulled back, wearing a white coat and a pair of red shoes as she walked hand-in-hand with her father by a huge missile atop a launch truck. \n\nIt\u2019s the first time North Korea\u2019s state media has\u00a0mentioned the daughter or published her photos, but there were no further details like her name or age.\u00a0 \n\nMuch of Kim\u2019s private life is still unknown. But South Korean media reported Kim married Ri, a former singer, in 2009, and that the couple have three children who were born in 2010, 2013 and 2017. \n\nIt wasn\u2019t known which child Kim took to the launch site. But in 2013, after a trip to Pyongyang, retired NBA star Dennis Rodman told the British newspaper the Guardian that he and Kim had a \u201crelaxing time by the sea\u201d with the leader\u2019s family and that he held Kim\u2019s baby daughter, named Ju Ae. \n\nThe identities of Kim\u2019s children are a source of strong outside interest as the 38-year-old ruler hasn't publicly anointed an heir apparent. \n\nWhen he disappeared from public eye for an extended period in 2020 amid unconfirmed rumors about health conditions, global media frenzy flared over who was next in line to run an impoverished yet nuclear-armed country. Many observers said at the time that Kim's younger sister, Kim Yo Jong, would step in and run the country if her brother was incapacitated. \n\nThe Kim family has governed North Korea with a strong personality following built around key family members since Kim\u2019s grandfather, Kim Il Sung, founded the country in 1948. The family\u2019s so-called Paektu bloodline, named after the North\u2019s most sacred mountain, allows only direct family members to rule the country. \n\n\u201cIt\u2019s much too soon to infer anything about succession within the Kim regime,\" said Leif-Eric Easley, a professor at Ewha University in Seoul. \u201cHowever, publicly including his wife and daughter in what Kim claims as a historically successful missile test associates the family business of ruling North Korea with the nation\u2019s missile programs.\u201d \n\n\u201cThis may be an attempt to compensate for how few economic accomplishments Kim has to support his domestic legitimacy,\u201d Easley said. \n\nAnalyst Cheong Seong-Chang at the private Sejong Institute in South Korea said if Kim continues to take this daughter to key public events, that could signal that she would become Kim\u2019s successor. \n\n\u201cUnder North Korea\u2019s system, the children of Kim Jong Un would have the status of a prince or princess, like in a dynasty. As the Rodong Sinmnum newspaper publicised the photo of the daughter, who took after Kim Jong Un and Ri Sol Ju so much \u2026 she has no choice but to live special lives,\u201d Cheong said. \n\nOther observers say Kim taking his family to a missile test site indicated he was confident in the weapon\u2019s successful launch, or that he might have tried to burnish an image as a normal leader including his family in his affairs. \n\nThe disclosure of the Kim family child has taken many North Korea watchers by surprise. \n\nIt was only in 2010 when Kim, then 26, was first publicly mentioned in state media as he took a spate of top posts before he inherited power upon his father Kim Jong Il's death the next year. Kim Jong Il was also 31 when he won a key post in the ruling Workers\u2019 Party in 1973 \u2014 an appointment seen as a key step in the path to succeeding his father Kim Il Sung. Kim Jong Il's position as successor was made public at the party congress in 1980. \n\nBut Cheong said Kim Jong Il privately told associates in 1992 that Kim Jong Un, his third and youngest son, would succeed him. Cheong said Kim\u2019s aunt and her husband, who had defected to the United States, told him that a song praising Kim Jong Un was played and that Kim Jong Il said Kim Jong Un was his successor on his son's 8th birthday. \n\n\u201cKim Jong Un may have his daughter, who resembles him the most in his mind, as his successor,\u201d Cheong said.","htmlText":"<p>North Korean leader has revealed his little-known daughter at a missile launch site, attracting keen attention on a fourth-generation member of the dynastic family that has ruled North Korea for more than seven decades.<\/p>\n<p>The North\u2019s state media said Saturday that Kim Jong-Un had observed the launch of its new type of intercontinental ballistic missile with his wife Ri Sol Ju, their \u201cbeloved daughter\u201d and other officials the previous day.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Kim said the launch of the Hwasong-17 missile -- the North\u2019s longest-range, nuclear-capable missile -- proved he has a reliable weapon to contain US-led military threats.<\/p>\n<p>The main North Korean newspaper also released photos of Kim watching a soaring missile from a distance with his daughter. Other photos showed her with her hair pulled back, wearing a white coat and a pair of red shoes as she walked hand-in-hand with her father by a huge missile atop a launch truck.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the first time North Korea\u2019s state media has\u00a0mentioned the daughter or published her photos, but there were no further details like her name or age.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Much of Kim\u2019s private life is still unknown. But South Korean media reported Kim married Ri, a former singer, in 2009, and that the couple have three children who were born in 2010, 2013 and 2017.<\/p>\n<p>It wasn\u2019t known which child Kim took to the launch site. But in 2013, after a trip to Pyongyang, retired NBA star Dennis Rodman told the British newspaper the Guardian that he and Kim had a \u201crelaxing time by the sea\u201d with the leader\u2019s family and that he held Kim\u2019s baby daughter, named Ju Ae.<\/p>\n<div\n data-stories-id=\"7199996,7175530,7171038\"\n data-event=\"widget_related\"\n class=\"widget widget--type-related widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <ul class=\"widget__related_list\"><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2022//11//03//ukraine-war-north-korea-covertly-shipping-artillery-shells-to-russia-us-claims/">Ukraine war: North Korea 'covertly' shipping artillery shells to Russia, US claims<\/a> <\/li><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2022//11//18//north-korea-missile-had-range-to-hit-united-states-mainland-japan-says/">North Korea missile 'had range to hit United States mainland', Japan says<\/a> <\/li><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2022//11//05//north-korea-fires-more-missiles-as-us-flies-bombers-over-the-south/">North Korea fires more missiles as US flies bombers over the south<\/a> <\/li><\/ul>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The identities of Kim\u2019s children are a source of strong outside interest as the 38-year-old ruler hasn't publicly anointed an heir apparent.<\/p>\n<p>When he disappeared from public eye for an extended period in 2020 amid unconfirmed rumors about health conditions, global media frenzy flared over who was next in line to run an impoverished yet nuclear-armed country. Many observers said at the time that Kim's younger sister, Kim Yo Jong, would step in and run the country if her brother was incapacitated.<\/p>\n<p>The Kim family has governed North Korea with a strong personality following built around key family members since Kim\u2019s grandfather, Kim Il Sung, founded the country in 1948. 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second such major weapons test this month.","keySentence":null,"url":"north-korea-missile-had-range-to-hit-united-states-mainland-japan-says","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"The Japanese defence minister said a North Korean missile test-launched on Friday could potentially reach the entire continental United States. \n\nYasukazu Hamada told reporters that\u00a0the suspected intercontinental ballistic missile\u00a0landed inside the Japanese Exclusive Economic Zone, about 200 kilometres west of Hokkaido, Japan's northernmost main island. \n\nThe suspected intercontinental ballistic missile flew 1,000 kilometres at a maximum altitude of about 6,000 kilometres, suggesting it was likely launched on a high angle, the minister said. \n\nDepending on the weight of a warhead to be placed on the missile, Hamada added that the weapon has a range exceeding 15,000 kilometres, \"in which case it could cover the entire mainland United States\". \n\nUS Vice President Kamala Harris and other Pacific Region leaders held an emergency meeting at the APEC summit in Bangkok, Thailand on Friday, after the missile launch. \n\nSouth Korea\u2019s presidential office said it convened an emergency security meeting to discuss the North Korean launch. \n\nThe missile that landed near Japanese territorial waters is North Korea's second such major weapons test this month that shows its determination to perfect weapons systems targeting the US mainland. \n\nJapan's defence minister called North Korea's latest missile launch \"a reckless act that threatens Japan as well as the region and the international community\". \n\nTokyo strongly protested to North Korea via embassies in Beijing, Hamada said, adding that Japan continues to cooperate closely with the United States, South Korea and the international community. \n\nNorth Korea has conducted a barrage of weapons tests in recent months in response to what it calls US hostility. Some experts say the North is able to perform such a spree of weapons tests partly because China and Russia have opposed US moves to toughen sanctions on North Korea. \n\nExperts said the last intercontinental missile launched by North Korea on November 3 failed to fly its intended flight and fell into the ocean after a stage separation. \n\nBefore Thursday\u2019s launch, the North\u2019s foreign minister, Choe Son Hui, threatened to launch \"fiercer\" military responses to the US bolstering its security commitment to its allies South Korea and Japan. \n\nPresident Joe Biden recently held a trilateral summit with his South Korean and Japanese counterparts on the sidelines of a regional gathering in Cambodia. The three leaders strongly condemned North Korea\u2019s recent missile tests and agreed to work together to strengthen deterrence.\u00a0 \n\nBiden reaffirmed the US commitment to defend South Korea and Japan with a full range of capabilities, including its nuclear arms.","htmlText":"<p>The Japanese defence minister said a North Korean missile test-launched on Friday could potentially reach the entire continental United States.<\/p>\n<p>Yasukazu Hamada told reporters that\u00a0the suspected intercontinental ballistic missile\u00a0landed inside the Japanese Exclusive Economic Zone, about 200 kilometres west of Hokkaido, Japan's northernmost main island.<\/p>\n<p>The suspected intercontinental ballistic missile flew 1,000 kilometres at a maximum altitude of about 6,000 kilometres, suggesting it was likely launched on a high angle, the minister said.<\/p>\n<p>Depending on the weight of a warhead to be placed on the missile, Hamada added that the weapon has a range exceeding 15,000 kilometres, \"in which case it could cover the entire mainland United States\".<\/p>\n<p>US Vice President Kamala Harris and other Pacific Region leaders held an emergency meeting at the APEC summit in Bangkok, Thailand on Friday, after the missile launch.<\/p>\n<p>South Korea\u2019s presidential office said it convened an emergency security meeting to discuss the North Korean launch.<\/p>\n<p>The missile that landed near Japanese territorial waters is North Korea's second such major weapons test this month that shows its determination to perfect weapons systems targeting the US mainland.<\/p>\n<p>Japan's defence minister called North Korea's latest missile launch \"a reckless act that threatens Japan as well as the region and the international community\".<\/p>\n<p>Tokyo strongly protested to North Korea via embassies in Beijing, Hamada said, adding that Japan continues to cooperate closely with the United States, South Korea and the international community.<\/p>\n<p>North Korea has conducted a barrage of weapons tests in recent months in response to what it calls US hostility. Some experts say the North is able to perform such a spree of weapons tests partly because China and Russia have opposed US moves to toughen sanctions on North Korea.<\/p>\n<p>Experts said the last intercontinental missile launched by North Korea on November 3 failed to fly its intended flight and fell into the ocean after a stage separation.<\/p>\n<p>Before Thursday\u2019s launch, the North\u2019s foreign minister, Choe Son Hui, threatened to launch \"fiercer\" military responses to the US bolstering its security commitment to its allies South Korea and Japan.<\/p>\n<p>President Joe Biden recently held a trilateral summit with his South Korean and Japanese counterparts on the sidelines of a regional gathering in Cambodia. 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amount of ammunition coming from Pyongyang, stating that the shipments would not change the outcome of the war.","keySentence":null,"url":"ukraine-war-north-korea-covertly-shipping-artillery-shells-to-russia-us-claims","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"North Korea is covertly shipping a \"significant number\" of artillery shells to Russia in support of Moscow's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, US authorities claim. \n\n\nNational Security Council spokesman John Kirby said on Wednesday the US believes North Korea is \"trying to make it appear as though they're being sent to countries in the Middle East or North Africa.\"\u00a0 \n\nHe declined to provide a specific estimate on the quantity of ammunition being sent to bolster the Russian effort. \n\nKirby said North Korea \"is covertly supplying\" the ammunition to Russia but that \"we're still monitoring this to determine whether the shipments are actually received.\"\u00a0 \n\nHe added that the US has \"an idea\" of which country or countries the North may funnel the weapons through but wouldn't specify because the administration continues to look at how it might respond to Pyongyang's actions. \n\nKirby insisted the North Korean shipments are \"not going to change the course of the war,\" citing Western efforts to resupply the Ukrainian military. \n\nThe White House would not specify the mode of transportation or whether the US or other nations would attempt to interdict the shipments to Russia. \n\nThe White House revealed the new intelligence nearly two months after first alleging that US determined the Russian Ministry of Defence was in the process of purchasing millions of rockets and artillery shells from North Korea for its ongoing fight in Ukraine. \n\nEven as the administration revealed information about the covert Pyongyang artillery shell shipments, the White House also ought to downplay their significance. \n\n\"We don't believe that they are in such a quantity that they would change the direction of this war or tangibly change the momentum either in the east or in the south,\" where some of the heaviest fighting in Ukraine is taking place, Kirby said. \n\nPyongyang and Tehran main source of weapons for Russia \n\nThe finding comes after the Biden administration in August said the Russian military took delivery of hundreds of Iranian-manufactured drones for use on the battlefield in Ukraine.\u00a0 \n\nThe Biden administration said Iran has also sent personnel to Russian-controlled Crimea to provide technical support on the operation of the drones.\u00a0 \n\nMeanwhile, claims by Western authorities stated that Tehran plans on supplying Russia with more weapons, including short-range surface-to-surface missiles, according to a CNN report on Wednesday. \n\nIranian officials have denied they have provided drones or other support to Russia. \n\nNorth Korea has sought to tighten relations with Russia as much of the West has pulled away, blaming the United States for the Ukraine crisis and decrying the West's \"hegemonic policy\" as justifying military action by Russia in Ukraine to protect itself. \n\nThe North Koreans have shown interest in sending construction workers to help rebuild Russian-occupied territories in Ukraine's east. \n\nNorth Korea's ambassador to Moscow has met with envoys from two Moscow-occupied separatist territories in the Donbas region of Ukraine and expressed optimism about cooperation in the \"field of labor migration,\" citing his country's easing of pandemic border controls. \n\nIn July, North Korea became the only nation aside from Russia and Syria to recognise the so-called independence of the territories -- Donetsk and Luhansk -- further aligning with Russia over the conflict in Ukraine. \n\nThe North's arms export to Russia would be a violation of UN resolutions that ban the country from exporting to or importing weapons from other countries.\u00a0 \n\nIts possible dispatch of labourers to the Russian-held territories in Ukraine would also breach a UN resolution that required all member states to repatriate all North Korean workers from their soil by 2019.","htmlText":"<p>North Korea is covertly shipping a \"significant number\" of artillery shells to Russia in support of Moscow's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, US authorities claim. <\/p>\n<p>National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said on Wednesday the US believes North Korea is \"trying to make it appear as though they're being sent to countries in the Middle East or North Africa.\"\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He declined to provide a specific estimate on the quantity of ammunition being sent to bolster the Russian effort.<\/p>\n<p>Kirby said North Korea \"is covertly supplying\" the ammunition to Russia but that \"we're still monitoring this to determine whether the shipments are actually received.\"\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He added that the US has \"an idea\" of which country or countries the North may funnel the weapons through but wouldn't specify because the administration continues to look at how it might respond to Pyongyang's actions.<\/p>\n<div\n data-stories-id=\"7168936,7079044\"\n data-event=\"widget_related\"\n class=\"widget widget--type-related widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <ul class=\"widget__related_list\"><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2022//11//02//north-korea-launches-several-missiles-aimed-at-south-in-another-apparent-test/">North Korea launches several missiles aimed at South in another apparent test<\/a> <\/li><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2022//10//04//north-korea-fires-nuclear-capable-missile-over-japan-in-another-spike-in-tensions/">North Korea fires nuclear-capable missile over Japan in another spike in tensions<\/a> <\/li><\/ul>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Kirby insisted the North Korean shipments are \"not going to change the course of the war,\" citing Western efforts to resupply the Ukrainian military.<\/p>\n<p>The White House would not specify the mode of transportation or whether the US or other nations would attempt to interdict the shipments to Russia.<\/p>\n<p>The White House revealed the new intelligence nearly two months after first alleging that US determined the Russian Ministry of Defence was in the process of purchasing millions of rockets and artillery shells from North Korea for its ongoing fight in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Even as the administration revealed information about the covert Pyongyang artillery shell shipments, the White House also ought to downplay their significance.<\/p>\n<p>\"We don't believe that they are in such a quantity that they would change the direction of this war or tangibly change the momentum either in the east or in the south,\" where some of the heaviest fighting in Ukraine is taking place, Kirby said.<\/p>\n<h2>Pyongyang and Tehran main source of weapons for Russia<\/h2><p>The finding comes after the Biden administration in August said the Russian military took delivery of hundreds of Iranian-manufactured drones for use on the battlefield in Ukraine.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Biden administration said Iran has also sent personnel to Russian-controlled Crimea to provide technical support on the operation of the drones.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, claims by Western authorities stated that Tehran plans on supplying Russia with more weapons, including short-range surface-to-surface missiles, according to a CNN report on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Iranian officials have denied they have provided drones or other support to Russia.<\/p>\n<div\n data-stories-id=\"7144990,7153156\"\n data-event=\"widget_related\"\n class=\"widget widget--type-related widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio 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2019.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1667457292,"publishedAt":1667458180,"updatedAt":1667458184,"expiresAt":0,"canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2022\/11\/03\/ukraine-war-north-korea-covertly-shipping-artillery-shells-to-russia-us-claims","programDeliverable":{"slug":"sujet-web","format":"default"},"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/17\/10\/38\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_de7ab4a6-da28-5e62-ba2c-25c3d5a2c8b5-7171038.jpg","altText":"North Korea's military exercises at an undisclosed location in North Korea, 6 October 2022","caption":"North Korea's military exercises at an undisclosed location in North Korea, 6 October 2022","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Korean Central News Agency\/Korea News Service via 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said.","keySentence":null,"url":"north-korea-launches-several-missiles-aimed-at-south-in-another-apparent-test","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"A North Korean ballistic missile landed less than 60 kilometres off South Korea's coast on Wednesday in a barrage of apparent tests President Yoon Suk-yeol said was \"effectively a territorial encroachment\". \n\nThe launch of at least 10 missiles from Pyongyang's territory prompted South Korea to issue rare air raid warnings and launch missiles in protest. \n\nThe missile landed outside of South Korea's territorial waters, but south of the Northern Limit Line (NLL), a disputed inter-Korean maritime border. \n\nSouth Korean warplanes fired three air-to-ground missiles into the sea north across the NLL in response, the South's military said.\u00a0 \n\nAn official said the weapons used included an AGM-84H\/K SLAM-ER, a US-made \"stand-off\" precision attack weapon that can fly for up to 270 kilometres with a 360-kilogramme warhead. \n\nThe South's launches came after Yoon's office vowed a \"swift and firm response\" so North Korea \"pays the price for provocation\". \n\nMilitary exercise a pretext for missile tests? \n\nThe North Korean weapon was one of three short-range ballistic missiles fired from the North Korean coastal area of Wonsan into the sea, South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said.\u00a0 \n\nThe JCS later said as many as 10 missiles of various types had been fired from North Korea's east and west coasts. \n\nThe JCS said at least one of the missiles landed 26km south of the NLL, 57 km from the South Korean city of Sokcho, on the east coast, and 167km from the island of Ulleung, where air raid warnings were issued. \n\n\"We heard the siren at around 8:55 am (0:55 am CEST) and all of us in the building went down to the evacuation place in the basement,\" an Ulleung county official told Reuters.\u00a0 \n\n\"We stayed there until we came upstairs at around 9:15 (1:15 CEST) after hearing that the projectile fell into the high seas.\" \n\nA resident on the southern part of the island said they received no warnings. \n\nNuclear-armed North Korea has tested a record number of missiles this year, and officials in Seoul and Washington say the North has completed technical preparations to conduct a nuclear weapon test for the first time since 2017. \n\nThe launches came just hours after Pyongyang demanded that the United States and South Korea stop large-scale military exercises, saying such \"military rashness and provocation can be no longer tolerated.\" \n\nDespite Yoon's declaring a national week of mourning after more than 150 people were killed in a weekend crowd surge in Seoul, the United States and South Korea began one of their largest combined military air drills on Monday.\u00a0 \n\nDubbed Vigilant Storm, the exercises involve hundreds of warplanes from both sides staging mock attacks 24 hours a day. \n\nNorth Korea had said that a recent flurry of launches were in response to allied drills. \n\nPak Jong Chon, secretary of the Central Committee of North Korea's ruling Workers' Party, said in a statement on Wednesday that the number of warplanes involved in Vigilant Storm proved the exercise was \"aggressive and provocative\" and specifically targeted North Korea.\u00a0 \n\nHe said even its name imitated the US-led Operation Desert Storm against Iraq in the 1990s. \n\n\"The hostile forces' inordinate moves for military confrontation have created a grave situation on the Korean peninsula,\" Pak said in a statement carried by the state news agency KCNA. \n\nUS, Japan condemn missile barrage \n\nOn Tuesday in Washington, U.S. State Department spokesperson Ned Price responded to North Korea\u2019s warnings by saying that Pyongyang appeared to be \"reaching for another pretext for provocations it has already undertaken, potentially for provocations that it might be planning to take in the coming days or coming weeks.\" \n\nHe said that the drills were \"purely defensive in nature\" and that the United States had made clear to North Korea that it harboured no hostile intent towards the country. \n\nPrice added that the United States and its allies had also made clear that there would be \"profound costs and profound consequences\" if North Korea resumed nuclear testing, which would be a \"dangerous, destabilising step\". He did not elaborate on the consequences. \n\nIn a phone call with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Foreign Minister Park Jin called the North Korean missile launch \"unprecedented\" and a \"grave act of military provocation\".\u00a0 \n\nThe two officials condemned the launch and agreed to cooperate against North Korean threats, Park's office said. \n\nA spokesman for the South Korean military said authorities were analysing the launches to see whether the missiles' flight paths were intentional or one had gone off course. \n\nJapan defence minister Yasukazu Hamada said the government believed at least two ballistic missiles had been launched from North Korea, one flying east and another southeast. \n\nThe first flew 150 kilometres to a maximum altitude of approximately 150 kilometres, while the second covered a range of 200 kilometres to a maximum altitude of 100 kilometres, he said to reporters in Tokyo on Wednesday morning. \n\nIt was the first time a North Korean ballistic missile had landed near South Korean waters, JCS said. \n\n\"Our military can never tolerate this kind of North Korea's provocative act, and will strictly and firmly respond under close South Korea-U.S. cooperation,\" JCS said in a news release. \n\nNorth Korea's actions threaten the peace and stability of Japan, the wider region, as well as the broader international community and are utterly unacceptable, Hamada said. \n\n\"North Korea has been repeatedly launching missiles at an unprecedented rate, in new ways that we have not seen before,\" he said. \n\nJapan has lodged a complaint and protested the actions via diplomatic channels in Beijing, he added.","htmlText":"<p>A North Korean ballistic missile landed less than 60 kilometres off South Korea's coast on Wednesday in a barrage of apparent tests President Yoon Suk-yeol said was \"effectively a territorial encroachment\".<\/p>\n<p>The launch of at least 10 missiles from Pyongyang's territory prompted South Korea to issue rare air raid warnings and launch missiles in protest.<\/p>\n<p>The missile landed outside of South Korea's territorial waters, but south of the Northern Limit Line (NLL), a disputed inter-Korean maritime border.<\/p>\n<p>South Korean warplanes fired three air-to-ground missiles into the sea north across the NLL in response, the South's military said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>An official said the weapons used included an AGM-84H\/K SLAM-ER, a US-made \"stand-off\" precision attack weapon that can fly for up to 270 kilometres with a 360-kilogramme warhead.<\/p>\n<p>The South's launches came after Yoon's office vowed a \"swift and firm response\" so North Korea \"pays the price for provocation\".<\/p>\n<h2>Military exercise a pretext for missile tests?<\/h2><p>The North Korean weapon was one of three short-range ballistic missiles fired from the North Korean coastal area of Wonsan into the sea, South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The JCS later said as many as 10 missiles of various types had been fired from North Korea's east and west coasts.<\/p>\n<p>The JCS said at least one of the missiles landed 26km south of the NLL, 57 km from the South Korean city of Sokcho, on the east coast, and 167km from the island of Ulleung, where air raid warnings were issued.<\/p>\n<p>\"We heard the siren at around 8:55 am (0:55 am CEST) and all of us in the building went down to the evacuation place in the basement,\" an Ulleung county official told Reuters.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\"We stayed there until we came upstairs at around 9:15 (1:15 CEST) after hearing that the projectile fell into the high seas.\"<\/p>\n<p>A resident on the southern part of the island said they received no warnings.<\/p>\n<div\n data-stories-id=\"7112780,7087600\"\n data-event=\"widget_related\"\n class=\"widget widget--type-related widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <ul class=\"widget__related_list\"><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2022//10//13//pyongyang-tests-another-missile-flies-fighter-jets-near-border-with-south-korea/">Pyongyang tests another missile, flies fighter jets near border with South Korea<\/a> <\/li><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2022//10//06//north-korea-carries-out-sixth-missile-launch-in-two-weeks/">North Korea carries out sixth missile launch in two weeks<\/a> <\/li><\/ul>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Nuclear-armed North Korea has tested a record number of missiles this year, and officials in Seoul and Washington say the North has completed technical preparations to conduct a nuclear weapon test for the first time since 2017.<\/p>\n<p>The launches came just hours after Pyongyang demanded that the United States and South Korea stop large-scale military exercises, saying such \"military rashness and provocation can be no longer tolerated.\"<\/p>\n<p>Despite Yoon's declaring a national week of mourning after more than 150 people were killed in a weekend crowd surge in Seoul, the United States and South Korea began one of their largest combined military air drills on Monday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Dubbed Vigilant Storm, the exercises involve hundreds of warplanes from both sides staging mock attacks 24 hours a day.<\/p>\n<p>North Korea had said that a recent flurry of launches were in response to allied drills.<\/p>\n<p>Pak Jong Chon, secretary of the Central Committee of North Korea's ruling Workers' Party, said in a statement on Wednesday that the number of warplanes involved in Vigilant Storm proved the exercise was \"aggressive and provocative\" and specifically targeted North Korea.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He said even its name imitated the US-led Operation Desert Storm against Iraq in the 1990s.<\/p>\n<p>\"The hostile forces' inordinate moves for military confrontation have created a grave situation on the Korean peninsula,\" Pak said in a statement carried by the state news agency KCNA.<\/p>\n<h2>US, Japan condemn missile barrage<\/h2><p>On Tuesday in Washington, U.S. State Department spokesperson Ned Price responded to North Korea\u2019s warnings by saying that Pyongyang appeared to be \"reaching for another pretext for provocations it has already undertaken, potentially for provocations that it might be planning to take in the coming days or coming weeks.\"<\/p>\n<p>He said that the drills were \"purely defensive in nature\" and that the United States had made clear to North Korea that it harboured no hostile intent towards the country.<\/p>\n<p>Price added that the United States and its allies had also made clear that there would be \"profound costs and profound consequences\" if North Korea resumed nuclear testing, which would be a \"dangerous, destabilising step\". He did not elaborate on the consequences.<\/p>\n<p>In a phone call with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Foreign Minister Park Jin called the North Korean missile launch \"unprecedented\" and a \"grave act of military provocation\".\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The two officials condemned the launch and agreed to cooperate against North Korean threats, Park's office said.<\/p>\n<div\n data-stories-id=\"7079044,7071338\"\n data-event=\"widget_related\"\n class=\"widget widget--type-related widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <ul class=\"widget__related_list\"><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2022//10//04//north-korea-fires-nuclear-capable-missile-over-japan-in-another-spike-in-tensions/">North Korea fires nuclear-capable missile over Japan in another spike in tensions<\/a> <\/li><li 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might.","keySentence":null,"url":"pyongyang-tests-another-missile-flies-fighter-jets-near-border-with-south-korea","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"North Korea launched a short-range ballistic missile toward its eastern waters and flew warplanes near the border with South Korea\u00a0 early Friday , further raising animosities triggered by the North's recent barrage of weapons tests. \n\nSouth Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a statement the missile lifted off from the North's capital region at 1:49 am local time (7:49 pm CEST Thursday). \n\n\nIt said South Korea boosted its surveillance posture and maintains military readiness in close coordination with the United States. \n\nSouth Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff also said in a statement that North Korea had flown warplanes near the rivals' border late Thursday and early Friday, prompting South Korea to scramble fighter jets. \n\nThe North Korean planes flew as close as 12 kilometres north of the inter-Korean border. The South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff said it responded by scrambling F-35 jets and other warplanes, according to the Joint Chiefs of Staff. \n\nThere were no reports of clashes. A similar incident took place earlier this month, but it was still uncommon for North Korea to fly its warplanes near the border. Also, in the previous flight this month, North Korean warplanes flew much farther from the border than their flights between Thursday and Friday. \n\nPyongyang responded by accusing the South of \"provocation\" near its border, according to the state news agency. \n\n\nThe Japanese Defence Ministry and prime minister's office also tweeted that North Korea launched a possible missile. \n\n'Another clear warning to enemies' \n\nIt's the latest in a series of missile launches by North Korea in recent weeks.\u00a0 \n\nNorth Korea said Thursday that leader Kim Jong Un supervised the test launches of long-range cruise missiles that he said successfully demonstrated his military's expanding nuclear strike capabilities. \n\nNorth Korea said Monday that its missile tests in the past two weeks were simulated nuclear attacks on key South Korean and Us targets.\u00a0 \n\nNorth Korea said the weapons tests were meant to issue a warning to Seoul and Washington for staging \"dangerous\" joint naval exercises involving a US aircraft carrier. \n\nThe North Korean launches, part of its record-breaking run of weapons tests this year, were seen as an attempt by Kim to acquire a more intimidating arsenal to pressure its rivals to accept his country as a legitimate nuclear state and lift economic sanctions. \n\nNorth Korea's military also issued a statement early Friday accusing South Korea of carrying out artillery fire for about 10 hours near the border Thursday.\u00a0 \n\n\nIt didn't say whether the artillery fire was an exercise or firing at North Korea. The North Korean military said it took unspecified \"strong military countermeasures\" in response. \n\n\"The (North) Korean People's Army sends a stern warning to the South Korean military inciting military tension in the front-line area with reckless action,\" an unidentified spokesman for the General Staff of the Korean People's Army said in a statement carried by the official Korean Central News Agency. \n\nThe public affairs office at the South Korean Defence Ministry said it has no immediate comment. \n\nAfter Wednesday's cruise missile tests, Kim Jong Un praised the readiness of his nuclear combat forces, which he said were fully prepared for \"actual war to bring enemies under their control at a blow\" with various weapons systems that are \"mobile, precise and powerful,\" according to KCNA. \n\nKim said the tests send \"another clear warning to enemies\" and vowed further to expand the operational realm of his nuclear-armed forces to \"resolutely deter any crucial military crisis and war crisis at any time and completely take the initiative in it,\" KCNA said.","htmlText":"<p>North Korea launched a short-range ballistic missile toward its eastern waters and flew warplanes near the border with South Korea\u00a0early Friday, further raising animosities triggered by the North's recent barrage of weapons tests.<\/p>\n<p>South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a statement the missile lifted off from the North's capital region at 1:49 am local time (7:49 pm CEST Thursday). <\/p>\n<p>It said South Korea boosted its surveillance posture and maintains military readiness in close coordination with the United States.<\/p>\n<p>South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff also said in a statement that North Korea had flown warplanes near the rivals' border late Thursday and early Friday, prompting South Korea to scramble fighter jets.<\/p>\n<p>The North Korean planes flew as close as 12 kilometres north of the inter-Korean border. The South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff said it responded by scrambling F-35 jets and other warplanes, according to the Joint Chiefs of Staff.<\/p>\n<p>There were no reports of clashes. A similar incident took place earlier this month, but it was still uncommon for North Korea to fly its warplanes near the border. 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The North Korean military said it took unspecified \"strong military countermeasures\" in response.<\/p>\n<p>\"The (North) Korean People's Army sends a stern warning to the South Korean military inciting military tension in the front-line area with reckless action,\" an unidentified spokesman for the General Staff of the Korean People's Army said in a statement carried by the official Korean Central News Agency.<\/p>\n<div\n data-stories-id=\"7033494\"\n data-event=\"widget_related\"\n class=\"widget widget--type-related widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <ul class=\"widget__related_list\"><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2022//09//22//north-korea-denies-exporting-arms-to-russia-amid-ukraine-war/">North Korea denies exporting arms to Russia amid Ukraine war<\/a> <\/li><\/ul>\n 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missiles in Japan's direction on Thursday. \n\nThey were launched 22 minutes apart and landed in the sea between the Korean Peninsula and Japan, South Korea\u2019s Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a statement.\u00a0 \n\nIt is the sixth missile launch by North Korea in under two weeks, in response to joint US and South Korean military drills in the region. \n\n\nIt comes two days after North Korea fired an intermediate-range missile over Japan for the first time in five years. \n\nThis missile launch on Thursday occurred as Pyongyang condemned the US for meeting with the UN Security Council to discuss North Korea's recent missile launches, which it justifies as a counteractive measure. \n\nIn a statement before the latest launch, North Korea's foreign ministry condemned the exercises for \"escalating the military tensions on the Korean Peninsula\". \n\nThere were calls for an emergency UN Security Council meeting after Tuesday's launch, which experts said could have reached the US 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It warned Pyongyang's repeated missile launches would only deepen its international isolation and prompt Seoul and Washington to bolster their deterrence capacities. \n\nYoon said the North's \"reckless nuclear provocations\" would meet the stern response of the South and the broader international community. \n\nWashington and Brussels condemn 'blatant' violation of law \n\nAccording to South Korean and Japanese estimates, the missile travelled about 4,500-4,600 kilometres, at a maximum altitude of 970-1,000 km.\u00a0 \n\nHamada said the missile landed in the Pacific, about 3,200 km off the northern Japanese coast and that there have been no reports of damage to Japanese aircraft and ships. \n\nSouth Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol earlier said the missile fired was an intermediate-range rocket, while Japanese Defence Minister Yasukazu Hamada said it was believed to have an intermediate range or longer.\u00a0 \n\nThe US said it strongly condemns Pyongyang's \"dangerous and reckless decision\" to launch what it described as a \"long-range ballistic missile\" over Japan. \n\n\"This action is destabilising and shows (North Korea's) blatant disregard for United Nations Security Council resolutions and international safety norms,\" Washington said. \n\nThe European Council President Charles Michel \"strongly condemned\" the missile test on Twitter on Tuesday, denouncing it as an \"unjustified aggression \u00a0and blatant violation of international law.\" \n\nMichel called it a \"deliberate attempt to jeopardize security,\" adding that\u00a0 \"the European Union stands in solidarity with Japan and South Korea.\" \n\nThe missile's flight distance shows the missile has enough range to hit the US Pacific territory of Guam, home to US military bases that sent advanced warplanes to the Korean Peninsula in shows of force in past tensions with North Korea.\u00a0 \n\nIn 2017, North Korea threatened to make \"an enveloping fire\" near Guam with Hwasong-12 missiles amid rising animosities with the then-Trump administration. \n\nNorth Korea last test-fired a Hwasong-12 missile in January. At the time, the North said the launch was meant to verify the overall accuracy of the weapon that was deployed in its military.\u00a0 \n\nBut it said the missile was launched on a lofted angle to prevent it from flying over other countries. \n\nHamada said the missile launched Tuesday could have been another Hwasong-12 missile. \n\nTuesday's launch is the fifth round of weapons tests by North Korea in the past 10 days in what was seen as an apparent response to bilateral military drills between South Korea and the United States and other training among the allies, including Japan, last week. \n\nThe missiles fired during the past four rounds of launches were short-range and fell in the waters between the Korean Peninsula and Japan. Those missiles are capable of hitting targets in South Korea. \n\nNorth Korea has test-fired about 40 missiles over about 20 different launch events this year as its leader Kim Jong Un vows to expand his nuclear arsenal and refuses to return to nuclear diplomacy with the United States.\u00a0 \n\nSome foreign experts say North Korea needs to master a few remaining technologies to acquire functioning nuclear missiles.\u00a0 Each new test pushes them closer to being able to reach the US mainland and its allies with a host of nuclear-tipped missiles of varying ranges. \n\nSome experts say Kim will eventually return to diplomacy and use his enlarged arsenal to pressure Washington to accept his country as a nuclear state, a recognition that he thinks is necessary to win the lifting of international sanctions and other concessions.","htmlText":"<p>North Korea fired a ballistic missile over Japan for the first time in five years, forcing Japan to issue evacuation notices and suspend trains on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The launch was the most provocative weapons demonstration by North Korea this year as it ramps up missile tests in its push to build a full-fledged nuclear arsenal that viably threatens the United States and other countries Pyongyang sees as enemies.<\/p>\n<p>Japanese authorities alerted residents in northeastern regions to evacuate to shelters in the first \"J-alert\" alert since 2017, when North Korea fired a Hwasong-12 missile twice over Japan in a span of weeks during its previous torrid run of weapons tests.<\/p>\n<p>Trains were suspended in the Hokkaido and Aomori regions until the government issued a subsequent notice that the North Korean missile appeared to have landed in the Pacific.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In Sapporo city, the prefectural capital of Japan's northernmost main island of Hokkaido, subways were also temporarily suspended, with stations packed with morning commuters.<\/p>\n<p>Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida told reporters the latest firing \"is a reckless act and I strongly condemn it.\"<\/p>\n<p>South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff said the missile was fired from North Korea's inland. It warned Pyongyang's repeated missile launches would only deepen its international isolation and prompt Seoul and Washington to bolster their deterrence capacities.<\/p>\n<p>Yoon said the North's \"reckless nuclear provocations\" would meet the stern response of the South and the broader international community.<\/p>\n<h2>Washington and Brussels condemn 'blatant' violation of law<\/h2><p>According to South Korean and Japanese estimates, the missile travelled about 4,500-4,600 kilometres, at a maximum altitude of 970-1,000 km.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Hamada said the missile landed in the Pacific, about 3,200 km off the northern Japanese coast and that there have been no reports of damage to Japanese aircraft and ships.<\/p>\n<p>South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol earlier said the missile fired was an intermediate-range rocket, while Japanese Defence Minister Yasukazu Hamada said it was believed to have an intermediate range or longer.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div\n data-stories-id=\"7071338,7033494\"\n data-event=\"widget_related\"\n class=\"widget widget--type-related widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <ul class=\"widget__related_list\"><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2022//09//22//north-korea-denies-exporting-arms-to-russia-amid-ukraine-war/">North Korea denies exporting arms to Russia amid Ukraine war<\/a> <\/li><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2022//10//01//japan-slams-latest-north-korean-missile-launch-as-totally-impermissible/">Japan slams latest North Korean missile launch as \"totally impermissible\"<\/a> <\/li><\/ul>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The US said it strongly condemns Pyongyang's \"dangerous and reckless decision\" to launch what it described as a \"long-range ballistic missile\" over Japan.<\/p>\n<p>\"This action is destabilising and shows (North Korea's) blatant disregard for United Nations Security Council resolutions and international safety norms,\" Washington said.<\/p>\n<p>The European Council President Charles Michel \"strongly condemned\" the missile test on Twitter on Tuesday, denouncing it as an \"unjustified aggression\u00a0and blatant violation of international law.\"<\/p>\n<p>Michel called it a \"deliberate attempt to jeopardize security,\" adding that\u00a0\"the European Union stands in solidarity with Japan and South Korea.\"<\/p>\n<p>The missile's flight distance shows the missile has enough range to hit the US Pacific territory of Guam, home to US military bases that sent advanced warplanes to the Korean Peninsula in shows of force in past tensions with North Korea.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In 2017, North Korea threatened to make \"an enveloping fire\" near Guam with Hwasong-12 missiles amid rising animosities with the then-Trump administration.<\/p>\n<p>North Korea last test-fired a Hwasong-12 missile in January. At the time, the North said the launch was meant to verify the overall accuracy of the weapon that was deployed in its military.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But it said the missile was launched on a lofted angle to prevent it from flying over other countries.<\/p>\n<p>Hamada said the missile launched Tuesday could have been another Hwasong-12 missile.<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday's launch is the fifth round of weapons tests by North Korea in the past 10 days in what was seen as an apparent response to bilateral military drills between South Korea and the United States and other training among the allies, including Japan, last week.<\/p>\n<div\n data-stories-id=\"6997620,6887510\"\n data-event=\"widget_related\"\n class=\"widget widget--type-related widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <ul class=\"widget__related_list\"><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2022//09//06//russia-is-buying-artillery-shells-and-rockets-from-north-korea-claims-us-intelligence/">Russia is buying artillery shells and rockets from North Korea, claims US intelligence<\/a> <\/li><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2022//07//28//kim-jong-un-threatens-with-nuclear-forces-to-overwhelm-any-hostile-forces/">Kim Jong Un threatens with nuclear forces to 'overwhelm any hostile forces'<\/a> <\/li><\/ul>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The missiles fired during the past four rounds of launches were short-range and fell in the waters between the Korean Peninsula and Japan. Those missiles are capable of hitting targets in South Korea.<\/p>\n<p>North Korea has test-fired about 40 missiles over about 20 different launch events this year as its leader Kim Jong Un vows to expand his nuclear arsenal and refuses to return to nuclear diplomacy with the United States.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Some foreign experts say North Korea needs to master a few remaining technologies to acquire functioning nuclear missiles.\u00a0Each new test pushes them closer to being able to reach the US mainland and its allies with a host of nuclear-tipped missiles of varying ranges.<\/p>\n<p>Some experts say Kim will eventually return to diplomacy and use his enlarged arsenal to pressure Washington to accept his country as a nuclear state, a recognition that he thinks is necessary to win the lifting of international sanctions and other concessions.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1664860104,"publishedAt":1664861059,"updatedAt":1664865664,"expiresAt":0,"canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2022\/10\/04\/north-korea-fires-nuclear-capable-missile-over-japan-in-another-spike-in-tensions","programDeliverable":{"slug":"sujet-web","format":"default"},"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/07\/90\/44\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_53198245-73ee-5c3e-812d-5e054f155e56-7079044.jpg","altText":"A North Korean flag flutters in the wind as a South Korean army soldier stands guard at the border villages of Panmunjom in Paju, South Korea, in October 2022","caption":"A North Korean flag flutters in the wind as a South Korean army soldier stands guard at the border villages of Panmunjom in Paju, South Korea, in October 2022","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"AP Photo\/Ahn 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statement came weeks after the Kremlin described the US intelligence finding of Pyongyang arranging to sell domestically produced weapons such as small arms and artillery shells to Moscow as \u201cfake\u201d.","summary":"The North Korean statement came weeks after the Kremlin described the US intelligence finding of Pyongyang arranging to sell domestically produced weapons such as small arms and artillery shells to Moscow as \u201cfake\u201d.","keySentence":null,"url":"north-korea-denies-exporting-arms-to-russia-amid-ukraine-war","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"North Korea\u00a0slammed US intelligence reports of weapons transfers to Russia during the war in Ukraine, stating that it has not and has no plans to do so and labelling the claims as an attempt to tarnish the hermit nation's image. \n\nIn a state media report on Thursday, an unnamed North Korean defence official told the US to stop making \"reckless remarks\" and to \"keep its mouth shut\".\u00a0 \n\nBiden administration officials earlier this month confirmed a declassified US intelligence assessment that Russia was in the process of purchasing arms from North Korea , including millions of artillery shells and rockets. \n\nMoscow has also been accused of purchasing weapons such as drones from the likes of Iran in attempts to ease severe supply shortages in Ukraine worsened by US-led export controls and sanctions. \n\nThe North Korean statement came weeks after Moscow described the US intelligence finding as \"fake\". \n\nNorth Korean arms exports to Russia would violate United Nations resolutions banning the country from importing or exporting weapons. \n\nThe North Korean official stressed that Pyongyang has never recognised the \"unlawful\" UN Security Council sanctions against the country \"cooked up by the US and its vassal forces\".\u00a0 \n\nThe official said the export and import of military equipment is a \"lawful right peculiar to a sovereign state\", according to an English translation of the statement published by the North's official Korean Central News Agency. \n\n\"But we take this opportunity to make clear one thing. We have never exported weapons or ammunition to Russia before, and we will not plan to export them,\" said the official, who was described as a vice director general of the National Defence Ministry's general equipment bureau. \n\n\"It is not sure from where the rumour originated which the US is spreading, but it is aimed at tarnishing the DPRK's image,\" the official said. \n\nPyongyang uses Ukraine war to speed up its weapons development \n\nExperts say North Korea, if willing, could become a major source of small arms, artillery and other ammunition for Russia, considering the compatibility of their defence systems based on Soviet roots. \n\nNorth Korea has sought to tighten relations with Russia even as most of Europe and the West have pulled away, blaming the US for the crisis and decrying the West's \"hegemonic policy\" as justifying military action by Russia in Ukraine to protect itself. \n\nThe North Korean government has even hinted it is interested in sending construction workers to help rebuild pro-Russia breakaway regions in Ukraine's east.\u00a0 \n\nIn July, North Korea became the only nation aside from Russia and Syria to recognise the independence of the Moscow-controlled territories in the eastern Donbas region, the so-called Donetsk and Luhansk people's republics. \n\nNorth Korea also used the war as a window to accelerate its own arms development, testing dozens of weapons, including its first long-range missiles since 2017, thus exploiting a divide in the UN Security Council, where Russia and China have blocked Washington's attempts to tighten sanctions on Pyongyang. \n\nThe North has punctuated its testing activity with repeated threats of nuclear conflict with Seoul and Washington. \n\nThe latest was a law passed by Pyongyang's rubber-stamp parliament this month that further enshrined the country's status as a nuclear power and authorised the preemptive use of nuclear weapons over a broad range of scenarios where its leadership comes under threat. \n\nSung Kim, the Biden administration's special representative for North Korea, met with South Korean counterpart Kim Gunn in Seoul on Thursday, where they expressed \"serious concern\" over the North's escalating nuclear doctrine spelt out in the new law, South Korea's Foreign Ministry said. \n\nThe diplomats reaffirmed Washington's commitment to defend South Korea in the event of a nuclear war with the full range of its military capabilities, including nuclear. \n\nThe allies also maintained their months-old assessment that North Korea is gearing up to conduct its first nuclear test since 2017 and discussed \"stern\" countermeasures to such an action, the ministry said.","htmlText":"<p>North Korea\u00a0slammed US intelligence reports of weapons transfers to Russia during the war in Ukraine, stating that it has not and has no plans to do so and labelling the claims as an attempt to tarnish the hermit nation's image.<\/p>\n<p>In a state media report on Thursday, an unnamed North Korean defence official told the US to stop making \"reckless remarks\" and to \"keep its mouth shut\".\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Biden administration officials earlier this month confirmed a declassified US intelligence assessment that <strong><a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2022//09//06//russia-is-buying-artillery-shells-and-rockets-from-north-korea-claims-us-intelligence/">Russia was in the process of purchasing arms from North Korea<\/a><\/strong>, including millions of artillery shells and rockets.<\/p>\n<p>Moscow has also been accused of purchasing weapons such as drones from the likes of Iran in attempts to ease severe supply shortages in Ukraine worsened by US-led export controls and sanctions.<\/p>\n<p>The North Korean statement came weeks after Moscow described the US intelligence finding as \"fake\".<\/p>\n<div\n data-stories-id=\"6997620\"\n data-event=\"widget_related\"\n class=\"widget widget--type-related widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <ul class=\"widget__related_list\"><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2022//09//06//russia-is-buying-artillery-shells-and-rockets-from-north-korea-claims-us-intelligence/">Russia is buying artillery shells and rockets from North Korea, claims US intelligence<\/a> <\/li><\/ul>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>North Korean arms exports to Russia would violate United Nations resolutions banning the country from importing or exporting weapons.<\/p>\n<p>The North Korean official stressed that Pyongyang has never recognised the \"unlawful\" UN Security Council sanctions against the country \"cooked up by the US and its vassal forces\".\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The official said the export and import of military equipment is a \"lawful right peculiar to a sovereign state\", according to an English translation of the statement published by the North's official Korean Central News Agency.<\/p>\n<p>\"But we take this opportunity to make clear one thing. We have never exported weapons or ammunition to Russia before, and we will not plan to export them,\" said the official, who was described as a vice director general of the National Defence Ministry's general equipment bureau.<\/p>\n<p>\"It is not sure from where the rumour originated which the US is spreading, but it is aimed at tarnishing the DPRK's image,\" the official said.<\/p>\n<h2>Pyongyang uses Ukraine war to speed up its weapons development<\/h2><p>Experts say North Korea, if willing, could become a major source of small arms, artillery and other ammunition for Russia, considering the compatibility of their defence systems based on Soviet roots.<\/p>\n<p>North Korea has sought to tighten relations with Russia even as most of Europe and the West have pulled away, blaming the US for the crisis and decrying the West's \"hegemonic policy\" as justifying military action by Russia in Ukraine to protect itself.<\/p>\n<p>The North Korean government has even hinted it is interested in sending construction workers to help rebuild pro-Russia breakaway regions in Ukraine's east.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In July, North Korea became the only nation aside from Russia and Syria to recognise the independence of the Moscow-controlled territories in the eastern Donbas region, the so-called Donetsk and Luhansk people's republics.<\/p>\n<p>North Korea also used the war as a window to accelerate its own arms development, testing dozens of weapons, including its first long-range missiles since 2017, thus exploiting a divide in the UN Security Council, where Russia and China have blocked Washington's attempts to tighten sanctions on Pyongyang.<\/p>\n<p>The North has punctuated its testing activity with repeated threats of nuclear conflict with Seoul and Washington.<\/p>\n<div\n data-stories-id=\"6887510,6704142\"\n data-event=\"widget_related\"\n class=\"widget widget--type-related widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <ul class=\"widget__related_list\"><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2022//07//28//kim-jong-un-threatens-with-nuclear-forces-to-overwhelm-any-hostile-forces/">Kim Jong Un threatens with nuclear forces to 'overwhelm any hostile forces'<\/a> <\/li><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2022//05//16//north-korea-mobilises-military-as-suspected-covid-outbreak-surges/">North Korea mobilises military as suspected COVID outbreak surges<\/a> <\/li><\/ul>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The latest was a law passed by Pyongyang's rubber-stamp parliament this month that further enshrined the country's status as a nuclear power and authorised the preemptive use of nuclear weapons over a broad range of scenarios where its leadership comes under threat.<\/p>\n<p>Sung Kim, the Biden 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said.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1663825952,"publishedAt":1663828707,"updatedAt":1663828709,"expiresAt":0,"canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2022\/09\/22\/north-korea-denies-exporting-arms-to-russia-amid-ukraine-war","programDeliverable":{"slug":"sujet-web","format":"default"},"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/03\/34\/94\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_c6b46747-9901-5710-9031-6ad53aaa2e78-7033494.jpg","altText":"Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un shake hands during their meeting in Vladivostok in 2019","caption":"Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un shake hands during their meeting in Vladivostok in 2019","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"AP Photo\/Alexander Zemlianichenko, 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to 'overwhelm any hostile forces'","titleListing2":"North Korean leader's fiery speech on the anniversary of the Korean War armistice was meant to boost domestic unity after the Asian hermit state was hit hard by sanctions and COVID-19.","leadin":"North Korean leader's fiery speech on the anniversary of the end of the Korean War armistice was meant to boost domestic unity after the Asian hermit state was hit particularly hard by sanctions and COVID-19.","summary":"North Korean leader's fiery speech on the anniversary of the end of the Korean War armistice was meant to boost domestic unity after the Asian hermit state was hit particularly hard by sanctions and COVID-19.","keySentence":null,"url":"kim-jong-un-threatens-with-nuclear-forces-to-overwhelm-any-hostile-forces","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"North Korean leader Kim Jong Un warned he is ready to use his nuclear weapons in potential military conflicts with the United States and South Korea, blaming Pyongyang's rivals for what he said was pushing the Korean Peninsula to the brink of war. \n\n\"Our armed forces are completely prepared to respond to any crisis, and our country's nuclear war deterrent is also ready to mobilise its absolute power dutifully, exactly and swiftly in accordance with its mission,\" Kim said in Wednesday's speech\u00a0to war veterans on the 69th anniversary of the end of the 1950-53 Korean War. \n\nKim's speech aimed to boost internal unity in the impoverished country amid pandemic-related economic difficulties.\u00a0 \n\nWhile Kim has increasingly threatened his rivals with nuclear weapons, it is unlikely that he would use them first against the superior militaries of the US and its allies, observers say.\u00a0 \n\nSupreme Leader Kim also used the opportunity to accuse\u00a0the US of \"demonising\" North Korea to justify its hostile policies.\u00a0 \n\nHe said US-South Korea military drills targeting North Korea show the western country's \"double standards\" and \"gangster-like\" aspects because it brands Pyongyang's routine military activities \u2014 an apparent reference to its missile tests \u2014 as provocations or threats. \n\nUS-South Korean military alliance 'suicidal action' \n\nKim also alleged the new South Korean government of President Yoon Suk Yeol is led by \"confrontation maniacs\" and \"gangsters\" who have gone further than previous South Korean conservative governments.\u00a0 \n\nSince taking office in May, the Yoon government has moved to strengthen Seoul's military alliance with the United States and bolster its capacity to neutralise North Korean nuclear threats, including a preemptive strike capability. \n\n\"Talking about military action against our nation, which possesses absolute weapons that they fear the most, is preposterous and is very dangerous suicidal action,\" Kim said.\u00a0 \n\n\"Such a dangerous attempt will be immediately punished by our powerful strength, and the Yoon Suk Yeol government and his military will be annihilated.\" \n\nMoon Hong-Sik, a deputy spokesperson at the South Korean Defense Ministry, reiterated on Thursday an earlier position that Seoul has been boosting its military capacity and joint defence posture with the US to cope with escalating nuclear threats from Pyongyang. South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff said the military maintains a firm readiness. \n\nIn April, Kim said North Korea could preemptively use nuclear weapons if threatened, saying they would \"never be confined to the single mission of war deterrent.\"\u00a0 \n\nKim's military also has test-launched nuclear-capable missiles that place both the US mainland and South Korea within striking distance. US and South Korean officials have repeatedly said in the past few months that North Korea is ready to conduct its first nuclear test in five years. \n\nSanctions, mismanagement and covid \n\nKim is seeking greater public support as his country's economy has been battered by pandemic-related border shutdowns, US-led sanctions and own mismanagement.\u00a0 \n\nIn May, North Korea also admitted to its first COVID-19 outbreak, though the scale of illness and death is widely disputed in a country that lacks the modern medical capacity to handle it. \n\n\"Kim's rhetoric inflates external threats to justify his militarily focused and economically struggling regime,\" said Leif-Eric Easley, a professor at Ewha University in Seoul.\u00a0 \n\n\"North Korea's nuclear and missile programs are in violation of international law, but Kim tries to depict his destabilising arms buildup as a righteous effort at self-defence.\" \n\nExperts say North Korea will likely intensify its threats against the United States and South Korea as the allies prepare to expand summertime exercises.\u00a0 \n\nIn recent years, the South Korean and US militaries have cancelled or downsized some of their regular exercises due to concerns about COVID-19 and to support now-stalled US-led diplomacy aimed at convincing North Korea to give up its nuclear program in return for economic and political benefits. \n\nDuring Wednesday's speech, Kim said his government recently set tasks to improve its military capability more speedily to respond to military pressure campaigns by its enemies, suggesting that he intends to go ahead with an expected nuclear test. \n\nBut Cheong Seong-Chang at the private Sejong Institute in South Korea said North Korea would not likely conduct its nuclear test before China -- its principal ally and biggest aid benefactor -- holds its Communist Party convention in the autumn.\u00a0 \n\nHe said China worries that a North Korean nuclear test could give the US a justification to boost its security partnerships with its allies that it could use to check Chinese influence in the region. \n\nNorth Korea recently said it is moving to overcome the COVID-19 outbreak amid plummeting fever cases. Still, experts say it is unclear if the country can lift its strict restrictions soon because it could face a viral resurgence later this year.\u00a0 \n\nDuring Wednesday's event, Kim, veterans and others did not wear masks, state media photos showed. On Thursday, North Korea reported 11 fever cases, a massive drop from the peak of about 400,000 a day in May. \n\nNorth Korea has rejected US and South Korean offers for medical relief items. It has also said it would not return to talks with Washington unless it first abandons its hostile policies on the North, in an apparent reference to the sanctions and US-South Korean military drills.","htmlText":"<p>North Korean leader Kim Jong Un warned he is ready to use his nuclear weapons in potential military conflicts with the United States and South Korea, blaming Pyongyang's rivals for what he said was pushing the Korean Peninsula to the brink of war.<\/p>\n<p>\"Our armed forces are completely prepared to respond to any crisis, and our country's nuclear war deterrent is also ready to mobilise its absolute power dutifully, exactly and swiftly in accordance with its mission,\" Kim said in Wednesday's speech\u00a0to war veterans on the 69th anniversary of the end of the 1950-53 Korean War.<\/p>\n<p>Kim's speech aimed to boost internal unity in the impoverished country amid pandemic-related economic difficulties.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div\n data-stories-id=\"6704142,6656006\"\n data-event=\"widget_related\"\n class=\"widget widget--type-related widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <ul class=\"widget__related_list\"><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2022//04//26//north-korea-vows-to-develop-its-nuclear-arsenal-at-the-maximum-speed/">North Korea vows to develop its nuclear arsenal 'at the maximum speed\u2019<\/a> <\/li><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2022//05//16//north-korea-mobilises-military-as-suspected-covid-outbreak-surges/">North Korea mobilises military as suspected COVID outbreak surges<\/a> <\/li><\/ul>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>While Kim has increasingly threatened his rivals with nuclear weapons, it is unlikely that he would use them first against the superior militaries of the US and its allies, observers say.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Supreme Leader Kim also used the opportunity to accuse\u00a0the US of \"demonising\" North Korea to justify its hostile policies.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He said US-South Korea military drills targeting North Korea show the western country's \"double standards\" and \"gangster-like\" aspects because it brands Pyongyang's routine military activities \u2014 an apparent reference to its missile tests \u2014 as provocations or threats.<\/p>\n<h2>US-South Korean military alliance 'suicidal action'<\/h2><p>Kim also alleged the new South Korean government of President Yoon Suk Yeol is led by \"confrontation maniacs\" and \"gangsters\" who have gone further than previous South Korean conservative governments.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Since taking office in May, the Yoon government has moved to strengthen Seoul's military alliance with the United States and bolster its capacity to neutralise North Korean nuclear threats, including a preemptive strike capability.<\/p>\n<p>\"Talking about military action against our nation, which possesses absolute weapons that they fear the most, is preposterous and is very dangerous suicidal action,\" Kim said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\"Such a dangerous attempt will be immediately punished by our powerful strength, and the Yoon Suk Yeol government and his military will be annihilated.\"<\/p>\n<div\n data-stories-id=\"6622404,6571438\"\n data-event=\"widget_related\"\n class=\"widget widget--type-related widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <ul class=\"widget__related_list\"><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2022//04//16//north-korea-s-kim-jong-un-attends-parade-honouring-grandfather-s-birthday/">North Korea's Kim Jong Un attends parade honouring grandfather's birthday<\/a> <\/li><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2022//03//26//us-leads-calls-for-sanctions-against-north-korea-after-long-range-missile-test/">US leads calls for sanctions against North Korea after long-range missile test<\/a> <\/li><\/ul>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Moon Hong-Sik, a deputy spokesperson at the South Korean Defense Ministry, reiterated on Thursday an earlier position that Seoul has been boosting its military capacity and joint defence posture with the US to cope with escalating nuclear threats from Pyongyang. South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff said the military maintains a firm readiness.<\/p>\n<p>In April, Kim said North Korea could preemptively use nuclear weapons if threatened, saying they would \"never be confined to the single mission of war deterrent.\"\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Kim's military also has test-launched nuclear-capable missiles that place both the US mainland and South Korea within striking distance. US and South Korean officials have repeatedly said in the past few months that North Korea is ready to conduct its first nuclear test in five years.<\/p>\n<h2>Sanctions, mismanagement and covid<\/h2><p>Kim is seeking greater public support as his country's economy has been battered by pandemic-related border shutdowns, US-led sanctions and own mismanagement.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In May, North Korea also admitted to its first COVID-19 outbreak, though the scale of illness and death is widely disputed in a country that lacks the modern medical capacity to handle it.<\/p>\n<p>\"Kim's rhetoric inflates external threats to justify his militarily focused and economically struggling regime,\" said Leif-Eric Easley, a professor at Ewha University in Seoul.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\"North Korea's nuclear and missile programs are in violation of international law, but Kim tries to depict his destabilising arms buildup as a righteous effort at self-defence.\"<\/p>\n<div\n data-stories-id=\"6701336,6696400\"\n data-event=\"widget_related\"\n class=\"widget widget--type-related widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <ul class=\"widget__related_list\"><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2022//05//12//north-korea-declares-first-covid-19-outbreak-after-more-than-two-years-of-pandemic/">North Korea declares first COVID-19 outbreak after more than two years of pandemic<\/a> <\/li><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2022//05//14//health-services-in-north-korea-struggle-to-cope-with-covid-19-outbreak/">Health services in North Korea struggle to cope with Covid-19 outbreak<\/a> <\/li><\/ul>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Experts say North Korea will likely intensify its threats against the United States and South Korea as the allies prepare to expand summertime exercises.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In recent years, the South Korean and US militaries have cancelled or downsized some of their regular exercises due to concerns about COVID-19 and to support now-stalled US-led diplomacy aimed at convincing North Korea to give up its nuclear program in return for economic and political benefits.<\/p>\n<p>During Wednesday's speech, Kim said his government recently set tasks to improve its military capability more speedily to respond to military pressure campaigns by its enemies, suggesting that he intends to go ahead with an expected nuclear test.<\/p>\n<p>But Cheong Seong-Chang at the private Sejong Institute in South Korea said North Korea would not likely conduct its nuclear test before China -- its principal ally and biggest aid benefactor -- holds its Communist Party convention in the autumn.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He said China worries that a North Korean nuclear test could give the US a justification to boost its security partnerships with its allies that it could use to check Chinese influence in the region.<\/p>\n<div\n data-stories-id=\"6568344,6438862\"\n data-event=\"widget_related\"\n class=\"widget widget--type-related widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <ul class=\"widget__related_list\"><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2022//01//30//north-korea-tests-long-range-missile-first-and-most-potent-in-five-years/">'War deterrent': North Korea tests most potent long-range missile in five years<\/a> <\/li><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2022//03//25//north-korea-says-it-test-fired-its-biggest-intercontinental-ballistic-missile/">North Korea says it test-fired its biggest intercontinental ballistic missile<\/a> <\/li><\/ul>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>North Korea recently said it is moving to overcome the COVID-19 outbreak amid plummeting fever cases. Still, experts say it is unclear if the country can lift its strict restrictions soon because it could face a viral resurgence later this year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>During Wednesday's event, Kim, veterans and others did not wear masks, state media photos showed. On Thursday, North Korea reported 11 fever cases, a massive drop from the peak of about 400,000 a day in May.<\/p>\n<p>North Korea has rejected US and South Korean offers for medical relief items. It has also said it would not return to talks with Washington unless it first abandons its hostile policies on the North, in an apparent reference to the sanctions and US-South Korean military drills.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1658988559,"publishedAt":1658990575,"updatedAt":1658990580,"expiresAt":0,"canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2022\/07\/28\/kim-jong-un-threatens-with-nuclear-forces-to-overwhelm-any-hostile-forces","programDeliverable":{"slug":"sujet","format":"default"},"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/06\/88\/75\/10\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_1c4d7c8f-17af-52dd-89a6-cba06d9891b0-6887510.jpg","altText":"North Korean leader Kim Jong Un gives a speech in Pyongyang on 27 July 2022","caption":"North Korean leader Kim Jong Un gives a speech in Pyongyang on 27 July 2022","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Korean Central News Agency\/Korea News Service via AP","sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"callToActionText":null,"width":1600,"height":900}],"authors":{"journalists":[],"producers":[],"videoEditor":[]},"keywords":[{"id":366,"slug":"north-korea","urlSafeValue":"north-korea","title":"North Korea","titleRaw":"North Korea"},{"id":11582,"slug":"north-korea-nuclear-war-threats","urlSafeValue":"north-korea-nuclear-war-threats","title":"North Korea nuclear war threats","titleRaw":"North Korea nuclear war threats"},{"id":8809,"slug":"kim-jong-un","urlSafeValue":"kim-jong-un","title":"Kim Jong-un","titleRaw":"Kim Jong-un"}],"related":[],"technicalTags":[],"widgets":[{"slug":"related","count":4}],"allViews":0,"allViewsMeta":{"pointOfView":{"quotation":null,"description":null,"author":null},"survey":[],"tweetId":0,"tweet2NdId":null,"contentType":null,"displayOverlay":0},"displayType":"default","video":0,"videos":[],"externalPartners":[],"liveStream":[],"scribbleLiveId":0,"scribbleLiveRibbon":0,"isLiveCoverage":0,"sourceId":1,"sources":[],"externalSource":"AP","additionalSources":null,"additionalReporting":"Euronews","freeField1":null,"freeField2":"","type":"","program":{"id":"world","urlSafeValue":"world","title":"world news","online":1,"url":"\/\/www.euronews.com\/programs\/world"},"vertical":"news","verticals":[{"id":1,"slug":"news","urlSafeValue":"news","title":"News"}],"primaryVertical":{"id":1,"slug":"news","urlSafeValue":"news","title":"News"},"themes":[{"id":"news","urlSafeValue":"news","title":"World","url":"\/\/www.euronews.com\/news\/international"}],"primaryTheme":{"id":1,"urlSafeValue":"news","title":"News"},"advertising":0,"advertisingData":{"startDate":0,"endDate":0,"type":null,"isDfp":0,"slug":null,"title":null,"disclaimerLabelKey":null,"sponsor":null,"sponsorName":null,"sponsorUrl":null,"sponsorLogo":"","sponsorLogoReverse":""},"geoLocation":{"lat":0,"lon":0},"location":1,"continent":{"id":12,"urlSafeValue":"asia","title":"Asia"},"country":{"id":366,"urlSafeValue":"north-korea","title":"North Korea","url":"\/news\/asia\/north-korea"},"town":[],"versions":[],"path":"\/2022\/07\/28\/kim-jong-un-threatens-with-nuclear-forces-to-overwhelm-any-hostile-forces","lastModified":1658990580},{"id":1940156,"cid":6714606,"versionId":1,"archive":0,"housenumber":"220521_NWSU_46560427","owner":"euronews","isMagazine":0,"grapeshot":"'gs_covid19','gs_health_misc','gs_health','gs_sport_basketball','gv_safe'","channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"North Korea claims progress despite thousands more with fever symptoms","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"North Korea claims progress despite thousands more with fever symptoms","titleListing2":"North Korea claims progress despite thousands more with fever symptoms","leadin":"North Korean authorities say that almost 220.000 more people with fever symptoms have been found. This comes as Kim Jong Un claims progress is being made to slow the spread of COVID-19.","summary":"North Korean authorities say that almost 220.000 more people with fever symptoms have been found. This comes as Kim Jong Un claims progress is being made to slow the spread of COVID-19.","keySentence":null,"url":"north-korea-claims-progress-despite-thousands-more-with-fever-symptoms","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"North Korea said it found nearly 220,000 more people with fever symptoms, despite leader Kim Jong Un claiming progress in slowing a largely undiagnosed spread of COVID-19 across his unvaccinated populace. \n\nThe outbreak has caused concern about serious tragedies in the poor, isolated country with one of the world\u2019s worst health care systems and a high tolerance for civilian suffering.\u00a0 \n\nExperts say North Korea is almost certainly downplaying the true scale of the viral spread, including a strangely small death toll, to soften the political blow on Kim as he navigates the toughest moment in his decade of rule. \n\nAround 219,030 North Koreans with fevers were identified in the 24 hours through 6 pm Friday, the fifth straight daily increase of around 200,000, according to the state-run Central News Agency, which attributed the information to the government\u2019s anti-virus headquarters. \n\nNorth Korea said more than 2.4 million people have fallen ill and 66 people have died since an unidentified fever began quickly spreading in late April, although the country has only been able to identify a handful of those cases as COVID-19 due to a lack of testing supplies.\u00a0 \n\nAfter maintaining a dubious claim for two and a half years that it had perfectly blocked the virus from entering its territory, the North admitted to Omicron infections last week. \n\nKim 'might conduct weapons test' during Biden's visit to South Korea \n\nAmid a paucity of public health tools, the North has mobilized more than a million health workers to find people with fevers and isolate them at quarantine facilities.\u00a0 \n\nKim also imposed strict restrictions on travel between cities and towns and mobilized thousands of troops to help with the transport of medicine to pharmacies in the country\u2019s capital, Pyongyang, which has been the centre of the outbreak. \n\nDuring a ruling party Politburo meeting on Saturday, Kim\u00a0 also seemed to hint at relaxing his pandemic response to ease his economic woes, instructing officials to actively modify the country\u2019s preventive measures based on the changing virus situation and to come up with various plans to revitalize the national economy. \n\nExperts say Kim can\u2019t afford to bring the country to a standstill that would unleash further shock on a fragile economy, strained by decades of mismanagement, crippling US-led sanctions over his nuclear weapons ambitions and pandemic border closures.\u00a0 \n\nNorth Korea\u2019s optimistic description of its pandemic response starkly contrasts with outside concerns about dire consequences, including deaths that may reach tens of thousands. \n\nNorth Korea\u2019s admission of a COVID-19 outbreak came amid a streak of weapons tests, including the country\u2019s first demonstration of an intercontinental ballistic missile since 2017 in March, as Kim pushes brinkmanship aimed at pressuring the US to accept the idea of the North as nuclear power and negotiating economic and security concessions from a position of strength. \n\nThe economic challenges and COVID-19 crisis are unlikely to slow his pressure campaign. US and South Korean officials have said there\u2019s a possibility the North conducts another missile or nuclear explosive test during or around President Joe Biden\u2019s visits to South Korea and Japan this week. \n\nNuclear negotiations between Washington and Pyongyang have stalled for more than three years over disagreements over how to relax crippling US-led sanctions in exchange for disarmament steps by the North.","htmlText":"<p>North Korea said it found nearly 220,000 more people with fever symptoms, despite leader Kim Jong Un claiming progress in slowing a largely undiagnosed spread of COVID-19 across his unvaccinated populace.<\/p>\n<p>The outbreak has caused concern about serious tragedies in the poor, isolated country with one of the world\u2019s worst health care systems and a high tolerance for civilian suffering.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Experts say North Korea is almost certainly downplaying the true scale of the viral spread, including a strangely small death toll, to soften the political blow on Kim as he navigates the toughest moment in his decade of rule.<\/p>\n<p>Around 219,030 North Koreans with fevers were identified in the 24 hours through 6 pm Friday, the fifth straight daily increase of around 200,000, according to the state-run Central News Agency, which attributed the information to the government\u2019s anti-virus headquarters.<\/p>\n<div\n data-stories-id=\"6701336,6696400\"\n data-event=\"widget_related\"\n class=\"widget widget--type-related widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <ul class=\"widget__related_list\"><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2022//05//12//north-korea-declares-first-covid-19-outbreak-after-more-than-two-years-of-pandemic/">North Korea declares first COVID-19 outbreak after more than two years of pandemic<\/a> <\/li><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2022//05//14//health-services-in-north-korea-struggle-to-cope-with-covid-19-outbreak/">Health services in North Korea struggle to cope with Covid-19 outbreak<\/a> <\/li><\/ul>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>North Korea said more than 2.4 million people have fallen ill and 66 people have died since an unidentified fever began quickly spreading in late April, although the country has only been able to identify a handful of those cases as COVID-19 due to a lack of testing supplies.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After maintaining a dubious claim for two and a half years that it had perfectly blocked the virus from entering its territory, the North admitted to Omicron infections last week.<\/p>\n<h2>Kim 'might conduct weapons test' during Biden's visit to South Korea<\/h2><p>Amid a paucity of public health tools, the North has mobilized more than a million health workers to find people with fevers and isolate them at quarantine facilities.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Kim also imposed strict restrictions on travel between cities and towns and mobilized thousands of troops to help with the transport of medicine to pharmacies in the country\u2019s capital, Pyongyang, which has been the centre of the outbreak.<\/p>\n<p>During a ruling party Politburo meeting on Saturday, Kim\u00a0also seemed to hint at relaxing his pandemic response to ease his economic woes, instructing officials to actively modify the country\u2019s preventive measures based on the changing virus situation and to come up with various plans to revitalize the national economy.<\/p>\n<p>Experts say Kim can\u2019t afford to bring the country to a standstill that would unleash further shock on a fragile economy, strained by decades of mismanagement, crippling US-led sanctions over his nuclear weapons ambitions and pandemic border closures.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>North Korea\u2019s optimistic description of its pandemic response starkly contrasts with outside concerns about dire consequences, including deaths that may reach tens of thousands.<\/p>\n<div\n data-stories-id=\"6704142,6656006\"\n data-event=\"widget_related\"\n class=\"widget widget--type-related widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <ul class=\"widget__related_list\"><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2022//04//26//north-korea-vows-to-develop-its-nuclear-arsenal-at-the-maximum-speed/">North Korea vows to develop its nuclear arsenal 'at the maximum speed\u2019<\/a> <\/li><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2022//05//16//north-korea-mobilises-military-as-suspected-covid-outbreak-surges/">North Korea mobilises military as suspected COVID outbreak surges<\/a> <\/li><\/ul>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>North Korea\u2019s admission of a COVID-19 outbreak came amid a streak of weapons tests, including the country\u2019s first demonstration of an intercontinental ballistic missile since 2017 in March, as Kim pushes brinkmanship aimed at pressuring the US to accept the idea of the North as nuclear power and negotiating economic and security concessions from a position of strength.<\/p>\n<p>The economic challenges and COVID-19 crisis are unlikely to slow his pressure campaign. US and South Korean officials have said there\u2019s a possibility the North conducts another missile or nuclear explosive test during or around President Joe Biden\u2019s visits to South Korea and Japan this week.<\/p>\n<p>Nuclear negotiations between Washington and Pyongyang have stalled for more than three years over disagreements over how to relax crippling US-led sanctions in exchange for disarmament steps by the North.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1653121369,"publishedAt":1653144703,"updatedAt":1653144706,"expiresAt":0,"canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2022\/05\/21\/north-korea-claims-progress-despite-thousands-more-with-fever-symptoms","programDeliverable":{"slug":"sujet","format":"default"},"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/06\/71\/46\/22\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_753689a3-9382-5c4b-8dd2-5da03bf1a29f-6714622.jpg","altText":"Kimg Jong UN and Ministers","caption":"Kimg Jong UN and 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surges","leadin":"While it's clear COVID-19 is spreading at an alarming speed, there are questions about the accuracy of North Korea's fever tally.","summary":"While it's clear COVID-19 is spreading at an alarming speed, there are questions about the accuracy of North Korea's fever tally.","keySentence":null,"url":"north-korea-mobilises-military-as-suspected-covid-outbreak-surges","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"North Korean leader Kim Jong Un criticised officials over slow medicine deliveries and mobilised the military to respond to a surge in suspected COVID-19 infections, as his nation struggled to contain a fever that has reportedly killed dozens and sickened nearly a million others in a span of three days. \n\nNorth Korean health authorities said on Monday that eight more people died and an additional 392,920 were newly found to have feverish symptoms. That brings the death toll to 50 and illnesses to more than 1.2 million, respectively. It\u2019s a sharp jump from six dead and 350,000 sick reported last Friday, a day after the North said that it found that an unspecified number of people in the capital Pyongyang had tested positive for the omicron variant. \n\nKim has acknowledged that the fast-spreading fever, highly likely driven by COVID-19, is causing \u201cgreat upheaval\u201d in the country, and outside experts say the true scale of the outbreak is likely much bigger than what\u2019s described in the state-controlled media. \n\nSome suspect that North Korea has understated its fatalities or illnesses to shield Kim's leadership from criticism. The North likely lacks test kits and other tools to detect virus carriers with no or mild symptoms, which means that several million might already have been infected. \n\n\u201cWhen people die, North Korean authorities will say they\u2019ve died of overwork or from natural deaths, not because of COVID-19,\u201d said Nam Sung-wook, a professor at Korea University in South Korea. Nam said the North is likely understating the death toll to protect \u201cthe dignity of its supreme leader\u201d. \n\nWhile neighbouring South Korea and China have offered to send medical supplies and other help, experts say it\u2019s too late to inoculate the North\u2019s 26 million people, and that the only realistic outside help would be offering limited supplies of vaccines to reduce deaths among high-risk groups, including the elderly and people with preexisting conditions. \n\nIt's also unclear whether and how soon Kim would accept outside offers of aid because he has previously rallied for unity at home to guard against the pandemic without resorting to foreign help. \n\nState media didn\u2019t specify how many of the fever cases were confirmed as COVID-19. Among the 50 fatalities, North Korea officially identified only one as a COVID-19 case so far. \n\nNorth Korea is believed to be mostly relying on isolating people with symptoms at shelters. Analyst Cheong Seong-Chang at South Korea\u2019s Sejong Institute said the North\u2019s limited number of test kits is likely mainly reserved for the ruling elite. \n\nFailing to slow the virus could have dire consequences for North Korea, considering its broken health care system and that its people are believed to be unvaccinated. There's also malnourishment and chronic poverty. \n\nThe North imposed what it described as maximum preventive measures that restricted travel between cities and counties, and Kim ordered public health officials, teachers and others to identify people with fevers so they could be quarantined. As of Sunday, more than 564,860 people were in quarantine, North Korea's state media reported. \n\nThe explosive growth in fever cases may underscore how fast omicron could travel across an unvaccinated population without access to proper health tools, and fatalities will surely jump in coming weeks considering time lags between infections and deaths, said Jung Jae-hun, a professor of preventive medicine at South Korea\u2019s Gachon University. \n\nWhile it's clear COVID-19 is spreading at an alarming speed, there are questions about the accuracy of North Korea's fever tally. Jung said it's unlikely that North Korean health workers are able to make reliable daily updates, considering the lack of tests and other resources, and are possibly adding multiple days of cases into their single-day counts following delays. \n\nCho Han Bum, an analyst at Seoul's Korea Institute for National Unification, said North Korea's fever totals seemed an \u201coutright lie\u201d. \n\n\"North Korea says about 390,000 more fell ill but only eight died in the past day, while South Korea (on Sunday) reported 25,000 new cases and 48 deaths,\u201d he said. \n\nYang Moo-jin, a professor at Seoul\u2019s University of North Korean Studies, said that the real number of COVID-19 infections in North Korea is likely at least three times larger than North Korea's tally of fever patients because of underreporting, the bad health care system and poorly computerized administrative networks. \n\nKim during a ruling party Politburo meeting on Sunday criticised government and health officials over what he portrayed as a botched pandemic response, saying medicine supplies aren\u2019t being distributed to pharmacies in time because of their \u201cirresponsible work attitude\u201d and lack of organization. \n\nThe Politburo had issued an emergency order to immediately release and quickly distribute state medicine reserves and for pharmacies to open for 24-hour shifts, but Kim said such steps weren\u2019t being properly implemented. Kim ordered the medical units of his military to get involved in stabilizing the supply of medicine in Pyongyang, KCNA said. \n\nNorth Korea\u2019s previous claim of a perfect record in keeping out the virus for 2 1\/2 years was widely doubted. But its extremely strict border closure, large-scale quarantines and propaganda that stressed anti-virus controls as a matter of \u201cnational existence\u201d may have staved off a huge outbreak until now. \n\nSouth Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol told the National Assembly on Monday that the South was willing to send vaccines, medicine, equipment and health personnel to the North if it\u2019s willing to accept. \n\nSouth Korean officials say Pyongyang so far has made no request for Seoul\u2019s help. The North also shunned millions of vaccine doses offered by the U.N.-backed COVAX distribution program, likely because they carried international monitoring requirements. \n\nKim still stressed the country\u2019s economic goals should be met, which likely means huge groups will continue to gather at agricultural, industrial and construction sites.","htmlText":"<p>North Korean leader Kim Jong Un criticised officials over slow medicine deliveries and mobilised the military to respond to a surge in suspected COVID-19 infections, as his nation struggled to contain a fever that has reportedly killed dozens and sickened nearly a million others in a span of three days.<\/p>\n<p>North Korean health authorities said on Monday that eight more people died and an additional 392,920 were newly found to have feverish symptoms. That brings the death toll to 50 and illnesses to more than 1.2 million, respectively. It\u2019s a sharp jump from six dead and 350,000 sick reported last Friday, a day after the North said that it found that an unspecified number of people in the capital Pyongyang had tested positive for the omicron variant.<\/p>\n<p>Kim has acknowledged that the fast-spreading fever, highly likely driven by COVID-19, is causing \u201cgreat upheaval\u201d in the country, and outside experts say the true scale of the outbreak is likely much bigger than what\u2019s described in the state-controlled media.<\/p>\n<p>Some suspect that North Korea has understated its fatalities or illnesses to shield Kim's leadership from criticism. The North likely lacks test kits and other tools to detect virus carriers with no or mild symptoms, which means that several million might already have been infected.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen people die, North Korean authorities will say they\u2019ve died of overwork or from natural deaths, not because of COVID-19,\u201d said Nam Sung-wook, a professor at Korea University in South Korea. Nam said the North is likely understating the death toll to protect \u201cthe dignity of its supreme leader\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>While neighbouring South Korea and China have offered to send medical supplies and other help, experts say it\u2019s too late to inoculate the North\u2019s 26 million people, and that the only realistic outside help would be offering limited supplies of vaccines to reduce deaths among high-risk groups, including the elderly and people with preexisting conditions.<\/p>\n<p>It's also unclear whether and how soon Kim would accept outside offers of aid because he has previously rallied for unity at home to guard against the pandemic without resorting to foreign help.<\/p>\n<p>State media didn\u2019t specify how many of the fever cases were confirmed as COVID-19. Among the 50 fatalities, North Korea officially identified only one as a COVID-19 case so far.<\/p>\n<p>North Korea is believed to be mostly relying on isolating people with symptoms at shelters. Analyst Cheong Seong-Chang at South Korea\u2019s Sejong Institute said the North\u2019s limited number of test kits is likely mainly reserved for the ruling elite.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-quotation\n widget--size-fullwidth\n widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__content\">\n <blockquote class=\"widget__quote\">\n <span class=\"widget__quoteText\">When people die, North Korean authorities will say they\u2019ve died of overwork or from natural deaths, not because of COVID-19<\/span>\n <\/blockquote>\n <cite class=\"widget__author\">\n <\/cite>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Failing to slow the virus could have dire consequences for North Korea, considering its broken health care system and that its people are believed to be unvaccinated. There's also malnourishment and chronic poverty.<\/p>\n<p>The North imposed what it described as maximum preventive measures that restricted travel between cities and counties, and Kim ordered public health officials, teachers and others to identify people with fevers so they could be quarantined. As of Sunday, more than 564,860 people were in quarantine, North Korea's state media reported.<\/p>\n<p>The explosive growth in fever cases may underscore how fast omicron could travel across an unvaccinated population without access to proper health tools, and fatalities will surely jump in coming weeks considering time lags between infections and deaths, said Jung Jae-hun, a professor of preventive medicine at South Korea\u2019s Gachon University.<\/p>\n<p>While it's clear COVID-19 is spreading at an alarming speed, there are questions about the accuracy of North Korea's fever tally. Jung said it's unlikely that North Korean health workers are able to make reliable daily updates, considering the lack of tests and other resources, and are possibly adding multiple days of cases into their single-day counts following delays.<\/p>\n<p>Cho Han Bum, an analyst at Seoul's Korea Institute for National Unification, said North Korea's fever totals seemed an \u201coutright lie\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\"North Korea says about 390,000 more fell ill but only eight died in the past day, while South Korea (on Sunday) reported 25,000 new cases and 48 deaths,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Yang Moo-jin, a professor at Seoul\u2019s University of North Korean Studies, said that the real number of COVID-19 infections in North Korea is likely at least three times larger than North Korea's tally of fever patients because of underreporting, the bad health care system and poorly computerized administrative networks.<\/p>\n<p>Kim during a ruling party Politburo meeting on Sunday criticised government and health officials over what he portrayed as a botched pandemic response, saying medicine supplies aren\u2019t being distributed to pharmacies in time because of their \u201cirresponsible work attitude\u201d and lack of organization.<\/p>\n<p>The Politburo had issued an emergency order to immediately release and quickly distribute state medicine reserves and for pharmacies to open for 24-hour shifts, but Kim said such steps weren\u2019t being properly implemented. Kim ordered the medical units of his military to get involved in stabilizing the supply of medicine in Pyongyang, KCNA said.<\/p>\n<p>North Korea\u2019s previous claim of a perfect record in keeping out the virus for 2 1\/2 years was widely doubted. But its extremely strict border closure, large-scale quarantines and propaganda that stressed anti-virus controls as a matter of \u201cnational existence\u201d may have staved off a huge outbreak until now.<\/p>\n<p>South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol told the National Assembly on Monday that the South was willing to send vaccines, medicine, equipment and health personnel to the North if it\u2019s willing to accept.<\/p>\n<p>South Korean officials say Pyongyang so far has made no request for Seoul\u2019s help. 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