January 14, 2025 5:13 pm
"These soldiers who left home for a fight there have been brainwashed and are truly ready to sacrifice themselves for Kim Jong Un," said a North Korean defector residing in South Korea.
October 28, 2024 6:52 pm
General Mark Rutte said the North Korean deployment represented "a significant escalation" of Pyongyang's involvement in "Russia's illegal war".
August 22, 2017 3:58 pm
A five-year government defence plan that runs until end of March 2019 stipulates that annual defence budget increases, minus spending to maintain U.S. military bases, should be limited to 0.8 percent. Japan has largely stuck to that rate of increase.
January 24, 2014 12:37 pm
Earlier, the NDC had sent a series of proposals urging South Korea to cancel scheduled joint military exercises with the United States.
October 01, 2013 3:47 pm
The new missiles are reportedly capable of reaching targets at the heart of North Korea.
April 28, 2013 10:25 am
Preparations are under way near the North's western port of Nampo.
April 16, 2013 9:29 am
The act coincided with national celebrations in North Korea for the 101st anniversary.
April 04, 2013 10:23 am
Warning from Pyongyang is the latest in a series of escalating threats from North Korea.
April 23, 2012 2:31 pm
North has slammed South's Prez in extreme terms and threatened 'sacred war' over perceived insults.



