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L. A. Times Dodgers Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
The new tests come a day after Pyongyang launched four short-range missiles over the sea. The latest missiles also appear to be short-range, a South Korean news agency says. North Korea fired three missiles off its eastern coast today, South Korea said, another in a series of launches since U.N. sanctions were imposed on the regime for its May nuclear test.
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CITIZEN-TIMES.com - News (Free subscription) | yesterday
North Korea fired seven ballistic missiles off its eastern coast Saturday, South Korea said, a violation of U.N. resolutions and an apparent message of defiance to the United States on its Independence Day.
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Times of the Internet (Free subscription) | 07/03/2009
SEOUL, July 3 (UPI) -- North Korea's test-firing of short-range missiles may have been to provoke South Korea, an official in Seoul said Friday. South Korean Defense Ministry spokesman Won Tae-jae said leaders thought the firing was made in regard to the relations between the two countries, South Korean news agency Yonhap reported. Unless it is a mid-range missile or a longer-range one, we believe...
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Reuters (Free subscription) | yesterday
SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea fired seven ballistic missiles on Saturday, South Korea's defense ministry said, in an act of defiance toward the United States on its Independence Day that further stoked regional tensions.
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US News & World Report (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
SEOUL — North Korea’s test-firing of seven mid-range missiles on Saturday, America’s birthday, again demonstrated the ability of the country’s authoritarian regime to grab headlines and defy penalties imposed on it by the United Nations, the U.S. and other countries for its pursuit of weapons of mass destruction. North Korea tests short- and mid-range missiles several [...]
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | yesterday
SEOUL, South Korea -- North Korean leader Kim Jong Il has been living at an east coast villa since mid-May and is likely convalescing after reportedly suffering a stroke last year, a newspaper said Sunday citing U.S. and South Korean intelligence.
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Dominican Today (Free subscription) | yesterday
Seoul.– North Korea fired seven ballistic missiles off its eastern coast Saturday, South Korea said, a violation of U.N. resolutions and an apparent message of defiance to the United States on its Independence Day. The launches, which came two days after North Korea fired what were believed to be four short-range cruise missiles, will likely further escalate tensions in the region as the U.S....
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Eye On The World (Free subscription) | yesterday
Still nothing but silence from President Hopenchange. SEOUL, South Korea ( AP ) ― North Korea fired seven ballistic missiles off its eastern coast Saturday, South Korea said, a violation of U.N. resolutions and an apparent message of defiance to the United States on its Independence Day. The launches, which came two days after North Korea fired what were believed to be four short-range cruise...
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US News & World Report (Free subscription) | yesterday
SEOUL, South Korea – North Korea fired seven ballistic missiles off its eastern coast Saturday, South Korea said, a violation of U.N. resolutions and an apparent message of defiance to the United States on its Independence Day. The launches, which came two days after North Korea fired what were believed to be four short-range cruise missiles, [...]
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PrairiePundit (Free subscription) | yesterday
James Rosen: As they crossed the airport in Singapore that day in 2003, heading for the plane that would take them to Seoul -- and a new life of freedom -- North Korean defector Kim Kwang Jin and his wife and son all feared for their lives. "My wife was very frightened," recalled Kim, a high-ranking banker for the North Korean regime who was stationed in Singapore at the time. "She told...
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | yesterday
Seoul - North Korea fired seven missiles within a ten-hour span on Saturday, reported the South Korean defence ministry, ratcheting up tensions anew on the Korean peninsula. The launches, from the country's eastern coast, come on top of four test fir...
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | yesterday
Seoul- North Korea fired its seventh missile in three days from its eastern coast Saturday, the South Korean Defence Ministry said, as Pyongyang racked up Korean Peninsula tension. The missiles, with a range of 400 to 500 kilometres, were fired over ...
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | yesterday
Seoul - North Korea fired six missiles from its eastern coast Saturday, the South Korean Defence Ministry said. The missiles, with a range of 400 to 500 kilometres, were fired over the Sea of Japan between 8 am and 4:10 pm, the ministry added. ...
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mirabeau | 09/10/2008
Popping up again in Japan, the rumor that North Korea’s leader is being replaced by a double has been doing the rounds ever since the communist nation was founded. A specialist in North Korea at Waseda university in Japan and a former correspondent in Seoul for the Japanese daily Mainichi Shimbun , Japanese academic Toshimitsu Shigemura has just published a book entitled “The True Nature of Kim Jong-il”