Category: North Korean

North Korea to launch satellite this month, U.N. agency says


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North Korea has indicated that it will launch a satellite sometime between February 8-25, a United Nations agency said Tuesday — a launch that has drawn American concerns because of the rocket to be used.

North Korea told the International Telecommunication Union on Tuesday that it intends to launch an Earth observation satellite, ITU spokesman Sanjay Acharya said. The ITU registers all satellite transmission frequencies to ensure there is no cross-satellite interference.

The launch could raise international tensions. U.S. officials have said the same type of rocket that would put the satellite into orbit could be used on a different occasion as an intercontinental ballistic missile.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/02/asia/north-korea-launch/index.html

NORTH KOREA TO LAUNCH SATELLITE THIS MONTH, U.N. AGENCY SAYS


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North Korea told the International Telecommunications Agency on Tuesday that it intends to launch an earth observation satellite, ITU spokesman Sanjay Acharya said. The ITU registers all satellite transmission frequencies to ensure there is no cross-satellite interference.

The launch could raise international tensions. U.S. officials have said the same type rocket that would put the satellite into orbit could also be used on a different occasion as an intercontinental ballistic missile.

A similar scenario unfolded in 2012, when North Korea announced it was launching a rocket carrying a satellite. North Korea said that operation was for peaceful purposes, but Japan, the United States and South Korea decried it as a cover for a long-range ballistic missile test.

http://www.infowars.com/north-korea-to-launch-satellite-this-month-u-n-agency-says/

 

N. Korea to launch long range missile ‘next week’ – report


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North Korea is preparing to launch a long range missile as soon as next week, Kyodo news agency reported.

 

The news agency cited Japanese government officials, who said that an analysis of satellite imagery has revealed possible signs of preparation for a missile launch.

https://www.rt.com/news/330380-north-korea-missile-test-report/

N. Korea arrests US student for ‘hostile act


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A US university student has been arrested in North Korea for “perpetrating a hostile act against the DPRK,” according to Pyongyang’s Korean Central News Agency (KCNA).

 

University of Virginia student Otto Warmbier is accused of entering North Korea under the “guise of a tourist” with intentions to bring down the foundations of the country at the “tacit connivance of the US government and under its manipulation”, according to the state news agency.

https://www.rt.com/usa/329840-north-korea-arrests-student/

North Korea detains U.S. student on New Year trip for ‘hostile act’


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North Korea has detained a U.S. university student, the third western citizen known to be held in the isolated state, for committing a “hostile act” and wanting to “destroy the country’s unity”, it said on Friday.

Otto Frederick Warmbier, 21, of the University of Virginia, was in North Korea for a five-day New Year trip and was detained at Pyongyang airport on Jan. 2 ahead of a flight back to China, said Gareth Johnson of Young Pioneer Tours, which organized the visit.

According to the North’s official KCNA news agency, Warmbier entered North Korea as a tourist and “was caught committing a hostile act against the state”, which it said was “tolerated and manipulated by the U.S. government”.

The U.S. State Department, in a statement, said it was aware of reports that a U.S. citizen had been detained in North Korea but gave no other details, citing privacy concerns.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-northkorea-usa-student-idUSKCN0V00I8?utm_source=twitter

North Korea detains U.S. student on New Year trip for ‘hostile act’


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North Korea has detained a U.S. university student, the third western citizen known to be held in the isolated state, for committing a “hostile act” and wanting to “destroy the country’s unity”, it said on Friday.

Otto Frederick Warmbier, 21, of the University of Virginia, was in North Korea for a five-day New Year trip and was detained at Pyongyang airport on Jan. 2 ahead of a flight back to China, said Gareth Johnson of Young Pioneer Tours, which organized the visit.

According to the North’s official KCNA news agency, Warmbier entered North Korea as a tourist and “was caught committing a hostile act against the state”, which it said was “tolerated and manipulated by the U.S. government”.

The U.S. State Department, in a statement, said it was aware of reports that a U.S. citizen had been detained in North Korea but gave no other details, citing privacy concerns.

Johnson said China-based Young Pioneer Tours was in contact with Warmbier’s family and U.S. officials.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-northkorea-usa-student-idUSKCN0V00I8?utm_source=twitter

Paper war: N. Korea spams South with 1mn propaganda leaflets in response to border loudspeakers


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North Korea has unleashed around a million propaganda leaflets by balloon on its Southern neighbor and enemy, with some of the materials even managing to reach Seoul.

The barrage of leaflets landed on South Korean territory since the night of January 12, when the North was detected launching plastic balloons, presumably carrying fliers, the South Korean Defense Ministry reported.

“Since the first related news report, the North Korean military is spreading leaflets on almost a daily basis,” Defense Ministry spokesman Kim Min-seok said at a press briefing. The leaflets are landing dozens of kilometers away from the border, even reaching Seoul and its neighboring areas, he added.

There are at least four different types of flyers. The leaflets criticize South Korean President Park Geun-hye and her administration’s decision to resume anti-North propaganda broadcasts through loudspeakers along the border.

https://www.rt.com/news/329336-north-korea-leaflets-south/

N. Korea to US: Stop drills, sign peace treaty if you want end to nuclear tests


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North Korea has set out a series of demands to end nuclear testing. Pyongyang wants a peace treaty to be signed with the US, but also wants Washington to stop conducting military drills with neighbor South Korea.

 

“Still valid are all proposals for preserving peace and stability on the peninsula and in Northeast Asia including the ones for ceasing our nuclear test and the conclusion of a peace treaty in return for US halt to joint military exercises,” North Korea’s official KCNA news agency cited a spokesman for the country’s Foreign Ministry as saying, according to Reuters.

https://www.rt.com/news/329192-north-korea-peace-demands/

NORTH KOREA FAKED SUB-LAUNCHED MISSILE TEST FOOTAGE: ANALYSIS


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In defiance of a U.N. ban, the isolated country has said it has ballistic missile technology which would allow it to launch a nuclear warhead from a submarine, although experts and analysis of North Korean state media cast doubt on the claim.

North Korean state television aired footage on Friday of the latest test, said to have taken place in December. Unlike a previous SLBM test in May, it had not been announced at the time.

“The rocket ejected, began to light, and then failed catastrophically,” said Melissa Hanham, a senior research associate at the California-based Middlebury Institute’s James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS).

North Korea faked sub-launched missile test footage: analysis

Why Is North Korea Our Problem?


For Xi Jinping, it has been a rough week.

Panicked flight from China’s currency twice caused a plunge of 7 percent in her stock market, forcing a suspension of trading.

Kim Jong Un, the megalomaniac who runs North Korea, ignored Xi’s warning and set off a fourth nuclear bomb. While probably not a hydrogen bomb as claimed, it was the largest blast ever in Korea.

And if Pyongyang continues building and testing nuclear bombs, Beijing is going to wake up one day and find that its neighbors, South Korea and Japan, have also acquired nuclear weapons as deterrents to North Korea.

Why Is North Korea Our Problem?