South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff said in that a North Korean rocket was launched in a southern direction off the Korean Peninsula’s west coast. It said four minutes after the launch, many fragments were spotted in the waters.
Kim drove the new tank during a mock drill to inspect the combat capabilities of tank crews and make them familiar with combat action in different missions. The mock battle comes as joint annual drills involving South Korea and the US were due to wrap up on Thursday.
South Korea's military on Monday condemned the North's latest missile launch, which Pyongyang claimed was a new solid-fuel hypersonic missile with intermediate range.
The 2017 nuclear test by North Korea shifted the ground by a few metres, and was 17 times more powerful than the bomb dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima in 1945, according to scientists from the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO).
US Ambassador Nikki Haley told an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council that North Korea's latest test of an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) "demands that countries further isolate the Kim regime."
Washington, Mar 1 : North Korea raised hopes on Wednesday for a major easing in nuclear tensions under its youthful new leader, agreeing to suspend uranium enrichment at a major facility and refrain from missile
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