The missiles were reportedly launched 10 minutes apart in a northeastern direction from the town of Jangyon in southeastern North Korea. The reports said the first missile landed in the waters off the North's eastern city of Chongjin.
North Korea started flying balloons filled with manure, cigarette butts, waste batteries and vinyl in response to South Korea's propaganda leaflets flown over the border. South Korea retaliated with blasting loudspeaker broadcasts with K-Pop songs, weather forecasts and news.
The Korean Air Flight took off on Saturday towards Taichung, when a malfunction in the cabin pressurisation system caused the plane to descend rapidly. As a result, passengers experienced discomfort, including nosebleeds and ear pain, and 13 were hospitalised.
Local fire official Kim Jin-young told a televised briefing said most of the missing people were foreign nationals including Chinese. He said the mobile phone signals of the missing people were tracked to be coming from the second floor of the factory.
Satellite images showed multiple sections of the wall where barriers had been created, along with land clearing at the demilitarised zone. Tensions have been rising between the two Koreas, with the pace of Kim Jong Un's weapons tests and South's joint military drills with the US intensifying.
Putin arrived in North Korea on Wednesday for his first visit in 24 years, vowing to deepen trade and security ties with the reclusive nuclear-armed state and to support it against the United States.
South Korean military said as many as 20 to 30 soldiers breached the line by 20 metres inside the demilitarized zone and briefly moved back north after warning shots were fired by the South.
The earthquake, which had an estimated depth of 8 kilometers, was the strongest detected in South Korea this year. South Korea’s weather agency said people would have felt the shaking in the southwestern region of North Jeolla province.
The North Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff said soldiers returned to their territory after South Korea's military fired warning shots and issued warning broadcasts.
The conflict started when North Korea sent over 1,000 balloons filled with trash and manure in retaliation towards anti-Pyongyang propaganda leaflets flown in from Seoul. South Korea retaliated by blasting loudspeaker broadcasts including world news, criticism of Kim Jong Un and K-pop music.
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South Korea's recently established national space agency has revealed its plans to collaborate with the private sector to develop small reusable space rockets. The agency aims to explore one of the stable Lagrange points, with the goal to position the nation as the top five global space powers.
The missile launch happened after hundreds of balloons carrying trash and excrement across the heavily fortified border to South Korea on Wednesday as a "gift". Tensions have increased between the two Koreas due to weapons tests by North and combined military exercises in the South.
North Korea flew hundreds of balloons carrying trash and manure toward South Korea in one of its most bizarre provocations against its rival in years, prompting the South’s military to mobilise chemical and explosive response teams to recover objects and debris in different parts of the country.
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.
North Korea notified Japan of its plan to launch a rocket carrying a space satellite towards the Yellow Sea and east of Luzon Island between May 27 and June 4, the Japan Coast Guard said.
South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff condemned the launch as a provocation and vowed to repel aggressions by Pyongyang as tensions rose. This came after two US F-22 raptors participated in a joint military drill with South Korea, which North Korea sees as a security threat.
South Korea held talks on joining a part of the AUKUS defence deal between the U.S., Britain and Australia, only weeks after the pact said it would hold formal talks on Japan's entry.
North Korea has ramped up nuclear weapons development under Kim Jong Un in recent years, prompting the US and South Korea to hold military drills in a show of force. Last week, Pyongyang tested a new hypersonic intermediate-range missile powered with solid propellants.
Of the 300 seats, 254 will be elected through direct votes in local districts, and the other 46 to the parties according to their proportion of the vote. The final voter turnout for South Korea’s 44 million eligible voters was tentatively estimated at 67 per cent.
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