North Korean leader Kim Jong Un oversaw the delivery of the ballistic missile system at a ceremonial event in Pyongyang. 250 new tactical ballistic missile launchers, which serves as "pivot military hardware" were unveiled
Korean Central News Agency report made no mention of the second missile. It also did not elaborate on the nature of the simulated warhead, like where the missile launched from and where it landed.
Monday's launches came a day after Pyongyang promised "offensive and overwhelming" responses to new military drills staged by the United States, South Korea and Japan.
This is a rare overseas trip for Putin since he launched the invasion of Ukraine in 2022, and a key moment for Kim, who has not hosted another world leader in his politically isolated country since the COVID-19 pandemic.
Ahead of his two-day visit to North Korea beginning Tuesday, Russian President Vladamir Putin has said that the two countries will together build the security architecture in Eurasia, counter Western sanctions, and establish independent transaction systems.
In retaliation for North Korea's campaigns to use balloons to drop trash across the border, South Korea has announced that it will resume anti-North Korean propaganda loudspeaker broadcasts in border areas, reported Al Jazeera.
A North Korean defectors' group said that it has sent about 10 large plastic balloons carrying propaganda leaflets against the North Korean regime across the border, which has further raised about Pyongyang resuming to send trash-filled balloons, reported Yonhap News Agency.
Ramping up its 'trash balloon operations' across the border, North Korea sent 600 more trash-filled balloons to South Korea, leaving bits of paper, cloth, and cigarette butts scattered over the nation, CNN reported on Sunday citing Seoul officials.
This follows a day after Pyongyang sent hundreds of large thrash and manure filled balloons into South Korea and days after a military spy satellite rocket launch by Pyongyang did not succeed. The South Korean military also said today that it has detected attempts by North Korea to jam GP
In a new move to grapple with its neighbour, North Korea has come up with an idea of using enormous balloons to transport floating sacks of trash containing "filth" across the border, reported CNN.
According to the Korean Central News Agency, the deputy commander of the North's national aerospace agency stated that the rocket carrying the satellite, the Malligyong-1, detonated during the first stage of flight on Monday night after being launched from a launching point on the country's
During a joint press conference with South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol and China's Premier Li Qiang following the meeting in Seoul, Japan's Prime Minister Fumion Kishida emphasised on the importance of North Korean denuclearization and said that the stability on the Korean Peninsula is