Seoul (AFP) Sept 7, 2016 - North Korea on Wednesday rejected a UN Security Council statement condemning the reclusive state for its latest missile tests and threatening to take further significant measures.
Seoul (AFP) Sept 13, 2024 - North Korea released images of its uranium enrichment facility for the first time on Friday, showing leader Kim Jong Un touring it as he called for more centrifuges to boost his nuclear arsenal.
Seoul (AFP) Sept 4, 2009 - North Korea said Friday it has entered the final phase of uranium enrichment to make nuclear weapons and is also building more atomic bombs from spent reactor fuel rods.
United Nations (AFP) Sept 29, 2010 - North Korea on Wednesday vowed to strengthen its nuclear arsenal because of the threat from the United States, and never to abandon its deterrent.
Seoul (AFP) Sept 2, 2021 - North Korea has rejected around three million doses of a Chinese Covid-19 vaccine, suggesting they should be given to countries in greater need, Unicef said Thursday.
Washington (AFP) Sept 12, 2013 - North Korea appears to have restarted a reactor that produces plutonium, making good on threats to boost its stockpile of nuclear weapons, US analysts said Wednesday.
Seoul (AFP) Sept 17, 2021 - Pyongyang accused the United States of double-dealing on Friday and held Washington's duplicity responsible for stalled nuclear talks, days after both North and South Korea carried out missile launches.
Seoul (AFP) Sept 6, 2017 - Top of the list for new sanctions on North Korea after its sixth nuclear test is an oil embargo, which analysts say would have a crippling effect on the wider economy - but might do little to curb its weapons programmes.
Washington (AFP) Sept 8, 2008 - North Korea has taken steps toward restarting the nuclear reactor it began disabling under an international deal, but it is probably nowhere near being operational, a US official said Monday.
Seoul (AFP) Sept 8, 2023 - North Korea has launched its first tactical nuclear attack submarine, state media reported Friday, although the South Korean military said the vessel might not be operational.
Seoul (AFP) Sept 9, 2021 - North Korea staged a parade of paramilitary and public security forces in Pyongyang in the early hours of Thursday, state media reported, the nuclear-armed nation's third procession in less than a year.
Seoul (AFP) Sept 9, 2022 - North Korea has passed a law declaring its readiness to launch preventive nuclear strikes, including in the face of conventional attacks, state media said Friday.
Pyongyang (AFP) Sept 9, 2018 - Thousands of North Korean troops followed by artillery and tanks paraded through Pyongyang Sunday as the nuclear-armed country celebrated its 70th birthday, but it refrained from displaying the intercontinental ballistic missiles that have seen it hit with sanctions.
Washington (AFP) Sept 13, 2007 - North Korea may be helping Syria build some kind of nuclear facility, The Washington Post reported Thursday citing unnamed intelligence sources.
Seoul (AFP) Sept 9, 2022 - North Korea has passed a law allowing it to carry out a preventive nuclear strike and declaring its status as a nuclear-armed state irreversible, Pyongyang's official media said Friday.
Washington (AFP) Sept 10, 2008 - North Korea has established a second test site and launch pad for intercontinental ballistic missiles, an independent analyst who has seen imagery of the site said Wednesday.
