North Korea launched multiple short-range ballistic missiles toward the East Sea on Tuesday, South Korea's military said, in a provocation staged just days before US President-elect Donald Trump takes office.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Saturday stated that the Ukrainian security forces have captured two North Korean military personnel in the Kursk region amid the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine.
North Korea on Saturday lambasted a recent trilateral meeting between South Korea, the US and Japan that discussed peace in the Indo-Pacific region, deriding the talks as an "insult" to peace.
A Ukrainian media outlet has reported that about 500 North Korean soldiers were killed in a missile strike by Kyiv in Russia's western Kursk region.
The powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un said on Sunday that South Korea will have to pay a "dear price" for sending propaganda leaflets across the border the previous day.
Ethiopia is among the fastest growing economies in Africa and the portents of normalcy in the day-to-day affairs can only accelerate the recovery. Abiy must persevere and not fall into the trap of cult or perpetuating his own rule, as has been the bane of his predecessors. Ironically, the process of democratisation can unleash pent up ethnic tensions that test the patience, abilities and ambitions of a political leader.
It was still unclear that what the operation might involve, but Kim has often made trips to the sacred mountain at times of major policy endeavours.
The talks have followed North Korea’s testing of a ballistic missile from a submarine last Wednesday.
They "reaffirmed the importance of continued close... coordination on North Korea to achieve complete denuclearization," it said.
The meeting was the first formal working-level discussion since US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un met briefly at the inter-Korean border zone in June.
