North Korea says bolstering self-defensive capabilities to deter rivals
Bolstering self-defensive capabilities is an essential requirement for deterring rivals' provocative attempts and ensuring national security.
Bolstering self-defensive capabilities is an essential requirement for deterring rivals' provocative attempts and ensuring national security.
North Korea has floated more trash balloons toward South Korea, the military said Saturday, after the reclusive regime claimed the South had sent unmanned drones over Pyongyang three times since last week.
Russian Defence Minister Sergey Shoigu arrived in North Korea on Tuesday, TASS News Agency reported citing Moscow's defence ministry.
Taking a positive view of Quad that brings together India, Japan, Australia and the United States on a common platform, the official declined to confirm if South Korea would like to be a member of the grouping.
North Korea still appears to be operating facilities at a now-shuttered joint industrial complex in Pyongyang's border city of Kaesong despite Seoul's repeated warnings against the unauthorised move, the South Korean Unification Ministry said on Thursday.
In response to that, North Korea said it would take "prompt corresponding actions at any level" if the US uses force against it.
The test came as Pyongyang has ramped up pressure on the US to meet its demand for a new negotiating proposal by year's end, strongly suggesting that otherwise, it could restart testing of nuclear weapons and ICBM.
On Tuesday, North Korea again urged the United States to make concessions in denuclearization talks, with a year-end deadline set by Pyongyang for progress in the negotiations looming.
North Korea was under multiple sets of international sanctions over its nuclear weapon and ballistic missile programmes and lifting some of them was a key demand at the Hanoi summit.
The statement accused South Korea of harming relations by depending on the United States in resolving inter-Korean issues.
