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Five children were found shot to death in a home near Tacoma, Washington, Saturday afternoon, police said. The payload of the rocket remains unclear. North Korea has said the rocket was to carry a satellite into space, but the United States, South Korea and other nations fear it could be a missile with a warhead attached
North Korea has launched a long-range rocket, U.S. and South Korean officials confirmed to CNN on Sunday.
The United States, Japan and South Korea can only wait and see what North Korea has up its sleeve. For almost a month, the reclusive country has been showing only a few of its cards to the world as it intends to — in its words — launch “an experimental communication satellite for peaceful purposes.” However, while the North Koreans are showing just a few cards, as is typical for them, there are no expectations they will show their whole hand — and many believe they are playing their own game
North Korea says it will attack the Japanese military and "major targets," if Japan shoots down a rocket Pyongyang plans to launch in the coming days, North Korea’s state-run news service, KCNA, reported Thursday. “If Japan recklessly ‘intercepts’ [North Korea’s] satellite for peaceful purposes, the [Korean People’s Army] will mercilessly deal deadly blows not only at the already deployed intercepting means but at major targets,” KCNA reported. Japan recently mobilized its missile defense system in response to the planned North Korean launch, Japanese officials said
North Korea has begun fueling its long-range missile, according to a senior U.S.
North Korea defended Thursday its right to explore outer space after reports that a rocket, believed by the United States to be a long-range missile, had been positioned on its launch pad. North Korea recently informed a pair of U.N
North Korea has positioned what is believed to be a long-range ballistic missile on its launch pad, a U.S. counter-proliferation official said on Wednesday.
North Korea’s state news agency said Saturday the country detained two Americans this week for illegally entering the country, South Korea’s Yonhap news agency reported.
North Korea told South Korea Monday it will partly reopen its border, allowing stranded South Koreans to return home from a joint industrial complex in the communist country, the South Korean news agency Yonhap said.
Japan said Friday that it could shoot down the satellite that North Korean officials said they plan to launch.