North Korea

The US is accusing North Korea of secretly supplying Russia with artillery shells for the Ukraine war by concealing where they are being transported to, ...

Over the summer, Russia was able to make some grinding progress in parts of Ukraine through a punishing artillery campaign. “In September, the (Democratic People’s Republic of Korea) publicly denied that it intended to provide ammunition to Russia,” the National Security Council coordinator for strategic communications John Kirby said in a statement to CNN. “You’d expect these Soviet-era systems are aging so they will start to break down.” US officials believe that the surreptitious North Korean shipments – along with drones and other weaponry that Russia has acquired from Iran – are further evidence that even Moscow’s conventional artillery arsenals have dwindled during eight months of combat. “The Russian army has likely gone through millions of shells at this point.” Officials did not provide evidence to support the new allegations.

National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby speaks. "We're not talking dozens here. It's a significant number of artillery shells, ...

The shipments were is monitoring whether the shipments from North Korea are actually received. The U.S.

The United States has information that indicates North Korea is covertly supplying Russia with a "significant" number of artillery shells for its war in ...

Referring to North Korea missile launches on Wednesday, Kirby said they did not pose an immediate threat to U.S. "And it's certainly not going to change our calculus ... South Korea issued rare air raid warnings and launched its own missiles in response. Register for free to Reuters and know the full story "Our indications are that the DPRK is covertly supplying and we are going to monitor to see whether the shipments are received," Kirby said, adding that Washington would consult with the United Nations on accountability issues over the shipments. Kirby told a virtual briefing that North Korea was attempting to obscure the shipments by funneling them through countries in the Middle East and North Africa.

Kirby insisted that the North Korean shipments are “not going to change the course of the war,” citing Western efforts to resupply the Ukrainian military. The ...

and South Korea to “pay the most horrible price in history” in protest of ongoing South Korean-U.S. The launches came after North Korea threatened to use nuclear weapons to get the U.S. This year’s Vigilant Storm military exercises are the largest-ever for the annual fall maneuvers, according to U.S. ”These launches did not pose an immediate threat to the American homeland or U.S. The U.S. 4 and include warfighting tactics both in the air and on the ground, it said. doesn’t believe “they are in such a quantity that the would change the momentum of the war.” ”There’s an annual exercise ongoing right now, bilateral exercises in South Korea,” Kirby said. It said the weapons were all short-range ballistic missiles or suspected surface-to-air missiles. 31, are to continue through Nov. “As [Russian President Vladimir Putin] continues to lose ground, lose soldiers, to lose momentum, he’s reaching beyond his borders,” Kirby said. North Korea also fired about 100 artillery shells into an eastern maritime buffer zone the Koreas created in 2018 to reduce tensions, according to South Korea’s military.

North Korea fires over 20 missiles; 1st time a ballistic missile has landed near the South's waters. Thomson Reuters · Posted: Nov 02, 2022 6:58 AM ET ...

Secretary of State Antony Blinken, South Korean Foreign Minister Park Jin called the North Korean missile launch "unprecedented" and a "grave act of military provocation." The JCS later said as many as 14 other missiles of various types had been fired from North Korea's east and west coasts. "We stayed there until we came upstairs at around 9:15 after hearing that the projectile fell into the high seas." South Korea issued rare air raid warnings and launched its own missiles in response as tensions spiralled in the region. On Tuesday in Washington, U.S. "We heard the siren at around 8:55 a.m.

SEOUL — North Korea fired at least 23 missiles into the sea on Wednesday, including one that landed less than 60 km (40 miles) off South Korea's coast, ...

On Tuesday in Washington, U.S. He said even its name imitated the U.S.-led Operation Desert Storm against Iraq in the 1990s. Dubbed Vigilant Storm, the exercises involve hundreds of warplanes from both sides staging mock attacks 24 hours a day. The JCS later said as many as 14 other missiles of various types had been fired from North Korea’s east and west coasts. An official said the weapons used included an AGM-84H/K SLAM-ER, which is a U.S.-made “stand-off” precision attack weapon that can fly for up to 270 km (170 miles) with a 360-kg (800-lb) warhead. South Korea issued rare air raid warnings and launched its own missiles in response.

Air raid sirens sounded on a South Korean island and residents evacuated to underground shelters after North Korea fired more than 20 missiles Wednesday, ...

Meteor showers, a lunar eclipse and Uranus at opposition among major astronomical events for November](https://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/look-up-meteor-showers-a-lunar-eclipse-and-uranus-at-opposition-among-major-astronomical-events-for-november-1.6134723) Over the last five years, Saudi surveillance, intimidation and pursuit of Saudis on U.S. Some experts still doubt North Korea would use nuclear weapons first in the face of U.S. Analyst Cheong Seong-Chang at the private Sejong Institute in South Korea said the danger of armed clashes between the Koreas off their western or eastern coasts is increasing. During the meeting, officials also lamented that the North Korean missile launches came as South Korea is in a mourning period over the crowd crush. In an emergency meeting with top security officials, South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol ordered officials to take swift unspecified steps to make North Korea face consequences for its provocation. Later Wednesday, South Korean fighter jets launched three air-to-surface, precision-guided missiles near the eastern sea border to show its determination to get tough on North Korean provocations. It landed in international waters off the east coast of South Korea. and South Korea to "pay the most horrible price in history" in protest of ongoing South Korean-U.S. Also Wednesday, North Korea fired about 100 artillery shells into an eastern maritime buffer zone the Koreas created in 2018 to reduce tensions, according to South Korea's military. The launches came hours after North Korea threatened to use nuclear weapons to get the U.S. South Korea quickly responded by launching its own missiles in the same border area.

The North Korean missile launches came as Pyongyang threatens to retaliate against ongoing South Korea-U.S. military drills that it views as an invasion ...

They noted this “clearly showed the nature of the North Korean government,” according to South Korea’s presidential office. Some experts still doubt North Korea would use nuclear weapons first in the face of U.S. Analyst Cheong Seong-Chang at the private Sejong Institute in South Korea said that the danger of armed clashes between the Koreas off their western or eastern coasts is increasing. Later Wednesday, South Korean fighter jets launched three air-to-surface, precision-guided missiles near the eastern sea border to show its determination to get tough on North Korean provocations. and South Korea to “pay the most horrible price in history” in protest of the In 2010, North Korea shelled a frontline South Korean island off the peninsula's western coast, killing four people. South Korea’s transport ministry said it has closed some air routes above the country’s eastern waters until Thursday morning in the wake of the North Korean launches. It landed in international waters but far south of the two countries’ border, off the east coast of South Korea. Also Wednesday, North Korea fired about 100 artillery shells into an eastern maritime buffer zone the Koreas created in 2018 to reduce tensions, according to South Korea’s military. One of the ballistic missiles was flying toward South Korea’s Ulleung island before it eventually landed 167 kilometers (104 miles) northwest of the island. The White House maintained that the United States has no hostile intent toward North Korea and vowed to work with allies to curb North Korea’s nuclear ambitions. South Korea quickly responded by launching its own missiles in the same border area.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's military fired a record 23 ballistic missiles on Wednesday, sending residents of a South Korean island to underground ...

It also fired 100 rounds of artillery into a maritime buffer zone between the two countries, the South Korean military said, in violation of a 2018 agreement. “And of course it’s very difficult, as previous South Korean leaders have found, to find any effective response which doesn’t escalate the situation further.” and South Korean officials say North Korea may also be preparing for its seventh nuclear test, which would be its first since September 2017. Photos published in South Korean media showed residents of the island being evacuated to underground shelters. At 8:51 a.m., North Korea launched three short-range ballistic missiles from the eastern coastal town of Wonsan. Tuesday ET), the South Korean military said, with four short-range ballistic missiles launched into the Yellow Sea from North Pyongan Province. South Korea responded by firing three air-to-surface missiles toward the northern side of the border, which North Korea followed with 100 rounds of artillery and additional missile launches that lasted into the evening. North Korea has already conducted more than 50 missile launches this year, far more than ever before. A statement from an official close to Kim suggested that if North Korea were attacked, he could use nuclear weapons to make the two countries “pay the most horrible price in history.” They said they would thoroughly prepare for any further North Korean provocations and continue to strengthen cooperation. North Korea’s provocations on Wednesday, while highly symbolic, are “more for show than for military escalation,” he told NBC News. Analysts said they were likely a sign of Kim’s desire to ratchet up tensions as he seeks to develop his regime’s nuclear arsenal,

The North Koreans have shown interest in sending construction workers to help rebuild Russian-occupied territories in the country's east.

It’s possible dispatch of laborers to the Russian-held territories in Ukraine would also breach a U.N. The North’s arms export to Russia would be a violation of U.N. The finding comes after after the Biden administration in August said that the Russian military in August took delivery of hundreds Iranian-manufactured drones for use on the battlefield in Ukraine. or other nations would attempt to interdict the shipments to Russia. has “an idea” of which country or countries the North may funnel the weapons through but wouldn’t specify, because the administration continues to look at how it might respond to North Korea’s actions. The White House revealed the new intelligence nearly two months after first alleging that U.S.

White House says North Korea is sending a 'significant' number of artillery shells to Russia for the Ukraine war.

[piling sanctions](/news/2022/9/30/us-announces-severe-russia-sanctions-over-annexation-in-ukraine) on Russia over the war and providing military and humanitarian assistance to Ukraine. In recent months, Ukrainian forces, backed by [on the ground](/news/2022/10/20/white-house-says-iran-helping-russia-on-the-ground-in-crimea)” in Crimea to help train Russian forces on the use of drones.

SEOUL — North Korea fired at least 23 missiles into the sea on Wednesday, including one that landed less than 60 km (40 miles) off South Korea's coast, ...

On Tuesday in Washington, U.S. He said even its name imitated the U.S.-led Operation Desert Storm against Iraq in the 1990s. Dubbed Vigilant Storm, the exercises involve hundreds of warplanes from both sides staging mock attacks 24 hours a day. The JCS later said as many as 14 other missiles of various types had been fired from North Korea’s east and west coasts. An official said the weapons used included an AGM-84H/K SLAM-ER, which is a U.S.-made “stand-off” precision attack weapon that can fly for up to 270 km (170 miles) with a 360-kg (800-lb) warhead. South Korea issued rare air raid warnings and launched its own missiles in response.

WASHINGTON — The United States has information that indicates North Korea is covertly supplying Russia with a “significant” number of artillery shells for ...

South Korea issued rare air raid warnings and launched its own missiles in response. Referring to North Korea missile launches on Wednesday, Kirby said they did not pose an immediate threat to U.S. “And it’s certainly not going to change our calculus …

The White House on Wednesday accused North Korea of covertly shipping a “significant number” of artillery shells to Russia in support of its invasion of ...

Its possible dispatch of laborers to the Russian-held territories in Ukraine would also breach a U.N. The North’s arms export to Russia would be a violation of U.N. The finding comes after the Biden administration in August said the Russian military took delivery of hundreds of Iranian-manufactured drones for use on the battlefield in Ukraine. or other nations would attempt to interdict the shipments to Russia. has “an idea” of which country or countries the North may funnel the weapons through but wouldn’t specify, because the administration continues to look at how it might respond to North Korea’s actions. The White House revealed the new intelligence nearly two months after first alleging that U.S.

The White House on Wednesday accused North Korea of covertly shipping a "significant number" of artillery shells to Russia in support of its invasion of ...

Pavlo Kyrylenko said Wednesday that Ukrainian and Russian forces continued to fight for control of the cities of Avdiivka and Bakhmut, both key targets of a Russian offensive in the region. Russia threatened to end the deal over the weekend, citing allegations of a Ukrainian drone attack against its Black Sea fleet in Crimea. Diplomatic efforts salvaged the agreement that allowed Ukrainian grain and other commodities to reach world markets, with Russia saying Wednesday it would stick to the deal. In a Telegram post, he accused Russian forces of trying to prompt a serious humanitarian crisis. He declined to provide a specific estimate on the quantity of ammunition being sent to bolster the Russian effort. believes North Korea is "trying to make it appear as though they're being sent to countries in the Middle East or North Africa."

The United States said Wednesday that North Korea is sending a significant amount of artillery ammunition to Russia for its war in Ukraine, under cover of.

“It's a significant number of artillery shells. But Kirby said the US believes a large number of artillery shells have now been shipped, enough to help Russia prolong the war but not enough to give it an advantage over Ukrainian forces, which are being supplied by the United States and NATO allies. The United States said Wednesday that North Korea is sending a significant amount of artillery ammunition to Russia for its war in Ukraine, under cover of shipments to the Middle East or Africa.

The North Korean government is covertly funneling artillery shells to aid Russia in its war in Ukraine using countries in the Middle East and North Africa ...

[Russia-Ukraine war](https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/ukraine-russia/?itid=lb_war-in-ukraine-what-you-need-to-know_7). officials have warned of [possible future transfers of missiles](https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/10/16/iran-russia-missiles-ukraine/?itid=lk_inline_manual_16). [including kamikaze attack drones](https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/10/20/russia-iran-kamikaze-drones/?itid=ap_shaneharris&itid=lk_inline_manual_16), to Russia. [Subscribe to our channel](https://t.me/washingtonpost?itid=lb_war-in-ukraine-what-you-need-to-know_8) for updates and exclusive video. Security Council its unfounded accusation that Ukraine is planning to use a and international “export controls have had an effect on Mr. [support the Ukrainian people](https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/02/27/how-to-help-ukraine/?itid=lb_war-in-ukraine-what-you-need-to-know_5) as well as [what people around the world have been donating](https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/03/03/donate-ukraine-money-crypto/?itid=lb_war-in-ukraine-what-you-need-to-know_6). Assad also maintains relations with North Korea, which has been accused of providing the Syrian military with ballistic missiles and chemical weapons components in defiance of U.N. Russia has control, under a bilateral agreement, of the naval base at Tartus, on the Mediterranean coast, as well as Hmeimim air base. In 2019, the two countries signed an economic cooperation agreement. In the Middle East, Russia has close relations with Syria, where it has been President Bashar al-Assad’s primary military patron in an 11-year civil war that has become a standoff with rebel and extremist groups largely backed into a corner in the northwestern part of the country. [more than a dozen nations](https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/03/09/mali-russia-wagner/?itid=lk_inline_manual_15) on the continent.

Country firing close to South Korean waters in response to Washington-Seoul drills, as it also sells missiles to Russia.

Whatever the motive, it leaves Yoon’s “audacious plan” unveiled on 15 August, setting out the benefits North Korea would receive in return for a denuclearisation programme, looks even more of a dead letter. The other school says this underplays the extent to which North Korea’s leaders are driven by fear of domestic economic failure. This included smaller battlefield nuclear bombs and the short-range missiles to carry them. It fired 25 missiles of various kinds on Wednesday – including one that landed close to South Korea’s waters, in what President Yoon Suk-yeol said was effectively “a territorial invasion by a missile”. The large-scale drills began on Monday and will run until Friday. It now seems likely that North Korea will test a nuclear bomb for the first time since 2017, prompting some to argue that it is time for the US to recognise that North Korea is a nuclear weapons state.

Emergency broadcasting system in Japan warns residents to stay indoors, saying missile flew over its territory.

It was the first time since the 1945 division of the peninsula that North Korea weapons had landed so close to South Korea, [26km beyond the northern limit line](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/nov/02/north-korea-has-fired-three-ballistic-missiles-into-sea-south-koreas-military-says). Wednesday’s launches were the most North Korea has ever fired in a single day. The large-scale drills began on Monday and will run until Friday. That launch forced the Japanese government to issue evacuation alerts and halt trains. The three missiles launched just before 8am local time, the Japanese defence minister, Yasukazu Hamada, said, and confirmed that none had flown over Japan. The government and military in Japan are on alert for further missile launches on Thursday following the unprecedented flurry from North Korea the previous day.

Residents in central Japan were warned to shelter indoors, according to the Japanese government's broadcast warning system. The ballistic missile landed in ...

South Korea issued rare air raid warnings and launched its own missiles in response. [North Korea](https://globalnews.ca/tag/north-korea) fired a ballistic missile on Thursday that flew over Japanese territory, according to alerts in [Japan](https://globalnews.ca/tag/japan), a day after the nuclear-armed North fired at least 23 missiles, including one that landed off [South Korea’s](https://globalnews.ca/tag/south-korea) coast for the first time. That was the first time a ballistic missile had landed near the South’s waters since the peninsula was divided in 1945, and the most missiles fired by the North in a single day.

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Japan says missiles fired by North Korea flew over northern Japan on Thursday, the latest in a series of weapons tests that ...

and South Korean officials say North Korea may up the ante in the coming weeks with its first detonation of a nuclear test device since September 2017. and South Korea to “pay the most horrible price in history” in protest of ongoing South Korean-U.S. Experts say such tests could possibly bring North Korea a step closer to its goal of building a full-fledged arsenal threatening regional U.S. commitment to the security of its ally, according to their offices. The North has punctuated its tests with an escalatory nuclear doctrine that authorizes preemptive nuclear attacks over a variety of loosely defined crisis situations. North Korea has been ramping up its weapons demonstrations to a record pace this year. Those launches came hours after North Korea threatened to use nuclear weapons to get the U.S. While South Korean officials didn’t immediately release more specific flight details, the longer-range missile may have been fired on a high angle to avoid reaching the territory of the North’s neighbors. The office of Prime Minister Fumio Kishida issued warnings to residents in the northern prefectures of Miyagi, Yamagata and Niigata, instructing them to go inside firm buildings or underground. South Korea quickly responded by launching its own missiles in the same border area. and then firing two short-range missiles an hour later from the nearby city of Kacheon that flew toward its eastern waters. They came a day after Pyongyang fired more than 20 missiles, the most it has fired in a single day ever.

North Korea fired at least one unidentified ballistic missile on Thursday, that Japan said flew over its main island, landing in the Pacific Ocean, ...

Japan’s Defense Ministry later evaluated that the missile did not cross over Japan. Thursday’s launches take the count of North Korean missile tests to at least 30 so far this year, according to a CNN tally – though the count of individual missiles is far higher. It was the highest number of North Korean short-range missiles fired in a single day, and included a ballistic missile that landed close to South Korean territorial waters for the first time since the division of Korea, according to the JCS. [cruise missiles and ballistic missiles](https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/13/asia/north-korea-cruise-missile-nuclear-threat-intl-hnk), the latter of which have formed the large majority of North Korea’s tests this year. On Wednesday, North Korea launched at least 23 short-range missiles of varying types to the east and west of the Korean Peninsula, according to the South Korean Defense Ministry. South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said Thursday it detected one presumed long-range missile fired from North Korea’s capital Pyongyang, followed by two presumed short-range ballistic missiles fired from the Kaechon area of South Pyongan province.

Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida says one may have been an intercontinental ballistic missile. It comes after Pyongyang on Wednesday launched its most ...

It landed outside South Korea's territorial waters but was the closest a North Korean missile got to the border. It comes just a month after North Korea launched a ballistic missile over Japan - the first time it had done so in five years. North Korea's multiple launches comes as the US and South Korea are staging their largest-ever joint air drills, which Pyongyang has strongly criticised as "aggressive and provocative".

Wednesday's launches marked the first time a North Korean missile had flown over the de facto maritime border separating the two Koreas since the Korean War ...

[preparations](https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/N-Korea-at-crossroads/South-Korea-s-Yoon-says-North-has-finished-preparing-for-nuke-test) to top it off with the test-detonation of an atomic bomb, if it so chooses. Pyongyang has [called](https://en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN20221006000951325) the deployments a threat to regional stability. It's a part of a five-year plan to beef up its nuclear and missile arsenals, in hopes of forcing the U.S. to make concessions, such as sanctions relief and recognition of Pyongyang as a nuclear weapons state. While this has been predicted for months, Pyongyang may think that timing it to coincide with U.S. and South Korea] from approaching North Korea." South Korea responded by firing two air-to-ground missiles across the maritime border into international waters. One flew toward Ulleung Island off South Korea's east coast, triggering air raid sirens, before dropping in the sea. "First, they launched missiles from all around the country — east, west, south, north," he explains. He adds that the quantity of projectiles suggests that North Korea has produced ample stockpiles of weapons. Japan's government initially issued an alert for three prefectures, saying the ICBM had flown over the main island of Honshu, but later corrected the statement. Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida called the launches "intolerable."

The ICBM test, which was followed by two short-range ballistic launches into the sea, was swiftly condemned by North Korea's neighbours and the United ...

and South Korean officials say North Korea may up the ante in the coming weeks with a nuclear test, which would be its seventh overall. and South Korea to “pay the most horrible price in history” in protest of ongoing South Korean-U.S. Following North Korea’s additional launches on Thursday, the South Korean and U.S. North Korea has punctuated its tests with an escalatory nuclear doctrine that authorizes preemptive nuclear attacks over a variety of loosely defined crisis situations. It also said it lost track of one of the North Korean weapons, apparently the ICBM, after it “disappeared” in skies above waters between the Korean Peninsula and Japan. Those launches came hours after North Korea threatened to use nuclear weapons to get the U.S. “This launch, in addition to the launch of multiple other ballistic missiles this week, is a flagrant violation of multiple U.N. Kishida condemned North Korea’s latest launches and said officials were analyzing the details of the weapons. South Korea quickly responded by launching its own missiles in the same border area. The Biden administration also warned of unspecified “additional costs and consequences” if North Korea goes on to detonate a nuclear test device for the first time since September 2017. Those launches came an hour after a senior North Korean military official issued a statement threatening retaliation over the extension of the U.S.-South Korea drills. On Wednesday, North Korea fired more than 20 missiles, the most it has launched in a single day.

North Korea fired multiple ballistic missiles on Thursday, including a possible failed intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) that triggered an alert for ...

4, North Korea launched a ballistic missile over Japan for the first time in five years, prompted a warning for residents there to take cover. It was the farthest North Korea had ever fired a missile. The first missile flew to an altitude of about 2,000 kilometres and a range of 750 kilometres, he said. South Korea said both of those were short-range missiles fired from Kaechon, north of Pyongyang. The United States condemned North Korea's ICBM launch, State Department spokesman Ned Price said in a statement. The South Korean and U.S.