North Korea stepped up its bellicose rhetoric on February 1 threatening to go beyond carrying out a promised third nuclear test in response to what it believes are "hostile" sanctions imposed after a December rocket launch. The North frequently employs fiery rhetoric aimed at South Korea and the United States and in 2010 was blamed for sinking a South Korean naval vessel. It also shelled a South Korean island in...
06:23 PM, Feb 05, 2013
North Korea said on January 24 it would carry out further rocket launches and a nuclear test that would target the United States, dramatically stepping up its threats against a country it called its "enemy". The announcement by the country's top military body came a day after the United Nations Security Council agreed a US-backed resolution to censure and sanction the country for a rocket launch in December that breached...
11:11 AM, Jan 24, 2013
United Nations: The UN Security Council on Wednesday condemned North Korea's missile launch and will continue discussions on how to respond to Pyongyang's violations of a UN ban on North Korean ballistic missile development, the council president said. "Members of the Security Council condemned this launch, which is a clear violation of Security Council resolutions 1718 and 1874," Moroccan UN Ambassador Mohammed Loulichki, president of the Security Council this month,...
09:18 AM, Dec 13, 2012
Pyongyang: North Korea's much-anticipated rocket launch ended quickly in an embarrassing failure early on Friday, splintering into pieces over the Yellow Sea soon after takeoff. Within minutes of the early morning launch, the US and South Korea declared it a failure. North Korea acknowledged that hours later in an announcement broadcast on state TV, saying the satellite had failed to enter into orbit. World leaders were swift to denounce the...
11:00 AM, Apr 13, 2012
Pyongyang: Fighter jets roared through the skies over downtown Pyongyang on Thursday as the world watched to see whether North Korea would defy international warnings and launch a long-range rocket over the Yellow Sea. The five-day window for the launch of a rocket mounted with an observation satellite opened on Thursday as North Koreans woke to details about developments at a Workers' Party conference where leader Kim Jong Un ascended...
09:43 AM, Apr 12, 2012
Pyongyang: North Korea was poised on Thursday to send a rocket into space as the nation's young leader ascended to new top political posts strengthening his hold on power. There was no word early on Thursday morning on the timing of the launch, which the North has said will take place sometime between Thursday and Monday. The launch, which the North says is for peaceful purposes, has raised international concern....
08:17 AM, Apr 12, 2012
Pyongyang: Impoverished North Korea rejected international protests over its planned long-range rocket launch and said on Wednesday that it was injecting fuel "as we speak", meaning it could blast off as early as Thursday. If all goes to plan, the launch, which North Korea's neighbors and the West say is a disguised ballistic missile test, will take a three-stage rocket over a sea separating the Korean peninsula from China before...
01:51 PM, Apr 11, 2012
Pyongyang: Isolated and impoverished North Korea said on Tuesday it was ready to go ahead with its proposed long-range rocket launch, an announcement that sparked immediate condemnation from South Korea and Russia and a plea from China, its main ally, for calm. The launch of the Unha-3 rocket, which North Korea says will merely put a weather satellite into space, breaches UN sanctions imposed to prevent Pyongyang from developing a...
05:36 PM, Apr 10, 2012
The countdown for the launch from Satish Dhawan Space Centre began at 6.52 am on Saturday. ...
01:12 PM, Jul 10, 2010
The 100-metre tall Ares I-X rocket sped into the sky over the Florida coast. ...
09:01 AM, Oct 29, 2009
People in USA started calling local TV channels reporting strange lights in sky. ...
10:02 AM, Sep 20, 2009
N Korea will boycott talks terminating its nuclear weapons programme. ...
03:55 PM, Apr 14, 2009
UN Security Council has agreed on a draft statement against rocket launch. ...
06:05 PM, Apr 13, 2009
N Korea went ahead with the launch despite mounting international pressure. ...
04:59 PM, Apr 05, 2009
The US President says North Korea has isolated itself from the world. ...
10:49 AM, Apr 05, 2009
US, South Korea and Japan believe that the missile is capable of hitting US. ...
02:53 PM, Apr 04, 2009
The US has vehemently opposed the rocket launch by North Korea. ...
02:55 AM, Apr 04, 2009
Korea says it's launching a satellite; others say it's testing missile. ...
06:26 PM, Apr 03, 2009
The Maoist leader was eluding police in Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu ever since the seizure of more than 800 rockets. ...
05:18 PM, Nov 04, 2006
