North Korea warns of responding ‘more intensively’ to U.S. drills with South Korea, Japan

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North Korea conducts missile tests days before Trump takes office

This article was originally published by Radio Free Asia and is reprinted with permission. North Korea tested on Tuesday what were believed to be multiple short-range ballistic missiles off its east coast less than a week before Donald Trump is inaugurated for his second term as U.S. president, South Korea’s Yonhap News Agency reported. The South Korean military said it detected the launch, the North’s second missile test this year, from the Gan…

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North Korea slams US, South Korean joint air drills over Korean Peninsula

North Korea on Friday slammed the US and South Korean joint air drills over the Korean peninsula.

The North Korean authorities have threatened this Friday to take measures of “containment” to “hostile provocations” by the United States and South Korea in the region as the allies carry out new joint military maneuvers in the vicinity. “We will contain all military provocations and control the regional situation, which is unstable, using self-defense actions,” the Foreign Policy Office of the North Korean Foreign Ministry has affirmed, “that t…

North Korea warns of stronger action over South's drills with U.S., Japan

North Korea condemned on Friday joint military drills between South Korea, Japan and the United States held this week, threatening to respond by exercising its right to self-defense "more intensively".The trilateral exercise was held after Pyongyang launched in recent weeks what it claimed was a new hypersonic missile system and short-range ballistic missiles, ahead of President-elect Donald Trump's return to office on Monday.Pyongyang's remarks…