Joe Biden’s visit to a massive Samsung semiconductor plant in Korea underscored a message of economic security with an eye on China and the war in Ukraine.
Authorities in North Korea,which does not have a vaccination program,have blamed the deaths on “careless” citizens taking unapproved medicines.
The North’s government has shunned vaccines offered by the UN-backed COVAX distribution program,possibly because those have monitoring requirements.
Kim Jong-un’s influential sister has issued two threats in 48 hours,following a test missile launch by the South last week.
South Korea’s military said North Korea’s largest missile test yet used an older,smaller intercontinental ballistic missile.
As Moscow beds down for long-term economic isolation,what it can learn from its fellow rogue states is the need for anti-Western friends and a bit of creativity.
It represents a major escalation of North Korea’s development of weapons potentially able to deliver nuclear warheads anywhere in the US.
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American missile defence forces in the Pacific have been placed in a state of “enhanced readiness”,while Kim John-un says he wants to expand his “space ambitions”.
South Korea says this month’s flurry of missile tests is reminiscent of the heightened tensions in 2017,when North Korea conducted multiple nuclear tests.
The North Korean regime fired two ballistic missiles from Pyongyang airport on Monday,demonstrating the depth of Kim Jong-un’s arsenal,say analysts.