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North Korea is not banned from cruise missile launches under UN sanctions on Pyongyang.

North Korea on Tuesday test-fired two suspected cruise missiles in its fifth round of weapons launches this month, South Korean military officials said, as it displays its military might amid pandemic-related difficulties and a prolonged freeze in nuclear negotiations with the United States. One official, who spoke on condition of…

South Korean military officials say North Korea test-fired two suspected cruise missiles in its fifth round of weapons launches this month

The isolated nation's biggest flurry of missile launches since at least 2019 has prompted an expression of concern from the UN secretary general

North Korea hinted Thursday it could resume nuclear and long-range weapons tests as it prepares for "confrontation" with Washington, its latest threat after a string of sanctions-busting missile launches.

Analysis: Kim Jong-un’s pressure on Joe Biden has so far elicited only fresh sanctions. Pyongyang has now signalled it may resume nuclear and ICBM tests

Accusing the U.S. of hostility, North Korea said it will consider restarting “all temporally-suspended activities," in an apparent threat to resume testing nuclear devices and long-range missiles

North Korea will bolster its defences against the United States and consider resuming "all temporally-suspended activities", state news agency KCNA said on Thursday, an apparent reference to a self-imposed moratorium on tests of nuclear weapons and long-range missiles.

‘I will pursue inter-Korean coexistence through practical North Korea policies that benefit both the South and the North,’ says Lee Jae-myung

SEOUL -- North Korea's repeated missile launches are believed to be aimed at showing off its improved nuclear and missile technologies to gain an advantage in its standoff with the United States, with the U.N. Security Council unable to impose additional sanctions due to opposition from China and Russia.

Grappling with pandemic difficulties and US-led sanctions over his nuclear ambitions, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un could be reviving his 2017 playbook of nuclear and missile brinkmanship to wrest concessions from Washington and his neighbors. North Korea’s short-range missile launches on Monday were its fourth round of missile tests…