South Korea and US said on Thursday that North Korea conducted what appeared to be its second failed test in a week of a powerful medium-range missile. South Korean and US military monitors said the missile — believed to be an intermediate-range Musudan — exploded shortly after take-off at around ...
A ranking North Korean embassy official in Beijing has defected, South Korea’s Yonhap news agency said Wednesday, while a separate report suggested two embassy staff had sought asylum with the Japanese mission there. If confirmed, it would mark the latest in a recent series of high-profile North Korean defections that ...
