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No more tobacco trade, make oil imports more difficult: the government in Washington wants to tighten the punitive measures against North Korea. China and Russia are likely to veto. After North Korea tested a suspected ICBM, the United States called a UN Security Council vote on tougher sanctions against the communist country. The goal is to weaken the regime in Pyongyang to such an extent that it can no longer continue "its illegal programs for weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missiles." Further restrictions on the country's oil imports are under discussion. The draft resolution, which is also available to the dpa news agency, also provides for a complete stop to the North Korean tobacco trade; this source of income is to be dried up. Sanctions are also planned against the North Korean hacker group Lazarus, whose assets are to be frozen. Where Guns Count More Than Children's Lives North Korea had previously fired three missiles immediately after US President...

The isolated country ignores international sanctions and is testing a medium-range missile again for the first time. The projectile is said to have flown 800 kilometres. Despite international sanctions, the self-declared nuclear power North Korea has undertaken its largest missile test since 2017. North Korea fired a medium-range missile on Sunday that flew about 800 kilometres toward the open sea, the South Korean Armed Forces General Staff said. Immediately after the test, South Korean President Moon Jae In accused the neighboring country of coming a step closer to completely breaking its self-imposed moratorium on long-range missile tests. Joe Biden Wants To Send More US Troops North Korea's ruler Kim Jong Un declared in April 2018 that nuclear tests and tests with medium- and long-range missiles were not necessary for the time being. A decision by the Central Committee later only mentioned a test ban for ICBMs. Medium-range missiles are missiles with a range of 800 to 5,500 kil...

South Korea reports that North Korea has again fired two missiles towards the sea. It would be the sixth weapon test this month. North Korea apparently continued its missile tests despite sanctions. In Hamhung on the east coast of the country, two suspected short-range ballistic missiles were fired around 8 a.m. local time, the South Korean general staff said. The rockets were launched five minutes apart and flew about 190 kilometers at an altitude of 20 kilometers before crashing into the Sea of ​​Japan. It was the sixth such weapons test by North Korea this month.  Senior South Korean security and military officials convened for an emergency National Security Council meeting. The government in Pyongyang was asked to resume dialogue, the presidential office in Seoul announced. Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida called the repeated rocket launches extremely regrettable. So far, however, there have been no reports of damage to ships or aircraft off the Japanese coast. Boris Johns...

It is the third test of the Kim Jong-un regime in the last nine days. The South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) reported today that it detected the launch by North Korea of an "unidentified projectile in an easterly direction", which is the third Pyongyang test in the last nine days. The brief statement from the South Korean Army did not provide more information about the projectile, while the Japanese government has pointed out that it could be a ballistic missile. On January 5 and 11, the North Korean regime fired what it claims are hypersonic missiles, although Seoul and Tokyo have insisted in their analyzes that they are ballistic missiles that show great maneuverability. Nord Stream 2 Sanctions Bill Today's North Korean essay comes hours after Pyongyang threatened to respond in a "stronger and more determined" way to the new sanctions that the US approved this week against North Korean citizens whom it accuses of providing materials and technology for th...

North Korea has again fired a projectile into the sea east of the Korean peninsula. Japan and South Korea speak of a suspected ballistic missile. For the second time in a week, North Korea has apparently tested a ballistic missile. As the neighboring countries South Korea and Japan reported, North Korea fired a rocket in the interior towards the open sea. According to the General Staff of the South Korean military, it may have been a ballistic missile. Japanese government officials also spoke of a suspected ballistic missile, according to a report by the Kyodo news agency. The rocket fell outside Japan's "exclusive economic zone" into the Sea of ​​Japan (Korean: East Sea). North Korea had already fired a ballistic missile on January 5 and spoke of a successful test of a hypersonic missile the next day.  An Additional Four Years In Prison The South Korean Ministry of Defense doubted that the missile flew 700 kilometers, as North Korea stated. Compared to the rocket launch ...

State media report that the weapon hit a target 700 kilometres away. Japan and South Korea had previously reported the launch of a North Korean missile. North Korea claims that it has successfully tested a hyper-sonic missile. The academy for defense science shot down a rocket and precisely hit a predetermined target 700 kilometres away, the state media reported.  The news agency KCNA reported that the test had confirmed the functionality of the flight controls and the "stability of the rocket in the active flight phase". In addition, the "fuel ampoule system under winter conditions" had been successfully tested. Together with previous successes in testing hyper-sonic missiles, this is of "strategic importance". Hyper-sonic weapons can reach more than five times the speed of sound - around 6180 kilometres per hour - and are maneuverable in flight.  North Korea has launched a missile They are difficult to spot and intercept for conventional air def...