North Korea says it tested a cruise missile system, its third known weapons display this year, and vowed “the toughest” response to what it called the escalation of U.S.-South Korean military drills t ...

North Korea’s much-speculated seventh nuclear test could happen around the US presidential elections in November, South Korea’s defence minister has warned. Shin Wonsik arrived in Tokyo on ...

In 2018, a top South Korean official told parliament that North Korea was estimated to have already manufactured up to 60 nuclear weapons. Estimates on how many nuclear bombs North Korea can add ...

Hours later over the Andaman Sea, the bomb blew up ... a period of heightened Korea tensions. In 2017, North Korea conducted its sixth nuclear test, and several missile tests.

Much of the unease in the South is linked to the nuclear bombs. North Korea has been building its nuclear program for decades, but it started in earnest in the 1990s. Over the years, through on ...

In subsequent interviews, US officials revealed they also contemplated dropping a bomb or shooting a missile at Yongbyon ... Crucially, Carter came up with a deal where North Korea would stop its ...

North Korean leader Kim Il-sung launched ... President Truman confirmed that he had been actively considering using atomic bombs in Korea since the beginning of the war. The comments provoked ...

Tensions between North Korea and the US have escalated during Donald Trump's presidency, with threatening tweets and talk about the size of each country's nuclear "button." But what would happen ...

North Korea is building ever-more sophisticated ... Mr Kim then threatens to detonate a nuclear bomb over the US mainland unless it withdraws from the war. What does Washington do?

One hundred US bombs are deployed at airbases in five European countries ... Attempts by the United States to limit North Korea’s nuclear and missile programs have ended in broken promises on both ...

The result was three nuclear bombs. The first was tested in the deserts of New Mexico ... In October, 2006 Japan’s hostile neighbor, North Korea, said it successfully detonated its first test weapon.