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Sunday 25 October 2020
A propaganda war is fuelling the escalating tensions between the two countries.
The fire exchange took place a day after North Korea reported its leader Kim Jong Un’s first public appearance in some 20 days.
South Korea said that the missiles were fired towards the sea.
The lack of testing activity in past months had experts wondering whether the North was holding back its weapons displays.
Kim spoke for seven hours during the ruling Workers’ Party meeting in Pyongyang.
This comes as Pyongyang said it had carried out a major new weapons test.
North Korea and the United States are due to meet this weekend.
Washington and Pyongyang are set to resume long-stalled talks in the coming days.
North Korea blamed blamed South Korea and US military exercises.
Alek Sigley has not been heard from since Tuesday.
South Korea has said North Korea fired a number of projectiles into the sea.
The talks will be Kim’s first face-to-face meeting with another head of state since his meeting with Trump.
The activity was recorded days after the summit North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and US President Donald Trump.
The North Korean leader says the state might be compelled to explore a ‘new path’ of defense if US sanctions remain unchanged.
The top US diplomat met with Kim for around two hours this morning in the North’s capital.
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has invited his North Korean counterpart to meet in New York next week.
Following the Singapore summit in June, President Donald Trump had declared that Pyongyang was “no longer a nuclear threat”.
US President Donald Trump has proudly declared that there is no longer a nuclear threat from North Korea.
The US President said they ‘seem to be in good health’.
Kim was flanked by his sister and close adviser Kim Yo Jong.
Few details were released about the bus crash, but a now-deleted tweet claimed that 30 had died.
Donald Trump tweeted that “progress [is] being made for all”.
South Korea also claims that Pyongyang said it would consider abandoning nuclear weapons in exchange for security guarantees.
It is the first time the North Korean leader has met with officials from the South since taking office in 2011.
The sanctions will restrict oil supplies vital for Pyongyang’s missile and nuclear programmes.
“If war comes, make no mistake – The North Korean regime will be utterly destroyed.”
The soldier survived the shooting.
Trump has been visiting a number of Asian countries.
Siti Aisyah and Doan Thi Huong are accused of killing Kim on 13 February.
The US President has been trading insults with Kim Jong-un amid rising tensions.
North Korea’s foreign minister said the statement from Trump was “clearly a declaration of war”.
Seo Ok-ryol has spent three decades in prison and been sentenced to death on two separate occasions.
The missile was launched from near Pyongyang.
Pyongyang is unhappy after being hit with fresh UN sanctions.
The US President also criticised China, and offered advice to South Korea.
His comments are at odds with remarks made by US Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis.
Tensions in the region have been rising.
The move could cost Pyongyang about €850 million in annual revenue.
Relationships with North Korea have been strained since it successfully tested an intercontinental ballistic missile.
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