North Korea launches 2 more ballistic missiles
The launch came just two days after North Korea fired an intermediate-range missile over Japan for the first time in five years.
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The launch came just two days after North Korea fired an intermediate-range missile over Japan for the first time in five years.
North Korea launched two more suspected ballistic missiles toward the Sea of Japan. It comes two days after it fired a ballistic missile over Japan.
The United States called for the U.N. Security Council to hold an emergency meeting in response to North Korea's missile test over Japan. The U.S. is also holding joint missile tests with South Korea, one of which malfunctioned and crashed. CBS News contributor and former national security adviser H.R. McMaster discusses the international response to Pyongyang.
North Korea fired a ballistic missile over Japan in its most provocative show of force in years as develops its nuclear weapons program. Elizabeth Palmer has more details.
The test of the suspected Hwasong-12 rocket set off warning alarms in northern Japan, and drew a quick military response from the U.S. and South Korea.
North Korea has sharply escalated its confrontation with the United States and its allies with an aggressive new missile test. The country fired a suspected intermediate range missile over Japan for the first time in five years. Charlie D'Agata reports.
The U.S. and South Korea are responding to a missile launch from North Korea that flew over northern Japan. CBS News foreign correspondent Elizabeth Palmer joins us from Tokyo to explain the latest.
North Korea launched a ballistic missile over Japan, forcing Japan to issue evacuation notices and causing sirens to ring out across the northern part of the country on Tuesday morning. It is the 23rd missile North Korea has launched this year — and the first to pass over Japan since 2017.
North Korea's latest missile test forced Japan to warn its residents to take shelter early Tuesday morning. A missile flew over the island in what is being called a dramatic escalation by Pyongyang. Former CIA officer and FBI special agent Tracey Walder joins CBS News to discuss the move and the reaction from South Korea and the U.S.
The U.S. and South Korea are responding after North Korea launched a missile that flew over northern Japan. Lucy Craft joins "CBS News Mornings" from Tokyo with details.
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The North's testing spree is seen as a response to recent naval drills between South Korea and the U.S. and their other training that involved Japan.
Harris visited South Korea and assured the close ally that the U.S. commitment to its defense was "ironclad" in the face of Kim Jong Un's threats.
Seoul says the provocations will only deepen North Korea's international isolation while pushing South Korea and the United States to strengthen their deterrence.
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An American aircraft carrier has arrived in South Korea for the first time in almost five years. The U.S. and South Korean navies will take part in joint drills next week. Josh Smith, a senior correspondent for Reuters, joined CBS News from South Korea to discuss.
The two isolated nations have grown closer, and the U.S. says Russia is buying rockets from Pyongyang amid sanctions-driven "severe supply shortages in Ukraine."
North Korea has fired more missiles this year than in any other year. CBS News’ UK partner BBC News accessed a bunker where U.S. and South Korean forces are preparing for a response to a possible North Korean attack.
The drills could draw an angry response from North Korea, which has dialed up its weapons testing activity to a record pace.
As the North continued this year's record testing pace, the South's president said Seoul would stick with efforts to get Pyongyang to accept economic aid in exchange for denuclearization.
Some of the heaviest rain in decades swamped South Korea's capital region, turning streets into car-clogged rivers and sending floods cascading into subway stations.
North Korea is acknowledging its first COVID 19 infection and calling it “a severe national emergency incident.” Former President Trump has to pay a $110,000 fine and meet other conditions to purge a contempt of court order over his failure to comply with a subpoena into his business practices from New York State's attorney general. And Boynton Beach, Florida police want to find the good Samaritans who helped put a car in park when the driver suffered a medical episode last week.
World leaders are offering their condolences after former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was fatally shot during a speech Friday. CBS News senior foreign correspondent Elizabeth Palmer reports.
Experts say Pyongyang will likely intensify its threats against the Washington and Seoul as the allies prepare to expand summertime military exercises.
NATO leaders officially invited Finland and Sweden to join the alliance on Wednesday. Chief White House correspondent Nancy Cordes and Robert Bell, former defense adviser to the U.S. Ambassador to NATO, explain why the expansion matters on CBS News.