China, the North's biggest diplomatic ally and economic pipeline.<\/p>\n<p>The webpage of the tour agency, Vostok Intur, says the four-day trip is to start on 9 February. The package costs $750 (\u20ac685) per person, according to Tass and the tour agency.<\/p>\n<h2>Where will the Russian tourists go?<\/h2><p>According to a Tass report on Wednesday, an unspecified number of <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//travel//2023//06//16//has-the-loss-of-russian-tourism-dealt-europe-a-crippling-blow/">tourists from Russia's<\/strong><\/a> far eastern region of Primorye will first fly to the North Korean capital, Pyongyang.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div\n data-stories-id=\"8026932,7678458\"\n data-event=\"widget_related\"\n class=\"widget widget--type-related widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <ul class=\"widget__related_list\"><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//travel//2023//06//16//has-the-loss-of-russian-tourism-dealt-europe-a-crippling-blow/">From Latvia to Spain: How the lack of Russian tourists has impacted countries across Europe<\/a> <\/li><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//travel//2023//11//09//russian-private-jet-owners-switch-italy-and-germany-for-turkey-and-kazakhstan-as-sanctions/">Russian private jet owners switch Italy and Germany for Turkey and Kazakhstan as sanctions bite<\/a> <\/li><\/ul>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>There they will visit monuments such as the \"Tower of Juche Idea,\" named after the North's guiding philosophy of \"juche\" or self-reliance.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The tourists will then travel on to the North's Masik Pass on the east coast, where the country's most modern <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//travel//2024//01//08//will-winter-2024-be-good-for-skiing-heavy-snow-returns-to-europes-top-resorts/">ski resort<\/strong><\/a> is located, Tass said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-ease-in-up widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6457030552081472\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//08//16//79//36//808x521_cmsv2_5f258c95-9ac6-515e-b34d-d6cbe627cef4-8167936.jpg/" alt=\"The Ju Che Tower from Kim Il Sung Square on July 21, 2013, in downtown Pyongyang, North Korea.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/16\/79\/36\/384x248_cmsv2_5f258c95-9ac6-515e-b34d-d6cbe627cef4-8167936.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/16\/79\/36\/640x413_cmsv2_5f258c95-9ac6-515e-b34d-d6cbe627cef4-8167936.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/16\/79\/36\/750x484_cmsv2_5f258c95-9ac6-515e-b34d-d6cbe627cef4-8167936.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/16\/79\/36\/828x535_cmsv2_5f258c95-9ac6-515e-b34d-d6cbe627cef4-8167936.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/16\/79\/36\/1080x697_cmsv2_5f258c95-9ac6-515e-b34d-d6cbe627cef4-8167936.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/16\/79\/36\/1200x775_cmsv2_5f258c95-9ac6-515e-b34d-d6cbe627cef4-8167936.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/16\/79\/36\/1920x1240_cmsv2_5f258c95-9ac6-515e-b34d-d6cbe627cef4-8167936.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">The Ju Che Tower from Kim Il Sung Square on July 21, 2013, in downtown Pyongyang, North Korea.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">AP Photo\/Wong Maye-E, File<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>\"In (Masik Pass), you will find yourself in a real paradise for winter sports lovers!\" the blurb of the tour agency gushes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\"Here you will find incredible slopes with different levels of difficulty that will satisfy the needs of both experienced skiers and beginners.\"<\/p>\n<p>Tass said the trip was arranged under an agreement reached between Oleg Kozhemyako, governor of the Primorye region, and North Korean authorities.<\/p>\n<p>Kozhemyako travelled to Pyongyang in December for talks on boosting economic ties. Ahead of the trip, he told Russian media he expected to discuss tourism, agriculture and trade cooperation.<\/p>\n<h2>Chinese tourists made up a majority of pre-pandemic visitors<\/h2><p>North Korea has been slowly easing pandemic-era curbs and opening its international borders as part of its efforts to revive its economy devastated by the lockdown and persistent <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//my-europe//2024//01//10//western-allies-denounce-north-korea-for-providing-ballistic-missiles-to-russia/">US-led sanctions<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In August, South Korea's spy service told lawmakers that North Korea's economy shrank each year from 2020 to 2022 and that its gross domestic product last year was 12 per cent less than in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>\"For North Korea, tourism is the easiest way to earn foreign currency under the international sanctions regime,\" said Koh Yu-hwan, former president of Seoul's Korea Institute for National Unification. He said he expects Pyongyang to eventually also open North Korea to Chinese tourists.<\/p>\n<div\n data-stories-id=\"8064044,5497964\"\n data-event=\"widget_related\"\n class=\"widget widget--type-related widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <ul class=\"widget__related_list\"><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//travel//2024//05//08//china-aims-to-boost-tourism-by-giving-visa-free-entry-to-these-five-european-countries/">China extends visa-free entry for 11 European countries until the end of 2025<\/a> <\/li><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//travel//2021//03//26//my-experience-as-a-tourist-in-north-korea-what-is-it-really-like/">What's it really like being a tourist in North Korea?<\/a> <\/li><\/ul>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Lim Eul-chul, a professor at Kyungnam University's Institute for Far Eastern Studies in Seoul, said that North Korea's receiving Russian tourists before Chinese ones proves again Kim Jong Un is focusing on bolstering partnerships with Russia.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He said North Korea and Russia are expected to expand their cooperation in other sectors.<\/p>\n<p>But the resumption of Chinese travel will still likely serve as a much larger source of revenue as tourists from the country accounted for about 90 per cent of the total international visitors to North Korea before the pandemic.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>Will other foreign tourists be allowed to visit North Korea?<\/h2><p>In 2019, a record number of about 300,000 <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//travel//2021//03//26//my-experience-as-a-tourist-in-north-korea-what-is-it-really-like/">foreign tourists visited North Korea<\/strong><\/a>, resulting in North Korea earning between $90 million and $150 million (\u20ac82 million and \u20ac137 million), experts say.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-ease-in-up widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6694240196078431\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//08//16//79//36//808x542_cmsv2_3c2f2aae-7cc9-5b07-90c3-e1af6ff0a445-8167936.jpg/" alt=\"Passengers board an Air Koryo plane at the Pyongyang International Airport in Pyongyang, North Korea, on June 27, 2015.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/16\/79\/36\/384x257_cmsv2_3c2f2aae-7cc9-5b07-90c3-e1af6ff0a445-8167936.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/16\/79\/36\/640x428_cmsv2_3c2f2aae-7cc9-5b07-90c3-e1af6ff0a445-8167936.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/16\/79\/36\/750x502_cmsv2_3c2f2aae-7cc9-5b07-90c3-e1af6ff0a445-8167936.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/16\/79\/36\/828x554_cmsv2_3c2f2aae-7cc9-5b07-90c3-e1af6ff0a445-8167936.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/16\/79\/36\/1080x723_cmsv2_3c2f2aae-7cc9-5b07-90c3-e1af6ff0a445-8167936.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/16\/79\/36\/1200x803_cmsv2_3c2f2aae-7cc9-5b07-90c3-e1af6ff0a445-8167936.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/16\/79\/36\/1920x1285_cmsv2_3c2f2aae-7cc9-5b07-90c3-e1af6ff0a445-8167936.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Passengers board an Air Koryo plane at the Pyongyang International Airport in Pyongyang, North Korea, on June 27, 2015.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">AP Photo\/Wong Maye-E, File<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>\"Visitors from Russia are unlikely to be as financially lucrative for North Korea as the return of more numerous visitors from China,\" Leif-Eric Easley, a professor at Ewha University in Seoul, said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It's still unclear how fast North Korea will expand its international tourism as Kim is tightening control of his 26 million people in the face of economic hardships and security tensions with the United States.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>North Korea, a country with poor public health infrastructure, likely remains wary of infectious diseases as well, observers say.<\/p>\n<p>Lim said North Korea will likely further open its borders in \"a considerably limited and gradual manner.\"<\/p>\n<p>\"For the Kim regime, international tourists risk ideological pollution as much as they promise economic 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Russia\u2019s war on Ukraine, claiming the bilateral relationship has reached a \"new strategic level\"","keySentence":"","url":"russia-north-korea-relationship-on-a-new-level-says-russian-foreign-minister-sergei-lavrov","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2023\/10\/19\/russia-north-korea-relationship-on-a-new-level-says-russian-foreign-minister-sergei-lavrov","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Russia-North Korea relations have reached a \"qualitatively new and strategic level,\" Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov said on Thursday. \n\n\"After the historic summit between President Putin and Chairman of State Affairs Kim Jong-un,...we can confidently say that the relations have reached a qualitatively new strategic level,\u201d Lavrov told North Korean foreign minister Choe Son Hui, according to Russian state media. \n\nLavrov flew to Pyongyang on Wednesday for a two-day trip, a month after Jong Un's trip to Russia.\u00a0 \n\nChoe said her meeting with Lavrov \u201cwill become an important stage in terms of the implementation of the agreements\u201d reached by Kim and Putin, according to TASS news agency.\u00a0 \n\nLavrov also praised North Korea for \"remaining unfazed by any pressure of the US and the West,\u201d and said that Russia fully supports the country's push to protect its security and economic interests.\u00a0 \n\nChoe said that Pyongyang and Moscow were building an \u201cunbreakable comradely relationship\u201d under the leadership of Kim and Putin. \n\nThe visit and negotiations should also lay the groundwork for Putin's future visit to North Korea, a Kremlin spokesman said earlier. \n\nNorth Korea's state media hasn't reported about the meeting. \n\nDuring a reception speech after landing in the North Korean capital , Lavrov thanked North Korea for its strong support for Russia\u2019s war on Ukraine. \n\n\u201cWe are fully aware that many countries worldwide share similar viewpoints and assessments, but only a select few, such as (North Korea), explicitly declare their solidarity with Russia and can express it openly,\u201d Lavrov said. \n\nKim Jung-un said bilateral relations with Moscow were \"priority number one\" of his country and promised to \"fight imperialism together\" during his Russia visit.\u00a0 \n\nThe September summit and the apparent warming of relations between Russia and North Korea have stoked Western fears that Pyongyang could provide Moscow with weapons for its offensive in Ukraine. \n\nThe White House accused North Korea of delivering more than 1,000 containers of military equipment and munitions to Russia. \n\nMoscow denounced Washington's remarks earlier this week, insisting the claims do not have any evidence at all. \n\n","htmlText":"<p>Russia-North Korea relations have reached a \"qualitatively new and strategic level,\" Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\"After the historic summit between President Putin and Chairman of State Affairs Kim Jong-un,...we can confidently say that the relations have reached a qualitatively new strategic level,\u201d Lavrov told North Korean foreign minister Choe Son Hui, according to Russian state media.<\/p>\n<p>Lavrov flew to Pyongyang on Wednesday for a two-day trip, a month after Jong Un's trip to Russia.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Choe said her meeting with Lavrov \u201cwill become an important stage in terms of the implementation of the agreements\u201d reached by Kim and Putin, according to TASS news agency.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Lavrov also praised North Korea for \"remaining unfazed by any pressure of the US and the West,\u201d and said that Russia fully supports the country's push to protect its security and economic interests.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Choe said that Pyongyang and Moscow were building an \u201cunbreakable comradely relationship\u201d under the leadership of Kim and Putin.<\/p>\n<p>The visit and negotiations should also lay the groundwork for Putin's future visit to North Korea, a Kremlin spokesman said earlier.<\/p>\n<p>North Korea's state media hasn't reported about the meeting.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.666015625\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//97//89//90//808x539_cmsv2_ae87832d-0b57-51d7-a754-40874b4d7ac5-7978990.jpg/" alt=\"Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, left, and North Korean Foreign Minister Choe Son Hui, right, attend the talks in Pyongyang.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/97\/89\/90\/384x256_cmsv2_ae87832d-0b57-51d7-a754-40874b4d7ac5-7978990.jpg 384w, 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<span class=\"widget__captionText\">Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, left, and North Korean Foreign Minister Choe Son Hui, right, attend the talks in Pyongyang.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">AP\/Russian Foreign Ministry Press Service telegram channel<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>During a reception speech <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2023//10//18//russias-foreign-minister-sergei-lavrov-arrives-in-north-korea-as-relationships-continue-to/">after landing in the North Korean capital<\/strong><\/a>, Lavrov thanked North Korea for its strong support for Russia\u2019s war on Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are fully aware that many countries worldwide share similar viewpoints and assessments, but only a select few, such as (North Korea), explicitly declare their solidarity with Russia and can express it openly,\u201d Lavrov said.<\/p>\n<p>Kim Jung-un said bilateral relations with Moscow were \"priority number one\" of his country and promised to \"fight imperialism together\" during his Russia visit.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The September summit and the apparent warming of relations between Russia and North Korea have stoked Western fears that Pyongyang could provide Moscow with weapons for its offensive in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>The White House accused North Korea of delivering more than <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2023//10//14//north-korea-delivered-1000-containers-of-equipment-and-munitions-to-russia-says-white-hous/">1,000 containers of military equipment<\/strong><\/a> and munitions to Russia.<\/p>\n<p>Moscow denounced Washington's remarks earlier this week, insisting the claims do not have any evidence at 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KOREA KIM & DAUGHTER","path":"\/video\/2023\/08\/29\/watch-north-korean-leader-kim-jong-un-visits-navy-headquarters-with-his-daughter","lastModified":1693314254},{"id":2347086,"cid":7825332,"versionId":1,"archive":0,"housenumber":"230816_NWSU_52769500","owner":"euronews","isMagazine":0,"isBreakingNews":0,"channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"North Korea said US soldier Travis King defected to escape mistreatment and racism","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"North Korea said Travis King defected to escape mistreatment in the US","titleListing2":"North Korea said US soldier Travis King defected to escape mistreatment and racism","leadin":"The country's official news agency said the defecting soldier had become disillusioned with American \"unequal society.\" Fews in the US believe this account.","summary":"The country's official news agency said the defecting soldier had become disillusioned with American \"unequal society.\" Fews in the US believe this account.","keySentence":"","url":"north-korea-said-us-soldier-travis-king-defected-to-escape-mistreatment-and-racism","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2023\/08\/16\/north-korea-said-us-soldier-travis-king-defected-to-escape-mistreatment-and-racism","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"North Korea said that US soldier Travis King bolted across the Korean border last month because he wanted to escape the \"mistreatment and racial discrimination\" suffered in the US military, as declared by the state news agency KCNA on Wednesday. \n\nIt was the first official confirmation that King is currently detained in Pyongyang, though the agency did not elaborate on his exact location.\u00a0 \n\nThe 23-year-old US soldier had served in South Korea, where he had been detained for nearly two months as a result of an altercation with a local, according to South Korean authorities.\u00a0 On July 18, he was escorted to Seoul's Incheon International Airport to fly home and face probable disciplinary action, but he never made it to his plane. \n\nInstead, he joined a tour\u00a0 of the tightly controlled Joint Security Area (JSA) on the border between the two Koreas and sprinted into the North. \n\n\"According to an investigation by a competent organ of the DPRK (Democratic People's Republic of Korea), Travis King admitted to having entered the territory of the DPRK illegally,\" KCNA reported, using the official name of North Korea. \n\n\nAccording to the agency, King \"harboured ill feeling against inhuman maltreatment and racial discrimination within the U.S. Army\" and wanted to stay in North Korea or a third country because he was \"disillusioned at the unequal American society.\" \n\nKCNA is a propaganda outlet and its content reflects the views of North Korea's leadership - including that the United States is an evil adversary. King's motivation to defect to North Korea remains officially unconfirmed. \n\n\"This is 100% North Korean propaganda in its element. King, as an American citizen held in North Korea, has no sway in how (North Korea) chooses to cast its narrative,\" said Soo Kim, an expert with Virginia-based consultancy LMI and a former CIA analyst. \n\n\"As for King's release, his fate rests in North Korea\u2019s hands. Perhaps the regime will try to \u2018bargain\u2019 King\u2019s life in exchange for financial concessions from the U.S. More than likely, negotiations won\u2019t be easy, and terms will be dictated by Pyongyang,\" she said. \n\nKing's family said his mother, Claudine Gates, is appealing to North Korea to treat her son humanely. \n\n\"She's a mom worried about her son and would be grateful for a phone call from him,\" family spokesman Jonathan Franks said in the statement. \"Lastly, she has been in touch with the Army this evening and appreciates a (Defence Department) statement that it remains focused on bringing Travis home.\" \n\n","htmlText":"<p>North Korea said that <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2023//07//19//north-korea-silent-about-its-apparent-detention-of-the-us-soldier-who-bolted-across-the-bo/">US soldier Travis King<\/strong><\/a> bolted across the Korean border last month because he wanted to escape the \"mistreatment and racial discrimination\" suffered in the US military, as declared by the state news agency KCNA on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>It was the first official confirmation that King is currently detained in Pyongyang, though the agency did not elaborate on his exact location.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The 23-year-old US soldier had served in South Korea, where he had been detained for nearly two months as a result of an altercation with a local, according to South Korean authorities.\u00a0On July 18, he was escorted to Seoul's Incheon International Airport to fly home and face probable disciplinary action, but he never made it to his plane.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, he joined a tour\u00a0of the tightly controlled Joint Security Area (JSA) on the border between the two Koreas and sprinted into the North.<\/p>\n<p>\"According to an investigation by a competent organ of the DPRK (Democratic People's Republic of Korea), Travis King admitted to having entered the territory of the DPRK illegally,\" KCNA reported, using the official name of North Korea. <\/p>\n<p>According to the agency, King \"harboured ill feeling against inhuman maltreatment and racial discrimination within the U.S. Army\" and wanted to stay in North Korea or a third country because he was \"disillusioned at the unequal American society.\"<\/p>\n<p>KCNA is a propaganda outlet and its content reflects the views of North Korea's leadership - including that the United States is an evil adversary. King's motivation to defect to North Korea remains officially unconfirmed.<\/p>\n<p>\"This is 100% North Korean propaganda in its element. King, as an American citizen held in North Korea, has no sway in how (North Korea) chooses to cast its narrative,\" said Soo Kim, an expert with Virginia-based consultancy LMI and a former CIA analyst.<\/p>\n<p>\"As for King's release, his fate rests in North Korea\u2019s hands. Perhaps the regime will try to \u2018bargain\u2019 King\u2019s life in exchange for financial concessions from the U.S. More than likely, negotiations won\u2019t be easy, and terms will be dictated by Pyongyang,\" she said.<\/p>\n<p>King's family said his mother, Claudine Gates, is appealing to North Korea to treat her son humanely.<\/p>\n<p>\"She's a mom worried about her son and would be grateful for a phone call from him,\" family spokesman Jonathan Franks said in the statement. \"Lastly, she has been in touch with the Army this evening and appreciates a (Defence Department) statement that it remains focused on bringing Travis home.\"<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1692167238,"updatedAt":1692168293,"publishedAt":1692168291,"firstPublishedAt":1692168293,"lastPublishedAt":1692168293,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Morry Gash\/AP","altText":"A portrait of American soldier Travis King is displayed as his grandfather, Carl Gates, talks about his grandson on July 19, 2023, in Kenosha, Wisconsin.","callToActionText":null,"width":4615,"caption":"A portrait of American soldier Travis King is displayed as his grandfather, Carl Gates, talks about his grandson on July 19, 2023, in Kenosha, Wisconsin.","url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/82\/53\/32\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_da012a77-4079-54d8-a8ff-b766c8162e74-7825332.jpg","captionUrl":null,"height":3076}],"authors":{"journalists":[],"producers":[],"videoEditor":[]},"keywords":[{"urlSafeValue":"north-korea","titleRaw":"North Korea","id":366,"title":"North Korea","slug":"north-korea"},{"urlSafeValue":"american-army","titleRaw":"American army","id":10481,"title":"American army","slug":"american-army"},{"urlSafeValue":"american-politics","titleRaw":"American politics","id":9637,"title":"American politics","slug":"american-politics"},{"urlSafeValue":"prisoner","titleRaw":"prisoner","id":11938,"title":"prisoner","slug":"prisoner"},{"urlSafeValue":"soldier","titleRaw":"soldier","id":14194,"title":"soldier","slug":"soldier"}],"widgets":[],"related":[],"technicalTags":[],"externalPartners":[],"video":0,"videos":[],"liveStream":[{"endDate":0,"startDate":0}],"scribbleLiveId":0,"scribbleLiveRibbon":0,"isLiveCoverage":0,"sourceId":1,"sources":[],"externalSource":null,"additionalSources":"","additionalReporting":"Euronews, AFP, AP","freeField1":null,"freeField2":"","type":"normal","displayType":"default","program":{"id":"world","urlSafeValue":"world","title":"world news","online":1,"url":"\/\/www.euronews.com\/programs\/world"},"vertical":"news","verticals":[{"urlSafeValue":"news","id":1,"title":"News","slug":"news"}],"primaryVertical":{"id":1,"slug":"news","urlSafeValue":"news","title":"News"},"themes":[{"urlSafeValue":"news","id":"news","title":"World","url":"\/\/www.euronews.com\/news\/international"}],"primaryTheme":{"id":1,"urlSafeValue":"news","title":"World"},"advertising":0,"advertisingData":{"startDate":0,"endDate":0,"type":null,"slug":null,"title":null,"disclaimerLabelKey":null,"sponsor":null,"sponsorName":null,"sponsorUrl":null,"sponsorLogo":"","sponsorLogoReverse":"","isDfp":0},"geoLocation":{"lat":0,"lon":0},"location":1,"continent":{"id":12,"urlSafeValue":"asia","title":"Asia"},"country":{"id":366,"urlSafeValue":"north-korea","title":"North Korea","url":"\/news\/asia\/north-korea"},"town":[],"grapeshot":"'neg_nespresso','pos_equinor','pos_facebook','pos_pmi','pos_ukraine-russia','pos_ukrainecrisis','gs_science','gs_science_geography','neg_facebook_2021','gt_negative','gv_crime','castrol_negative_uk','neg_mobkoi_castrol','gb_crime_edu','gb_crime_high_med_low','gt_negative_anger','neg_facebook','gs_family_children','gs_business','gb_hatespeech_high_med','gb_hatespeech_high_med_low','gb_hatespeech_news-ent','gs_tech'","versions":[],"programDeliverable":{"slug":"sujet","format":"default"},"showOpinionDisclaimer":0,"allViews":0,"allViewsMeta":{"pointOfView":[],"survey":[],"tweetId":0,"tweet2NdId":0,"displayOverlay":0},"storyTranslationMethod":[],"localisation":[],"daletEventName":"WEB Travis King","path":"\/2023\/08\/16\/north-korea-said-us-soldier-travis-king-defected-to-escape-mistreatment-and-racism","lastModified":1692168293},{"id":2346420,"cid":7823230,"versionId":2,"archive":0,"housenumber":"230815_C2SU_52761412","owner":"euronews","isMagazine":0,"isBreakingNews":0,"channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"North Korea enforces an anti-shorts law - but it's only affecting women","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"North Korea bans shorts - but only for women","titleListing2":"The Asian nation is well known for their bans, but the forbidding of shorts might be the oddest one yet - especially during a heatwave.","leadin":"The Asian nation is well known for their bans, but the forbidding of shorts might be the oddest one yet - especially during a heatwave.","summary":"The Asian nation is well known for their bans, but the forbidding of shorts might be the oddest one yet - especially during a heatwave.","keySentence":"","url":"north-korea-enforces-an-anti-shorts-law-but-its-only-affecting-women","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/culture\/2023\/08\/15\/north-korea-enforces-an-anti-shorts-law-but-its-only-affecting-women","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"In news that would be shocking if it didn\u2019t come out of one of the most authoritarian nations, North Korea has banned the wearing of shorts. \n\nTo make it even worse, especially with temperatures upwards of 30\u00b0 Celsius, it\u2019s only women who have been slapped with the regulation. \n\nThe country\u2019s \u2018Supreme Leader\u2019 Kim Jong-Un has decreed the wearing of shorts by women amounts to \u201ccapitalist fashion\u201d. \n\nBut how do we know about the latest bizarre rule out of North Korea, a nation which is practically on permanent lockdown? \n\nRadio Free Asia, a broadcasting service which aims to get the bottom of propaganda put out by totalitarian countries, interviewed an anonymous resident. \n\nAlthough the regime in North Korea demands total loyalty to Jong-Un, one \u2018subject\u2019 told the radio station that 10 women had been arrested in the country, simply for wearing above-the-knee trousers. \n\n\u201cThey had to write a statement of self-criticism and sign a document saying they would face legal consequences if they were caught wearing shorts again,\u201d the anonymous source explained, adding, \u201cMany women are complaining, asking why men can wear shorts and women can't. They are saying that the authorities are discriminating against us\u201d. \n\nThe shorts ban is a new part of a law passed in 2020, with the intention of putting the kibosh on so-called \u2018anti-socialist behaviour\u2019. \n\nIt\u2019s not the first rule to have raised eyebrows in North Korea, especially with regards to the sexist imbalance. \n\nEarlier in August, Radio Free Asia reported that a ban on smoking in public was restricted only to women. Kim Jong-Un himself is famously a smoker, but that fact didn\u2019t stop him imposing fines on female residents. \n\nAt the time, a north Pyongan resident revealed that two women had been fined for smoking outside while they ate and were warned that if they were caught again, they could be imprisoned at a disciplinary labour centre for a month. \n\nThe shorts outlawing is also not the first clothing-based ban seen in recent times in North Korea. \n\nJust last year, women were condemned for wearing \u2018capitalist fashions\u2019 - namely tight trousers and having dyed hair. \n\nIn a video, these women were dubbed 'capitalist delinquents' and accused of wearing 'indecent clothes', not permitted under the \u2018ideal\u2019, identikit, \u2018North Korean style\u2019. \n\nRegulations and bans outside North Korea \n\nNorth Korea is not the only Asian country which has astounded global onlookers with its oppressive clothing rules. \n\nIn Japan, authority figures have long imposed strict regulations on what school students can wear - down to the colour of their underwear, the length of their socks and even hairstyles. \n\nGirls are banned from wearing their hair in ponytails as it\u2019s thought, bizarrely, that exposing the nape of their necks could \u2018sexually excite\u2019 male students. \n\nIt\u2019s a draconian rule which has been around for decades. Featuring on a list known as buraku kosoku , it sits besides mandates on skirt length, eyebrow shape and even hair colour. \n\nSome schools are so tough on the latter that they demand photographic proof from students of their natural hair colour and texture, if it isn\u2019t strictly black and straight. \n\nPupils are seldom given an explanation for such bizarre rules, many of which appear to be entirely arbitrary.\u00a0Some schools which ban ponytails allow bob haircuts which expose an equal amount of the neck, if not more. \n\nBuraku kosoku dates back to the 1870s. \n\nInitially brought in as systematic regulation of education, the rules became more restrictive in the 1970s and \u201880s, apparently to combat violence and bullying in schools. \n\nSome commentators suggest the directives have been put in place to ensure no one stands out. \n\nWhile many of their complaints fall on deaf ears, one intrusive rule has thankfully been dropped. \n\nFollowing complaints, schools have dropped the ban on underwear any colour other than white.\u00a0Pupils can now wear grey, black, or navy blue undergarments - but it remains unclear how this rule is exacted. \n\n","htmlText":"<p>In news that would be shocking if it didn\u2019t come out of one of the most authoritarian nations, North Korea has banned the wearing of shorts.<\/p>\n<p>To make it even worse, especially with temperatures upwards of 30\u00b0 Celsius, it\u2019s only women who have been slapped with the regulation.<\/p>\n<p>The country\u2019s \u2018Supreme Leader\u2019 Kim Jong-Un has decreed the wearing of shorts by women amounts to \u201ccapitalist fashion\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>But how do we know about the latest bizarre rule out of North Korea, a nation which is practically on permanent lockdown?<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6666666666666666\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//82//32//30//808x539_cmsv2_7c8eb726-6ef1-57d6-b3bb-2d9f99f7df64-7823230.jpg/" alt=\"NG HAN GUAN\/AP\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/82\/32\/30\/384x256_cmsv2_7c8eb726-6ef1-57d6-b3bb-2d9f99f7df64-7823230.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/82\/32\/30\/640x427_cmsv2_7c8eb726-6ef1-57d6-b3bb-2d9f99f7df64-7823230.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/82\/32\/30\/750x500_cmsv2_7c8eb726-6ef1-57d6-b3bb-2d9f99f7df64-7823230.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/82\/32\/30\/828x552_cmsv2_7c8eb726-6ef1-57d6-b3bb-2d9f99f7df64-7823230.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/82\/32\/30\/1080x720_cmsv2_7c8eb726-6ef1-57d6-b3bb-2d9f99f7df64-7823230.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/82\/32\/30\/1200x800_cmsv2_7c8eb726-6ef1-57d6-b3bb-2d9f99f7df64-7823230.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/82\/32\/30\/1920x1280_cmsv2_7c8eb726-6ef1-57d6-b3bb-2d9f99f7df64-7823230.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Inhabitants of North Korea must abide by the country's draconian rules and blend in at all times<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">NG HAN GUAN\/AP<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Radio Free Asia, a broadcasting service which aims to get the bottom of propaganda put out by totalitarian countries, interviewed an anonymous resident.<\/p>\n<p>Although the regime in North Korea demands total loyalty to Jong-Un, one \u2018subject\u2019 told the radio station that 10 women had been arrested in the country, simply for wearing above-the-knee trousers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey had to write a statement of self-criticism and sign a document saying they would face legal consequences if they were caught wearing shorts again,\u201d the anonymous source explained, adding, \u201cMany women are complaining, asking why men can wear shorts and women can't. They are saying that the authorities are discriminating against us\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The shorts ban is a new part of a law passed in 2020, with the intention of putting the kibosh on so-called \u2018anti-socialist behaviour\u2019.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6539158810732415\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//82//32//30//808x528_cmsv2_4068a71d-353b-51dd-a3bb-63c0ddfeafea-7823230.jpg/" alt=\"David Guttenfelder\/AP\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/82\/32\/30\/384x251_cmsv2_4068a71d-353b-51dd-a3bb-63c0ddfeafea-7823230.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/82\/32\/30\/640x419_cmsv2_4068a71d-353b-51dd-a3bb-63c0ddfeafea-7823230.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/82\/32\/30\/750x490_cmsv2_4068a71d-353b-51dd-a3bb-63c0ddfeafea-7823230.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/82\/32\/30\/828x541_cmsv2_4068a71d-353b-51dd-a3bb-63c0ddfeafea-7823230.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/82\/32\/30\/1080x706_cmsv2_4068a71d-353b-51dd-a3bb-63c0ddfeafea-7823230.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/82\/32\/30\/1200x785_cmsv2_4068a71d-353b-51dd-a3bb-63c0ddfeafea-7823230.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/82\/32\/30\/1920x1256_cmsv2_4068a71d-353b-51dd-a3bb-63c0ddfeafea-7823230.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Constant surveillance: Police women stand on a street in Pyongyang<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">David Guttenfelder\/AP<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s not the first rule to have raised eyebrows in North Korea, especially with regards to the sexist imbalance.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in August, Radio Free Asia reported that a ban on smoking in public was restricted only to women. Kim Jong-Un himself is famously a smoker, but that fact didn\u2019t stop him imposing fines on female residents.<\/p>\n<p>At the time, a north Pyongan resident revealed that two women had been fined for smoking outside while they ate and were warned that if they were caught again, they could be imprisoned at a disciplinary labour centre for a month.<\/p>\n<p>The shorts outlawing is also not the first clothing-based ban seen in recent times in North Korea.<\/p>\n<p>Just last year, women were condemned for wearing \u2018capitalist fashions\u2019 - namely tight trousers and having dyed hair.<\/p>\n<p>In a video, these women were dubbed 'capitalist delinquents' and accused of wearing 'indecent clothes', not permitted under the \u2018ideal\u2019, identikit, \u2018North Korean style\u2019.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Regulations and bans outside North Korea<\/strong><\/h2><p>North Korea is not the only Asian country which has astounded global onlookers with its oppressive clothing rules.<\/p>\n<p>In Japan, authority figures have long imposed strict regulations on what school students can wear - down to the colour of their underwear, the length of their socks and even hairstyles.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6673749275642263\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//82//32//30//808x539_cmsv2_0a4d608f-7213-59cc-a3c0-26fc53d0a244-7823230.jpg/" alt=\"Barbara Alper\/Getty Images\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/82\/32\/30\/384x256_cmsv2_0a4d608f-7213-59cc-a3c0-26fc53d0a244-7823230.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/82\/32\/30\/640x427_cmsv2_0a4d608f-7213-59cc-a3c0-26fc53d0a244-7823230.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/82\/32\/30\/750x501_cmsv2_0a4d608f-7213-59cc-a3c0-26fc53d0a244-7823230.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/82\/32\/30\/828x553_cmsv2_0a4d608f-7213-59cc-a3c0-26fc53d0a244-7823230.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/82\/32\/30\/1080x721_cmsv2_0a4d608f-7213-59cc-a3c0-26fc53d0a244-7823230.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/82\/32\/30\/1200x801_cmsv2_0a4d608f-7213-59cc-a3c0-26fc53d0a244-7823230.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/82\/32\/30\/1920x1281_cmsv2_0a4d608f-7213-59cc-a3c0-26fc53d0a244-7823230.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Too much neck on show? Japan's ponytail ban would have us think so<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Barbara Alper\/Getty Images<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Girls are banned from wearing their hair in ponytails as it\u2019s thought, bizarrely, that exposing the nape of their necks could \u2018sexually excite\u2019 male students.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a draconian rule which has been around for decades. Featuring on a list known as <em>buraku kosoku<\/em>, it sits besides mandates on skirt length, eyebrow shape and even hair colour.<\/p>\n<p>Some schools are so tough on the latter that they demand photographic proof from students of their natural hair colour and texture, if it isn\u2019t strictly black and straight.<\/p>\n<p>Pupils are seldom given an explanation for such bizarre rules, many of which appear to be entirely arbitrary.\u00a0Some schools which ban ponytails allow bob haircuts which expose an equal amount of the neck, if not more.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6574858757062146\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//82//32//30//808x532_cmsv2_246d4344-44a3-595f-aeb2-9833b0dbf39c-7823230.jpg/" alt=\"KAZUHIRO NOGI\/AFP via Getty Images\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/82\/32\/30\/384x252_cmsv2_246d4344-44a3-595f-aeb2-9833b0dbf39c-7823230.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/82\/32\/30\/640x421_cmsv2_246d4344-44a3-595f-aeb2-9833b0dbf39c-7823230.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/82\/32\/30\/750x493_cmsv2_246d4344-44a3-595f-aeb2-9833b0dbf39c-7823230.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/82\/32\/30\/828x544_cmsv2_246d4344-44a3-595f-aeb2-9833b0dbf39c-7823230.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/82\/32\/30\/1080x710_cmsv2_246d4344-44a3-595f-aeb2-9833b0dbf39c-7823230.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/82\/32\/30\/1200x789_cmsv2_246d4344-44a3-595f-aeb2-9833b0dbf39c-7823230.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/82\/32\/30\/1920x1262_cmsv2_246d4344-44a3-595f-aeb2-9833b0dbf39c-7823230.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Japan enforces rules on schoolchildren including bans on hairstyles, certain underwear colours and skirts deemed 'too short'<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">KAZUHIRO NOGI\/AFP via Getty Images<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><em>Buraku kosoku<\/em> dates back to the 1870s.<\/p>\n<p>Initially brought in as systematic regulation of education, the rules became more restrictive in the 1970s and \u201880s, apparently to combat violence and bullying in schools.<\/p>\n<p>Some commentators suggest the directives have been put in place to ensure no one stands out.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6666\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//82//32//30//808x539_cmsv2_576d629a-1e3b-5f92-99c0-c92442a8d947-7823230.jpg/" alt=\"SOPA Images\/Getty\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/82\/32\/30\/384x256_cmsv2_576d629a-1e3b-5f92-99c0-c92442a8d947-7823230.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/82\/32\/30\/640x427_cmsv2_576d629a-1e3b-5f92-99c0-c92442a8d947-7823230.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/82\/32\/30\/750x500_cmsv2_576d629a-1e3b-5f92-99c0-c92442a8d947-7823230.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/82\/32\/30\/828x552_cmsv2_576d629a-1e3b-5f92-99c0-c92442a8d947-7823230.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/82\/32\/30\/1080x720_cmsv2_576d629a-1e3b-5f92-99c0-c92442a8d947-7823230.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/82\/32\/30\/1200x800_cmsv2_576d629a-1e3b-5f92-99c0-c92442a8d947-7823230.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/82\/32\/30\/1920x1280_cmsv2_576d629a-1e3b-5f92-99c0-c92442a8d947-7823230.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Identikit clothing rules mean no one stands out in Japanese schools<\/span>\n <span 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Travis King sprinted across the heavily armed border with South Korea in July","summary":"North Korea responded to the multinational military force's request for information on the US Private with a brief statement. Travis King sprinted across the heavily armed border with South Korea in July","keySentence":"","url":"un-command-north-korea-acknowledges-request-for-information-on-us-soldier-travis-king","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2023\/08\/03\/un-command-north-korea-acknowledges-request-for-information-on-us-soldier-travis-king","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"The United Nations Command announced on Thursday that Pyongyang had \"responded\" to its requests concerning US soldier Travis King, who is believed to be detained in North Korea after entering illegally on 18 July without giving further details. \n\nIn a statement, the North Korean army \"has responded to the UN Command regarding Private King,\" said the US-led UN multinational force, which oversees compliance with the armistice between the two Koreas. \n\n\"In order not to interfere with efforts to bring him home, we will not go into details at this time\", it added. \n\nThis information comes ten days after the UN Command announced the launch of \"discussions with the Korean People's Army via the armistice agreement mechanism\", about the agreement that ended hostilities in 1953 after the Korean War. \n\nKing, who was enlisted in 2021, was imprisoned for 47 days in a South Korean detention centre following an alleged drunken brawl in a nightclub and an altercation with local police in Seoul after he reportedly kicked in the door of a squad car.\u00a0 \n\nHe was released from prison on 10 July and was expected back in the US for a disciplinary hearing at Fort Bliss in Texas. \n\nAccording to the US Command, King slipped away on 18 July and\u00a0crossed the border between South and North Korea, on a visit to the demilitarised inter-Korean village\u00a0\"voluntarily and without authorisation\" and was taken into custody. \n\nTechnically speaking the two Koreas remain at war, as the 1950-53 conflict ended in an armistice, not a treaty, and most of the border between them is fortified. \n\nLocated in North Korea, the demilitarised zone (DMZ) can be visited, provided you register several weeks in advance and supply a passport. It is policed by the UN Command. \n\nPyongyang has repeatedly detained Americans and used them for propaganda. King who is 23 years old, is believed to be the first US soldier to cross into North Korea since 1982. \n\nThis incident comes against a backdrop of high tension between the West and North Korean President Kim Jong Un, who at the end of July unveiled new nuclear-capable drones and intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) while Russian Defence Minister Sergei Choigou was on a visit to North Korea for Victory Day celebrations.\u00a0 \n\nSome experts say the North may try to use King for propaganda or as a bargaining chip to coax political and security concessions from Washington, possibly tying his release with the US cutting back its military activities with South Korea. \n\nThe US and South Korea have been expanding their combined military exercises and have agreed to increase the regional deployment of US strategic assets like bombers, aircraft carriers and submarines in a show of force against North Korea, which has test-fired around 100 missiles since the start of 2022. \n\n","htmlText":"<p>The United Nations Command announced on Thursday that Pyongyang had \"responded\" to its requests concerning US soldier Travis King, who is believed to be detained in North Korea after entering illegally on 18 July without giving further details.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, the North Korean army \"has responded to the UN Command regarding Private King,\" said the US-led UN multinational force, which oversees compliance with the armistice between the two Koreas.<\/p>\n<p>\"In order not to interfere with efforts to bring him home, we will not go into details at this time\", it added.<\/p>\n<p>This information comes ten days after the UN Command announced the launch of \"discussions with the Korean People's Army via the armistice agreement mechanism\", about the agreement that ended hostilities in 1953 after the Korean War.<\/p>\n<div\n data-stories-id=\"7760356\"\n data-event=\"widget_related\"\n class=\"widget widget--type-related widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <ul class=\"widget__related_list\"><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2023//07//18//american-arrested-in-north-korea-after-crossing-border-from-south/">US soldier arrested in North Korea after crossing border from South<\/a> <\/li><\/ul>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>King, who was enlisted in 2021, was imprisoned for 47 days in a South Korean detention centre following an alleged drunken brawl in a nightclub and an altercation with local police in Seoul after he reportedly kicked in the door of a squad car.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He was released from prison on 10 July and was expected back in the US for a disciplinary hearing at Fort Bliss in Texas.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.65234375\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//79//89//42//808x528_cmsv2_93c3e06e-9bf5-59d8-a961-900b8634d6c0-7798942.jpg/" alt=\"Ahn Young-joon\/Copyright 2023 The AP. All rights reserved.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/79\/89\/42\/384x251_cmsv2_93c3e06e-9bf5-59d8-a961-900b8634d6c0-7798942.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/79\/89\/42\/640x418_cmsv2_93c3e06e-9bf5-59d8-a961-900b8634d6c0-7798942.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/79\/89\/42\/750x489_cmsv2_93c3e06e-9bf5-59d8-a961-900b8634d6c0-7798942.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/79\/89\/42\/828x540_cmsv2_93c3e06e-9bf5-59d8-a961-900b8634d6c0-7798942.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/79\/89\/42\/1080x705_cmsv2_93c3e06e-9bf5-59d8-a961-900b8634d6c0-7798942.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/79\/89\/42\/1200x783_cmsv2_93c3e06e-9bf5-59d8-a961-900b8634d6c0-7798942.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/79\/89\/42\/1920x1253_cmsv2_93c3e06e-9bf5-59d8-a961-900b8634d6c0-7798942.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">A TV screen shows a file image of American soldier Travis King during a news program at the Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea, Saturday, July 22, 2023.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Ahn Young-joon\/Copyright 2023 The AP. All rights reserved.<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>According to the US Command, King slipped away on 18 July and\u00a0crossed the border between South and North Korea, on a visit to the demilitarised inter-Korean village\u00a0\"voluntarily and without authorisation\" and was taken into custody.<\/p>\n<p>Technically speaking the two Koreas remain at war, as the 1950-53 conflict ended in an armistice, not a treaty, and most of the border between them is fortified.<\/p>\n<p>Located in North Korea, the demilitarised zone (DMZ) can be visited, provided you register several weeks in advance and supply a passport. It is policed by the UN Command.<\/p>\n<div\n data-stories-id=\"7783014\"\n data-event=\"widget_related\"\n class=\"widget widget--type-related widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <ul class=\"widget__related_list\"><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2023//07//28//north-korea-shows-off-new-weapons-to-russia-and-china/">North Korea shows off new weapons to Russia and China<\/a> <\/li><\/ul>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Pyongyang has repeatedly detained Americans and used them for propaganda. King who is 23 years old, is believed to be the first US soldier to cross into North Korea since 1982.<\/p>\n<p>This incident comes against a backdrop of high tension between the West and North Korean President Kim Jong Un, who at the end of July unveiled new nuclear-capable drones and intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) while Russian Defence Minister Sergei Choigou was on a visit to North Korea for Victory Day celebrations.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Some experts say the North may try to use King for propaganda or as a bargaining chip to coax political and security concessions from Washington, possibly tying his release with the US cutting back its military activities with South Korea.<\/p>\n<p>The US and South Korea have been expanding their combined military exercises and have agreed to increase the regional deployment of US strategic assets like bombers, aircraft carriers and submarines in a show of force against North Korea, which has test-fired around 100 missiles since the start of 2022.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1691057841,"updatedAt":1691068327,"publishedAt":1691068323,"firstPublishedAt":1691068327,"lastPublishedAt":1691068327,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"AP Photo\/Ahn Young-joon\/Arquivo","altText":"A TV screen shows a file image of American soldier Travis King during a news program at the Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, July 24, 2023. 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All rights reserved.","altText":"A TV screen shows a file image of American soldier Travis King during a news program at the Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea, Saturday, July 22, 2023.","callToActionText":null,"width":1024,"caption":"A TV screen shows a file image of American soldier Travis King during a news program at the Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea, Saturday, July 22, 2023.","url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/79\/89\/42\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_93c3e06e-9bf5-59d8-a961-900b8634d6c0-7798942.jpg","captionUrl":null,"height":668}],"authors":{"journalists":[],"producers":[],"videoEditor":[]},"keywords":[{"urlSafeValue":"north-korea","titleRaw":"North Korea","id":366,"title":"North Korea","slug":"north-korea"},{"urlSafeValue":"south-korea","titleRaw":"South Korea","id":7828,"title":"South Korea","slug":"south-korea"},{"urlSafeValue":"united-states","titleRaw":"United States ","id":13363,"title":"United States 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China","titleListing2":"\ud83c\uddf0\ud83c\uddf5 North Korea shows off new weapons to \ud83c\uddf7\ud83c\uddfa Russia and China","leadin":"Concerns that China is supplying Russia in its war on Ukraine dovetail with alarm at North Korean missile escalations","summary":"Concerns that China is supplying Russia in its war on Ukraine dovetail with alarm at North Korean missile escalations","keySentence":"","url":"north-korea-shows-off-new-weapons-to-russia-and-china","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2023\/07\/28\/north-korea-shows-off-new-weapons-to-russia-and-china","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"North Korean leader Kim Jong Un was joined by senior Russian and Chinese delegates as he displayed his most powerful nuclear-capable missiles in a military parade marking a major war anniversary with a show of defiance against the United States and deepening ties with Moscow as tensions on the peninsula hit their highest point in years. \n\nEdited footage from North Korean state TV on Friday showed streets and stands packed with tens of thousands of mobilised spectators, who roared in approval as waves of goose-stepping soldiers, tanks and huge, intercontinental ballistic missiles wheeled out on launcher trucks filled up the main road. \n\nPeople were brought from around the country to the capital, Pyongyang, to fill the crowd, according to state media. \n\nThe parade began with warm-up events that featured ceremonial flights of newly developed surveillance and attack drones, which were first unveiled by state media this week as they reported on an arms exhibition attended by Kim and Shoigu. \n\nThe parade came after Kim met with Shoigu earlier this week to discuss military issues and the regional security environment, illustrating Pyongyang's support for Russia\u2019s war in Ukraine. \n\nNorth Korea has been aligning with Russia over the war in Ukraine, insisting that the \u201chegemonic policy\u201d of the US-led West forced Moscow to take military action to protect its security interests. \n\nThe Biden administration has accused North Korea of providing arms to Russia to aid its fighting in Ukraine, although the North has denied the claim. \n\nDuring the meeting, Shoigu conveyed to Kim a \u201cwarm and good letter\u201d signed by Russian President Vladimir Putin, KCNA said. \n\nShoigu also held talks with North Korean Defence Minister Kang Sun-nam that were aimed at \u201cstrengthening cooperation between our defence departments,\u201d Russia\u2019s Defence Ministry said in a statement. \n\nKCNA reported that Kang, while hosting a reception for Shoigu, expressed support for the \u201cjust struggle of the Russian army\u201d to defend the country\u2019s sovereignty and security, in an apparent reference to Russia\u2019s war on Ukraine.\u00a0The agency also said Shoigu praised the North Korean People\u2019s Army as \u201cthe strongest army in the world\u201d. \n\nRussian media reports did not include that comment. \n\nNorth Korea is celebrating the 70th anniversary of an armistice that halted fighting in the 1950-53 Korean War. The festivities were apparently to be highlighted by a military parade Thursday evening in the capital, where Kim could showcase his most powerful, nuclear-capable missiles. \n\nWhile the truce left the Korean Peninsula in a technical state of war, the North still sees it as a victory in the \u201cGrand Fatherland Liberation War.\u201d \n\nIn a rare case of diplomatic outreach since the start of the pandemic, North Korea invited delegations from Russia and China to attend the celebrations.\u00a0 \n\nKCNA said Kim also took Shoigu to an arms exhibition that showcased some of North Korea\u2019s newest weapons and briefed him on national plans to expand the country\u2019s military capabilities. State media photos and video from the exhibition showed Kim and Shoigu walking near a row of large missiles mounted on launcher trucks. \n\nSome experts say North Korea sees US confrontations with China and Russia over regional influence and the war in Ukraine as an opportunity to break out of diplomatic isolation and insert itself into a united front against Washington. \n\nBoth Moscow and Beijing have been derailing US efforts to strengthen UN Security Council sanctions on North Korea over its flurry of missile tests since 2022. \n\nThe sight of Kim sharing a stage with Shoigu and Li at a military parade is a major spectacle to show off to North Korean viewers, as well as a statement of defiance toward the US. \n\n","htmlText":"<p>North Korean leader Kim Jong Un was joined by senior Russian and Chinese delegates as he displayed his most powerful nuclear-capable missiles in a military parade marking a major war anniversary with a show of defiance against the United States and deepening ties with Moscow as tensions on the peninsula hit their highest point in years.<\/p>\n<p>Edited footage from North Korean state TV on Friday showed streets and stands packed with tens of thousands of mobilised spectators, who roared in approval as waves of goose-stepping soldiers, tanks and huge, intercontinental ballistic missiles wheeled out on launcher trucks filled up the main road.<\/p>\n<p>People were brought from around the country to the capital, Pyongyang, to fill the crowd, according to state media.<\/p>\n<p>The parade began with warm-up events that featured ceremonial flights of newly developed surveillance and attack drones, which were first unveiled by state media this week as they reported on an arms exhibition attended by Kim and Shoigu.<\/p>\n<p>The parade came after Kim met with Shoigu earlier this week to discuss military issues and the regional security environment, illustrating Pyongyang's support for Russia\u2019s war in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget 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<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>North Korea has been aligning with Russia over the war in Ukraine, insisting that the \u201chegemonic policy\u201d of the US-led West forced Moscow to take military action to protect its security interests.<\/p>\n<p>The Biden administration has accused North Korea of providing arms to Russia to aid its fighting in Ukraine, although the North has denied the claim.<\/p>\n<p>During the meeting, Shoigu conveyed to Kim a \u201cwarm and good letter\u201d signed by Russian President Vladimir Putin, KCNA said.<\/p>\n<p>Shoigu also held talks with North Korean Defence Minister Kang Sun-nam that were aimed at \u201cstrengthening cooperation between our defence departments,\u201d Russia\u2019s Defence Ministry said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>KCNA reported that Kang, while hosting a reception for Shoigu, expressed support for the \u201cjust struggle of the Russian army\u201d to defend the country\u2019s sovereignty and security, in an apparent reference to Russia\u2019s war on Ukraine.\u00a0The agency also said Shoigu praised the North Korean People\u2019s Army as \u201cthe strongest army in the world\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Russian media reports did not include that comment.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6669921875\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//78//30//14//808x539_cmsv2_d93bc974-cf8f-5537-ae4b-1c82a567f119-7783014.jpg/" alt=\"AP\/KCNA via KNS\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/78\/30\/14\/384x256_cmsv2_d93bc974-cf8f-5537-ae4b-1c82a567f119-7783014.jpg 384w, 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<span class=\"widget__captionText\">Kim Jong-un shakes hands with Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu at the headquarters of the ruling North Korean Workers\u2019 Party\u2019s Central Committee.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">AP\/KCNA via KNS<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>North Korea is celebrating the 70th anniversary of an armistice that halted fighting in the 1950-53 Korean War. The festivities were apparently to be highlighted by a military parade Thursday evening in the capital, where Kim could showcase his most powerful, nuclear-capable missiles.<\/p>\n<p>While the truce left the Korean Peninsula in a technical state of war, the North still sees it as a victory in the \u201cGrand Fatherland Liberation War.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a rare case of diplomatic outreach since the start of the pandemic, North Korea invited delegations from Russia and China to attend the celebrations.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>KCNA said Kim also took Shoigu to an arms exhibition that showcased some of North Korea\u2019s newest weapons and briefed him on national plans to expand the country\u2019s military capabilities. State media photos and video from the exhibition showed Kim and Shoigu walking near a row of large missiles mounted on launcher trucks.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.5622\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//78//30//14//808x454_cmsv2_ce9130ea-096e-57b0-aaae-08b6500bb091-7783014.jpg/" alt=\"AP Photo\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/78\/30\/14\/384x216_cmsv2_ce9130ea-096e-57b0-aaae-08b6500bb091-7783014.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/78\/30\/14\/640x360_cmsv2_ce9130ea-096e-57b0-aaae-08b6500bb091-7783014.jpg 640w, 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Russia","path":"\/2023\/07\/28\/north-korea-shows-off-new-weapons-to-russia-and-china","lastModified":1690986394},{"id":2325400,"cid":7761718,"versionId":1,"archive":0,"housenumber":"230719_NWSU_52467441","owner":"euronews","isMagazine":0,"isBreakingNews":0,"channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"North Korea silent about its apparent detention of the US soldier who bolted across the border","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"North Korea silent about apparent detention of the US soldier","titleListing2":"North Korea silent about its apparent detention of the US soldier who bolted across the border","leadin":"North Korea was silent about the highly unusual entry of an American soldier across the Koreas' heavily fortified border although it test-fired short-range missiles Wednesday in its latest weapons display.","summary":"North Korea was silent about the highly unusual entry of an American soldier across the Koreas' heavily fortified border although it test-fired short-range missiles Wednesday in its latest weapons display.","keySentence":"","url":"north-korea-silent-about-its-apparent-detention-of-the-us-soldier-who-bolted-across-the-bo","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2023\/07\/19\/north-korea-silent-about-its-apparent-detention-of-the-us-soldier-who-bolted-across-the-bo","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Nearly a day after the soldier bolted into North Korea during a tour in the border village of Panmunjom, there was no word on the fate of Private 2nd Class Travis King, the first known American detained in the North in nearly five years. The North's missile launches Wednesday morning were seen as a protest of the deployment of a US nuclear-armed submarine in South Korea the previous day and weren\u2019t likely related to King\u2019s border crossing. \n\n\n\u201cIt\u2019s likely that North Korea will use the soldier for propaganda purposes in the short term and then as a bargaining chip in the mid-to-long term,\u201d said Yang Moo-jin, president of the University of North Korean Studies in South Korea. \n\nKing, 23, was a cavalry scout with the 1st Armored Division who had served nearly two months in a South Korean prison for assault. He was released on 10 July and was being sent home Monday to Fort Bliss, Texas, where he could have faced additional military discipline and discharge from the service. \n\nHe was escorted as far as customs but left the airport before boarding his plane. It wasn\u2019t clear how he spent the hours until joining the Panmunjom tour and running across the border Tuesday afternoon. The Army released his name and limited information after King\u2019s family was notified. But a number of US officials provided additional details on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the matter. \n\nKing\u2019s mother told ABC News she was shocked when she heard her son had crossed into North Korea. \n\n\u201cI can\u2019t see Travis doing anything like that,\u201d Claudine Gates, of Racine, Wisconsin, said. \n\nGates said the Army told her on Tuesday morning of his son's entrance to North Korea. She said she last heard from her son \u201ca few days ago,\u201d when he told her he would return soon to Fort Bliss. She added she just wants \u201chim to come home.\u201d \n\nWhite House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said that the US government was working with North Korean counterparts to \u201cresolve this incident.\u201d The American-led UN Command said Tuesday the U.S. soldier was believed to be in North Korean custody. \n\n\u201cWe\u2019re closely monitoring and investigating the situation,\u201d US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin told a Pentagon news conference, noting he was foremost concerned about the troop\u2019s well-being. \u201cThis will develop in the next several days and hours, and we\u2019ll keep you posted.\u201d \n\nIt wasn\u2019t known whether and how the US and North Korea, which have no diplomatic relations, would hold talks. In the past, Sweden, which has an embassy in Pyongyang, provided consular services for other Americans detained in North Korea. But its embassy\u2019s Swedish diplomatic staff reportedly haven't returned to North Korea since the country imposed a COVID-19 lockdown in early 2020 and ordered out all foreigners. \n\nSome observers say North Korea and the US could still communicate via Panmunjom or the North Korean mission at the UN in New York. \n\nCases of Americans or South Koreans defecting to North Korea are rare, though more than 30,000 North Koreans have fled to South Korea to avoid political oppression and economic difficulties since the end of the 1950-53 Korean War. \n\nTae Yongho, a former minister at the North Korean Embassy in London, said North Korea is likely pleased to have \u201can opportunity to get the US to lose its face\u201d because King's crossing happened on the same day a US submarine arrived in South Korea. Tae, now a South Korean lawmaker, said North Korea won't likely return King because he is a soldier from a nation technically at war with North Korea who voluntarily surrendered to the North. \n\nPanmunjom, located inside the 248-kilometres-long Demilitarized Zone, has been jointly overseen by the UN Command and North Korea since its creation at the close of the Korean War. The bloodshed has occasionally occurred there but has also been a venue for diplomacy and tourism. \n\nKnown for its blue huts straddling concrete slabs that form the demarcation line, Panmunjom draws visitors from both sides who want to see the Cold War\u2019s last frontier. No civilians live at Panmunjom. North and South Korean soldiers face off while tourists on both sides snap photographs. \n\nTours to the southern side of the village reportedly drew around 100,000 visitors a year before the coronavirus pandemic, when South Korea restricted gatherings to slow the spread of COVID-19. The tours resumed fully last year. \n\nA small number of US soldiers went to North Korea during the Cold War, including Charles Jenkins, who deserted his army post in South Korea in 1965 and fled across the DMZ. He appeared in North Korean propaganda films and married a Japanese nursing student who had been abducted from Japan by North Korean agents. He died in Japan in 2017. \n\nIn recent years, some American civilians have been arrested in North Korea for alleged espionage, subversion and other anti-state acts, but were released after the US sent high-profile missions to secure their freedom. \n\nIn May 2018, North Korea released three American detainees who returned to the United States on a plane with then-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo during a short period of warm relations. Later in 2018, North Korea said it expelled American Bruce Byron Lowrance. Since his ouster, there have been no reports of other Americans detained in North Korea before Tuesday\u2019s incident. \n\nTheir freedoms were a striking contrast to the fate of Otto Warmbier, an American university student who died in 2017 days after he was released by North Korea in a coma after 17 months in captivity. \n\nThe United States, South Korea and others have accused North Korea of using foreign detainees to wrest diplomatic concessions. Some foreigners have said after their release that their declarations of guilt were coerced while in North Korean custody. \n\nSean Timmons, a managing partner at the Tully Rinckey law firm, which specializes in military legal cases, said if King is trying to present himself as a legitimate defector fleeing either political oppression or persecution, he would be dependent on North Korea\u2019s leadership to decide if he can stay. \n\nHe said it will likely be up to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to decide King\u2019s fate. \n\n\u201cIt\u2019s going to be up to the whims of their leadership, what they want to do,\u201d Timmons said. \n\n","htmlText":"<p>Nearly a day after the soldier bolted into North Korea during a tour in the border village of Panmunjom, there was no word on the fate of Private 2nd Class Travis King, the first known American detained in the North in nearly five years. The North's missile launches Wednesday morning were seen as a protest of the deployment of a US nuclear-armed submarine in South Korea the previous day and weren\u2019t likely related to King\u2019s border crossing. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s likely that North Korea will use the soldier for propaganda purposes in the short term and then as a bargaining chip in the mid-to-long term,\u201d said Yang Moo-jin, president of the University of North Korean Studies in South Korea.<\/p>\n<p>King, 23, was a cavalry scout with the 1st Armored Division who had served nearly two months in a South Korean prison for assault. He was released on 10 July and was being sent home Monday to Fort Bliss, Texas, where he could have faced additional military discipline and discharge from the service.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6708984375\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//76//17//18//808x542_cmsv2_30ecb4cb-1928-5e30-84c9-e3b4f7c71c2f-7761718.jpg/" alt=\"Ahn Young-joon\/Copyright 2023 The AP. All rights reserved.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/76\/17\/18\/384x258_cmsv2_30ecb4cb-1928-5e30-84c9-e3b4f7c71c2f-7761718.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/76\/17\/18\/640x429_cmsv2_30ecb4cb-1928-5e30-84c9-e3b4f7c71c2f-7761718.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/76\/17\/18\/750x503_cmsv2_30ecb4cb-1928-5e30-84c9-e3b4f7c71c2f-7761718.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/76\/17\/18\/828x556_cmsv2_30ecb4cb-1928-5e30-84c9-e3b4f7c71c2f-7761718.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/76\/17\/18\/1080x725_cmsv2_30ecb4cb-1928-5e30-84c9-e3b4f7c71c2f-7761718.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/76\/17\/18\/1200x805_cmsv2_30ecb4cb-1928-5e30-84c9-e3b4f7c71c2f-7761718.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/76\/17\/18\/1920x1288_cmsv2_30ecb4cb-1928-5e30-84c9-e3b4f7c71c2f-7761718.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">A North Korean military guard post, rear, and South Korea post, bottom, are seen in Paju near the border with North Korea, South Korea, Tuesday, July 18, 2023.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Ahn Young-joon\/Copyright 2023 The AP. All rights reserved.<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>He was escorted as far as customs but left the airport before boarding his plane. It wasn\u2019t clear how he spent the hours until joining the Panmunjom tour and running across the border Tuesday afternoon. The Army released his name and limited information after King\u2019s family was notified. But a number of US officials provided additional details on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the matter.<\/p>\n<p>King\u2019s mother told ABC News she was shocked when she heard her son had crossed into North Korea.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can\u2019t see Travis doing anything like that,\u201d Claudine Gates, of Racine, Wisconsin, said.<\/p>\n<p>Gates said the Army told her on Tuesday morning of his son's entrance to North Korea. She said she last heard from her son \u201ca few days ago,\u201d when he told her he would return soon to Fort Bliss. She added she just wants \u201chim to come home.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said that the US government was working with North Korean counterparts to \u201cresolve this incident.\u201d The American-led UN Command said Tuesday the U.S. soldier was believed to be in North Korean custody.<\/p>\n<div\n data-stories-id=\"7760356,7745758,7642348\"\n data-event=\"widget_related\"\n class=\"widget widget--type-related widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <ul class=\"widget__related_list\"><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2023//07//18//american-arrested-in-north-korea-after-crossing-border-from-south/">US soldier arrested in North Korea after crossing border from South<\/a> <\/li><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2023//05//31//north-korean-spy-satellite-crashes-into-the-sea-after-failed-launch/">North Korean spy satellite crashes into the sea after failed launch <\/a> <\/li><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2023//07//12//north-korea-fires-icbm-in-protest-over-alleged-us-spy-plane-presence/">North Korea fires ICBM in protest over alleged US spy plane presence<\/a> <\/li><\/ul>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re closely monitoring and investigating the situation,\u201d US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin told a Pentagon news conference, noting he was foremost concerned about the troop\u2019s well-being. \u201cThis will develop in the next several days and hours, and we\u2019ll keep you posted.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It wasn\u2019t known whether and how the US and North Korea, which have no diplomatic relations, would hold talks. In the past, Sweden, which has an embassy in Pyongyang, provided consular services for other Americans detained in North Korea. But its embassy\u2019s Swedish diplomatic staff reportedly haven't returned to North Korea since the country imposed a COVID-19 lockdown in early 2020 and ordered out all foreigners.<\/p>\n<p>Some observers say North Korea and the US could still communicate via Panmunjom or the North Korean mission at the UN in New York.<\/p>\n<p>Cases of Americans or South Koreans defecting to North Korea are rare, though more than 30,000 North Koreans have fled to South Korea to avoid political oppression and economic difficulties since the end of the 1950-53 Korean War.<\/p>\n<p>Tae Yongho, a former minister at the North Korean Embassy in London, said North Korea is likely pleased to have \u201can opportunity to get the US to lose its face\u201d because King's crossing happened on the same day a US submarine arrived in South Korea. Tae, now a South Korean lawmaker, said North Korea won't likely return King because he is a soldier from a nation technically at war with North Korea who voluntarily surrendered to the North.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6669921875\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//76//17//18//808x539_cmsv2_323fa903-bcbc-508d-a005-0f5974a3609f-7761718.jpg/" alt=\"Ahn Young-joon\/Copyright 2023 The AP. All rights reserved.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/76\/17\/18\/384x256_cmsv2_323fa903-bcbc-508d-a005-0f5974a3609f-7761718.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/76\/17\/18\/640x427_cmsv2_323fa903-bcbc-508d-a005-0f5974a3609f-7761718.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/76\/17\/18\/750x500_cmsv2_323fa903-bcbc-508d-a005-0f5974a3609f-7761718.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/76\/17\/18\/828x552_cmsv2_323fa903-bcbc-508d-a005-0f5974a3609f-7761718.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/76\/17\/18\/1080x720_cmsv2_323fa903-bcbc-508d-a005-0f5974a3609f-7761718.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/76\/17\/18\/1200x800_cmsv2_323fa903-bcbc-508d-a005-0f5974a3609f-7761718.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/76\/17\/18\/1920x1281_cmsv2_323fa903-bcbc-508d-a005-0f5974a3609f-7761718.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Barricades are placed near the Unification Bridge, which leads to the Panmunjom in the Demilitarized Zone in Paju, South Korea, Wednesday, July 19, 2023.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Ahn Young-joon\/Copyright 2023 The AP. All rights reserved.<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Panmunjom, located inside the 248-kilometres-long Demilitarized Zone, has been jointly overseen by the UN Command and North Korea since its creation at the close of the Korean War. The bloodshed has occasionally occurred there but has also been a venue for diplomacy and tourism.<\/p>\n<p>Known for its blue huts straddling concrete slabs that form the demarcation line, Panmunjom draws visitors from both sides who want to see the Cold War\u2019s last frontier. No civilians live at Panmunjom. North and South Korean soldiers face off while tourists on both sides snap photographs.<\/p>\n<p>Tours to the southern side of the village reportedly drew around 100,000 visitors a year before the coronavirus pandemic, when South Korea restricted gatherings to slow the spread of COVID-19. The tours resumed fully last year.<\/p>\n<p>A small number of US soldiers went to North Korea during the Cold War, including Charles Jenkins, who deserted his army post in South Korea in 1965 and fled across the DMZ. He appeared in North Korean propaganda films and married a Japanese nursing student who had been abducted from Japan by North Korean agents. He died in Japan in 2017.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6669921875\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//76//17//18//808x539_cmsv2_0d8ec66c-283c-59fc-9ce1-5c3b422e39e1-7761718.jpg/" alt=\"Manuel Balce Ceneta\/Copyright 2023 The AP. All rights reserved.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/76\/17\/18\/384x256_cmsv2_0d8ec66c-283c-59fc-9ce1-5c3b422e39e1-7761718.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/76\/17\/18\/640x427_cmsv2_0d8ec66c-283c-59fc-9ce1-5c3b422e39e1-7761718.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/76\/17\/18\/750x500_cmsv2_0d8ec66c-283c-59fc-9ce1-5c3b422e39e1-7761718.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/76\/17\/18\/828x552_cmsv2_0d8ec66c-283c-59fc-9ce1-5c3b422e39e1-7761718.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/76\/17\/18\/1080x720_cmsv2_0d8ec66c-283c-59fc-9ce1-5c3b422e39e1-7761718.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/76\/17\/18\/1200x800_cmsv2_0d8ec66c-283c-59fc-9ce1-5c3b422e39e1-7761718.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/76\/17\/18\/1920x1281_cmsv2_0d8ec66c-283c-59fc-9ce1-5c3b422e39e1-7761718.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin speaks during a news conference with Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley at the Pentagon in Washington, Tuesday, July 18,<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Manuel Balce Ceneta\/Copyright 2023 The AP. All rights reserved.<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>In recent years, some American civilians have been arrested in North Korea for alleged espionage, subversion and other anti-state acts, but were released after the US sent high-profile missions to secure their freedom.<\/p>\n<p>In May 2018, North Korea released three American detainees who returned to the United States on a plane with then-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo during a short period of warm relations. Later in 2018, North Korea said it expelled American Bruce Byron Lowrance. Since his ouster, there have been no reports of other Americans detained in North Korea before Tuesday\u2019s incident.<\/p>\n<p>Their freedoms were a striking contrast to the fate of Otto Warmbier, an American university student who died in 2017 days after he was released by North Korea in a coma after 17 months in captivity.<\/p>\n<p>The United States, South Korea and others have accused North Korea of using foreign detainees to wrest diplomatic concessions. Some foreigners have said after their release that their declarations of guilt were coerced while in North Korean custody.<\/p>\n<p>Sean Timmons, a managing partner at the Tully Rinckey law firm, which specializes in military legal cases, said if King is trying to present himself as a legitimate defector fleeing either political oppression or persecution, he would be dependent on North Korea\u2019s leadership to decide if he can stay.<\/p>\n<p>He said it will likely be up to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to decide King\u2019s fate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s going to be up to the whims of their leadership, what they want to do,\u201d Timmons said.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1689706587,"updatedAt":1689756846,"publishedAt":1689743188,"firstPublishedAt":1689743191,"lastPublishedAt":1689743191,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Ahn Young-joon\/AP","altText":"A North Korean military guard post, rear, and South Korea post, bottom, are seen in Paju near the border with North Korea, South Korea, Tuesday, July 18, 2023. 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launch","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Japan outraged by North Korea missile launch","titleListing2":"Japan was outraged by North Korea's missile launch on Thursday after the government ordered the citizens of Hokkaido island to take shelter.","leadin":"Japan was outraged by North Korea's missile launch on Thursday after the government ordered the citizens of Hokkaido island to take shelter.","summary":"Japan was outraged by North Korea's missile launch on Thursday after the government ordered the citizens of Hokkaido island to take shelter.","keySentence":"","url":"japan-outraged-by-north-korea-missile-launch","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2023\/04\/13\/japan-outraged-by-north-korea-missile-launch","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Japan's government urged Hokkaido residents to take shelter Thursday morning after a North Korean missile launch, but local officials later said the missile would not land near the northern region. \n\n\"Evacuate immediately. Evacuate immediately,\" the government said in an initial warning, telling residents of Hokkaido to take shelter in a building or underground. \n\nThe warning said the missile was expected to land around 8:00 am local time (2300 GMT). \n\nBut not long after, Asahikawa City in Hokkaido tweeted that there was no longer any concern of danger. \n\n\"After we confirmed the information, there is no possibility that the missile will fall on Hokkaido or areas around the region,\" the account said, citing the national government's emergency network. \n\nThe missile landed\u00a0in waters off the east coast of the Korean Peninsula. \n\nJapan\u2019s Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno told reporters\u00a0the firing action was an \"outrage that escalates the provocation to the entire international community.\" \n\nOne expert said the event was comparable to Russia launching a missile over Florida. \n\nLast October, North Korea launched, without warning, a missile over Japan for the first time in five years. \n\nIn November, Kim Jong-un broke world records by firings as many as 22 rockets in one day. \n\nAn unnecessary scare \n\nMany residents were critical of the decision to send the alert. \n\n\u201cWhat is the use of the J-Alert, which warns of a missile falling when you do not know where it will fall?\u201d asked one Twitter user. \u201cIn the end, it serves no purpose other than to instil in the Japanese people the feeling that Japan is being targeted, and to scare them.\u201d \n\nAnother Twitter user said that even had the alert been warranted there would have been too little time to find shelter. \n\n","htmlText":"<p>Japan's government urged Hokkaido residents to take shelter Thursday morning after a North Korean missile launch, but local officials later said the missile would not land near the northern region.<\/p>\n<p>\"Evacuate immediately. Evacuate immediately,\" the government said in an initial warning, telling residents of Hokkaido to take shelter in a building or underground.<\/p>\n<p>The warning said the missile was expected to land around 8:00 am local time (2300 GMT).<\/p>\n<p>But not long after, Asahikawa City in Hokkaido tweeted that there was no longer any concern of danger.<\/p>\n<p>\"After we confirmed the information, there is no possibility that the missile will fall on Hokkaido or areas around the region,\" the account said, citing the national government's emergency network.<\/p>\n<p>The missile landed\u00a0in waters off the east coast of the Korean Peninsula.<\/p>\n<p>Japan\u2019s Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno told reporters\u00a0the firing action was an \"outrage that escalates the provocation to the entire international community.\"<\/p>\n<p>One expert said the event was comparable to Russia launching a missile over Florida.<\/p>\n<p>Last October, North Korea launched, without warning, a missile over Japan for the first time in five years.<\/p>\n<p>In November, Kim Jong-un broke world records by firings as many as 22 rockets in one day.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>An unnecessary scare<\/strong><\/h2><p>Many residents were critical of the decision to send the alert.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat is the use of the J-Alert, which warns of a missile falling when you do not know where it will fall?\u201d asked one Twitter user. \u201cIn the end, it serves no purpose other than to instil in the Japanese people the feeling that Japan is being targeted, and to scare them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another Twitter user said that even had the alert been warranted there would have been too little time to find shelter.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1681364967,"updatedAt":1681377606,"publishedAt":1681377277,"firstPublishedAt":1681377281,"lastPublishedAt":1681377281,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Lee Jin-man\/Copyright 2023 The AP. 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can be deployed at any coast and port or towed by a surface ship for operation,\" KCNA said. \n\nThe agency said the weapon was put in the water off South Hamgyon province on Tuesday, and on Thursday it detonated a test warhead. \n\nUp to that point, it had cruised for 59 hours and 12 minutes at a depth of 80 to 150 meters, the agency reported. \n\nNorth Korean leader Kim Jong Un, who reportedly \"guided\" the drill, said it should serve as a warning for the United States and South Korea to \"realise the DPRK's unlimited nuclear war deterrence capability being bolstered up at a greater speed\". \n\nDPRK is the acronym for North Korea's official name. \n\nMore tests, more often \n\nAfter a record-breaking year of weapons tests and growing nuclear threats from Pyongyang, Seoul and Washington have ramped up security cooperation, and on March 13 kicked off their largest joint military drills in five years, known as Freedom Shield. \n\nKCNA said that on Wednesday the North also fired strategic cruise missiles \"tipped with a test warhead simulating a nuclear warhead\". \n\nThe South Korean military had reported the firing of multiple cruise missiles from the North on Wednesday. \n\nThat launch comes about a week after Pyongyang test-fired its largest and most powerful missile, a Hwasong-17, its second intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) test this year. \n\nThe North's state media described the ICBM launch as a response to the ongoing, \"frantic\" US-South Korea drills. \n\nNorth Korea last year declared itself an \"irreversible\" nuclear power and Kim recently called for an \"exponential\" increase in weapons production, including tactical nuclear weapons. \n\n","htmlText":"<p>North Korea is continuing to ramp up its weapons testing.<\/p>\n<p>State media reports that its military has tested an underwater nuclear attack drone designed to unleash what it called a \"radioactive tsunami\" that would destroy enemy naval vessels and ports.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The KCNA news agency said during the drills from Tuesday through Thursday the North Korean military deployed and test-fired the new weapon system which is designed to set off such a \"super-scale\" destructive wave,<\/p>\n<p>\"This nuclear underwater attack drone can be deployed at any coast and port or towed by a surface ship for operation,\" KCNA said.<\/p>\n<p>The agency said the weapon was put in the water off South Hamgyon province on Tuesday, and on Thursday it detonated a test warhead.<\/p>\n<p>Up to that point, it had cruised for 59 hours and 12 minutes at a depth of 80 to 150 meters, the agency reported.<\/p>\n<p>North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, who reportedly \"guided\" the drill, said it should serve as a warning for the United States and South Korea to \"realise the DPRK's unlimited nuclear war deterrence capability being bolstered up at a greater speed\".<\/p>\n<p>DPRK is the acronym for North Korea's official name.<\/p>\n<h2>More tests, more often<\/h2><p>After a record-breaking year of weapons tests and growing nuclear threats from Pyongyang, Seoul and Washington have ramped up security cooperation, and on March 13 kicked off their largest joint military drills in five years, known as Freedom Shield.<\/p>\n<p>KCNA said that on Wednesday the North also fired strategic cruise missiles \"tipped with a test warhead simulating a nuclear warhead\".<\/p>\n<p>The South Korean military had reported the firing of multiple cruise missiles from the North on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>That launch comes about a week after Pyongyang test-fired its largest and most powerful missile, a Hwasong-17, its second intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) test this year.<\/p>\n<p>The North's state media described the ICBM launch as a response to the ongoing, \"frantic\" US-South Korea drills.<\/p>\n<p>North Korea last year declared itself an \"irreversible\" nuclear power and Kim recently called for an \"exponential\" increase in weapons production, including tactical nuclear 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begin","titleListing2":"US-South Korea military drills begin as North Korea fires missile","leadin":"The Washington-Seoul joint military drills begin against a backdrop of increased tension in the peninsula after Pyongyang carries out latest weapons test.","summary":"The Washington-Seoul joint military drills begin against a backdrop of increased tension in the peninsula after Pyongyang carries out latest weapons test.","keySentence":"","url":"north-korea-fires-missiles-as-south-korea-us-military-drills-begin","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2023\/03\/13\/north-korea-fires-missiles-as-south-korea-us-military-drills-begin","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"North Korea announced it has conducted submarine-launched cruise missile tests, days after its leader Kim Jong Un ordered his troops to prepare to repel its rivals\u2019 \u201cfrantic war preparation moves.\u201d \n\nThe test took place on Sunday, a day before the US and South Korean militaries begin large-scale joint military drills that North Korea views as a rehearsal for invasion.\u00a0 \n\nThese exercises are set to be the largest ones organised in years. The South Korean-US drills include a computer simulation called the Freedom Shield 23 and several combined field training exercises, collectively known as the Warrior Shield FTX. \n\nThe official Korean Central News Agency said Monday that the missile launches were meant to confirm the reliability of the weapons system and gauge underwater-to-surface offensive operations of the country's submarine units. It also signals the country likely will conduct provocative weapons testing activities during the 11 days of exercises. \n\nComing off a record year in missile testing, North Korea's weapons demonstrations this year include test launches of an intercontinental ballistic missile, short-range missiles and a purported long-range cruise missile system in recent weeks. \n\nExperts say North Korea's escalated testing and threats are meant to indicate an ability to conduct nuclear strikes in South Korea and against the US mainland. \n\nPyongyang's nuclear arsenal is regarded by Kim as his best guarantee for survival and some analysts say he uses the military exercises as a pretext to test weapons and improve his county's nuclear arsenal as a way to secure an upper hand in dealings with the United States. They add that by trying to force Washington to view North Korea as a nuclear power, Kim wants\u00a0to negotiate badly needed economic concessions from a position of strength. \n\nNorth Korea has been pushing hard for years to acquire the ability to fire nuclear-armed missiles from submarines, the next key piece in an arsenal that includes weapons with the potential range to reach the US mainland. \n\nEarlier Monday, South Korea's military said it had detected the launch from a submarine in waters near the North's eastern port city of Sinpo on Sunday. \n\nNorth Korea sees regular South Korea-US military exercises as a major security threat, though the allies say their drills are defensive. \n\nOn Monday, North Korea\u2019s Foreign Ministry\u00a0 also accused the United States and other Western countries of plotting to call a UN Security Council meeting to discuss what it called its \u201cnon-existent human rights issue.\u201d It said North Korea will take \u201cthe toughest counteraction against the most vicious hostile plots of the US and its followers.\u201d \n\n","htmlText":"<p>North Korea announced it has conducted submarine-launched cruise missile tests, days after its leader Kim Jong Un ordered his troops to prepare to repel its rivals\u2019 \u201cfrantic war preparation moves.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The test took place on Sunday, a day before the US and South Korean militaries begin large-scale joint military drills that North Korea views as a rehearsal for invasion.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>These exercises are set to be the largest ones organised in years. The South Korean-US drills include a computer simulation called the Freedom Shield 23 and several combined field training exercises, collectively known as the Warrior Shield FTX.<\/p>\n<p>The official Korean Central News Agency said Monday that the missile launches were meant to confirm the reliability of the weapons system and gauge underwater-to-surface offensive operations of the country's submarine units. It also signals the country likely will conduct provocative weapons testing activities during the 11 days of exercises.<\/p>\n<p>Coming off a record year in missile testing, North Korea's weapons demonstrations this year include test launches of an intercontinental ballistic missile, short-range missiles and a purported long-range cruise missile system in recent weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Experts say North Korea's escalated testing and threats are meant to indicate an ability to conduct nuclear strikes in South Korea and against the US mainland.<\/p>\n<p>Pyongyang's nuclear arsenal is regarded by Kim as his best guarantee for survival and some analysts say he uses the military exercises as a pretext to test weapons and improve his county's nuclear arsenal as a way to secure an upper hand in dealings with the United States. They add that by trying to force Washington to view North Korea as a nuclear power, Kim wants\u00a0to negotiate badly needed economic concessions from a position of strength.<\/p>\n<p>North Korea has been pushing hard for years to acquire the ability to fire nuclear-armed missiles from submarines, the next key piece in an arsenal that includes weapons with the potential range to reach the US mainland.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier Monday, South Korea's military said it had detected the launch from a submarine in waters near the North's eastern port city of Sinpo on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>North Korea sees regular South Korea-US military exercises as a major security threat, though the allies say their drills are defensive.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, North Korea\u2019s Foreign Ministry\u00a0 also accused the United States and other Western countries of plotting to call a UN Security Council meeting to discuss what it called its \u201cnon-existent human rights issue.\u201d It said North Korea will take \u201cthe toughest counteraction against the most vicious hostile plots of the US and its followers.\u201d<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1678666583,"updatedAt":1678699170,"publishedAt":1678691575,"firstPublishedAt":1678691579,"lastPublishedAt":1678699170,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"\u671d\u9bae\u901a\u4fe1\u793e\/AP","altText":"North Korea missile test","callToActionText":null,"width":1024,"caption":"North Korea missile test","url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/46\/00\/76\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_c4e6c039-919c-5db8-b814-e834b74b03ab-7460076.jpg","captionUrl":null,"height":683}],"authors":{"journalists":[],"producers":[],"videoEditor":[]},"keywords":[{"urlSafeValue":"north-korea","titleRaw":"North Korea","id":366,"title":"North Korea","slug":"north-korea"},{"urlSafeValue":"north-korea-nuclear-war-threats","titleRaw":"North Korea nuclear war threats","id":11582,"title":"North Korea nuclear war threats","slug":"north-korea-nuclear-war-threats"},{"urlSafeValue":"kim-jong-un","titleRaw":"Kim Jong-un","id":8809,"title":"Kim Jong-un","slug":"kim-jong-un"},{"urlSafeValue":"south-korea","titleRaw":"South Korea","id":7828,"title":"South Korea","slug":"south-korea"},{"urlSafeValue":"ballistic-missile","titleRaw":"Ballistic missile","id":12353,"title":"Ballistic missile","slug":"ballistic-missile"},{"urlSafeValue":"usa","titleRaw":"USA","id":447,"title":"USA","slug":"usa"}],"widgets":[],"related":[{"id":2207198},{"id":2226408}],"technicalTags":[],"externalPartners":{"youtubeId":"66JDaZ7gY2Q","dailymotionId":"x8j1v0o"},"video":1,"videos":[{"duration":35000,"editor":"","filesizeBytes":4613880,"format":"mp4","type":"normal","url":"https:\/\/video.euronews.com\/mp4\/med\/EN\/NW\/SU\/23\/03\/13\/en\/230313_NWSU_50787085_50787110_35000_075823_en.mp4","expiresAt":0,"quality":"md"},{"duration":35000,"editor":"","filesizeBytes":6913272,"format":"mp4","type":"normal","url":"https:\/\/video.euronews.com\/mp4\/EN\/NW\/SU\/23\/03\/13\/en\/230313_NWSU_50787085_50787110_35000_075823_en.mp4","expiresAt":0,"quality":"hd"}],"liveStream":[{"endDate":0,"startDate":0}],"scribbleLiveId":0,"scribbleLiveRibbon":0,"isLiveCoverage":0,"sourceId":1,"sources":[],"externalSource":"AP","additionalSources":"","additionalReporting":"Euronews","freeField1":null,"freeField2":"","type":"normal","displayType":"default","program":{"id":"world","urlSafeValue":"world","title":"world news","online":1,"url":"\/\/www.euronews.com\/programs\/world"},"vertical":"news","verticals":[{"urlSafeValue":"news","id":1,"title":"News","slug":"news"}],"primaryVertical":{"id":1,"slug":"news","urlSafeValue":"news","title":"News"},"themes":[{"urlSafeValue":"news","id":"news","title":"World","url":"\/\/www.euronews.com\/news\/international"}],"primaryTheme":{"id":1,"urlSafeValue":"news","title":"World"},"advertising":0,"advertisingData":{"startDate":0,"endDate":0,"type":null,"slug":null,"title":null,"disclaimerLabelKey":null,"sponsor":null,"sponsorName":null,"sponsorUrl":null,"sponsorLogo":"","sponsorLogoReverse":"","isDfp":0},"geoLocation":{"lat":0,"lon":0},"location":1,"continent":{"id":12,"urlSafeValue":"asia","title":"Asia"},"country":{"id":366,"urlSafeValue":"north-korea","title":"North Korea","url":"\/news\/asia\/north-korea"},"town":[],"grapeshot":"'gv_military','gv_arms','gb_safe','gs_politics','gs_war_conflict'","versions":[],"programDeliverable":{"slug":"sujet","format":"default"},"showOpinionDisclaimer":0,"allViews":0,"allViewsMeta":{"pointOfView":[],"survey":[],"tweetId":0,"tweet2NdId":0,"displayOverlay":0},"storyTranslationMethod":[],"localisation":[],"daletEventName":"SHORT N. 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The South\u2019s Joint Chiefs of Staff was assessing whether more missiles may have been launched simultaneously. \n\nThe United States has recently sent long-range B-1B and B-52 bombers for several rounds of joint aerial drills with South Korean warplanes. The allies are also preparing this month for their biggest combined field training exercise in years to counter the growing threat of Kim\u2019s growing nuclear arsenal. North Korea views regular US-South Korean military exercises as invasion rehearsals. \n\nPyongyang\u2019s official Korean Central News Agency said Kim urged his troops to be prepared to \u201coverwhelmingly respond to and contain\u201d the military action of the North\u2019s enemies, which he said were proceeding with \u201call sorts of more frantic war preparation moves.\u201d \n\nHe said frontline units should sharpen their capabilities to carry out their two main \u201cstrategic missions, that is, first to deter war and second to take the initiative in the war.\u201d \n\nSouth Korea\u2019s Unification Ministry later Friday urged North Korea to stop raising tensions with \u201creckless nuclear and missile programs and military provocations.\u201d Vice spokesperson Lee Hyo-jung told reporters that North Korea must focus instead on caring for people's livelihoods and take a path toward building peace on the Korean Peninsula. \n\nThe KCNA report did not specify what types of weapons were involved in Thursday\u2019s exercise or how many rockets were fired. Some of the North\u2019s newer short-range weapons targeting South Korea include large-sized multiple rocket launchers that experts say blur the boundaries between artillery and ballistic missile systems. \n\nNorth Korea describes some of its more advanced short-range systems as tactical weapons, which implies an intent to arm them with lower-yield battlefield nuclear weapons. \n\nKim\u2019s comments were in line with an escalatory nuclear doctrine the North set into law last year, which authorises preemptive nuclear strikes in situations where it may perceive its leadership as under threat, including conventional clashes. \n\nKim\u2019s campaign is aimed at forcing the United States into accepting the North as a nuclear power and negotiating badly needed economic concessions from a position of strength, analysts say. Diplomacy between the US and North Korea has stalled since 2019. \n\n","htmlText":"<p>North Korean leader Kim Jong Un supervised a live-fire artillery drill simulating an attack on a South Korean airfield and called for his troops to be ready to respond to the enemies\u2019 \u201cfrantic war preparation moves\u201d \u2014 apparently referring to the recent series of military drills between the United States and South Korea.<\/p>\n<p>The North Korean state media report Friday came a day after South Korea\u2019s military detected the North firing at least one short-range ballistic missile toward the sea from a site near the western coastal city of Nampo. The South\u2019s Joint Chiefs of Staff was assessing whether more missiles may have been launched simultaneously.<\/p>\n<p>The United States has recently sent long-range B-1B and B-52 bombers for several rounds of joint aerial drills with South Korean warplanes. The allies are also preparing this month for their biggest combined field training exercise in years to counter the growing threat of Kim\u2019s growing nuclear arsenal. North Korea views regular US-South Korean military exercises as invasion rehearsals.<\/p>\n<div\n data-stories-id=\"7414330\"\n data-event=\"widget_related\"\n class=\"widget widget--type-related widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <ul class=\"widget__related_list\"><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2023//02//20//tension-mounts-on-north-korean-peninsula-as-pyongyang-fires-second-ballistic-missile/">Tension mounts on North Korean peninsula as Pyongyang fires second ballistic missile<\/a> <\/li><\/ul>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Pyongyang\u2019s official Korean Central News Agency said Kim urged his troops to be prepared to \u201coverwhelmingly respond to and contain\u201d the military action of the North\u2019s enemies, which he said were proceeding with \u201call sorts of more frantic war preparation moves.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said frontline units should sharpen their capabilities to carry out their two main \u201cstrategic missions, that is, first to deter war and second to take the initiative in the war.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>South Korea\u2019s Unification Ministry later Friday urged North Korea to stop raising tensions with \u201creckless nuclear and missile programs and military provocations.\u201d Vice spokesperson Lee Hyo-jung told reporters that North Korea must focus instead on caring for people's livelihoods and take a path toward building peace on the Korean Peninsula.<\/p>\n<p>The KCNA report did not specify what types of weapons were involved in Thursday\u2019s exercise or how many rockets were fired. Some of the North\u2019s newer short-range weapons targeting South Korea include large-sized multiple rocket launchers that experts say blur the boundaries between artillery and ballistic missile systems.<\/p>\n<div\n data-stories-id=\"7412258\"\n data-event=\"widget_related\"\n class=\"widget widget--type-related widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <ul class=\"widget__related_list\"><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2023//02//19//north-korea-carries-out-first-missile-test-of-the-year-landing-in-japanese-waters/">North Korea carries out first missile test of the year landing in Japanese waters<\/a> <\/li><\/ul>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>North Korea describes some of its more advanced short-range systems as tactical weapons, which implies an intent to arm them with lower-yield battlefield nuclear weapons.<\/p>\n<p>Kim\u2019s comments were in line with an escalatory nuclear doctrine the North set into law last year, which authorises preemptive nuclear strikes in situations where it may perceive its leadership as under threat, including conventional clashes.<\/p>\n<p>Kim\u2019s campaign is aimed at forcing the United States into accepting the North as a nuclear power and negotiating badly needed economic concessions from a position of strength, analysts say. Diplomacy between the US and North Korea has stalled since 2019.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1678427279,"updatedAt":1678449365,"publishedAt":1678444452,"firstPublishedAt":1678444455,"lastPublishedAt":1678444455,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"AP Photo ","altText":" An intercontinental ballistic missile Hwasong-15 launched at the international airport of Pyongyang in North Korea in 2023.","callToActionText":null,"width":1024,"caption":" An intercontinental ballistic missile Hwasong-15 launched at the international airport of Pyongyang in North Korea in 2023.","url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/45\/53\/90\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_a935e2aa-5d7f-5579-aab6-71eeb3b9b620-7455390.jpg","captionUrl":null,"height":682}],"authors":{"journalists":[],"producers":[],"videoEditor":[]},"keywords":[{"urlSafeValue":"kim-jong-un","titleRaw":"Kim Jong-un","id":8809,"title":"Kim 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threathens neighbours","titleListing2":"Tension mounts on North Korean peninsula as Pyongyang fires second ballistic missile","leadin":"It is the second launch carried out by the North Korean regime since Saturday and according to Pyongyang, it is in retaliation to the joint military operations being carried out by South Korea and the United States.","summary":"It is the second launch carried out by the North Korean regime since Saturday and according to Pyongyang, it is in retaliation to the joint military operations being carried out by South Korea and the United States.","keySentence":"","url":"tension-mounts-on-north-korean-peninsula-as-pyongyang-fires-second-ballistic-missile","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2023\/02\/20\/tension-mounts-on-north-korean-peninsula-as-pyongyang-fires-second-ballistic-missile","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"North Korea fired two short-range ballistic missiles on Monday, Pyongyang's second launch in 48 hours as Kim Jong Un's powerful sister warned of turning the Pacific into a \"firing range\", Seoul says. \n\nSouth Korea's military said they had detected the launch of \"two short-range ballistic missiles fired from Sukchon areas in South Pyongan province between 07:00-07:11 local time.\" \n\nTokyo also confirmed the launch, with the Prime Minister's Office warning that Pyongyang had launched \"a suspected ballistic missile\" and the coastguard issued alerts over multiple projectiles. \n\nNorth Korea issued a statement saying it had \"fired two shots using 600mm multiple rocket launchers\", into the East Sea, also known as the Sea of Japan. \n\nThe launch comes less than 48 hours after Pyongyang conducted what it called a \"surprise\" drill to fire an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) Saturday, which it said demonstrated North Korea's capacity to carry out a \"fatal nuclear counterattack\". \n\nJapan said Saturday's ICBM had flown for 66 minutes and landed in its exclusive economic zone (EEZ). In response, Seoul and Washington staged joint air drills on Sunday, featuring a strategic bomber and stealth fighter jets. \n\nIn a statement issued early Monday, North Korean leader Kim's sister Kim Yo Jong warned that Pyongyang would continue to take \"corresponding counteraction\" to any perceived threats. \n\n\"The frequency of using the Pacific as our firing range depends upon the US forces' action character,\" she said in a statement carried by the official KCNA, which also strongly criticised outside assessments of Saturday's ICBM launch. \n\nRelations between the two Koreas are at one of their lowest points in years, after North Korea declared itself an \"irreversible\" nuclear state and leader Kim called for an \"exponential\" increase in weapons production, including tactical nuclear weapons. \n\n","htmlText":"<p>North Korea fired two short-range ballistic missiles on Monday, Pyongyang's second launch in 48 hours as Kim Jong Un's powerful sister warned of turning the Pacific into a \"firing range\", Seoul says.<\/p>\n<p>South Korea's military said they had detected the launch of \"two short-range ballistic missiles fired from Sukchon areas in South Pyongan province between 07:00-07:11 local time.\"<\/p>\n<p>Tokyo also confirmed the launch, with the Prime Minister's Office warning that Pyongyang had launched \"a suspected ballistic missile\" and the coastguard issued alerts over multiple projectiles.<\/p>\n<div\n data-stories-id=\"7412258\"\n data-event=\"widget_related\"\n class=\"widget widget--type-related widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <ul class=\"widget__related_list\"><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2023//02//19//north-korea-carries-out-first-missile-test-of-the-year-landing-in-japanese-waters/">North Korea carries out first missile test of the year landing in Japanese waters<\/a> <\/li><\/ul>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>North Korea issued a statement saying it had \"fired two shots using 600mm multiple rocket launchers\", into the East Sea, also known as the Sea of Japan.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6668333333333333\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//41//43//30//808x539_cmsv2_82aa9d24-212a-57e5-9ed0-ecbccdabc3d3-7414330.jpg/" alt=\"Ahn Young-joon\/Copyright 2023 The AP. 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All rights reserved.<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The launch comes less than 48 hours after Pyongyang conducted what it called a \"surprise\" drill to fire an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) Saturday, which it said demonstrated North Korea's capacity to carry out a \"fatal nuclear counterattack\".<\/p>\n<p>Japan said Saturday's ICBM had flown for 66 minutes and landed in its exclusive economic zone (EEZ). In response, Seoul and Washington staged joint air drills on Sunday, featuring a strategic bomber and stealth fighter jets.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement issued early Monday, North Korean leader Kim's sister Kim Yo Jong warned that Pyongyang would continue to take \"corresponding counteraction\" to any perceived threats.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.558\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//41//43//30//808x451_cmsv2_d92926fb-af0f-5a7a-8b3b-54303adeb1c2-7414330.jpg/" alt=\"KRT via AP\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/41\/43\/30\/384x214_cmsv2_d92926fb-af0f-5a7a-8b3b-54303adeb1c2-7414330.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/41\/43\/30\/640x357_cmsv2_d92926fb-af0f-5a7a-8b3b-54303adeb1c2-7414330.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/41\/43\/30\/750x419_cmsv2_d92926fb-af0f-5a7a-8b3b-54303adeb1c2-7414330.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/41\/43\/30\/828x462_cmsv2_d92926fb-af0f-5a7a-8b3b-54303adeb1c2-7414330.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/41\/43\/30\/1080x603_cmsv2_d92926fb-af0f-5a7a-8b3b-54303adeb1c2-7414330.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/41\/43\/30\/1200x670_cmsv2_d92926fb-af0f-5a7a-8b3b-54303adeb1c2-7414330.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/41\/43\/30\/1920x1071_cmsv2_d92926fb-af0f-5a7a-8b3b-54303adeb1c2-7414330.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">This image made from video broadcasted by North Korea's KRT shows what it says is a ballistic missile being launched from an undisclosed location in North Korea, 20 Feb.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">KRT via AP<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>\"The frequency of using the Pacific as our firing range depends upon the US forces' action character,\" she said in a statement carried by the official KCNA, which also strongly criticised outside assessments of Saturday's ICBM launch.<\/p>\n<p>Relations between the two Koreas are at one of their lowest points in years, after North Korea declared itself an \"irreversible\" nuclear state and leader Kim called for an \"exponential\" increase in weapons production, including tactical nuclear weapons.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1676877414,"updatedAt":1676892245,"publishedAt":1676888073,"firstPublishedAt":1676888077,"lastPublishedAt":1676888077,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"AP\/AP","altText":" This image made from video broadcasted by North Korea's KRT shows what it says is a ballistic missile being launched from an undisclosed location in North Korea, 20 Feb.","callToActionText":null,"width":1024,"caption":" This image made from video broadcasted by North Korea's KRT shows what it says is a ballistic missile being launched from an undisclosed location in North Korea, 20 Feb.","url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/41\/43\/42\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_004c3572-c0f2-5fc5-9488-01113ca42299-7414342.jpg","captionUrl":null,"height":571},{"sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"KRT via AP","altText":"This image made from video broadcasted by North Korea's KRT shows what it says is a ballistic missile being launched from an undisclosed location in North Korea, 20 Feb. 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","leadin":"The daughter's appearance fuelled speculation that she\u2019s being primed as a future leader of the isolated Asian nation.","summary":"The daughter's appearance fuelled speculation that she\u2019s being primed as a future leader of the isolated Asian nation.","keySentence":"","url":"kim-jong-un-takes-10-year-old-daughter-to-north-korea-missile-parade","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2023\/02\/09\/kim-jong-un-takes-10-year-old-daughter-to-north-korea-missile-parade","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and his young daughter took center stage at a huge military parade, fueling speculation that she\u2019s being primed as a future leader of the isolated country as her father showed off his latest, largest nuclear missiles. \n\nWednesday night's spectacle in the capital, Pyongyang, featured the newest hardware in Kim\u2019s growing nuclear arsenal, including what experts said was possibly a new solid-fuel intercontinental ballistic missile he could test in the coming months. \n\nThat missile was part of around a dozen ICBMs Kim\u2019s troops rolled out at the event -- an unprecedented number that underscored how he continues to expand his military capabilities despite limited resources, in the face of deepening tensions with his neighbours and the United States. \n\nThe parade was the fifth known public appearance by Kim\u2019s daughter, Kim Ju Ae, his second-born who is believed to be around 10 years old. On Tuesday, Kim Jong Un brought his daughter to visit troops as he lauded the \u201cirresistible might\u201d of his nuclear-armed military. \n\nState media have signaled a lofty role for Kim Ju Ae. She's been called \u201crespected\u201d and \u201cbeloved,\u201d and a photo released Wednesday showed her sitting in the seat of honor at a banquet, flanked by generals and her parents. \n\nOther North Korean photos released on Thursday showed Kim, wearing a black coat and fedora, attending the parade with his wife and daughter. Kim smiled and raised his hand from a balcony as thousands of troops lined up in a brightly illuminated Kim Il Sung Square, which is named after his grandfather, the nation\u2019s founder. \n\n\nNorth Korea\u2019s official Korean Central News Agency said all of the soldiers and spectators at the square raised \u201cstormy cheers of \u2018hurrah!\u2019\u201d and chanted the name of their ruler, a \u201cgreat brilliant commander\u201d who is \u201cbeefing up the military muscle with his outstanding military strategic ideas.\u201d \n\n\nThe parade marked the 75th founding anniversary of North Korea\u2019s army and came after weeks of preparations involving huge numbers of troops and civilians mobilized to glorify Kim\u2019s rule and his relentless push to cement the North\u2019s status as a nuclear power. \n\nState media photos showed transport and launcher trucks carrying about 10 of the country\u2019s Hwasong-17 ICBMs, which demonstrated a range that would allow them to reach deep into the US mainland during a flight test in November.\u00a0 \n\nThose missiles were followed by another large missile encased in a canister and transported on a 9-axle vehicle. \n\nIt wasn\u2019t immediately clear whether the missile was a mockup or an actual rocket, but Kim Dong-yub, a professor at Seoul\u2019s University of North Korean Studies, said the missile was likely a version of a solid-fuel ICBM the North has been trying to develop for years. He added that the unprecedented number of Hwasong-17s paraded in Wednesday\u2019s event suggests progress in efforts to produce those weapons in larger numbers. \n\nThe parade came after Kim met with his top military brass on Monday and ordered an expansion of combat exercises, as he continues to escalate an already provocative run in weapons demonstrations in the face of deepening tensions with his neighbors and Washington. \n\n\u201cThis time, Kim Jong Un let North Korea\u2019s expanding tactical and long-range missile forces speak for themselves,\u201d said Leif-Eric Easley, a professor of international studies at Ewha Womans University in Seoul. \n\n\u201cThe message Pyongyang wants to send internationally, demonstrating its capabilities to deter and coerce, will likely come in the form of solid-fuel missile tests and detonation of a miniaturised nuclear device,\u201d he said, referring to US and South Korean assessments that the North could be preparing to conduct its first nuclear test since September 2017. \n\nThe official Korean Central News Agency confirmed that the parade featured a variety of nuclear-capable weapons, including tactical nuclear weapons targeting South Korea.\u00a0 \n\n","htmlText":"<p>North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and his young daughter took center stage at a huge military parade, fueling speculation that she\u2019s being primed as a future leader of the isolated country as her father showed off his latest, largest nuclear missiles.<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday night's spectacle in the capital, Pyongyang, featured the newest hardware in Kim\u2019s growing nuclear arsenal, including what experts said was possibly a new solid-fuel intercontinental ballistic missile he could test in the coming months.<\/p>\n<p>That missile was part of around a dozen ICBMs Kim\u2019s troops rolled out at the event -- an unprecedented number that underscored how he continues to expand his military capabilities despite limited resources, in the face of deepening tensions with his neighbours and the United States.<\/p>\n<p>The parade was the fifth known public appearance by Kim\u2019s daughter, Kim Ju Ae, his second-born who is believed to be around 10 years old. On Tuesday, Kim Jong Un brought his daughter to visit troops as he lauded the \u201cirresistible might\u201d of his nuclear-armed military.<\/p>\n<p>State media have signaled a lofty role for Kim Ju Ae. She's been called \u201crespected\u201d and \u201cbeloved,\u201d and a photo released Wednesday showed her sitting in the seat of honor at a banquet, flanked by generals and her parents.<\/p>\n<div\n data-stories-id=\"7202086,7105178,7087600\"\n data-event=\"widget_related\"\n class=\"widget widget--type-related widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <ul class=\"widget__related_list\"><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2022//10//10//nkorea-marks-ruling-party-anniversary/">NKorea marks ruling party anniversary<\/a> <\/li><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2022//11//19//north-korea-kim-jong-un-reveals-secret-daughter-at-missile-launch-site/">North Korea: Kim Jong-Un reveals 'secret' daughter at missile launch site<\/a> <\/li><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2022//10//06//north-korea-carries-out-sixth-missile-launch-in-two-weeks/">North Korea carries out sixth missile launch in two weeks<\/a> <\/li><\/ul>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Other North Korean photos released on Thursday showed Kim, wearing a black coat and fedora, attending the parade with his wife and daughter. Kim smiled and raised his hand from a balcony as thousands of troops lined up in a brightly illuminated Kim Il Sung Square, which is named after his grandfather, the nation\u2019s founder. <\/p>\n<p>North Korea\u2019s official Korean Central News Agency said all of the soldiers and spectators at the square raised \u201cstormy cheers of \u2018hurrah!\u2019\u201d and chanted the name of their ruler, a \u201cgreat brilliant commander\u201d who is \u201cbeefing up the military muscle with his outstanding military strategic ideas.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The parade marked the 75th founding anniversary of North Korea\u2019s army and came after weeks of preparations involving huge numbers of troops and civilians mobilized to glorify Kim\u2019s rule and his relentless push to cement the North\u2019s status as a nuclear power.<\/p>\n<p>State media photos showed transport and launcher trucks carrying about 10 of the country\u2019s Hwasong-17 ICBMs, which demonstrated a range that would allow them to reach deep into the US mainland during a flight test in November.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Those missiles were followed by another large missile encased in a canister and transported on a 9-axle vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>It wasn\u2019t immediately clear whether the missile was a mockup or an actual rocket, but Kim Dong-yub, a professor at Seoul\u2019s University of North Korean Studies, said the missile was likely a version of a solid-fuel ICBM the North has been trying to develop for years. 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Other photos showed her with her hair pulled back, wearing a white coat and a pair of red shoes as she walked hand-in-hand with her father by a huge missile atop a launch truck. \n\nIt\u2019s the first time North Korea\u2019s state media has\u00a0mentioned the daughter or published her photos, but there were no further details like her name or age.\u00a0 \n\nMuch of Kim\u2019s private life is still unknown. But South Korean media reported Kim married Ri, a former singer, in 2009, and that the couple have three children who were born in 2010, 2013 and 2017. \n\nIt wasn\u2019t known which child Kim took to the launch site. But in 2013, after a trip to Pyongyang, retired NBA star Dennis Rodman told the British newspaper the Guardian that he and Kim had a \u201crelaxing time by the sea\u201d with the leader\u2019s family and that he held Kim\u2019s baby daughter, named Ju Ae. \n\nThe identities of Kim\u2019s children are a source of strong outside interest as the 38-year-old ruler hasn't publicly anointed an heir apparent. \n\nWhen he disappeared from public eye for an extended period in 2020 amid unconfirmed rumors about health conditions, global media frenzy flared over who was next in line to run an impoverished yet nuclear-armed country. Many observers said at the time that Kim's younger sister, Kim Yo Jong, would step in and run the country if her brother was incapacitated. \n\nThe Kim family has governed North Korea with a strong personality following built around key family members since Kim\u2019s grandfather, Kim Il Sung, founded the country in 1948. 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