Contents tagged with North Korean missile launch

  • Media: Russia and China helped North Korea to develop missiles

    A German political scientist claims that many facts indicate that North Korea’s successfully launched missiles were actually produced in China and Russia.

    Joachim Krause, a German political scientist and the head of the Institute for Security Policy in Kiel made these assertions in an article for the German edition of Süddeutsche Zeitung.

    Krause claims that Moscow poses as a level-headed mediator in the conflict but plays a double game, so the West should ask Putin how Pyongyang provoked an …

  • Russia denies the Pentagon’s report that the North Korean missile fell close to its borders

    The missile launched by North Korea on Sunday night landed 500 kilometers from the territory of Russia, as state by the Russian Ministry of Defense.

    "The ballistic target was followed by a missile warning system for 23 minutes of its flight before the fall into the central part of the Sea of Japan (about 500 km from the territory of Russia)," the statement of the Russian Ministry of Defense reads.

    The Ministry states that the trajectory of the North Korean missile was not in the direction of …