North Korea remained freely quiet for a fifth day on the fate of an American soldier who bolted into the North across the heavily armed Korean boundary this week.
According to the statement released by the Transport Ministry, the incident happened on Asiana Airlines Airbus A321 aircraft where some fellow passengers even tried to stop the person from opening the door, but it was eventually opened partially.
North Korea: Kim Jong Un has vowed to make his rivals "plunge into despair" and recently tested a nuclear-capable underwater attack drone.
North Korea launches ICBM: The launch, the North’s first ICBM test in a month and third weapons testing this week, also comes as South Korean and US troops continue joint military exercises that Pyongyang considers a rehearsal to invade.
North Korea fires missile: South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a statement it detected the three launches from an inland area south of Pyongyang, the North’s capital, on Saturday morning.
South Korean government is facing massive public scrutiny over whether the crowd surge Saturday night in Seoul’s Itaewon district could have been prevented and who should take the responsibility for the country’s worst disaster in years.
A mass of mostly young people celebrating Halloween in Seoul became trapped and crushed as the crowd surged into a narrow alley, killing at least 151 people and injuring 153 others in South Korea’s worst disaster in years.
Halloween festivities in Seoul, South Korea turned tragic when a stampede resulted in the deaths of over 150 people, mostly in their 20s, in a popular nightlife center in the city.
Seoul Halloween stampede: Choi Seong-beom, chief of Seoul’s Yongsan fire department, said the death toll could rise further and that an unspecified number among the injured were in critical condition.
Emergency officials received at least 81 calls from people with breathing difficulty, South Korea's Yonhap News Agency said.
Such diseases routinely occur in North Korea, which lacks good water treatment facilities and whose public healthcare infrastructure largely remains broken since the mid-1990s.
Details of the missile explosion weren’t immediately known. But the launch, the 10th of its kind this year, shows North Korea is determined to press ahead on its push to modernize its weapons arsenal and pressure its rivals into making concessions amid dormant denuclearization talks.
The Japanese and South Korean militaries said the missile was launched on a high trajectory, apparently to avoid the territorial spaces of neighbors, and reached a maximum altitude of 2,000 kilometers (1,242 miles) and traveled 800 kilometers (497 miles) before landing in the sea.
South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said the weapons, which were likely short-range, were launched from an eastern coastal area, but it didn’t immediately say how far they flew.
The North’s Foreign Ministry had already warned of stronger and more explicit action after the Biden administration last week imposed fresh sanctions over the North’s continued missile testing activity.
Samsung has started to roll out a new software update for its Galaxy A51 smartphone which brings the January 2022 security patch to the device. The recent update is being rolled out in Malaysia and Russia.
The smartphone maker has been testing the Android 12-based One UI 4 beta on the Galaxy S20 series for quite some time now.
It is reported that the South Korean tech giant LG is working on a new laptop with touch pads on both sides of the keyboard. A patent for an LG laptop has surfaced on the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) portal showcasing the same.
South Korean and US intelligence authorities are analyzing more details about North Korean launches, the joint chiefs’ statement said, adding that South Korea has boosted its anti-North Korea surveillance posture.
Kim made the comments in a message to Chinese President Xi Jinping congratulating him on the 100th founding anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party, according to the official Korean Central News Agency.
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