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[Breaking News]N. Korea's attempt to launch military satellite

TOKYO, Japan, May 28 Kyodo - Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi holds a press conference in Tokyo in the early hours of May 28, 2024, following news of an apparent ballistic missile launch by North Korea. The North's state media later said the country launched a military reconnaissance satellite but failed to put it into orbit due to engine problems. (Kyodo)

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N. Korea's attempt to launch military satellite

Japanese Defense Minister Minoru Kihara holds a press conference in Tokyo on May 28, 2024, following North Korea's attempt to launch a satellite-carrying rocket the previous day. The North's state media said the country launched a military reconnaissance satellite but failed to put it into orbit due to engine problems.

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N. Korea's attempt to launch military satellite

The Okinawa prefectural government's crisis management headquarters convenes a meeting in Naha, southern Japan, on May 28, 2024, following North Korea's attempt to launch a satellite-carrying rocket the previous day. The North's state media said the country launched a military reconnaissance satellite but failed to put it into orbit due to engine problems.

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N. Korea's attempt to launch military satellite

Okinawa Gov. Denny Tamaki (in screen) virtually takes part in a meeting of the prefectural government's crisis management headquarters in Naha, southern Japan, on May 28, 2024, following North Korea's attempt to launch a satellite-carrying rocket the previous day. The North's state media said the country launched a military reconnaissance satellite but failed to put it into orbit due to engine problems.

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N. Korea's attempt to launch military satellite

Japanese Defense Minister Minoru Kihara meets the press in Tokyo in the early hours of May 28, 2024, following news of an apparent ballistic missile launch by North Korea. The North's state media said the country launched a military reconnaissance satellite but failed to put it into orbit due to engine problems.

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N. Korea's attempt to launch military satellite

Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi holds a press conference in Tokyo in the early hours of May 28, 2024, following news of an apparent ballistic missile launch by North Korea. The North's state media later said the country launched a military reconnaissance satellite but failed to put it into orbit due to engine problems.

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N. Korea's attempt to launch military satellite

Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi holds a press conference in Tokyo in the early hours of May 28, 2024, following news of an apparent ballistic missile launch by North Korea. The North's state media later said the country launched a military reconnaissance satellite but failed to put it into orbit due to engine problems.

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N. Korea's attempt to launch military satellite

A smartphone screen in Naha, Okinawa Prefecture, southern Japan, shows the Japanese government warning of an apparent ballistic missile launch by North Korea on May 27, 2024. The North's state media later said the country launched a military reconnaissance satellite but failed to put it into orbit due to engine problems.

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N. Korea's attempt to launch military satellite

A screen in Tokyo shows Japan's J-Alert system warning of an apparent ballistic missile launch by North Korea on May 27, 2024. The North's state media later said the country launched a military reconnaissance satellite but failed to put it into orbit due to engine problems.

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N. Korea's attempt to launch military satellite

Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi is surrounded by journalists at the premier's office in Tokyo on May 27, following news of an apparent ballistic missile launch by North Korea. The North's state media later said the country launched a military reconnaissance satellite but failed to put it into orbit due to engine problems.

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N. Korea's attempt to launch military satellite

A screen in Tokyo shows Japan's J-Alert system warning of an apparent ballistic missile launch by North Korea on May 27, 2024. The North's state media later said the country launched a military reconnaissance satellite but failed to put it into orbit due to engine problems.

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S. Korea defense minister after North's missile launch

South Korean National Defense Minister Shin Won Sik holds a press conference in Seoul on March 18, 2024, after North Korea launched three ballistic missiles toward the Sea of Japan earlier in the day.

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S. Korea defense minister after North's missile launch

South Korean National Defense Minister Shin Won Sik holds a press conference in Seoul on March 18, 2024, after North Korea launched three ballistic missiles toward the Sea of Japan earlier in the day.

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UNSC meeting over North's satellite launch

North Korean Ambassador to the United Nations Kim Song attends an unscheduled meeting of the U.N. Security Council at U.N. headquarters in New York on Aug. 25, 2023, convened after North Korea's recent attempt to launch a military reconnaissance satellite.

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UNSC meeting over North's satellite launch

The U.N. Security Council convenes an unscheduled meeting at U.N. headquarters in New York on Aug. 25, 2023, to discuss North Korea's recent attempt to launch a military reconnaissance satellite.

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U.N. Security Council discusses North's satellite launch

The U.N. Security Council convenes an unscheduled meeting in New York on June 2, 2023, to discuss North Korea's recent launch of a military reconnaissance satellite apparently using ballistic missile technology.

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U.S., N. Korea agree to push 6-way denuke talks

MANILA, Philippines - U.S. Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte (far left) and North Korean Foreign Minister Pak Ui Chun (right fore) walk into a room for an ASEAN Regional Forum dinner in Manila on Aug. 1. During their brief talks earlier in the day, the U.S. and North Korea agreed to implement their respective commitments made within the framework of six-party talks on the North's denuclearization and press ahead with the multilateral talks.

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Visit to Kaesong

SEOUL, South Korea - Officials of foreign financial authorities and institutions visit the joint inter-Korean industrial zone in the North's border city of Kaesong on Dec. 19, 2013.

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Visit to Kaesong

SEOUL, South Korea - Officials of foreign financial authorities and institutions visit the joint inter-Korean industrial zone in the North's border city of Kaesong on Dec. 19, 2013.

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S. Korea commemorates victims of North's shelling of Yeonpyeong

SEOUL, South Korea - South Korean Defense Minister Han Min Koo reads out Prime Minister Chung Hong Won's address in Seoul on Nov. 23, 2014, during a memorial service to commemorate the country's victims of North Korea's firing of artillery rounds on Yeonpyeong Island in the Yellow Sea in November 2010.

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Japan, N. Korea hold talks on 2nd day

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Kim Hyon Chol, department director of North Korea's Ministry of Land and Environment Protection, attends talks on the second of two days of discussions with Japanese officials on Oct. 29, 2014, in Pyongyang, to explain the North's probe into the remains of Japanese who died around the end of World War II in what is now North Korea. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

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Japan, N. Korea begin talks on abduction probe

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Junichi Ihara (C), director general of the Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau of the Japanese Foreign Ministry, holds talks with North Korean officials in Pyongyang on Oct. 28, 2014, on the North's investigation into Japanese nationals abducted decades ago. At the outset of a two-day meeting, Ihara said, "The abduction issue is the most important issue for Japan."

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Japan, N. Korea begin talks on abduction probe

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Members of a Japanese government delegation (R side) begin two days of talks with North Korean officials in Pyongyang on Oct. 28, 2014 on the North's investigation into the whereabouts of Japanese nationals abducted by Pyongyang decades ago.

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Japan, N. Korea begin talks on abduction probe

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Junichi Ihara, director general of the Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau of the Japanese Foreign Ministry, holds talks with North Korean officials in Pyongyang on Oct. 28, 2014, on the North's investigation into Japanese nationals abducted decades ago. At the outset of a two-day meeting, Ihara said, "The abduction issue is the most important issue for Japan." (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

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Japanese diplomat en route to Pyongyang

BEIJING, China - Junichi Ihara, director general of the Japanese Foreign Ministry's Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau, leaves a Beijing hotel to head for Pyongyang on Oct. 27, 2014. Ihara leads a delegation of Japanese officials who will make a four-day visit to the North Korean capital aimed at assessing the North's investigation into the fates of Japanese nationals abducted decades ago.

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Song meets with reporters in Shenyang

SHENYANG, China - Song Il Ho, North Korea's ambassador for negotiations to normalize relations with Japan, meets with reporters in Shenyang, China, on Sept. 30, 2014. It was reported that North Korea proposed during bilateral talks that Japanese officials visit Pyongyang to learn about the details of the North's investigations into the fates of Japanese abductees.

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Japan officials asked to visit N. Korea for abduction details

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe meets with reporters in Tokyo on Sept. 30, 2014, after being briefed about the bilateral meeting with North Korea over the abduction issue. Abe said North Korea has asked Japanese officials to visit Pyongyang to learn details of the North's investigation into the fates of Japanese abductees

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N. Korea fires short-range ballistic missiles

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida speaks with reporters at Tokyo's Haneda airport before leaving for Vietnam on June 29, 2014. Kishida said there is "no change to the schedule" of a planned meeting between Japan and North Korea in Beijing on July 1 over Pyongyang's past abductions of Japanese nationals, despite the North's firing of two short-range ballistic missiles toward the Sea of Japan earlier in the day.

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Protest in Seoul against N. Korea

SEOUL, South Korea - Participants in a protest rally held by South Korean conservative and other groups set fire to a North Korean national flag in Seoul on April 15, 2014, to protest against the North's nuclear weapons program and human rights conditions. North Korea celebrated the 102nd anniversary of the birth of its founder Kim Il Sung the same day.

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Visit to Kaesong

SEOUL, South Korea - Officials of foreign financial authorities and institutions visit the joint inter-Korean industrial zone in the North's border city of Kaesong on Dec. 19, 2013.

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S. Korean lawmakers visit Kaesong

DORASAN, South Korea - A group of South Korean lawmakers are pictured at an inter-Korean transit office in Dorasan, South Korea, before crossing the border into North Korea on Oct. 30, 2013, to visit the inter-Korean industrial zone in the North's border city of Kaesong.

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2 Koreas agree to reopen joint industrial zone on Sept. 16

SEOUL, South Korea - Kim Ki Woong, a senior official of South Korea's Unification Ministry, holds a press conference in Seoul on Sept. 11, 2013. The ministry said the same day that North and South Korea have agreed to resume operations at the shuttered joint industrial zone in the North's border city of Kaesong from Sept. 16.

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2 Koreas agree to reopen joint industrial zone on Sept. 16

SEOUL, South Korea - Kim Ki Woong, a senior official of South Korea's Unification Ministry, holds a press conference in Seoul on Sept. 11, 2013. The ministry said the same day that North and South Korea have agreed to resume operations at the shuttered joint industrial zone in the North's border city of Kaesong from Sept. 16.

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China's top nuclear envoy in Pyongyang

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Wu Dawei, China's special envoy in charge of the six-party talks aimed at ending North Korea's nuclear ambitions, speaks with reporters after meeting with Kim Kye Gwan, the North's first vice foreign minister and its point man on nuclear issues, at a Pyongyang hotel on the night of Aug. 29, 2013. Wu said that he held "in-depth discussions" with his North Korean counterpart on the possibility of restarting the long-stalled multilateral talks.

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Inter-Korean transit office

SEOUL, South Korea - Photo taken at the inter-Korean transit office in northern South Korea on Aug. 22, 2013, shows vehicles carrying representatives of South Korean companies heading for a joint industrial zone in the North's border town of Kaesong.

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2 Koreas begin talks on joint industrial zone

SEOUL, South Korea - Photo taken in Seoul on Aug. 14, 2013, shows South Korea's Kim Ki Woong (C) heading for a seventh round of talks with North Korean officials in a joint industrial zone in the North's border city of Kaesong. North and South Korea began working-level talks later in the day on normalizing operations at the industrial zone that have remained suspended for nearly four months.

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Wrestler-turned-lawmaker Inoki

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese wrestler-turned-lawmaker Antonio Inoki speaks at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan in Tokyo on Aug. 5, 2013. Inoki, member of the opposition Japan Restoration Party, showed his willingness to help set the stage for summit talks between Japan and North Korea, where the issue of the North's past abductions of Japanese nationals may be resolved.

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Inter-Korean industrial zone

PAJU, South Korea - Vehicles are pictured at the inter-Korean transit office in Paju, South Korea, on July 12, 2013, carrying finished products and raw materials retrieved from the facilities of South Korean companies operating in a joint industrial zone in the North's border town of Kaesong. The products and materials had been stuck in the zone for about three months.

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Inter-Korean industrial zone

PAJU, South Korea - Vehicles are pictured at the inter-Korean transit office in Paju, South Korea, on July 12, 2013, carrying finished products and raw materials retrieved from the facilities of South Korean companies operating in a joint industrial zone in the North's border town of Kaesong. The products and materials had been stuck in the zone for about three months.

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Visit to inter-Korean industrial zone

PAJU, South Korea - Photo taken at the inter-Korean transit office in Paju, South Korea, on July 10, 2013, shows vehicles carrying representatives of South Korean companies returning from a joint industrial zone in the North's border town of Kaesong. They visited the zone for maintenance checks on their facilities and to retrieve finished products and raw materials stuck in the zone for nearly three months.

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Visit to inter-Korean industrial zone

PAJU, South Korea - Photo shows vehicles at the inter-Korean transit office in Paju, South Korea, on July 10, 2013, carrying representatives of South Korean companies returning from a joint industrial zone in the North's border town of Kaesong. They visited the zone for maintenance checks on their facilities and to retrieve finished products and raw materials stuck in the zone for nearly three months.

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Inter-Korean industrial zone

PAJU, South Korea - Vehicles are pictured at the inter-Korean transit office in Paju, South Korea, on July 10, 2013, carrying representatives of South Korean companies operating in a joint industrial zone in the North's border town of Kaesong. The representatives plan to visit the industrial zone for maintenance checks on their facilities and to retrieve finished products and raw materials stuck in the zone for nearly three months.

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S. Korea proposes talks with North

SEOUL, South Korea - Kim Hyung Seok, a spokesman for South Korea's Unification Ministry, tells a press conference in Seoul on July 4, 2013, that South Korea proposed earlier in the day working-level talks with North Korea be held July 6 at the truce village of Panmunjeom to discuss issues related to the suspended joint industrial complex in the North's border city of Kaesong.

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S. Korea accepts North's proposal for dialogue

SEOUL, South Korea - South Korean Unification Minister Ryoo Kihl Jae holds a press conference in Seoul on June 6, 2013. Ryoo accepted North Korea's call for government-to-government talks and offered to host a ministerial dialogue in Seoul.

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Abe adviser meets N. Korea party secretary

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Isao Iijima, an adviser to Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, arrives at Pyongyang's airport on May 14, 2013. Iijima held talks the following day with Kim Yong Il, a secretary of North Korea's Workers' Party of Korea, in Pyongyang, the North's official Korean Central News Agency reported.

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Inter-Korean industrial complex

PAJU, South Korea - South Korean vehicles arrive at the inter-Korean transit office in Paju, South Korea, returning from an inter-Korean industrial complex in the North's border town of Kaesong on April 30, 2013. North Korea pulled out its 53,000 laborers from the zone and prevented the entry of South Korean staff and industrial materials earlier in the month.

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S. Korea to withdraw all workers from Kaesong

SEOUL, South Korea - South Korea's Unification Minister Ryoo Kihl Jae holds a press conference in Seoul on April 26, 2013. Ryoo said South Korea has decided to withdraw all South Korean workers at the inter-Korean industrial zone in the North's border town of Kaesong.

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N. Korea bars S. Korea businessmen from Kaesong

PAJU, South Korea - South Korean businessmen hold a press conference at the inter-Korean transit office in Paju, South Korea, on April 17, 2013, after North Korea rejected their request to visit an joint industrial zone in the North's border town of Kaesong to deliver food and other necessities to employees and check the condition of facilities amid a shutdown.

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N. Korea bars S. Korea businessmen from Kaesong

PAJU, South Korea - Vehicles loading food and medicines are on standby at the inter-Korean transit office in Paju, South Korea, on April 17, 2013. North Korea rejected a request the same day by a group of South Korean businessmen to visit a joint industrial zone in the North's border town of Kaesong to deliver food and other necessities to employees and check the condition of facilities amid a shutdown.

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Pyongyang scene amid tensions

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Pedestrians pass under a North Korean national flag in a main area of Pyongyang on April 16, 2013. Tensions have continued due to the North's threats of war against the United States and South Korea.