Sentences with phrase «continued missile tests»

North Korea's motivation for creating a cyber-warfare division has to do with economic incentives; Pyongyang needs money, especially as the international community is tightening its grip on the Hermit Kingdom's cash flow over its continued missile tests.

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North Korea has repeatedly defied international sanctions and warnings not to continue ballistic missile launches and tests of nuclear weapons.

«China will probably continue to press for diplomatic talks, arguing for the suspension of North Korean nuclear device and missile tests in exchange for the suspension of U.S. - South Korean military exercises,» Evans said in a note Wednesday.

North Korea is likely to continue pursuing ballistic missile tests at its current pace of about every three to four weeks despite the sanctions, according to John Park, director of the Korea Working Group at Harvard Kennedy School.

And will North Korea continue the development and testing of missiles and nuclear weapons?

Central Intelligence Agency Director Mike Pompeo said the US would also continue its military exercises on the Korean Peninsula, but that he expected Pyongyang to halt its nuclear and missile testing.

A former US deputy secretary of state has also warned against using «hot rhetoric» as international tensions over North Korea's missile testing continued to escalate.