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About 3,000 people gathered in the rain in Trafalgar Square on Saturday night to "celebrate" the demise of Margaret Thatcher. The party was a surreal coming together of everyone from the Durham miners to young protesters who weren't even born when Thatcher came to power <!-- To autoplay video...

US recovery of North Korean satellite exposed nuclear progress The US recovered the front section of the rocket used in North Korea’s satellite launch in December, which gave away the status of the regime's nuclear arms programme, writes Eli Lake of the Daily Beast South Korean navy sailors...

Musudan rocket set up The Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS) sent out a picture of North Korea’s Taepodong 2 missile sitting on the launch pad at Musudan-ri. According to their email: ISIS has obtained commercial satellite imagery from DigitalGlobe taken at approximately...

Musudan Range: 2,500 – 4,000km (1,550 – 2,500 miles) Length: 12m Diameter: 1.5m Weight: 12,000kg Engine: Liquid Guiding System: Inertial Navigating System Sat Tracks North Korean Missile Build-Up By Noah Shachtman 03.30.09 9:44 AM Thanks to satellite imagery firm DigitalGlobe, we...

A North Korean vehicle carrying what appears to be a new missile is seen during a mass military parade April 15 at Kim Il Sung Square in Pyongyang. (Ng Han Guan / The Associated Press) A North Korean vehicle carrying a missile passes by during a mass military parade in Pyongyang's Kim Il...

Rockets are carried by military vehicles during a military parade to celebrate the centenary of the birth of North Korea's founder Kim Il-sung in Pyongyang on 15 April, 2012, in this picture released by the North's KCNA news agency - REUTERS/KCNA

In December launch North Korea has proven cynics wrong and shown that it can successfully deploy a three-stage ICBM

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THE TELEGRAPH | on Mon, Apr 15, 3:14 AM <iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/aZi0Qn4vkD0?rel=0" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" width="560"></iframe> Crowds of people climbed Mansu Hill in the centre of the capital to lay flowers and bow at the feet of giant statues of Kim...

George W Bush: I'm comfortable with my legacy George W Bush has said he has no regrets with his presidency, 10 years after the invasion of Iraq, declaring that he is "comfortable" with his legacy. Former President George W. Bush with his wife Laura Photo: AP By Chris Irvine 10:53AM BST 15...

Kim Jong-un appears in public for first time in fortnight The North Korean leader Kim Jong-un made his first public appearance in a fortnight with a midnight pilgrimage to his grandfather's tomb in Pyongyang. North Korea's leader, Kim Jong-un visits a mausoleum for his deceased father and...

A Taepodong-2 rocket is seen being launched from the North Korean rocket launch facility in Musudan Ri, April 5, 2009. REUTERS/KRT via Reuters TV The Unha-3 (Milky Way 3) rocket carrying the second version of Kwangmyongsong-3 satellite, is launched at West Sea Satellite Launch Site in...

A video grab from KCNA shows the Unha-3 (Milky Way 3) rocket launching at the North Korea's West Sea Satellite Launch Site, at the satellite control centre in Cholsan county, December 13, 2012. REUTERS/KCNA A military vehicle carries a missile past late leader Kim-il Sung's portrait during...

A soldier stands guard in front of the Unha-3 (Milky Way 3) rocket sitting on a launch pad at the West Sea Satellite Launch Site, during a guided media tour by North Korean authorities in the northwest of Pyongyang, April 8, 2012. REUTERS/Bobby Yip A Taepodong-2 rocket is seen being...

North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un smokes a cigarette at the General Satellite Control and Command Center after the launch of the Unha-3 (Milky Way 3) rocket carrying the second version of Kwangmyongsong-3 satellite at West Sea Satellite Launch Site in Cholsan county, North Pyongan province...