ballistic missile

General Dunford heads to China, South Korea, Japan to address leaders on North Korea

Marine Corps Gen. Joe Dunford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, met with PACOM commander, Navy Adm. Harry B. Harris Jr., in Hawaii on Sunday while en route to Asia to meet with allies about heightening tensions with North Korea. General Dunford’s trip is intended to “improve military-to-military ties during a complicated time in […]

UN Security Council unanimously votes to impose new sanctions on North Korea expected to cut exports by a third

After North Korea’s most recent bout of long-range ballistic missile tests, the United Nations Security Council unanimously voted to impose new sanctions on Kim Jong-un’s regime on Saturday. These new restrictions are projected to slash North Korean exports by as much as a third. The resolution, which was drafted by the United States after North […]

Video suggests re-entry vehicle on North Korean ICBM failed, North Korea issues new threats anyway

North Korea’s most recent long-range ballistic missile test demonstrated to the world that Kim Jong-un’s regime now possesses a platform capable of reaching further than ever before, with some experts extrapolating a range capable of targeting cities as far as away as America’s Boston or New York City. More recent analysis of the overall flight […]

Hawaii announces education campaign and preparedness plan for North Korean nuclear strikes

Despite the criticisms of the state’s tourism industry, Hawaiian officials announced the launch of an education and preparedness campaign aimed at informing their citizens on what to do in the event of a North Korean nuclear attack. Tensions have been high in the Pacific for months now, as North Korea continues to test various ballistic […]

Why Russia’s ballistic-missile defense works and the US’s kinda doesn’t

The US has spent $40 billion on the ground-based midcourse ballistic-missile-defense system. By the end of 2017, the US wants to have 44 missile interceptors stationed in Alaska and California to fend off a possible nuclear-missile attack. While the ground-based midcourse missile-defense system has had some success in tests, real-world conditions could easily stress the system to the […]

Missile Defense Agency conducts successful THAAD missile intercept test over Alaska

The U.S. Missile Defense Agency, working in conjunction with the Ballistic Missile Defense System Operational Test Agency, and U.S. Army soldiers of the 11th Air Defense Artillery Brigade from Fort Bliss, Texas, conducted a test of the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system in the skies above Alaska on Tuesday. The test, according to an […]

Kim Jong Un: 4th of July missile test was a ‘gift’ for the ‘American bastards’

North Korea’s decision to launch a test of their latest ballistic missile platform, which they claim can reach U.S. shores, on the eve of America’s Fourth of July celebration was not coincidental, but was rather intended as a message to the Western power, according to statements made by Kim Jong Un. In fact, Kim’s translated […]

North Korea launches ballistic missile after US-China talks

North Korean forces reportedly launched another ballistic missile at around 9:40 a.m. local time, South Korean officials reported. The South’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a statement that Tuesday’s launch came from an airfield in North Korea’s northwestern Phyongan province, according to Reuters. The missile was said to have landed in Japan’s Exclusive Economic Zone […]

Putin on North Korea’s missile test: ‘No threat to us.’ Jabs at U.S. foreign policy

Russian president Vladimir Putin criticized North Korea’s latest ballistic missile test on Monday, but didn’t miss an opportunity to take a jab at the United States in his statement as well. Kim Jong Un’s North Korean regime conducted what has been called their “most successful” ballistic missile test to date on Sunday, launching their Hwasong-12 missile […]

Watch: US Launches 2nd Long Range Ballistic Missile (ICBM) in Seven Days

The United States launched a second long range ballistic missile from Vanderberg Air Force Base in California in a period of seven days. The Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) flew over 4000 miles before it came down near the Marshall Islands which is located in the central Pacific Ocean region between Hawaii and the […]

Iran attempts sub-launched missile test

According to U.S. Defense officials, Iran attempted to conduct a test launch of a cruise missile from a submerged submarine in the Strait of Hormuz on Tuesday. The test ended in failure. Iran, which has received multiple warnings from the Trump White House regarding their efforts to increase their potentially nuclear-capable ballistic missile arsenals, conducted […]

N. Korea didn’t test a nuclear weapon, but it did try to launch another missile

TOKYO — With the kind of fanfare that only a totalitarian state can muster, North Korea on Saturday flaunted missiles that can theoretically reach the United States and defiantly stated that it was prepared to counter any U.S. attack with “a nuclear war of our own.” But it soon looked like a case of style […]