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China on Wednesday launched its first domestically built aircraft carrier, which will join an existing one bought second-hand, amid rising tensions over North Korea and worries about Beijing’s assertiveness in the South China Sea. State media has quoted military experts as saying the carrier, designed in China and built in the northeast port of Dalian, […]
North Korea celebrated the founding of the nation’s military on Tuesday with live fire exercises and a new round of aggressive rhetoric, just as the USS Michigan, an American nuclear submarine, docked in South Korea as a part of an international show of force directed at the North Korean Supreme Leader, Kim Jong Un. The […]
President Trump started this week with his eyes set squarely on North Korea – first calling on the United Nations to establish new, stronger sanctions against the reclusive and increasingly volatile state, then calling on all one hundred members of the U.S. Senate to attend a special briefing on North Korea at the White house. […]
The USS Carl Vinson carrier strike group is being joined by two Japanese destroyers in the Western Pacific this week to commence joint training drills in a thinly veiled show of force intended to dissuade North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong-Un from continuing to ignore international pleas to do away with his nuclear weapons program. […]
According to an un-named defense official, China has begun placing bombers on high alert, as well as working to increase its air-ready fleet of fighter jets by stepping up scheduled maintenance. Their ready posture, however, is not as a result of tensions between China and the United States, but rather is believed to be in […]
“It was silk everywhere and it was just marvelous to see,” Sergeant Paul Redgate said, describing 4th Ranger Company’s combat jump at Musan-Ni. In was March of 1951, the coldest winter that anyone could remember in Korea. Some American units were decimated by the freezing temperatures alone. Exiting the C-119 airplane, Redgate parachuted to the […]
Chinese President Xi Jingping announced a restructure of China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) on Wednesday. According to Chinese state media outlets, the shift is intended to transform the PLA into a leaner fighting force and improve its joint operations capabilities. The new structure will condense China’s military into 84 units and place more emphasis on […]
BEIJING — It was supposed to be steaming toward North Korea more than a week ago, an “armada” signaling American resolve. Then it wasn’t. Now, it seems the USS Carl Vinson may finally be heading north. “Our deployment has been extended 30 days to provide a persistent presence in the waters off the Korean Peninsula,” […]
The same day American Vice President Mike Pence offered North Korea a warning about their pursuit of nuclear weapons from the demilitarized zone separating it from the southern half of the Korean Peninsula, North Korea has responded by announcing plans to ramp up their missile testing program. “We’ll be conducting more missile tests on a […]
Vice President Mike Pence offered a new round of warnings to North Korea on Monday – this time directly from the Korean Demilitarized Zone dividing South Korea from its aggressive northern neighbor. In his remarks, Pence made it clear that President Trump will not employ a continuation of international norms established by his predecessor. “We’re […]
In his toughest assessment yet of the escalating North Korean nuclear crisis, Foreign Minister Wang Yi warned on Friday that a conflict could erupt “at any moment” – and whoever provoked it would pay the price. Analysts said Wang’s warning reflected the danger of an imminent threat. “Tensions have risen … and one has the […]
As tensions climb to historic highs between the US and its allies and North Korea, rumors of massive movements of Chinese troops near North Korea’s border keep surfacing. A Pentagon official told Business Insider that the US had heard the reports but had “not seen anything to corroborate it.” But Chinese troops are always stationed in […]
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