North Korea

With the reality of increasingly dangerous and hostile regional neighbors becoming a threat, the Japanese government has taken a big step to double its defense spending and is reconsidering the necessity of having to strike potential adversaries first in self-defense.

From China’s reaction to unveiling the B-21 stealth bomber to North Korea’s latest provocation, here’s the Asia-Pacific SITREP for this week.

Will the third-generation ballistic missile of the US be viable enough to deter North Korea’s massive Hwasong-17 in case of an attack?

A minute-by-minute technical account of what would happen if Kim Jong-un launched a nuclear-tipped ICBM at the United States.

North Korean supreme leader Kim Jong Un oversaw Friday’s ICBM launch test and has pledged to counter any threats with its nuclear weapons.

North Korea is at it again with its live-fire testing provocations, with another suspected ICBM fired and landed near Japan on Friday.

North Korea fired a short-range ballistic missile toward its East waters on Thursday, hours after it threatened to take ‘more severe’ military action against the United States to ensure the security of its East Asian allies South Korea and Japan.

The US and North Korea remain on a collision course after President Joe Biden renewed sanctions against Pyongyang. As a result, North Korea warned it might take “fiercer” military action.

Here is the latest SITREP in the Asia-Pacific region, from the Biden-Xi meeting to the US Army’s lease renewal in a training site in Hawaii.

With North Korea continuing to cause provocation, allies South Korea, Japan, and the US have become “more aligned than ever.”

Yesterday, North Korea scrambled some 180 jet aircraft along its border with South Korea prompting South Korea to sortie some 80 fighters of its own, including F-16s and F-35s in response.  This incident took place as the US and South Korea conducted joint training exercises during Vigilant Storm 23. The exercise was scheduled to run […]

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, not happy with US-led war games in his backyard, is ratcheting up tension in the region by launching multiple missiles toward his neighbors. All of this is in a possible run-up to the testing of a nuclear weapon.