North Korea says US bombers just staged a ‘surprise’ strike drill

North Korea says US bombers just staged a ‘surprise’ strike drill

North Korea said US B-1B bombers flew over the Korean Peninsula on Thursday and carried out bombing drills simulating attacks on major targets in the country, the North’s official KCNA news agency said on Friday. The strategic bombers, escorted by US and South Korean fighter jets, flew from the Anderson Air Force Base in Guam, […]

North Korean defector tells Congress to up information operations inside North Korea

North Korean defector tells Congress to up information operations inside North Korea

A prominent North Korean diplomat who defected to South Korea last year appeared before the House Foreign Affairs committee Wednesday, offering a rare public testimony to what life is like for the elite upper class in the closed-off regime of Kim Jong un. Citing his desire to keep his sons safe and free, Thae Yong-ho […]

Defense Official: US troops at North Korea border are ‘ready to fight’

Defense Official: US troops at North Korea border are ‘ready to fight’

Army Command Sgt. Maj. John W. Troxell, the senior enlisted advisor to Marine Corps Gen. Joe Dunford, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, accompanied Dunford on his recent trip to South Korea, but while Dunford attended high level meetings with other defense officials, Troxell set out to see how the troops were doing […]

North Korean troops being treated for radiation indicates test site may already be leaking

North Korean troops being treated for radiation indicates test site may already be leaking

On September 3rd, North Korea conducted its sixth and largest nuclear test to date.  The dual-stage device was a first for Kim’s regime, who had previously only been able to harness the power of traditional atomic bombs.  The successful detonation of the country’s first hydrogen bomb had a reverberating effect throughout the world, as nations […]

Soaps and dramas may achieve change in North Korea more than military force, defector says

Soaps and dramas may achieve change in North Korea more than military force, defector says

Kim Jong Un’s iron grip on the North Korean people is weakening, and an information campaign rooted in soap operas and dramas could help advance a civilian uprising, a prominent defector told a congressional panel Wednesday. “Great and unexpected changes are taking place within North Korea,” Thae Yong-ho, a former diplomat in North Korea’s Embassy […]

China reportedly foils North Korean plot to assassinate nephew of Supreme Leader

China reportedly foils North Korean plot to assassinate nephew of Supreme Leader

According to reports out of the region, two North Korean agents were taken into custody in China after law enforcement foiled a plot to assassinate the nephew of North Korea’s Supreme Leader, Kim Jong un. Kim Han-sol, the target of the alleged assassination attempt, is the eldest son of the now deceased Kim Jong-nam, who was […]

Mattis in Seoul: Use of nukes by NK ‘will be met by a massive military response’

Mattis in Seoul: Use of nukes by NK ‘will be met by a massive military response’

After attending the 49th annual Security Consultative Meeting with South Korean Minister of National Defense Song Young-moo in Seoul on Friday, American Secretary of Defense James Mattis spoke to the press about the most pressing threat in the region, North Korea. In his statements, Mattis drew a clear line in the sand in terms of […]

Tunnel collapse in North Korea’s nuclear test site may have claimed up to 200 lives

Tunnel collapse in North Korea’s nuclear test site may have claimed up to 200 lives

Japanese media has released details into an apparent tunnel collapse in North Korea’s nuclear test site that is believed to have killed as many as 200 people. In a report made on Tuesday, Japanese TV Asahi claimed that some 100 people were trapped or killed in an initial collapse that occurred days after North Korea’s […]

Air Force nuclear bombers placed on 24 hour alert? Not this time

Air Force nuclear bombers placed on 24 hour alert? Not this time

Reports have surfaced all over the internet claiming that the Pentagon has ordered the U.S. Air Force to place its nuclear capable B-52 bombers on a 24-hour alert status, indicating to some of the more conspiracy-minded social media pontificators that World War III is on the verge of commencing.  The truth, of course, is a […]

USS Nimitz arrival makes three US aircraft carriers in western Pacific

USS Nimitz arrival makes three US aircraft carriers in western Pacific

Many think President Trump is mobilizing for an attack on North Korea. In recent days there have been stories of nuclear capable B-52’s possibly being put on 24 hour alert for the first time since 1991, a dozen F-35’s deploying to Japan and now word of three aircraft carriers in the waters near North Korea. USS […]