Tag: North Korea

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 […]

As Kim Jong un’s North Korean regime continues to steam toward a nuclear future, a great deal of attention has been paid to the idea of a nuclear strike on U.S. soil.  It makes sense: such a strike would be the most horrific and tragic attack on America in its history, and could potentially result in […]

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 […]

As the North Korean threat seems to increase on a daily basis the US is sending 12 F-35’s to Japan. The U.S. Air Force has announced that it will send its version of the advanced F-35 stealth fighter jet to Okinawa’s Kadena Air Base next month in the first such deployment to the Asia-Pacific region. The […]

In talks held between senior defense officials from Japan, South Korea and the United States on Monday, it wasn’t American Defense Secretary James Mattis urging an escalation of defensive posture in the face of the North Korean threat, but rather his Japanese Counterpart. Japanese Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera told officials from the two allied nations […]

There are reports that the Air Force may be putting nuclear armed B-52 Bombers on 24 hour high alert. The U.S. Air Force is preparing to place its fleet of nuclear-armed B-52 bombers on 24-hour alert for the first time since 1991 amid escalating tensions with North Korea, the military branch’s chief of staff said in […]

The news rarely reports the comings and goings of ordinary people living regular lives, and yet it’s those people who make up the mass majority of the earth.  The farmer in north the northern Thai countryside, the truck driver in Cairo or the gas station attendant in Arizona–they are the fabric of society, subject to […]

According to reports from the Korean peninsula, construction is already underway on a new diesel-electric ballistic missile submarine Kim Jong Un hopes will ferry his newly developed nuclear missiles closer to their intended targets, marking yet another significant increase the threat posed by North Korea’s nuclear weapons program. Once complete, the new sub will be […]

On 22 October, 1966, George Blake broke out of a British prison, only 5 years into his 42 year sentence. Blake was a communist sympathizer, which was what led him to his service to the KGB against the British government.  As a child, he had spent time in Egypt with his cousin, who would go […]

Speaking at a summit hosted by the Foundation for Defense of Democracies Thursday, CIA director Mike Pompeo warned that North Korea is close to having the ability to strike the U.S. mainland with an ICBM, and spoke at length about the multi-faceted danger posed by the Iranian regime. To support President Trump’s decision to decertify […]

Kim Jong un’s North Korean regime are no strangers to exaggeration when it comes to threats levied toward the United States and its allies.  In fact, up until recently, there were really only two things you could count on in terms of North Korean diplomacy: that they would offer up outlandish threats, and that the majority […]

On Monday, the U.S. military began drilling to evacuate non-combatants from South Korea in case the red-hot rhetoric explodes into an all-out war between the United States and North Korea. This comes after North Korea resumed its threats against U.S. territory Guam amid the latest joint military exercises between the U.S. and South Korea which […]