Tag: North Korea

As President Trump prepared to speak before the United Nations, where he was expected to address the growing tensions on the North Korean peninsula, U.S. bombers and fighters joined aircraft from the South Korean military and Japanese Defense Force to send a message of their own to North Korea’s despotic regime. In what U.S. Defense […]

The United Nations recently passed its strongest sanctions yet against North Korea following its sixth nuclear test. But critics have expressed doubts as to whether the sanctions would stop Pyongyang from developing nuclear weapons and if the measures would be effectively enforced. The US government and a UN experts panel have published reports on how […]

When North Korea launched long-range missiles this summer, and again on Friday, demonstrating its ability to strike Guam and perhaps the United States mainland, it powered the weapons with a rare, potent rocket fuel that American intelligence agencies believe initially came from China and Russia. The United States government is scrambling to determine whether those two […]

Nikki Haley, America’s Ambassador to the United Nations, told the Security Council on Saturday that they have “pretty much exhausted” their options in dealing with North Korea’s continued efforts to develop nuclear weapons and ballistic missile platforms intended to deliver them.  Haley went on to say that the appropriate course of action at this point […]

The United States Navy has a problem in the Pacific.  As America’s military force in a region that has seen near historic levels of tension recently, including a newly-nuclear North Korea as well as a rapidly expanding Chinese military in the South China Sea, the challenges facing our seaward troops are formidable enough.  Unfortunately, those […]

Trump is employing the “madman” strategy to dealing with a nuclear North Korea It’s an approach straight from his own heart — and the “Art of the Deal” And while it’s a legitimate strategy, it may end up proving disastrous Retired general David Petraeus cautioned that President Donald Trump’s “madman” approach to dealing with a […]

North Korea conducted yet another ballistic missile test early Friday morning, only days after the United Nations Security Council unanimously voted to place new sanctions on the reclusive state as a result of the Kim regime’s pursuit of nuclear weapons and ballistic missile delivery systems. This latest lunch comes after a new slew of North […]

Two days after the United Nations Security Council unanimously voted to approve new, stricter sanctions on North Korea following their sixth, and largest nuclear test to date, North Korea vowed to redouble its efforts to counter what Kim’s regime refers to as the “threat of U.S. invasion.” The possibility for conflict on the Korean peninsula […]

The United Nations Security Council came to a unanimous agreement on new sanctions to be imposed on North Korea on Monday.  These new sanctions come as a direct result of North Korea’s largest nuclear test to date, executed on September 3rd, that appeared to indicate that Kim Jong un’s regime now has the ability to produce […]

The U.N. Security Council on Monday agreed on its toughest-ever sanctions against North Korea that passed unanimously after the United States softened its initial demands to win support from China and Russia. The sanctions set limits on North Korea’s oil imports and banned its textile exports in an effort to deprive the reclusive nation of […]

The United States is calling for a vote as early as Monday on new, harsher sanctions to be imposed on North Korea by the UN Security Council over its recent test of what experts believe to be a hydrogen bomb, though no details have yet been released as to what those sanctions might actually entail. […]

It takes one hour and 45 minutes to fly from Shenyang, a sprawling provincial capital in northeastern China not far from the border with North Korea, to Seoul, the capital of South Korea. It’s the kind of flight in which passengers have to gobble down their beef and rice before the attendants come around telling them […]