North Korea

Robert Gates, a man who climbed to the top of the CIA over a 27 year intelligence career and served as defense secretary under both Barack Obama and George W. Bush, recently laid out a comprehensive plan on how the US should handle North Korea in comments to the Wall Street Journal. Gates, like current secretary […]

Sweden has not yet been paid by North Korea for the hundreds of Volvo sedans it imported in the 1970s and which can still be seen on the streets of the communist country. While the deal was not the commercial success Sweden had hoped for, it serves as a reminder of its long involvement in […]

In response to rising tensions playing out between North Korea and the United States, and a direct threat against the island of Guam earlier this week from dictator Kim Jong-un, Guam’s governor and Homeland Security Department are taking practical steps to keep the public informed and calm. Speaking in a video press release, Governor Eddie […]

With the United States’ recent transition toward a more aggressive line of rhetoric directed at Kim Jong Un’s North Korean regime, there’s been a growing sense of concern within the United States about what a war with North Korea might actually look like.  Here in the relative safety and comfort of the U.S., we’ve grown […]

Despite protests from the U.S. State Department, Kuwait has signaled that they will continue to welcome North Korean workers into their country. In a report from the Associated Press, Kuwait did not dispute they are still issuing visas to North Korean workers. According to Kuwait’s Public Authority of Manpower there are 6,064 North Korean laborers […]

Threats of fire and fury have become staples of North Korea’s foreign policy, particularly when addressing the United States.  Despite their rhetoric seeming abhorrent for such international interactions by most nations, China and Russia, in particular, have continued to indirectly bolster Kim Jong-un’s statements by disregarding them, and placing blame on the United States for […]

After President Trump issued a strongly worded threat to Kim Jong Un’s North Korean regime, concerns that the United States may be inching closer toward war with North Korea continue to rise.  Although Secretary of State Rex Tillerson attempted to assuage some of these concerns in his own public statements since, it would seem the […]

President Trump’s promise on Tuesday to show North Korea “fire and fury” if the rogue nation continues to issue threats against the United States added a bit of theatrics to increasingly tense relations between the two countries. The imagery the president offered seemed to add a sense of urgency of the situation, and underscored the […]

The North Koreans were rattling their saber again and upped the ante this time, threatening a ballistic missile strike on the U.S. territory of Guam. While some residents expressed concern, others said that their trust in the US military will keep them safe. North Korea’s military said it is considering a missile launch aimed near […]

Although it has yet to become the formal consensus of the U.S. Government, intelligence analysts are now claiming that Kim Jong-un’s North Korean regime seems to have successfully miniaturized their nuclear warheads, an important, and potentially final, step in making their long-range ballistic missiles into global strike nuclear weapons. Throughout this year’s rash of North […]

Chinese naval forces will conduct more than 10 kinds of drills and launch dozens of types of missiles during four days of live-fire exercises off the Korean peninsula, according to state media. The details of the drills, which end on Tuesday, were released less than two weeks after North Korea fired off its second long-range […]

After North Korea’s most recent bout of long-range ballistic missile tests, the United Nations Security Council unanimously voted to impose new sanctions on Kim Jong-un’s regime on Saturday.  These new restrictions are projected to slash North Korean exports by as much as a third. The resolution, which was drafted by the United States after North […]