North Korea

The United States is continuing to bolster its international military cooperation in the Pacific with a joint training exercise held with 1,500 members of Japan’s Self Defense Force and over 2,000 U.S. Marines at Misawa Air Base, Japan, and on the nearby island of Hokkaido. The U.S. and its allies face a number of threats […]

North Korea’s success in testing an intercontinental ballistic missile that appears able to reach the United States was made possible by black-market purchases of powerful rocket engines probably from a Ukrainian factory with historical ties to Russia’s missile program, according to an expert analysis being published Monday and classified assessments by American intelligence agencies. The studies […]

Marine Corps Gen. Joe Dunford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, met with PACOM commander, Navy Adm. Harry B. Harris Jr., in Hawaii on Sunday while en route to Asia to meet with allies about heightening tensions with North Korea. General Dunford’s trip is intended to “improve military-to-military ties during a complicated time in […]

While the North Korean military claims to be in the final stages of planning to fire four long-range ballistic missiles toward the U.S. territory of Guam, Chinese President Xi Jinping has relied on his nation’s consistent talking points regarding the issue: urging both nations to “avoid words or actions” that could serve to further escalate […]

Read Part One here. Soon after war broke out, North Korea would likely work to move their sizable fleet of tanks down toward the DMZ and ultimately into South Korea, while simultaneously inserting special operations forces along the South Korean coast by way of submarines or similar low profile naval vessels.  These special operations teams […]

Recently President Trump has been talking a big talk about North Korea but the bravado and bluster is little more than empty rhetoric designed to appeal to a US domestic audience that wants to perceive America as “strong” in a confusing and chaotic era in which we struggle to find our place in the world. […]

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 […]