North Korea

Only one day after voting in favor of new sanctions to be imposed on Kim Jong-un’s North Korean regime, China’s state-owned media released a statement stressing the limits of the new restrictions, and once again emphasizing their position critical of the United States in the region. The United Nations Security Council voted unanimously on Saturday […]

Thanks to recent developments in North Korea’s long range ballistic missile programs, a great deal of attention has been paid to America’s missile defense infrastructure.  From the Aegis Missile Defense System powered by America’s Naval presence in the region, to THAAD launchers in both South Korea and Kodiak, Alaska, all the way to America’s sometimes […]

North Korea likely hasn’t ranked high on your list of potential vacation destinations in recent years, perhaps because of the oppressive government regime, the scarcity of food, or the high likelihood that you could be imprisoned indefinitely over something as simple as taking a poster off of a wall.  One would think, then, that the […]

With tensions at a seemingly continuous rise on the Korean peninsula, both the United States and North Korea have sent one another messages in the forms of military exercises, missile tests, interceptor tests, and steely glares from across the 2.5-mile gap between the two Korean states.  This Sunday, however, they’ll be able to communicate far […]

North Korea’s most recent long-range ballistic missile test demonstrated to the world that Kim Jong-un’s regime now possesses a platform capable of reaching further than ever before, with some experts extrapolating a range capable of targeting cities as far as away as America’s Boston or New York City. More recent analysis of the overall flight […]

The possible unintended consequences of North Korea’s ICBM missile launch tests are starting to become clear. An Air France passenger jet with over 300 people on board apparently passed within 10 minutes of where the latest North Korean missile landed in the Sea of Japan. Flight data from the time of the ICBM’s landing on Friday indicates […]

The potential for an armed conflict with North Korea has raised some concerns the United States military hasn’t been faced with in some time.  How well America’s missile defenses will work against a nuclear tipped ICBM may be the most prominent among them, but other concerns, such as how America and its allies might communicate […]

Navy Adm. Harry B. Harris Jr., commander of U.S. Pacific Command, spoke at the 4th Japan-U.S. Military Statesmen Forum in Washington D.C. last week, addressing threats to the United States and its allies in the Pacific, including China, North Korea, and the Islamic State in the Philippines. Admiral Harris explained that the nature of the […]

Chinese President Xi Jinping claimed his nation “loves peace” but will never compromise defending its sovereignty in the pursuit of it during a speech he gave at the 90th anniversary celebration of the People’s Liberation Army. While most nations use a definition of sovereignty that extends to its formal and recognized borders, however, China has […]

According to Gen. Terrence J. O’Shaughnessy, U.S. Pacific Air Forces commander, the United States and its allies are prepared to use “rapid, lethal and overwhelming force,” against Kim Jong Un’s North Korean regime, if necessary.  His statement, which came at the tail end of ten hours of U.S. led fighter and bomber drills over the […]

In the wake of North Korea’s most recent ballistic missile test, which may indicate Kim’s regime is now capable of delivering a nuclear warhead to targets as far away as New York or Boston, South Korean President Moon Jae-in has authorized the deployment of four additional THAAD Missile Defense Systems in his country. President Moon, […]

North Korea conducted yet another ballistic missile test on Friday, but this one may have been the most ominous yet.  The North Korean Hwasong-14 missile, which derives its name from the Korean word for Mars, reached a peak altitude of 2,314.5 miles and remained airborne for a whopping 47 minutes and 12 seconds before ultimately splashing […]