North Korean travel ban marks return to Cold War-era restrictions on U.S. citizens abroad

U.S. citizens have long been able to visit North Korea as tourists, but that will soon change. On Friday, the Trump administration announced that it was planning to bar U.S. tourists from traveling to North Korea next month. The move coincides with increasing tension between the Trump administration and Pyongyang about North Korea’s nuclear weapons program. It […]

Human rights group releases report on North Korean mass killings, graves

A human rights group in Seoul released a report on Wednesday titled “Mapping Crimes Against Humanity in North Korea“, whose objective is to map locations used for killings and mass graves by the North Korean government. The group, called the Transitional Justice Working Group (TJWG), used satellite imagery and interviewed hundreds of North Korean defectors […]

North Korean defector’s abrupt return to DPRK fuels abduction theory

A popular television personality in South Korea who gained fame after fleeing from North Korea three years ago, is feared to have been kidnapped and returned back to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), the BBC reports. After appearing in a propaganda video with another former defector who ‘returned’ to North Korea, many now […]

If North Korea ever did strike, where is the best place to shelter after a nuclear blast?

North Korea’s most recent ballistic missile test demonstrated a significant leap forward in the country’s strike capabilities, with many experts agreeing that the missile’s trajectory indicates a possible range that could easily reach as far as Alaska.  The United States has long worried about a nuclear North Korea with ballistic missile platforms capable of reaching […]

South Korea’s new government proposes military talks with North Korea

SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea on Monday proposed military talks with North Korea, the first formal overture to Pyongyang by the government of President Moon Jae-in, and said the two sides should discuss ways to avoid hostile acts near the heavily militarized border. There was no immediate response by the North to the proposal for […]

China claims U.S. ‘stabbed them in the back,’ while another Chinese diplomat attempts to explain trade increases with North Korea

In recent months, United States defense officials and diplomats alike have repeatedly urged China to increase pressure on Kim Jong-un’s North Korean regime by way of economic sanctions, fully aware that China represents a robust ninety-percent of North Korea’s import and export markets.  As North Korea’s primary ally, China possesses what some believe to be […]

Watch: U.S. B-1B Lancer Bombers drop inert bombs near North Korean border

After Kim Jong Un’s decision to test a new long-range ballistic missile as a “gift for the American bastards” on the 4th of July, the United States teamed up with allies South Korea and Japan to deliver a not-so subtle response.  On July 7th, two U.S. B-1B Lancer Bombers departed from Anderson Air Force Base […]

Missile Defense Agency conducts successful THAAD missile intercept test over Alaska

The U.S. Missile Defense Agency, working in conjunction with the Ballistic Missile Defense System Operational Test Agency, and U.S. Army soldiers of the 11th Air Defense Artillery Brigade from Fort Bliss, Texas, conducted a test of the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system in the skies above Alaska on Tuesday.  The test, according to an […]