North Korea

TOKYO — Dennis Rodman has returned from a five-day trip to North Korea, but he did not meet with a man he once called his “friend for life” — Kim Jong Un. The colorful retired basketball player did not speak to reporters waiting for him when he arrived in Beijing after leaving Pyongyang. After a disastrous trip […]

Asked on Thursday by Rep. Tim Ryan of the House Appropriations Committee to explain why the US doesn’t just go to war to stop North Korea from developing the capability to hit the US, Secretary of Defense James Mattis painted a grim scenario. “I would suggest that we will win,” Mattis said. “It will be […]

SEOUL, South Korea — One American who was held captive in North Korea said he was interrogated up to 15 hours a day by officials who wanted him to confess to plotting to overthrow their government. Another said she was held in a 5-by-6-foot windowless cell. Yet another former American inmate shivered on the concrete […]

A North Korean soldier defected on Tuesday across the heavily mined Demilitarised Zone (DMZ) border to South Korea, the South’s military said, amid high tension over the North’s defiant pursuit of nuclear weapons.   Read the whole story from Reuters.

The United States boasts the largest, widest spread, and most powerful military ever to exist on the face of the planet, and as such, often receives criticism on both domestic and international stages.  Some accuse the United States of being war hungry, as demonstrated by its huge defense budget and involvement in armed conflicts the […]

CINCINNATI — A plane carrying University of Virginia student Otto Warmbier, who had been detained in North Korea for 17 months and was in a coma for most of it, touched down in Cincinnati on Tuesday night. The 22-year-old’s return marks an end to the ordeal that his family has been through, not knowing what had happened to Warmbier since […]

Dennis Rodman is a name we all somehow still remember, despite his contributions to basketball, film, and international politics all ranging from forgettable to… well… unforgivable.  The man who once played alongside Michael Jordan while making public appearances in a wedding dress would eventually go on to star in terrible movies alongside Jean Claude Van […]

United States Defense Secretary Jim Mattis declared to the House Armed Services Committee on Monday that North Korea is the “most urgent and dangerous threat to peace and security,” moving the rogue regime of Kim Jong Un past Russia as the No. 1 threat that the United States faces. This is an escalation of the […]

Modern naval vessels have much more dramatic challenges to face than the broadside cannon attacks of yester-year, particularly in the form of anti-ship missiles.  Unlike torpedoes, which are difficult to intercept but tend to be fairly slow compared to the speeds demonstrated by missiles, anti-ship missiles can be fired from significant distances away – in […]

Off the coast of the Korean peninsula, the U.S. Navy serves as an immense show of force in the face of North Korean aggression, but they’re not the only U.S. forces in the region that Kim Jong Un should be worried about.  America’s 8th Army has a history of service in the Pacific dating back […]

Only hours after the newly elected South Korean president announced his decision to halt the further deployment of THAAD anti-missile defense platforms in his country, North Korea conducted yet another ballistic missile test.  This latest test saw four ballistic anti-ship missiles launched from North Korea’s East Coast.  They traveled approximately 124 miles before crashing into […]

The rogue nation of Kim Jong Un in North Korea continues to up the ante in the never-ending weapons program tit-for-tat. The North launched a series of missiles that were characterized as land-to-ship and defensive in nature off of its coast. While the UN continues to impose more economic sanctions on the North, Jong’s military […]