U.S. Pacific commander visits Japanese East China Sea listening post

The head of the U.S. Pacific Command made his first visit on Wednesday to a Japanese radar station on the edge of the disputed East China Sea that Japan opened last year to the anger of its regional rival China. Admiral Harry Harris visited the Yonaguni Coast Observation Unit on the southernmost of the Ryukyu […]

Is The US planning to shoot down the next North Korean missile test?

Is the United States planning to try and shoot down North Korea’s next ballistic missile test? With North Korea successfully launching an intercontinental ballistic missile last weekend and President Trump stating that the US has “many beautiful things” in the works concerning the situation, some are suspecting a possible missile intercept attempt. The distinctive missile […]

Could North Korea be the spark that ignites World War III?

Another day, another North Korean missile launch. This time, the hermit kingdom tested a Hwasong-12 missile on Sunday, May 14, 2017, which reached an altitude of 2,111.5 kilometers (approximately 1,300 miles) and flew 787 kilometers (approximately 500 miles), according to the state news agency KCNA. The United Nations Security Council is set to meet on May […]

Putin on North Korea’s missile test: ‘No threat to us.’ Jabs at U.S. foreign policy

Russian president Vladimir Putin criticized North Korea’s latest ballistic missile test on Monday, but didn’t miss an opportunity to take a jab at the United States in his statement as well. Kim Jong Un’s North Korean regime conducted what has been called their “most successful” ballistic missile test to date on Sunday, launching their Hwasong-12 missile […]

North Korea’s Sunday missile test changes things, here’s why

North Korea conducted what has been referred to by experts as their “most successful” missile test to date on Sunday, demonstrating their ability to strike U.S. bases as far away as Guam with a hypothetically nuclear tipped missile. Kim Jong Un is said to have personally supervised the launch of the Hwasong-12 missile, a never […]

In global appeal, North Korea urges states not to enforce U.N. sanctions

North Korea made a global appeal in a letter released on Friday for states to reconsider enforcing U.N. sanctions on the Asian nation as Washington seeks to step up pressure on Pyongyang to end its nuclear and ballistic missile programs. The United Nations Security Council first imposed sanctions on North Korea in 2006 and has […]

US Navy ship collides with fishing vessel off Korean coast

According to local news reports, the USS Lake Champlain, an American Ticonderoga class guided missile cruiser out of San Diego, California, has collided with a fishing vessel off the coast the Korean peninsula. The collision has been categorized as “minor” by South Korean officials who have launched an investigation into the incident.  A parallel U.S. […]

SOFREP Editor in Chief, Jack Murphy reports from the Korean DMZ

As our vehicle made the uphill climb towards our destination, I glared through the window and spied a double chain link fence topped with barbed wire which marketed the beginning of the demilitarized zone between North and South Korea.  In the distance, I had my first look at North Korea. The two countries had been […]

U.S. successfully tests nuclear capable ICBMs amid North Korean failures

Although North Korea’s missile tests tend to garner the most attention, every nation with an arsenal of ballistic missiles must occasionally conduct test launches to ensure their equipment remains functional and the personnel assigned to operating the missile platforms are well-trained in what it takes to execute a launch.  The United States, of course, is […]

North Korea detains another US citizen: state media

North Korea has detained another US citizen for committing “hostile acts,” it said Sunday, its second arrest of an American in a fortnight with tensions high between Pyongyang and Washington. The arrest of Kim Hak-Song means that the North now is holding four US citizens, with the two countries at loggerheads over Pyongyang’s nuclear and […]