Tag: North Korea

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’s Ministry of State Security released an in depth statement on Friday, accusing the United State’s Central Intelligence Agency and the South Korean Intelligence Service of sponsoring a biological terror attack intended to kill the nation’s Supreme Leader, Kim Jong Un. According to a statement released by the Ministry, the CIA and South Korea’s […]

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 […]

The U.S. House of Representatives voted almost unanimously to approve legislation aimed at placing increased sanctions on North Korea, as part of a larger effort to curb the nation’s nuclear ambitions.  These new sanctions target North Korea’s shipping industry and third party companies that do business with Kim’s regime. The legislation, which passed by a […]

Warren Buffett sees cyber attacks as a bigger threat to humanity than nuclear weapons. “I’m very pessimistic on weapons of mass destruction generally although I don’t think that nuclear probably is quite as likely as either primarily biological and maybe cyber,” Buffett said during Berkshire Hathaway’s annual shareholders’ meeting on Saturday. “I don’t know that much about […]

Iran’s recent failed ballistic missile launch from a submerged “midget” submarine has once again drawn attention to Iran’s military ties with another of America’s most outspoken opponents, North Korea. The failed missile test is said to have been Iran’s first with the Jask-2 underwater cruise missile, a missile design intelligence experts believe to be a […]

Read Part 13 HERE In the bloody aftermath of the Munich massacre of Israeli athletes, the raid on Entebbe, and Germany’s GSG-9 storming of an aircraft in Mogadishu, the western world had to take a hard look at their military capabilities and figure out how they would address the growing threat of terrorism. The United […]

China has begun to adopt a more critical stance on North Korea in recent weeks, while being careful not to appear too friendly to Western opponents like the United States.  Instead of serving as a political barrier to progress regarding Kim Jong Un’s regime as they could once be accused of doing, China has begun […]

The Pentagon is closely monitoring the recent failed launch of an Iranian underwater cruise missile from a midget submarine as evidence of influence by North Korea with the government in Tehran. The Pyongyang connection theory has some merit as the design of both the sub and missile closely resemble a design of North Korea. According […]

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has proposed amending the Japanese constitution to formalize the existence of the Japanese Self Defense Forces (JSDF) by 2020. Abe has made reforming Article 9 of Japan’s constitution, the ‘pacifist clause,’ a central theme in his time as Prime Minister. Polls show support for the change growing annually, while opposition […]

North Korea is building artificial islands in the Yellow Sea and topping them with what appear to be military installations, satellite images reveal. The development suggests that North Korea has taken a cue from China, which has been stoking regional tensions by building and militarizing several artificial islands in the South China Sea in recent […]

Read Part 11 Here A second-order effect of the 12/12 incident was the Kwangju Rebellion of 1980. General Chun had by now taken control of both the army and the KCIA, and while high-ranking Korean military officers continued to make political maneuvers in smoke-filled rooms, relations with the United States had more or less stabilized—although […]