North Korea’s ghosts in Africa

While doing some research on North Korea, I came across an interesting article about how North Korean military advisors to Uganda partly inspired a bizarre cult-like guerrilla group called the Holy Spirit Movement.  This movement later played into the formation of Joseph Kony’s Lord’s Resistance Army.  Also during the 1980’s, it is interesting to note […]

Japan PM Abe says he, Trump agree North Korea missile launch a ‘serious threat’

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Thursday that he and U.S. President Donald Trump agreed in a telephone call that North Korea’s latest ballistic missile launch was “a dangerous provocation and a serious threat.” Abe also told reporters at his official residence that he was watching to see how China would respond to Pyongyang […]

North Korea fires a ballistic missile as Trump prepares to host China’s Xi

North Korea fired another ballistic missile Wednesday morning, apparently testing a land-based version of its rocket that can be fired from a submarine, in a development that nonproliferation experts called “scary.” The launch comes days after Pyongyang said it planned to mark two key anniversaries this month as “big” political events and days before President […]

North Korean hackers have stolen U.S.-South Korean war plans: report

North Korean hackers have breached a South Korean military network and have reportedly stolen military “war plans,” a South Korean newspaper reports. The hack occurred last September, and had originally been downplayed by South Korean defense officials, saying that no critical information had leaked. Now an anonymous South Korean government source is telling Chosun Ilbo […]

Cyber security firm: more evidence North Korea linked to Bangladesh heist

Cyber security firm Kaspersky Lab on Monday said it had obtained digital evidence that bolsters suspicions by some researchers that North Korea was involved in last year’s $81 million cyber heist of the Bangladesh central bank’s account at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Russian-based Kaspersky released a 58-page report on Lazarus, a group […]

SECDEF Mattis addresses North Korea, Russia, and ISIS in press conference

In a joint press conference with British Defense Secretary Michael Fallon, James Mattis addressed the most pressing security concerns for the United States and its allies, specifically North Korea, Russia, and the global war on terror. First on the docket was North Korea and its burgeoning nuclear missile program that has elevated threats levied by […]

Trump presses China on North Korea ahead of Xi talks

U.S. President Donald Trump held out the possibility on Sunday of using trade as a lever to secure Chinese cooperation against North Korea and suggested Washington might deal with Pyongyang’s nuclear and missile programs on its own if need be. The comments, in an interview published on Sunday by the Financial Times, appeared designed to […]

US announces a new series of sanctions on North Korea’s WMD program

The U.S. Department of the Treasury, under direction from the White House, announced a new series of sanctions being levied against one North Korean organization and 11 individuals with ties to North Korea’s nuclear and ballistic missile programs. According to a press release provided by the Treasury Department, the 11 individuals cited have been working as agents […]

U.S. defense chief says North Korea has ‘got to be stopped’

LONDON — North Korea must be stopped on its path toward being able to threaten the United States with nuclear attack, U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said Friday in a stark expression of America’s top national security concern at the moment. He emphasized diplomatic means of changing Pyongyang’s “reckless” agenda. On his first visit to […]

Watch: Firefight with a North Korean spy ship

This is resurfaced footage from the Battle of Amami-Ōshima, also known as the Spy Ship Incident in the Southwest Sea of Kyūshū in 2001! A North Korean Spy Ship was sunk by Japan after a six-hour confrontation between the Japanese Coast Guard and an armed North Korean vessel, which took place near the island of […]