Tag: North Korea

The Obama Administration is notorious for the President’s goal of reducing nuclear weaponry across the globe with the introduction of the New START treaty in 2010. However, while the U.S. tries to play God over the world’s nuclear stockpile, it is simultaneously upgrading its own stocks of B61 weapons into “smart” atom bombs. What does […]

[Editor’s Note: Kim Jong Un announced the successful test of an alleged hydrogen bomb in the past few days, and as one might expect, a great deal of saber-rattling has ensued. Tension on the Korean peninsula has been high in recent weeks, and just got elevated to a whole new level. Check out this article from […]

Why do countries continue to strive toward attaining nuclear weapons? Ask Saddam, Gaddafi, Assad…

Yesterday, North Korea announced to the world their first explosive testing of a hydrogen bomb, a nuclear weapon which would be significantly more powerful than the three previous atomic weapons which the reclusive hermit nation has detonated.  While many in the public sphere perceive Kim Jong-Un’s government as profoundly insane, North Korea’s actions do in […]

The rumor mill is cranking away at full speed as academics speculate and North Korean exiles pontificate, but SOFREP got the inside scoop on where this elusive dictator has been the last few weeks.

It seems like every year or two, there is a storm of rumors about upheaval in or related to North Korea. Most of them are along the same lines; utter collapse of the only visibly Stalinist regime in the world (visibly—most similar states in other parts of the world don’t get the attention that the […]

While many are familiar with President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s famous farewell speech, fewer have read the original drafts which include dire warnings about the future of America and what Eisenhower termed a “military-industrial complex.” One of the original drafts, penned by speech writer Malcom Moos, reads: “We must never let power, implicit in this combination, […]

The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) have one of the largest ground forces in the world, and were once referred to as the “Million Man Army.” Although their ground forces are estimated somewhere in the region of 950,000 soldiers, the large majority are under-trained and malnourished. In standing with other past communist and oppressed […]

Each time that North Korea conducts missile testing the media sites within the United States explode into a panic and only increase paranoia on U.S. soil. The reality is N. Korea is far from reaching the technological levels to hit the U.S. mainland. Although a N. Korean missile attack directed on American soil remains distant […]

Over the years, the United States has had its fair share of threats from North Korea. As of Friday, March 29, 2013, North Korea has issued yet another “grim” warning to the United States as their leader Kim Jong-un signed an order to put its nation’s rockets on a combat-ready status.  A photo was then […]