BREAKING: North Korea fires ballistic missile toward Japan

One day after Russian officials claimed North Korea had halted its ballistic missile testing as a part of the Chinese proposal for a mutual freeze of military activity, North Korea conducted what appeared to be yet another ballistic missile test. “North Korea launched an unidentified ballistic missile eastward from the vicinity of Pyongsong, South Pyongan […]

Massive ball of light appears in the sky above Siberia during Russian ICBM test

On Thursday night, a massive ball of light illuminated the sky above the town of Salekhard, in Russian Siberia.  Selekhard, which lies above the arctic circle, is no stranger to glowing lights in the night sky above them, and many residents had even settled in for a pleasant evening of watching the Northern Lights when […]

US successfully intercepts ICBM in test above the Pacific. What does this mean for North Korea?

For the first time ever, the United States military successfully intercepted and destroyed an airborne intercontinental ballistic missile armed with a mock nuclear warhead before it could reach its intended target. The U.S. Missile Defense Agency’s Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) system has received its fair share of critics (full disclosure, this writer is among them) […]

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 […]

Could the U.S. have caused North Korea’s missile test to fail with a virus?

Another recent ballistic missile test by Kim Jong Un’s North Korean regime ended in failure over the weekend, prompting another round of headlines poking fun at the reclusive state’s inability to make meaningful progress in building a missile with a high probability of success.  Although it seems likely enough that the floundering economy and educational […]