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North Korea fired a short-range ballistic missile toward its East waters on Thursday, hours after it threatened to take ‘more severe’ military action against the United States to ensure the security of its East Asian allies South Korea and Japan.

The US and North Korea remain on a collision course after President Joe Biden renewed sanctions against Pyongyang. As a result, North Korea warned it might take “fiercer” military action.

Here is the latest SITREP in the Asia-Pacific region, from the Biden-Xi meeting to the US Army’s lease renewal in a training site in Hawaii.

With North Korea continuing to cause provocation, allies South Korea, Japan, and the US have become “more aligned than ever.”

South Korea will sell 100,000 155mm howitzer rounds to the US, destination Ukraine. The world wide production of these rounds will swamp Russia.

Yesterday, North Korea scrambled some 180 jet aircraft along its border with South Korea prompting South Korea to sortie some 80 fighters of its own, including F-16s and F-35s in response.  This incident took place as the US and South Korea conducted joint training exercises during Vigilant Storm 23. The exercise was scheduled to run […]

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, not happy with US-led war games in his backyard, is ratcheting up tension in the region by launching multiple missiles toward his neighbors. All of this is in a possible run-up to the testing of a nuclear weapon.

South Korea is slated to hold yet another joint air defense exercise with the US to further “improve combat readiness” against the North.

Tensions in Asia-Pacific continue to stir up this week, from North Korea’s firing another “warning shots” to Japan employing the MQ-9B

Here are two major events that happened this week in Asia, from Korea’s escalating tensions to the inevitable China-Taiwan war.

Earlier today, South Korea tried to respond by firing their own missile, only to end in frantic alarm and failure.

Out of the light combat aircraft that arose in the last decades, the South Korean FA-50 is currently dominating the global market.