South Korea

President Donald Trump kicked off his Asia tour on Sunday by addressing a crowd of American and Japanese military personnel at Yokota Air Base in Japan.  The president made no mention of the North Korean elephant in the room, but did make a number of pointed references regarding dictators and regimes that could easily be […]

U.S. Air Force B-1B Lancer bombers out of Guam once again made a flyover of the Korean peninsula on Thursday, accompanied by fighter jet escorts from both South Korea and Japan.  The show of force has since drawn harsh criticism from Kim Jong Un’s North Korean regime, and may have unintentionally demonstrated their poor understanding of […]

Thae Yong-ho, a former senior official at North Korea’s embassy in London who defected in 2016, appeared before a congressional hearing on Wednesday to provide U.S. lawmakers with some perspective into the mindset of the North Korean populous, and into their enigmatic Supreme Leader, Kim Jong Un. Tensions between North Korea and the United States […]

The Kim Jong un regime may be preparing to test another missile in North Korea to coincide with President Donald Trump’s first major trip to Asia, Reuters reports. The information was briefed to South Korean officials by the South Korean intelligence organization, and their assessment was based on “the active movement of vehicles around the missile […]

North Korea said US B-1B bombers flew over the Korean Peninsula on Thursday and carried out bombing drills simulating attacks on major targets in the country, the North’s official KCNA news agency said on Friday. The strategic bombers, escorted by US and South Korean fighter jets, flew from the Anderson Air Force Base in Guam, […]

Army Command Sgt. Maj. John W. Troxell, the senior enlisted advisor to Marine Corps Gen. Joe Dunford, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, accompanied Dunford on his recent trip to South Korea, but while Dunford attended high level meetings with other defense officials, Troxell set out to see how the troops were doing […]

On September 3rd, North Korea conducted its sixth and largest nuclear test to date.  The dual-stage device was a first for Kim’s regime, who had previously only been able to harness the power of traditional atomic bombs.  The successful detonation of the country’s first hydrogen bomb had a reverberating effect throughout the world, as nations […]

Kim Jong Un’s iron grip on the North Korean people is weakening, and an information campaign rooted in soap operas and dramas could help advance a civilian uprising, a prominent defector told a congressional panel Wednesday. “Great and unexpected changes are taking place within North Korea,” Thae Yong-ho, a former diplomat in North Korea’s Embassy […]

After attending the 49th annual Security Consultative Meeting with South Korean Minister of National Defense Song Young-moo in Seoul on Friday, American Secretary of Defense James Mattis spoke to the press about the most pressing threat in the region, North Korea. In his statements, Mattis drew a clear line in the sand in terms of […]

American Secretary of Defense James Mattis toured the DMZ separating the U.S. allied South Korea from their aggressive neighbors to the North on Friday.  The defense official’s arrival was intended as a sign of America’s unwavering support of the South Korean people, but also offered some reminders as to the scale of the threat Kim’s […]

A service member jumps from a Navy MH-53E Sea Dragon helicopter during a mine warfare training event that U.S. and South Korean navy explosive ordnance disposal divers are conducting in Busan, South Korea, Oct. 19, 2017. Navy photo by Seaman William Carlisle

In talks held between senior defense officials from Japan, South Korea and the United States on Monday, it wasn’t American Defense Secretary James Mattis urging an escalation of defensive posture in the face of the North Korean threat, but rather his Japanese Counterpart. Japanese Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera told officials from the two allied nations […]