South Korea

Asked on Thursday by Rep. Tim Ryan of the House Appropriations Committee to explain why the US doesn’t just go to war to stop North Korea from developing the capability to hit the US, Secretary of Defense James Mattis painted a grim scenario. “I would suggest that we will win,” Mattis said. “It will be […]

A North Korean soldier defected on Tuesday across the heavily mined Demilitarised Zone (DMZ) border to South Korea, the South’s military said, amid high tension over the North’s defiant pursuit of nuclear weapons.   Read the whole story from Reuters.

A package exploded at South Korea’s Yonsei University in central Seoul on Tuesday injuring a staff member who opened it in his office, a fire official said. Yonhap news agency said the blast sent small bolt nails flying from the package.     Read the whole story from Reuters.  

Modern naval vessels have much more dramatic challenges to face than the broadside cannon attacks of yester-year, particularly in the form of anti-ship missiles.  Unlike torpedoes, which are difficult to intercept but tend to be fairly slow compared to the speeds demonstrated by missiles, anti-ship missiles can be fired from significant distances away – in […]

Off the coast of the Korean peninsula, the U.S. Navy serves as an immense show of force in the face of North Korean aggression, but they’re not the only U.S. forces in the region that Kim Jong Un should be worried about.  America’s 8th Army has a history of service in the Pacific dating back […]

Only hours after the newly elected South Korean president announced his decision to halt the further deployment of THAAD anti-missile defense platforms in his country, North Korea conducted yet another ballistic missile test.  This latest test saw four ballistic anti-ship missiles launched from North Korea’s East Coast.  They traveled approximately 124 miles before crashing into […]

The rogue nation of Kim Jong Un in North Korea continues to up the ante in the never-ending weapons program tit-for-tat. The North launched a series of missiles that were characterized as land-to-ship and defensive in nature off of its coast. While the UN continues to impose more economic sanctions on the North, Jong’s military […]

North Korea fired what appeared to be several land-to-ship missiles off its east coast on Thursday, South Korea’s military said, a day after the South postponed full deployment of a controversial U.S. anti-missile system designed to deter a North Korean attack. The launches, the latest in a fast-paced series of missile tests defying world pressure […]

The South Korean government has suspended the deployment of the American THAAD missile defense system intended to protect them and Japan from a potential North Korean nuclear strike. The system, although specifically defensive in its capabilities, has drawn harsh criticism from North Korea and its largest ally, China, and was approved by the South Korean […]

In a statement made on Thursday at an economic forum in St. Petersburg, Russian President Vladimir Putin called elements of the U.S. missile defense system placed in Alaska and South Korea a “challenge” to Moscow.  According to Putin, their presence leaves the Russian military no choice but to expand its own forces in response. The […]

The US conducted a joint exercise Monday with the Republic of Korea (ROK) flying a number of B-1 Lancer bombers near the demilitarized zone that separates South Korea from North Korea. A spokesperson for the ROK military confirmed the exercise but did not disclosure the number of B-1 aircraft that participated. North Korea lambasted the […]

Newly elected South Korean President Moon Jae-in has ordered a probe into the American THAAD missile defense system recently deployed to his nation after his Defense Ministry failed to inform him that four additional launchers for the THAAD had been brought into the country, according to local reports emerging on Tuesday. The THAAD (Terminal High […]