South Korea

The Trump administration is not taking recent provocative actions by North Korea lightly. Just last week Fighter Sweep told you about the US sending its Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system to South Korea. Now, MQ-1C Gray Eagle attack drones are being deployed to the region in a clear show of muscle from President Trump aimed […]

A crowd of South ­Koreans, jubilant at the impeachment of their president, Park ­Geun-hye, over a corruption scandal, took to the streets of Seoul on Saturday night to call for her arrest and imprisonment. The crowds were much smaller than the huge candlelight rallies that contributed to her ouster, but the sense that this was […]

China’s foreign minister said on Wednesday that North Korea could curb its nuclear weapons program if the US agreed to stop conducting military drills with South Korea — something the US rejected. Foreign Minister Wang Yi rehashed the offer, one that the US has heard from North Korea before, on Wednesday, saying that the US, South Korea, […]

In a sharp move to counter recent missile launches by North Korea the US sent its Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system to South Korea on Monday evening. The North Koreans had just launched four ballistic missiles into the Sea of Japan the day before. Watch the arrival of the THAAD missile system to […]

In a sharp move to counter recent missile launches by North Korea the US sent its Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system to South Korea on Monday evening. The North Koreans had just launched four ballistic missiles into the Sea of Japan the day before. Watch the arrival of the THAAD missile system to […]

The United States military has begun deploying the THAAD missile defense system in South Korea this week, a long-awaited move for the South Koreans that face an increasingly significant threat of North Korean missile attack. The Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system is a defensive weapon platform designed specifically to shoot down short and […]

American and South Korean forces began their annual joint training operation, Foal Eagle, last week – amid increased tensions with North Korea. North Korea has tested ballistic missiles that are believed to be nuclear capable twice over the past month, including a volley of four missile launches into the Sea of Japan over this past […]

TOKYO — North Korea launched four missiles Monday morning, a provocative barrage that coincided both with joint U.S.-South Korean military exercises on the southern half of the peninsula and with the opening of the annual National People’s Congress in China. The launches follow a remarkable month in which Kim Jong Un’s regime tested a solid-fuel […]

China has for years been whittling away at the US military’s asymmetrical advantage in conventional military strength with a naval buildup, building and militarizing artificial islands in the South China Sea, and creating systems and weapons custom built to negate the US’s technological advantage. By all indications, China is building aircraft carriers and getting ready to […]

Senior officials from the United States, South Korea and Japan discussed ways to further restrict funding for North Korea’s weapons programs during talks in Washington on Monday, the countries said in a joint statement.     Read the whole story from Reuters.

Malaysian authorities have indicated that they intend to question a North Korean embassy official and a state airline employee in connection with the assassination of Kim Jong Nam, half-brother to North Korean leader, Kim Jong Un. Local law enforcement reported an attempted break in at the hospital morgue housing Kim Jong Nam’s body earlier this […]

The South China Sea has been at the center of recent tensions between the United States and its allies and their economic, political, and possibly even military opponent, China.  The waterway sees an estimated $5 trillion in trade on an annual basis, nearly thirty percent of the global economy, and is said to contain large […]