North Korea fired multiple short-range ballistic missiles toward its eastern waters Monday morning, its neighbors said, days after the end of the South Korean-U.S. military drills that the North views as an invasion rehearsal. The launches — North Korea’s first known missile testing activities in about a month — came as U.S. Secretary of State … Read more
Flashpoints | Security | East Asia Hours after the U.S. flew a B-1B bomber to the Korean Peninsula as part of field exercises with South Korea, the North launched two short-range ballistic missiles. A U.S. Air Force B-1B Lancer assigned to the 345th Expeditionary Bomb Squadron, from Dyess Air Force Base, Texas, takes off at Misawa Air Base, Japan, … Read more
In this undated photo provided on Aug. 21, 2023, by the North Korean government, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, right, observes what it says the test-firing of strategic cruise missiles. The content of this image is as provided and cannot be independently verified. Credit: Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP Advertisement North … Read more
The Koreas | Security | East Asia The National Intelligence Services aid it has detected unusually heavy activities at a North Korean facility that produces solid-fueled intercontinental ballistic missiles and at another site related to liquid-fueled ICBMs. Advertisement North Korea is preparing for a new round of provocative weapons displays such as long-range missile tests and a spy satellite … Read more
The Koreas | Diplomacy | East Asia Amb. Kim Song defended North Korea’s recent long-range missile test-flight as a legitimate exercise of the North’s right to self-defense. North Korean Ambassador to the United Nations Kim Song addresses a Security Council meeting on Non-proliferation/North Korea, on July 13, 2023 at United Nations headquarters. Credit: AP Photo/Mary Altaffer Advertisement North Korea’s … Read more
Advertisement North Korea test-fired its first intercontinental ballistic missile in three months on Wednesday, days after it threatened “shocking” consequences to protest what it called provocative United States reconnaissance activity near its territory. Some experts say North Korea likely launched its developmental, road-mobile Hwasong-18 ICBM, a type of solid-fuel weapon that is harder to detect … Read more
Advertisement The defense chiefs of Japan and the United States have confirmed that the two nations will take all possible measures against North Korea’s missiles. Japanese Defense Minister Hamada Yasukazu held talks in Tokyo on June 1 with U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, who is visiting Japan on the way to the annual Shangri-La Dialogue … Read more