Only a day after launching an anti-ship cruise missile at a U.S. destroyer in the Red Sea, Iran-backed Houthi rebels have struck again, this time hitting an American-owned commercial vessel off the coast of Yemen. U.S. Central Command said in a Jan.15 statement that the anti-ship ballistic missile was fired from Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen […]
MOSCOW—The Russian military on Sunday reported a successful test launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile designed to carry nuclear warheads from a new nuclear submarine. The report comes as tensions are soaring between Russia and the West over the fighting in Ukraine. Adding to those tensions, President Vladimir Putin last week signed a bill revoking […]
North Korea fired three short-range ballistic missiles off its east coast on Saturday, according to the South Korean military, which criticized Pyongyang for amping up launches in 2022 amid speculation that it could be preparing another nuclear test. Maj. Gen. Lee Seung-O, South Korea’s director of operations at the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS), said […]
TOKYO—The ballistic missile North Korea launched last week appears to be the same model as the submarine-launched missile Pyongyang tested last October, Japanese Defense Minister Nobuo Kishi said on Tuesday. North Korea fired a ballistic missile from a submarine on Saturday, days before the inauguration of new South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol and U.S. President […]
North Korea fired a missile into the sea off its east coast. That’s according to South Korean and Japanese military officials. Japan’s deputy defense minister says the projectile appears to be a new type of intercontinental ballistic missile.
SEOUL—North Korea fired what could be a ballistic missile on Sunday, military officials in South Korea and Japan said, in what would be the first test since the nuclear-armed country conducted a record number of launches in January. South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) reported that North Korea had fired a suspected ballistic missile […]
North Korea fired a suspected ballistic missile off its east coast Wednesday. The missile landed in the sea between the Korean Peninsula and Japan, drawing condemnation from both Seoul and Tokyo, and Beijing also appears to follow suit.
North Korea’s state-run television aired video footage on Thursday of the communist country’s first successful test-firing of missiles that were launched from a train. The missiles were tested at dawn on Sept. 15 and accurately struck a targeted area 497 miles (800 kilometers) in the sea off North Korea’s east coast, according to the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA). The launch was […]
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Reports are swirling that North Korea has begun testing an anthrax-loaded warhead for its intercontinental ballistic missile after Japan’s Asahi Shimbun newspaper quoted an anonymous intelligence source in Seoul. The report comes on the heels of a White House National Security Strategy that points at similar concerns. North Korea has vehemently denied the allegations, but […]
The U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) looks to have another defense against medium-range ballistic missiles after Navy sailors aboard the USS John Paul Jones shot one down off the coast of Hawaii Wednesday, Aug 30. The MDA said it “successfully conducted a complex missile defense flight test” using SM-6 guided missiles. The recently upgraded missile, […]
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has warned Iran could resume its nuclear program “within hours” should the United States impose sanctions in response to Iran’s ballistic missile program. “(If the U.S. were to impose further sanctions) Iran would certainly return in a short time—not a week or a month but within hours—to conditions more advanced than […]
The U.S. military is testing an ICBM defense system. The system will prevent attacks from long-range missiles. Intercontinental ballistic missiles can be intercepted by the ground-based Midcourse Defense interceptor.. This would protect the United States from North Korea. The system is located in California, facing the Pacific.
The U.S. will continue to apply economic and diplomatic pressure on North Korea, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said in an interview with “Fox News Sunday” on May 21. “Hopefully, they will get the message that the pathway of continuing their nuclear arms program is not a pathway to security, or certainly prosperity. The ongoing […]
South Korean President Moon Jae-in said there was a “high possibility” of conflict with North Korea on May 17. This comes after North Korea conducted its latest ballistic missile launch on Sunday, May 14. Moon said the North’s nuclear and missile capabilities seem to have advanced rapidly recently but that the South was ready and […]
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Monday (February 13) denounced North Korea’s ballistic missile firing early on Sunday (February 12), calling it a “further troubling violation” of Security Council resolutions. “The DPRK leadership must return to full compliance with its international obligations and to the path of denuclearization,” Guterres said in a statement read by his […]
