North Korean missile flies over Japan, Pentagon says
"We assess North Korea conducted a missile launch within the last 90 minutes," Col. Rob Manning, director of press operations at the Department of Defense, said Monday evening in a statement.
Category Archives: North Korea
US shoots down medium-range ballistic missile in Hawaii test
This Aug. 29, 2017 photo provided by the Department of Defense shows a medium-range ballistic missile target is launched from the Pacific Missile Range Facility on Kauai, Hawaii. The U.S. military has shot down a medium range ballistic missile during a test off Hawaii.
John McCain’s family celebrates his 81st birthday
Hassebrook, the Democr... -- Thousands of people likely remain stranded and an estimated 30,000 to 40,000 homes have been destroyed in the Houston area as Hurricane Harvey, now a tropical sto... -- North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has said that his country's most recent missile launch is "a meaningful prelude to containing Guam," North Korea's state-run news ag... Some types of Salmonella cause disease in food animals, like pigs. Others cause foodborne illness in humans.
Trump: ‘All options are on table’ after North Korea missile launch over Japan
President Donald Trump said Tuesday that "all options are on the table" in terms of a U.S. response to North Korea's launch of a missile over Japan. In a terse, written statement Tuesday, Trump said that with the missile launch North Korea has "signaled its contempt for its neighbors, for all members of the United Nations, and for minimum standards of acceptable international behavior."
Polish-born artist Krzysztof Wodiczko practices art as agent of change
Turning an inanimate object imbued with symbolism into an animate being embodying the said symbolism, artist Krzysztof Wodiczko brings private narratives to public spaces. "My Wish," commissioned by the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea and on display at the museum's Seoul branch in Sogyeok-dong as part of the artist's first major retrospective in Asia, tells the stories of 13 marginalized people in Korean society.
Deadly Navy accidents in the Pacific raise questions over a force stretched too thin
Constant deployments, a shrinking number of ships and high demands on crews have frayed the U.S. Navy, according to naval experts and current and former Navy officers, leading to four major incidents at sea this year and the deaths of 17 sailors. The collision of the USS John S. McCain and an oil tanker on Aug 21 - which left 10 sailors dead - was the culmination of more a decade of nonstop naval operations that has exhausted the service.
U.S. possesses a powerful – but risky – tool to halt North Korea’s nuclear progress
The U.S. government is turning the screws on companies that do business with North Korea in violation of U.N. sanctions but has stopped short of taking the more aggressive - and riskier - move of targeting Chinese banks that facilitate Pyongyang's trade in arms and other banned goods. On Tuesday, the Trump administration blacklisted 16 Chinese, Russian and Singaporean companies and individuals for trading with banned North Korean entities, including in coal, oil and metals.
Musk, killer robots, Trump and the Eclipse
OK, it's not as strange as it sounds because each man was true to himself. That is, neither message was surprising, considering the source, but each was important, also considering the source.
Nuclear Apocalypse: Trump and Kim Should Not Hold the World Hostage
Not too far away from Seattle, Washington there are eight ballistic-missile submarines carrying the world's large shipments of nuclear weapons. The 560-foot-long black submarines are docked at the Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor, hauling what is described by Rick Anderson in a recent Los Angeles Times article as "the largest concentration of deployed nuclear weapons in the US."
Cheong Wa Dae dismisses possible reopening of Kaesong complex in N. Korea
South Korea is not considering reopening the joint industrial park in North Korea's Kaesong, at least for now, the presidential office Cheong Wa Dae said Wednesday, dismissing news reports that suggested the possibility. "We want to clarify the issue because it may send a wrong message not only to our people but also those in other countries," a Cheong Wa Dae official told reporters.
US Cracks Down On Chinese, Russian Firms Supporting The Kim Regime
The U.S. Department of the Treasury dropped the hammer on Chinese and Russian companies and individuals that have been facilitating North Korea's weapons programs.
North Korea mocks Donald’s Trump’s ‘weird’ tweets
North Korea has condemned US President Donald Trump as a leader who frequently tweets "weird articles of his ego-driven thoughts" and "spouts rubbish" to give his assistants a hard time. North Korea has condemned US President Donald Trump as a leader who frequently tweets "weird articles of his ego-driven thoughts" and "spouts rubbish" to give his assistants a hard time.
Who’s ready for the US – South Korea war games?
We've only just now managed to cool down the easily inflamed ego of Kim Jong-un after his threat to rain down ICBMs around Guam, possibly tipping it over in the process. The back and forth saber rattling has moved up considerably in temperature ever since we found out he now has some amazingly advanced rockets and very likely the ability to miniaturize his nukes to fit on them.
The wrong way to prevent nuclear war
A vast majority of countries want to eliminate the existential threat of nuclear catastrophe, and rightly so. But achieving a world free of nuclear weapons is easier said than done, and there is a risk that some attempts to do so could prove self-defeating.
Most Talk Back writers are concerned about North Korea
Concern is the mildest term to use to describe the level of anxiety we should all feel as President Donald Trump continues to use inflammatory language in what is a delicate situation that is best left in the hands of informed diplomats. We have a president who is the bully on the playground and, unlike other presidents who were deeply concerned about the lives of those they might put in peril, this man is concerned about being seen as the macho cowboy, locked and loaded.
Bannon Said Something Everybody Knows Is True: Therefore We Must Fire Him
Or just CLICK THIS LINK to start shopping for anything. Don't worry - anything you buy through it will pay Daily Pundit a commission! Thanks! That was how one veteran Washington correspondent began a conversation with me following reports Thursday morning of White House counselor Steve Bannon's sensational interview with the liberal American Prospect magazine.
Mattis Congratulates South Korea’s New Defense Minister
Defense Secretary Jim Mattis spoke by phone yesterday with South Korean Defense Minister Song Young-moo to congratulate him on his confirmation for the position and to discuss a range issues related to the U.S.-South Korean alliance, chief Pentagon spokesperson Dana W. White said in a statement released today. "Both Secretary Mattis and Minister Song strongly condemned North Korea's second intercontinental ballistic missile test on July 28 and resolved to continue to closely coordinate responses to the North Korean threat," White said.
The US must not cancel military exercises in South Korea
A U.S. missile defense system called Terminal High Altitude Area Defense, or THAAD, is seen at a golf course in Seongju, South Korea. On Monday, a major U.S.-South Korean military exercise will get underway in South Korea.
US ‘closer to war than ever before’
What's the football? And what's the biscuit? Trump has the US nuclear codes that, together with the Pentagon, could launch an ICBM in 5 minutes and start a nuclear war with North Korea, or anyone really. North Korean government launches the Hwasong-15 intercontinental ballistic missile, at an undisclosed location in North Korea.
Declassified by Eli Lake:
Despite doubling down on his rhetoric of "fire and fury" and deriding his predecessors for failed negotiations, Trump looks as if he wants to eventually strike a deal with the nation's tyrant, Kim Jong Un. Just look at what Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is doing.