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Accelerated North Korean Ballistic Missile Program Worries Congress, Military

Accelerated North Korean Ballistic Missile Program Worries Congress, Military

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un supervised a ballistic rocket-launching drill of Hwasong artillery units of the Strategic Force of the KPA on the spot in this undated photo released by North Korea’s Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on March 7, 2017. via Reuters

North Korea will “in a matter of time” have an intercontinental ballistic missile capable of carrying a nuclear weapon capable of reaching the United States; but as matters stand now, American defenses would destroy it before it reached its target. Read More

Officials: Multilateral Effort Needed to Curb North Korean Cyber, Nuclear Threat

Officials: Multilateral Effort Needed to Curb North Korean Cyber, Nuclear Threat

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un during a test-fire of a strategic submarine underwater ballistic missile in 2015. KCNA Photo

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un during a test-fire of a strategic submarine underwater ballistic missile in 2015. KCNA Photo

North Korea’s continued testing of nuclear weapons and expanded submarine-launched ballistic missiles threaten not only the South Korea, United States forces on the peninsula, and Japan but the global community, one of Seoul’s senior defense acquisition planners told a Washington forum Monday. Read More

U.S. Forces Korea Nominee: North Korea is 'Moving in the Wrong Direction'

U.S. Forces Korea Nominee: North Korea is ‘Moving in the Wrong Direction’

North Korean Infantry parade in Pyongyang. Korean Central News Agency Photo

North Korean Infantry parade in Pyongyang. Korean Central News Agency Photo

North Korea is “moving in the wrong direction” with its escalating approach to crisis on the peninsula and in the region while voicing threats of nuclear attack on the United States and its allies and partners, the Army four-star general nominated to take command of U.S. forces in Korea told the Senate Armed Services Committee on Tuesday. Read More