U.S. Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley said China must stop exporting crude to North Korea, or “we can take the oil situation into our own hands.” “The dictator of North Korea made a choice yesterday that brings the world closer to war, not farther from it,” Haley said. “We have never sought war with …
North Korea fired an unidentified ballistic missile from South Pyongan Province early Wednesday, South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said according to Yonhap News. The Pentagon said it believed it was an intercontinental ballistic missile that flew for about 1,000km (620 miles) and fell into the Sea of Japan. Brian WangBrian Wang is a Futurist …
Declassified documents on White House discussions on North Korea policy show the plans and approach have remained the same. * They considered military action but decided against it (Dick Cheney was the one who said military action should not be used against North Korea.) * Tighten economic sanctions * Try to work with South Korea …
Seven out of 11 U.S. nuclear aircraft carriers are underway simultaneously for the first time in several years, USNI News has learned. Three are on operational deployments in the Western Pacific with full air wings and carrier strike groups — USS Ronald Reagan (CVN-76), USS Nimitz (CVN-68) and USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71). Four more are …
The US has 3 aircraft groups in Indian Ocean area of the Asia Pacific. Approximately 300 Airmen and 12 F-35A Lightning IIs from Hill Air Force Base, Utah’s 34th Fighter Squadron are set to deploy to Kadena Air Base, Japan for a six month rotation. The aircraft and supporting personnel are scheduled to arrive at …
Marcus Weiberger at Defense One reports that the US Air Force is preparing to put nuclear-armed B52 bombers back on 24-hour ready alert, a status not seen since the Cold War ended in 1991. Gen. David Goldfein, Air Force chief of staff, and other senior defense officials stressed that the alert order had not been …
There is a lot of talk about a hypersonic weapons arms race to create missiles and then a decade later hypersonic drones and then a decade after that hypersonic spy planes and fighter planes. It will cost tens of billions to develop these weapons for the USA, China, Russia and other nations. However, the USA …
Michael J. Green and Matthew Kroenig put forward a plan that uses US economic and superior world position to put constant pressure on North Korea. 1. simultaneously refuse to recognize North Korea’s nuclear weapons while still planning for a serious deterrence policy 2. the Soviet Union was a peer competitor, but the United States enjoys …
North Korea has successfully produced a miniaturized nuclear warhead that can fit inside its missiles, crossing a key threshold on the path to becoming a full-fledged nuclear power, U.S. intelligence officials have concluded in a confidential assessment. The Defense Intelligence Agency analysis estimates that North Korea has up to 60 nuclear weapons. Some independent experts …
The US, Japan and South Korea have not killed North Koreans in the 21st century. Israel has killed about 170 North Koreans and injured 2000 in relations to nuclear weapons from an incident in 2004 and another in 2007. Note both actions occurred while George W Bush was president of the USA. Israel is 8000 …
Joe Cirincione makes the easonable case that the USA could not successfully shoot down the North Korean ICBMs. Joe Cirincione is president of Ploughshares Fund and the author of Nuclear Nightmares: Securing the World Before It Is Too Late. The North Korean missile was about 770 kilometers (475 miles) over Japan at the apogee of …