North Korea fired cruise missiles toward the East Sea on Wednesday in the morning hours. The latest salvo of North Korea’s saber-rattling notably came hours before a US amphibious assault ship, USS Makin Island, arrived in South Korea for the first time to participate in large-scale combined amphibious drills between the allies. The South Korean military detected North Korea firing “several crui...

The South Korean unification minister will visit Japan at the official invitation of the Japanese government to discuss ways to enhance coordination on North Korean issues, including North Korean abductions of South Korean and Japanese people. Unification Minister Kwon Young-se is scheduled to meet Japanese government officials and lawmakers during his four-day trip to Japan that begins Wednesda...

North Korea fired a total of 12 ballistic and cruise missiles, including one intercontinental ballistic missile, across five discrete launches within 11 days from March 9 through Sunday to protest the largest military exercises that South Korea and the US have staged in years in light of escalating North Korean threats. North Korea labeled the missile launches as live-fire drills to enhance the ...

North Korean state media also notably released photos of Earth likely taken from the Hwasong-17 in space. Experts pointed out that the photos suggest the possibility of North Korea utilizing the Hwasong-17 ICBM launch as a groundwork to prepare to launch its first military reconnaissance satellite. Pyongyang claimed that it conducted a “final-stage” test to develop a military spy satellite in D...

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol on Thursday said he has pledged to “normalize” the military intelligence-sharing pact between South Korea and Japan during the summit meeting with his Japanese counterpart Fumio Kishida. The pact had been enmeshed in trade and historic disputes. Yoon said he “pronounced the complete normalization” of the General Security of Military Information Agreement, or ...

North Korea fired a long-range ballistic missile on Thursday morning, hours before a summit in Tokyo between the leaders of South Korea and Japan aimed at mending years of strained ties over historic disputes and enhancing security cooperation. The South Korean military said the launch of the intercontinental ballistic missile, ICBM, was planned and intended to express North Korea’s “strong diss...

The presidential office has convened a National Security Council meeting after North Korea launched an intercontinental ballistic missile Thursday morning in the run-up to the summit between South Korean and Japanese leaders. South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol attended the meeting and was briefed on the ICBM launch by the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Kim Seung-kyum, the South Kor...

But North Korea fired a total of 10 ballistic and cruise missiles in three discrete launches from March 9 to Tuesday in apparent protest of the revival of the theater-level field training exercises, after a five-year hiatus. North Korea launched two ballistic missiles from the area of Jangyon County, South Hwanghae Province, toward waters off its east coast on Tuesday morning, according to the S...

North Korea fired two ballistic missiles toward waters off its east coast on Tuesday, marking its third missile launch in just six days as South Korea and the United States entered the second day of the largest combined military exercise in years. The two short-range ballistic missiles were launched from the area of Jangyon County, South Hwanghae Province, from 7:41 to 7:51 a.m. local time, acco...

On the first day of Freedom Shield, North Korean state media reported that the country fired two submarine-launched cruise missiles or SLCMs for the first time early Sunday, in waters off Kyongpho Bay in the East Sea, in an apparent move to begin a widely expected spate of military actions. North Korea has threatened to take tit-for-tat actions against annual springtime military exercises betwee...

North Korea has determined significant, practical steps to offensively use its “war deterrent” at a key military meeting in the run-up to the longest-running military exercise between South Korea and the United States. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un convened an enlarged meeting of the eighth Central Military Commission of the Workers’ Party of Korea, North Korean state media reported on Sunday ...

Two-pronged propaganda approach North Korea also strongly demanded the US and South Korea “immediately stop military hostile acts that undermine peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula” in a separate press statement issued on Tuesday under the unnamed chief of the foreign news section of the Department of Press and Information of North Korea’s Foreign Ministry. “If the dangerous military pr...

The US Congress has urged the US Defense Department to take immediate measures to fix more than 1,000 errors on the Washington memorial wall erected to remember service members and Korean augmentees killed during the Korean War. Six bipartisan lawmakers, including chair of the House Committee on Armed Services Mike Rogers, on March 2 sent a letter to US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin. “We fi...

South Korea’s Defense Ministry on Monday announced a new food service modernization program for this year that meets more of soldiers’ preferences, so that they could enjoy more varied options at barracks starting from the next month. The new plan seeks to end the previous military policy of providing meals to around 500,000 enlisted soldiers based on standardized menus and ingredients that were...

South Korea’s Defense Ministry on Friday announced its plan to develop a new anti-missile approach to destroy North Korean missiles before liftoff under the Yoon Suk Yeol government’s new defense reform initiative. The military underscored that its “top priority is to develop reliable deterrence and response capabilities to North Korean nuclear and missile threats which are currently one of the ...