Tag: Japan

The North Korean government launched an intermediate-range missile that flew over Japan in its longest-ever flight on Friday, showing that leader Kim Jong Un is defiantly pushing to bolster his weapons programs despite U.S.-led international pressure.
(Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP, File)

National Security

North Korea missile test shows it can hit Guam

Pete Kasperowicz · September 15, 2017 11:44 am

North Korea has conducted multiple missile tests this summer. (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP, File)

National Security

North Korea fires missile over Japan

Diana Stancy Correll · September 14, 2017 10:28 pm

McCain also implored for better relations between the U.S. with Japan and South Korea. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

John McCain: Kim Jong Un needs to know the price of aggression ‘will be extinction’

Naomi Lim · September 10, 2017 3:30 pm

A review by the Government Accountability Office has found widespread, systemic problems in the U.S. Navy ships that are based in foreign ports, which it says has resulted in "declining ship conditions and a worsening trend in overall readiness." (Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Peter Burghart/U.S. Navy photo via AP)

National Security

Navy ships plagued by overworked, undertrained crews, GAO finds

Jamie McIntyre · September 6, 2017 8:05 pm

National Security

White House warns U.S. will use its ‘nuclear capability’ if North Korea attacks an ally

Kyle Feldscher · September 3, 2017 10:11 pm

Visitors walk by the map of South Korea and North Korea at the Imjingak Pavilion in Paju, South Korea, Sunday, Sept. 3, 2017. North Korea says it has detonated a thermonuclear weapon at an underground testing facility in its sixth and most powerful nuclear test to date. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

UN Security Council to meet on North Korea nuclear threat

Steven Nelson · September 3, 2017 7:09 pm

An earthquake near North Korea's nuclear test sight was detected Sunday, raising concerns that Kim Jong Un's regime had conducted its sixth nuclear weapons test. (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP)

National Security

Earthquake detected in North Korea feared to be result of nuclear test

Robert King, Daniel Chaitin · September 3, 2017 4:24 am

President Trump, alongside his wife Melania, and members of his Cabinet, greeted, consoled, took selfies with, and even doled out supplies to victims of the storm in Houston. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

National Security

Trump acts as consoler-in-chief to Harvey victims while staying focused on North Korea threat

Daniel Chaitin · September 3, 2017 2:23 am

People fill the square of the main railway station to watch a televised news broadcast of the test-fire of an inter-continental ballistic rocket Hwasong-12, Wednesday, August 30, 2017, in Pyongyang, North Korea. (AP Photo/Kim Kwang Hyon)

Beltway Confidential

Trump’s terrible options on North Korea

Daniel DePetris · August 31, 2017 8:12 pm

A dozen U.S., South Korean and Japanese military aircraft flew over Japan and South Korea on Wednesday and conducted live-fire bombing runs in a show of force to North Korea.

National Security

Photos: Fighter jets and bombers conduct show of force, live-fire training near North Korea

David Brown · August 31, 2017 2:33 pm

A giant North Korean flag, center, atop a 160-meter (525-foot) tower in North Korea, flutters in the wind, seen from Paju, South Korea, Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2017. In a first, North Korea on Tuesday fired a midrange ballistic missile designed to carry a nuclear payload that flew over Japan and splashed into the northern Pacific Ocean, officials said. The aggressive missile launch -- likely the longest ever from the North -- over the territory of a close U.S. ally sends a clear message of defiance as Washington and Seoul conduct war games nearby. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

North Korea says missile test over Japan was ‘meaningful prelude to containing Guam’

Anna Giaritelli · August 29, 2017 11:35 pm

North Korean tyrant Kim Jong Un has blunted American optimism that he might be willing to trim his ballistic saber rattling. It is clear that further U.S. action is required to force him into constructive diplomacy. The time has come for the Trump administration to take action. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon, File)

It’s time to shoot down North Korean missiles

Washington Examiner · August 29, 2017 10:50 pm