Reuters: (Reuters) – Satellite images taken between January and this month show a North Korean nuclear reactor that can yield material for atomic bombs may be operating again at low power or intermittently, U.S. experts said on Wednesday. A report from David Albright and Serena Kelleher-Vergantini at Washington’s Institute for Science and International Security said… read more
Yonhap News: SEOUL, April 27 (Yonhap) — North Korea threatened on Monday to target the United States with its nuclear weapons, saying its front-line targets include the Pacific Ocean, not just South Korea. The communist party’s official newspaper, the Rodong Sinmun, said the North is ready to conduct nuclear attacks on U.S. soil. “North Korean… read more
Sputnik News: An Iskander-M missile unit of Russia’s Eastern Military District performed a computer-simulated launch of one of Russia’s most advanced rockets during a snap drill, the RMD’s press spokesman Alexander Gordeyev said Friday. “Members of a missile brigade of the Eastern Military District deployed Iskander-M missile complexes at the Bidzhan test range and performed electronically simulated launches… read more
Jerusalem Post: MOSCOW – Supplying Iran with Russian S-300 missile defense systems is not a matter of the nearest future, TASS news agency quoted a Foreign Ministry official as saying on Thursday. “It is more important that a political and legal decision, which opens up such a possibility, is taken,” Sergei Ryabkov, a deputy foreign… read more
MarketWatch: Until recently, the reliability of North Korea’s missiles was so sketchy that the country’s arsenal had little use other than to serve as a punchline. But it appears that within the past few years, the country has made significant strides and may now have the capability to hit the U.S. mainland with a nuclear-enabled… read more
PolitiFact: Everyone’s been talking about the potential nuclear deal with Iran. Largely absent in the discussion, however, is the question of whether Iran could actually aim one at the United States’ homeland. During a recent gathering of potential Republican presidential candidates in in New Hampshire, Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., took that issue head-on. “Iran is… read more
Wall Street Journal: China’s top nuclear experts have increased their estimates of North Korea’s nuclear weapons production well beyond most previous U.S. figures, suggesting Pyongyang can make enough warheads to threaten regional security for the U.S. and its allies. The latest Chinese estimates, relayed in a closed-door meeting with U.S. nuclear specialists, showed that North… read more
Defense News: WASHINGTON — A House bill would restrict the Pentagon’s ability to purchase space launch services from Russian companies, while seeking to shore up missile defenses in Europe and at home. The House Armed Services Committee’s Strategic Forces subpanel on Wednesday released its version of the 2016 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), and it… read more
The National Interest: Russia has doubled the number of S-400 air defense system it deploys in its far east region as part of a larger military buildup in the region. Reports in Russian state-media, citing the Russian Defense Ministry, say that Moscow has deployed yet another S-400 missile defense system to the Kamchatka Peninsula; according… read more
Council on Foreign Relations: It’s been widely reported that Russian President Vladimir Putin has decided to sell the Russian-made S-300 missile system to Iran. This sale has been planned for years, but it was put on hold in 2010 when the U.N. Security Council adopted Resolution 1929. Although this resolution did not specifically prohibit the… read more