The Straits Times: SEOUL (THE KOREA HERALD/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) – North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Saturday (Sept 16) declared the intermediate-range Hwasong-12 missile operationally ready, a day after test-firing it at a normal angle over Japan’s northern island of Hokkaido. This is the missile with which the communist regime had earlier threatened to… read more
NHK World: Japan’s Defense Ministry says it will deploy a missile interceptor, known as PAC3, at a Ground Self-Defense Force post in Hokkaido, northern Japan, as early as Tuesday. The move comes after 2 North Korean ballistic missiles flew over Hokkaido. North Korea test-fired a Hwasong-12 intermediate-range ballistic missile on August 29th and another missile… read more
Washington Examiner: With President Trump pledging to spend billions more on missile defense in the wake of North Korea’s continued defiance, familiar battle lines are being drawn between advocates of strengthening U.S. missile defenses and critics who claim the current system is pie in the sky. After meeting with his national security team in Bedminster,… read more
Reuters: North Korea fired a second missile over Japan far out into the Pacific Ocean on Friday, South Korean and Japanese officials said, deepening tension after Pyongyang’s recent test of its sixth and most powerful nuclear bomb. The U.N. Security Council was to meet later in the day to discuss the launch at the request… read more
The New York Times: North Korea fired another ballistic missile over Japan on Friday, a direct challenge to the United States and China just days after a new sanctions resolution adopted by the United Nations Security Council that was intended to force the country to halt its accelerating nuclear and missile tests. The missile was… read more
The Wall Street Journal: The Trump administration extended U.S. sanctions relief to Iran as part of its 2015 nuclear agreement, senior U.S. officials said Thursday, but levied new punitive measures over Tehran’s ballistic missile program, cyberattacks and terrorism support. Administration officials announced the decisions simultaneously, moving to keep a modicum of economic pressure on Iran… read more
Russia Today: Several new missile types have been developed for Russia’s cutting-edge Iskander-M tactical ballistic missile complex according to its chief designer. The Defense Ministry has considered adopting the new missiles to enhance the system. While the Army currently operates the missiles (approved in 2011), the development continues and the complex “constantly evolves,” Valeriy Kashin,… read more
Russia Today: The Russian Ministry of Defense has released a video featuring the launch of Kalibr cruise missiles from its submarines in the Mediterranean Sea. The video shows the moment the Kalibr missiles were launched from Russia’s ‘Velikiy Novgorod’ and ‘Kolpino’ submarines based in the eastern Mediterranean on Thursday. Seven missiles hit all the planned… read more
The Hill: Over the weekend, NATO General Secretary Jens Stoltenberg reportedly said North Korea’s nuclear program “is a global threat and requires a global response.” Stoltenberg declined to say whether an attack on Guam would trigger Article 5, NATO’s collective defense pact, which says that an attack against one member is considered an attack against… read more
Japan Today: Japan’s Maritime Self-Defense Force is supplying fuel to U.S. ballistic missile defense (BMD) ships in the Sea of Japan, in a sign of deepening co-operation between the allies amid the growing threat from North Korea, a source said. By providing fuel to the U.S. Aegis destroyers as well as its own BMD ships,… read more
