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A US Navy aircraft carrier, the Ronald Reagan, is conducting drills with a Japanese warship in waters around Okinawa southwest of the Korean peninsula, Japan’s military said on Wednesday.
The exercise comes amid heightened tension with North Korea as the US holds air drills in the region with B-1B bombers flown from Guam.
Former US Secretary of Defence Robert Gates, who served for nearly five years during the George W. Bush and Barack Obama administrations, said on Monday that “at a number of different points I have to confess in reading the President’s tweets that I wish Twitter had never been invented.”
While the rest of the world seems jittery about the North Korean nuclear threat, next door neighbour South Korea seems to be holding on to its composure.
By now, South Koreans are used to threats from North Korea and rhetoric from the West and seem to be unfazed by the possibility of a strike on their mainland by the North. Air riad shelters built in Seoul seldom see people coming in. Read the full story here.
US President Donald Trump has reportedly sent USS Tuscon, one of the country's nuclear powered submarines, to the Korean Peninsula.
According to the Pacific Command, the submarine made a port call in Jinhae on Saturday.
After Russian lawmaker Anton Morozov from his visit of North Korea recently, he confirmed that the rogue nation is planning yet another missile launch. The missile it plans to test is a long-range one that can possibly hit the west coast of the United States.
“They are preparing for new tests of a long-range missile. They even gave us mathematical calculations that they believe prove that their missile can hit the west coast of the United States,” Morozov was quoted as saying by a Russian news agency.
The South Korean and US militaries recently spotted about 30 Scud rockets being moved from Hwangju, south of the capital Pyongyang, to a missile maintenance facility in the western coastal city of Nampo, the Asia Business Daily report said, citing unnamed sources.
North Korea is preparing to fire multiple short-range rockets around the opening of the Chinese Communist Party’s twice-a-decade congress on October 18, South Korea's Asia Business Daily has reported.
New Zealand aircraft manufacturer Pacific Aerospace has plead guilty in a New Zealand court to indirectly exporting aircraft parts to North Korea, in breach of 2006 United Nations sanctions, according to Fairfax Media.
Former US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Tuesday urged President Trump to be careful with his rhetoric on North Korea, adding that he should let diplomacy help temper the tensions between the two countries, The Hill reported.
A news report by Interfax news agency yesterday said that North Korean officials told Russian lawmaker Anton Morozov that the rogue nation currently possess a ballistic missile with a range of 3,000 km.North Korea is planning to increase the range of its missiles to 9,000 km through a modernisation program, Morozov had said after visiting Pyongyang between October 2 and October 6.
The Pentagon has reportedly refused to confirm or deny reports of a North Korean cyber attack.
A report by Bloomberg said that the North Korean hack of US-South Korean war plans last year included a highly classified "decapitation strike" against North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.
University of Hawaii administrators have warned all students to be ready for a nuclear attack from North Korea, sending out a campus-wide email Monday explaining what to do if Kim Jong-un launches an attack.
"In light of concerns about North Korea missile tests, state and federal agencies are providing information about nuclear threats and what to do in the unlikely event of a nuclear attack and radiation emergency," the email read.
Crew aboard the US missile cruiser USS Shiloh have reportedly developed a morale problem. A report by Navy Times said that three command climate surveys conducted on the ship revealed that the sailors aboard the vessel hate their jobs.
"It’s only a matter of time before something horrible happens," one shipmate was quoted as saying.
"I just pray we never have to shoot down a missile from North Korea,” another distraught sailor said, “because then our ineffectiveness will really show."
China has once again called on the US to calm down with the threats of military action against North Korea.
Chinese state mouthpiece People's Daily carried an editorial on Tuesday that urged the two nations to "cool it". "War on the Korean Peninsula would be catastrophic, and dialogue remains the best option," the Communist Party-owned newspaper said.
On the surface, it appears as if US and North Korea are locked in a seemingly endless war of words and some believe it will never result in anything more. However, the two countries have privately ramped up their digital aggression against each other.
North Korean hackers are rampaging networks around the globe and according to some media reports, they are targeting cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin. On its part, the US has a team of its own experts targeting the systems used by these hackers.
However, experts have suggested that in this particular cyber war, North Korea has an advantage. Read the full story here to learn more.
Cybersecurity company FireEye has said in a new report to private clients that hackers linked to North Korea recently targeted US electric power companies with spearphishing emails, NBC News reported after exclusively obtaining the report.
The emails used fake invitations to a fundraiser to target victims, FireEye said. A victim who downloaded the invitation attached to the email would also be downloading malware into his or her computer network, according to the FireEye report.
North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un has alleged that the US Central Intelligence Agency tried to assassinate him this week.
Pyongyang's Korea Central News Agency accused the CIA of attempting to kill the North Korean head of state with a biological or chemical attack on Monday, Russian news agency Sputnik reported.
According to KCNA, the alleged murder plot "shows the true nature of the US as the main culprit behind terrorism."
It will take North Korea four to five years to be capable of striking cities on the US mainland and less than three years to reach nuclear bases in the Asia-Pacific, retired senior Russian General Viktor Yesin said on Tuesday. Read the full story on RT.
The paragliders’ goal is reportedly to take over the ROK-US Combined Forces Command. Their exercises are using a replica of the command, which is unusual in the North's military training, according to South Korean authorities.
South Korea's National Defense Committee, Ministry of National Defense and Joint Chiefs of Staff revealed on Tuesday that the North is using paragliding troops in an ongoing military exercise.
The new tactic comes in the face of continuing military exercises between South Korea and the United States.
South Korea's Yonhap news agency has reported that US President Donald Trump is considering a visit to the demilitarised zone (DMZ), which has separated the two Koreas since the end of their 1950-53 war, during his forthcoming trip to South Korea.
Rhee, who belongs to the ruling Democratic Party and sits on the Defense Committee, told CNN on Tuesday that he received information about the alleged hacking from the Defense Ministry.
He said the documents stolen included the South Korea-US wartime operational plan and a document that includes procedures to "decapitate" the North Korean leadership.
About 235 GB worth of military data was stolen by the hackers, Rhee said.
North Korean hackers allegedly stole classified military documents from a South Korean Defense Ministry database in September 2016, according to Rhee Cheol-hee, a member of South Korea's National Assembly.
The port bans were enacted under UN Security Council Resolution 2375, which was passed last month after North Korea test-fired a missile that flew over Japan.
It is the first time the United Nations Security Council 1718 Committee, which oversees sanctions imposed by the Security Council on North Korea, has designated ships for port bans, according to Griffiths.
The United Nations has slapped a global port ban on four ships for their dealings with North Korea, including one that was caught smuggling 30,000 North Korean-made rocket-propelled grenades in 2016, CNN reported.
After entering South Korean airspace, the two bombers carried out air-to-ground missile drills in waters off the east coast of South Korea, then flew over the South to waters between it and China to repeat the drill.
The two US B-1B bombers that flew from Guam were joined by two F-15K fighters from the South Korean military, South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a statement on Wednesday.
The US flew some of its powerful B-1B bomber aircraft from its base in Guam to the Korean Peninsula for joint exercises with the South Korean Air Force late Tuesday as President Donald Trump met with top defence officials to discuss how to respond to any threat from North Korea.