North Korea’s belligerent threats, claims of military supremacy, and claims of an official ideology based on independence and personal achievement are difficult to square with the endless series of horrifying blunders by the regime in Pyongyang.
North Korea’s international charm offensive continued on Monday with a statement from the official Korean Central News Agency promising that Japan will be swiftly covered by “nuclear clouds” and “engulfed in flames” if a war breaks out.
On Thursday, North Korea’s Foreign Minister Ri Yong-ho said his nation may soon conduct a hydrogen bomb test over the Pacific Ocean.
Responding to North Korea’s latest missile launch, which once again sent an ICBM soaring over Japan, White House National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster said on Friday: “We’ve been kicking the can down the road, and we’re out of road. So for those who have said and have been commenting about the lack of a military option, there is a military option.”
North Korea’s latest round of belligerent rhetoric comes from the amusingly named Korea Asia-Pacific Peace Committee, a Pyongyang propaganda outfit that threatened genocide against Japan, continental devastation for the United States, and ruination for the U.N. Security Council in its Thursday dispatch.
South Korea put on a tremendous show of military force in a set of live-fire drills on Monday, as South Korean intelligence reported signs of activity at North Korean launch sites, possibly indicating more provocative missile launches are coming soon.
North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un once again threatened American military and civilians on the island of Guam on Tuesday, describing his outrageous launch of a missile over Japan as a “meaningful prelude to containing Guam, an advanced base of invasion.”
Center for Security Policy President Frank Gaffney joined SiriusXM host Alex Marlow on Tuesday’s Breitbart News Daily to talk about Secretary of Defense James Mattis apparently overriding President Trump’s policy on transgender soldiers, Antifa violence, the crisis in North Korea, and China’s hegemonic ambitions.
Leaders around the world, prominently including U.S. President Donald Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, vowed to bring increased pressure to bear against North Korea after its reckless launch of a ballistic missile over Japanese territory on Monday afternoon. The question, as always, is exactly what kind of pressure can be applied, especially if China does not agree to punish its feral client regime more harshly.
The turbulent relationship between the Trump administration and China might be about to take another surprising turn, as Reuters quotes diplomats who say a deal for stronger sanctions against North Korea may have been quietly struck.
The U.S. military carried out a “successful” test of the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense system (THAAD) anti-missile system off the coast of Alaska Sunday, according to the U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA).
China had denied President Donald Trump’s accusation that it has not done enough to curb North Korea’s nuclear missile program, while Japan voiced support for Trump’s position and called upon China and Russia to do more.
U.S. defense officials told CNN on Monday that North Korea “appears to be preparing for another missile test,” possibly timed to coincide with North Korea’s armistice holiday on Thursday, July 27.
Former Republican congressman and Army Lt. Colonel Allen West discussed the situation in North Korea on Breitbart News Radio with host Curt Schilling on Friday’s edition of Whatever It Takes.
President Donald Trump met with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and President Moon Jae-in of South Korea ahead of the G20 summit in Hamburg, Germany on Friday. The three leaders issued a joint statement on “the serious and escalating threat posed by the nuclear and ballistic missile programs of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.”
On Friday’s Breitbart News Daily, SiriusXM host Alex Marlow asked former Breitbart News National Security editor, Dr. Sebastian Gorka, now deputy assistant to President Trump, about North Korea’s test launch of what appears to be its first true intercontinental ballistic missile.
Former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton talked about North Korea’s Fourth of July missile test launch on Thursday’s edition of Breitbart News Daily with SiriusXM host Alex Marlow.
South Korea’s Yonhap news service reported on Wednesday that North Korea made a very tentative and conditional offer to discuss a ban on nuclear and ballistic missile testing.
A joint military exercise between the United States and Japan began in the Sea of Japan on Thursday amid tensions caused by North Korean missile launches and a possible upcoming nuclear test.
In the wake of North Korea’s latest missile test, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said North Korea is “a top priority for the international community,” and his country would work with the United States to “take specific action to deter” the outlaw regime.
It has long been obvious that North Korea shares missile technology with Iran, but Fox News reports the Pentagon is investigating military ties between the two belligerent nations with increased vigor after Iran’s recent test launch of a submarine missile.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe stressed the importance of peaceful diplomacy to resolve the North Korean crisis on Monday, but he added that mere dialogue would be “meaningless.”
North Korea launched another ballistic missile on Wednesday morning – or at least they tried to, since the Pentagon is now judging the test a failure, because the missile did not reach Japanese waters. Fox News quotes a U.S. official saying the missile might have “pinwheeled in flight.”
On Friday’s Breitbart News Daily, presidential adviser Dr. Sebastian Gorka talked about Asia policy with SiriusXM host Alex Marlow, taking an especially firm stand against China’s effort to claim dominion over the entire South China Sea.
North Korea’s latest attempt to test a missile failed on Wednesday, with the rocket exploding “within seconds of launch,” according to the U.S. Pacific Command.
At a joint news conference with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Saturday night, held shortly after North Korea’s surprise test launch of a medium-range ballistic missile, President Donald Trump declared: “I just want everybody to understand, and fully know, that the United States of America is behind Japan, our great ally, one hundred percent.”
A day after apparently scrubbing the test launch of a Safir missile, viewed by analysts as a test vehicle for intercontinental ballistic missile technology, Iran launched a short-range surface-to-air rocket from the same Semnan facility.
Iran’s Defense Minister Hossein Dehghan issued a statement to Iranian state media confirming the recent test of a ballistic missile, and claiming the test did not violate the nuclear deal.
Ukraine’s missile tests in the Black Sea have reportedly prompted Russian forces to go on “high alert.” Kiev proceeded with the tests despite Russian threats to shoot the missiles down.
North Korea made another attempt to launch a mid-range missile on Thursday and, like the previous effort a few weeks ago, the missile appears to have crashed shortly after takeoff.
North Korea attempted yet another failed missile launch Saturday, this time of an allegedly submarine-launched ballistic missile. The news follows promises from Pyongyang that a new submarine is in development.
The annual threat assessment from Director of National Security James Clapper included some grim news about North Korea, which is evidently restarting its plutonium production reactor at Yongbyon, and has developed missile technology that can reach any part of the continental United States.
North Korea has notified the International Maritime Organization of the United Nations that it plans to launch a satellite sometime between February 8 and February 25. The announcement was not well-received, as it is widely suspected the “satellite launch” will actually be cover for long-range ballistic missile testing.
