Nukes

Speed Reads Cigarette giant was accused of indirectly funding Pyongyang’s nuclear weapons programme The world’s second-largest tobacco company has agreed to pay $635m (£510m) in fines plus interest after a subsidiary admitted violating sanctions by selling cigarettes to North Korea. The US had imposed “severe sanctions” on North Korea in recent…

President Joe Biden and South Korea's President Yoon Suk Yeol stand as their two country's national anthems are played during a State Arrival Ceremony on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Washington, Wednesday, April 26, 2023. AP PHOTO WASHINGTON, D.C.: President Joe Biden and South Korea's Yoon…

 For the first time since the 1980s a US Navy nuclear-armed ballistic missile submarine (SSBN) will visit South Korea to help demonstrate Washington's resolve to protect the country from a North Korean attack. The visit was announced in a joint declaration during a summit between South Korean President Yoon Suk…

President Joe Biden and South Korea's President Yoon Suk Yeol. Photo / AP President Joe Biden and South Korea’s Yoon Suk Yeol unveiled a new plan Wednesday to counter North Korea’s nuclear threat, with the US leader issuing a blunt warning that such an attack would “result in the end…

By RNZ A new report has revealed Tonga’s underwater volcano disaster triggered waves up to 90 metres high. The University of Miami and the Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation report states the eruption of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai Volcano last year was more powerful than the largest US nuclear…

Topline Florida Governor Ron DeSantis on Wednesday met South Korean officials in Seoul to discuss trade, nuclear weapons and strengthening ties with the U.S. on the second stage of a foreign trip widely viewed as an effort to bolster his diplomatic credentials ahead of an expected presidential run. Florida Governor…

• Be onboard a WWII submarine when, all of sudden, they spot a torpedo heading directly for them. • Be onboard a missile carrying nuclear submarine when they get the order to go to Battle Stations Missile. What goes through their mind – is their world about to end as…

HEAVY ORDNANCE This picture taken on April 13, 2023, and released by North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on April 14 shows the new Hwasongpho-18 ICBM at an undisclosed location in North Korea. North Korea said on Friday, April 14, 2023, it had successfully tested a solid-fuel intercontinental…

published : 14 Apr 2023 at 06:45 People in Seoul watch file footage of a North Korean missile test after Pyongyang launched a ballistic missile Thursday morning. SEOUL (SOUTH KOREA) - North Korea said Friday it had successfully tested a solid-fuel intercontinental ballistic missile, which state media hailed as a…

The Kremlin says it has successfully test-launched a new intercontinental ballistic missile, striking a target at a firing range in Kazakhstan only weeks after Russia said it was suspending its observance of the New START accord, the last remaining nuclear arms control agreement with the U.S. On Tuesday, a crew…