Nukes

The U.S. is tracking a suspected Chinese surveillance balloon that has been spotted over U.S. airspace for a couple days, but the Pentagon decided not to shoot it down due to risks of harm for people on the ground, officials said Thursday. The discovery of the balloon puts a further…

SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea said Thursday it’s prepared to counter U.S. military moves with the “most overwhelming nuclear force” as it warned that the expansion of the United States’ combined military exercises with rival South Korea is pushing tensions to an “extreme red line.” The statement by Pyongyang’s…

An inert Minuteman III missile is seen in a training launch tube at Minot Air Force Base, N.D., June 25, 2014. Nine military officers who had worked decades ago at a nuclear missile base in Montana, home to a vast field of 150 Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile silos, have…

A leading U.S. think tank has called for South Korea and the U.S. to start discussing the redeployment of U.S. tactical nuclear weapons on the Korean Peninsula. The Center for Strategic and International Studies in a report urges South Korea and the U.S. to "lay pre-decisional groundwork for possible redeployment…

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea’s spike in missile tests, growing nuclear ambitions and other provocative acts pose a “serious threat” that could lead to a dangerous miscalculation and spark a wider conflict, South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol said Tuesday. Speaking with The Associated Press at the presidential…

North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un ordered the “exponential” expansion of his country’s nuclear arsenal, the development of a more powerful intercontinental ballistic missile and the launch of Pyongyang's first spy satellite. In a report at the end of a key party meeting, Mr Kim said the country must "overwhelmingly beef…

By Hyonhee Shin and Joyce Lee SEOUL (Reuters) -North Korean leader Kim Jong Un called for developing new intercontinental ballistic missiles and a larger nuclear arsenal to counter U.S.-led threats, state media said on Sunday, amid flaring tension between the rival Koreas. At a meeting of the ruling Workers’ Party,…

SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea’s President Yoon Suk-yeol said on Sunday that North Korea will continue to conduct constant nuclear and missile provocations, and the South’s military should respond with clear retaliation, his office said. (Reporting by Hyonhee Shin; Editing by Kim Coghill) Read More

| Jan. 1, 2023, at 1:09 a.m. South Korea's Yoon Says North Korea Faces Retaliation for Provocations FILE PHOTO: South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol speaks at an interview with Reuters in Seoul, South Korea, November 28, 2022. REUTERS/Daewoung Kim/File PhotoReuters SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea's President Yoon Suk-yeol said on…

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un ordered the "exponential" expansion of his country's nuclear arsenal and the development of a new, more powerful intercontinental ballistic missile, state media reported Sunday, after he entered 2023 with another weapons test following a record number of missile firings last year. Kim's moves are in…