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North Korea said it held a 'strategic cruise missile launching drill', firing four Hwasal-2s.— AFP/fileSEOUL: North Korea said Friday it had fired cruise missiles and claimed that ramped-up US-South Korean military drills "can be regarded as a declaration of war". It came after the two allies conducted a tabletop exercise…

Last month, President Yoon Suk-yeol made an off-the-cuff remark during a press briefing to the effect that if the North Korean nuclear and missile threat grew much worse, South Korea could consider building its own nuclear weapons. He almost immediately conditioned the comment by reaffirming standing policy of retaining South…

WASHINGTON —  It seemed to be a scary example of bellicose warmongering foreshadowing a catastrophic escalation. But Russian President Vladimir Putin’s announcement this week that he was abandoning the last major nuclear arms control treaty may have been more symbolic than a threat of concrete action. Symbolic, but a mighty potent…

Russia will stick to agreed limits on nuclear missiles and keep informing the United States about changes in its deployments, a senior defense official said on Wednesday, despite the suspension of its last remaining arms control treaty with Washington. Both chambers of Russia’s parliament voted quickly in favour of suspending…

Express. Home of the Daily and Sunday Express. HOME News Showbiz & TV Sport Comment Finance Travel Entertainment Life & Style UK Politics Royal World US Science Weather Weird History Nature Sunday InYourArea All of Ukraine "will burn," according to a senior Russian official and Putin friend, if Kyiv employs…

To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video Vladimir Putin is set to unleash new hypersonic missiles – capable of reaching speeds of over 6,600mph. The ‘unstoppable’ Zircon missiles will be test-fired from a frigate during naval exercises off the…

The Pentagon is tracking a Chinese surveillance balloon that lingered at high altitude over the western US, home to sensitive sites including nuclear missile silos, injecting new strain into relations before a visit to Beijing by Secretary of State Antony Blinken. Author of the article: Bloomberg News Roxana Tiron and…

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…