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Cipher Brief Senior National Security Columnist Walter Pincus: U.S. and South Korea are back to pre-Trump drawing table on North Korea

The U.S. and South Korea will step up joint field exercises and bolster joint capabilities to deter and respond to North Korean nuclear and missile threats, the defense chiefs of both countries said on Tuesday. In a joint statement, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and South Korea Minister of National Defense Lee Jong-Sup condemned North […]

As the Pentagon gears up to support Ukraine in a potential counteroffensive against Russian forces, the Biden administration plans to make a public announcement regarding a $2.5 billion military aid package.

The security situation on the Korean Peninsula is likely to return to the 2017 days of “fire and fury” when the United States and North Korea came closer to war or get even worse as Pyongyang is set to take aggressive actions against South Korea by expanding its nuclear arsenal, according to a Seoul-based think tank.

Seoul, Dec 21 (EFE).- South Korea and the United States will expand the scale and variety of their military exercises and seek to recreate more “realistic” situations during the first half of 2023 in the face of advancing North Korean weapons programs, the defense ministry at Seoul said Wednesday. In the first six months of …

South Korea and the United States plan to craft

North Korea praised its achievements in its missile and nuclear programs this year, Wednesday, while strengthening its anti-American sentiment. According to an article in the Rodong Sinmun, the official media outlet of the ruling Workers Party, North Korea got off to a strong start in 2022 with the test-firing of a hypersonic missile, followed by months of other shocking developments including the launch of the Hwasong-17 intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), its strongest strategic weapon....

To finally abolish the long-standing North Korean nuclear threat, President Donald Trump eschewed the usual “bottom up” diplomatic approach in which negotiators arduously hammer out a complicated and detailed agreement before opposing leaders meet at a flashy summit. Instead, President Trump adopted a “top down” approach in which he and Kim Jong-un met in their first summit to establish a personal relationship and jump-start negotiations. However, to date, President Trump has been no mor...

Kim Jong-un is in control of North Korea, the world’s most volatile nuclear power. If North Korea chooses to continue its aggressive policies, Washington and allies should be prepared to enact a list of policies designed to diminish the North Korean threat

The number of joint military exercises staged by the U.S. and the south Korean puppets from 1954 to 2013 is approximately 18 000, counting only those open to the media.