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Priyanka Boghani and Geoffrey CainMarch 12, 2013 09:56 SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea has threatened to "wipe out" a small South Korean island in the latest escalation of rhetoric on the Korean peninsula. Speaking during a visit to border artillery units on Monday, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un identified Baengnyeong Island as a priority…

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This weekend of missile tests from North Korea signals that 2023 will not be a quiet year and could reach levels of dissonance seen in 2022. These tests manifest active North Korea's active exercising of its missile attacks against the United States, Japan, and South Korea.

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.

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....

South Koreas military said Friday it will conduct its annual computer-simulated Taegeuk training next week to boost operational capabilities against threats from North Korea.

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.

The Ulchi Freedom Shield joint U.S.-South Korea (ROK) military exercise was held August 22-September 1, 2022. The China Military Online wrote about it, stating: "The Ulchi Freedom Shield exercise originates in the U.S.-ROK Ulchi-Focus Lens annual exercise in 1975, which was later renamed Ulchi-Freedom Guardian. It is one of the three annual joint exercises alongside the Foal Eagle and Key Resolve, the last two having been canceled now. In June 2018, as a token of goodwill to DPRK, ROK and t...