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North Korea forms new research center focused on “hypersonic missiles”
The center has been ordered to conduct “full-fledged development of hypersonic guided missiles and shipboard laser weapons,” a source told Daily NK
2021.01.06 2:41pm
As part of the country’s efforts to develop cutting-edge weapons, North Korea has recently opened a new research center under the Academy of National Defense Science to study hypersonic missiles, Daily NK has learned.
Able to travel at over Mach 5, hypersonic missiles are a next-generation weapon that can theoretically hit any place on the planet within three hours.
Unlike conventional ballistic missiles, hypersonic missiles do not follow a simple ballistic trajectory. Accordingly, military experts count them among the major weapons that will change the face of future warfare.
China s role vital in preventing provocation, resuming diplomacy with North Korea
Posted : 2021-01-06 13:45
Updated : 2021-01-06 18:35
President Moon Jae-in looks at a gift from Chinese President Xi Jinping during his visit to Beijing in December 2017. Courtesy of Cheong Wa Dae
Xi s visit to Korea unlikely during Moon s presidency
By Do Je-hae
President Moon Jae-in has paid a lot of attention to improving relations with China through an active summit diplomacy with Chinese President Xi Jinping, following the bilateral dispute over the deployment of a U.S. missile defense system ― the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system ― on Korean soil during his predecessor Park Geun-hye s term.
The Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force s Aegis-equipped destroyer Maya
KUALA LUMPUR – The Japan Maritime Self Defence Force (JMSDF), the world’s fourth-largest navy, has been patrolling the waters off the coast of Somalia and the Gulf of Aden in Africa for the past 10 years to protect Japan-affiliated vessels along this vital sea lane from acts of piracy.
However, there is a role that Malaysia plays in facilitating the deployment of JMSDF personnel that Japan is always thankful for this year alone the servicemen made five transit stopovers at KLIA and Subang Air Base here on their way to their African missions as well as transiting here en route back home at the end of their three-month stints.
US Air Force/Samuel King Jr.
The devastating use of drones during the recent war between Armenia and Azerbaijan highlighted how modern aerial threats, such as drones, have evolved in recent years.
This is a particular problem for the US Army, which shrunk its air-defense arsenal after the Cold War and is now trying to rebuild it to counter new and emerging threats.
The recent six-week war between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the disputed Karabakh region left nearly 6,000 troops and civilians from bothsides dead and hundreds of pieces of military hardware destroyed.
Azeri drones caused much of that destruction. Hours of drone footage showed devastating precision strikes against Armenian targets and reignited debate about the future of the tank.