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Global attention has been focused so intently on the Russia-Ukraine conflict that North Korea’s recent ICBM-related test—its first since 2017—didn’t grab many headlines. Yet it led the United States to increase surveillance activities and missile defense readiness.

Evidence suggests that the U.S. Army took precautions to shoot the missile down.

North Korea’s nuclear, missile, and conventional forces are a formidable threat to the United States and its allies in northeast Asia. Pyongyang’s history of provocation and intimidation is a consistent indicator of the regime’s intent to achieve its political objectives through the threat or execution of force.

Finding common ground on homeland missile defense Robert Soofer 1 hour ago A Ground-based Interceptor is launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., on March 25, 2019, in the first-ever salvo engagement test of a threat-representative ICBM target. (Courtesy of the U.S. Missile Defense Agency) The U.S. Defense Department has approved the Next Generation Interceptor project to proceed. This is a welcome signal that the Biden administration intends to counter North Korea’s nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programs, strengthen U.S. alliances by increasing the credibility of o...

Why America needs a layered homeland missile defense Vic Mercado January 19 An animation from the U.S. Missile Defense Agency shows the steps involved in intercepting and destroying and intercontinental ballistic missile. Earlier this week, during the 8th congress of the Workers’ Party in Pyongyang, North Korea, as reported by North Korea’s Central News Agency, Kim Jong Un referred to the U.S. as “our biggest enemy” and outlined plans to upgrade the country’s nuclear forces, develop hypersonic weapons and solid-fuel intercontinental ballistic missiles, and build the ability ...