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Drone images used in state media coverage of missile test
When North Korean media reported on the August 24 launch of missiles it included something we hadn’t seen before: drone photos. Until now all photos of North Korean launches have been taken at ground level but this time among the package released by KCNA were several taken from the air. And in images of Kim…
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Mystery North Korean radio broadcast highlights coded communications
A little after midnight, early on the morning of July 15, as most of the Korean peninsula slept, were North Korean spies up late listening to the radio? This was the big question after a strange sequence of numbers was read out on a North Korean radio station. It sounded a lot like the coded…
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THAAD deployment ‘at the earliest possible date’
Discussions between the U.S. and South Korea on deployment of a Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) missile system will begin as soon as this week towards deploying it “at the earliest possible date,” assuming an agreement is reached, the Department of Defense said on Monday. “We’d like to see this move as quickly as possible,…
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U.S. ‘positioned and ready’ in case of North Korean launch
The U.S. military is watching and stands ready to respond to any North Korean missile launch, Defense Secretary Ash Carter said in Nevada on Thursday. Speaking during a visit to Nellis Air Force Base, Carter said “With respect to our own surveillance, we will, as we always do, watch carefully. If there’s a launch, track the…
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Activity seen at east, west launch sites
A mobile launcher for a ballistic missile has been detected on the move in the eastern part of North Korea, Japan’s NHK television said Thursday. The report didn’t specify the precise area, but the region is home to the Tonghae launch site. Tonghae was North Korea’s first missile launch center and is often used to…
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U.S. tests redesigned missile defense interceptor
The U.S. military says a test last week of a redesigned missile interceptor rocket went well. The rocket was launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on Jan. 28 and performed scripted maneuvers intended to demonstrate the performance of redesigned divert thrusters on the missile warhead, the U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) said. The test involved an Air…
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US sanctions North Korea for Sony hack
The U.S. government has announced additional sanctions on North Korea as a result of the cyber-attack on Sony Pictures. The sanctions are the first official U.S. response to the attack, for which the investigation continues but North Korea has already been named responsible by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. In announcing the measures, President Obama said…
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US declassifies Pueblo incident narrative
The U.S. Air Force has declassified part of a history of the Pueblo incident, the 1968 capture of the electronics and signals intelligence ship U.S.S. Pueblo by North Korean forces. The document was prepared by the U.S. Air Force Security Service in April 1968 and provides a detailed narrative of the incident, with timings down…
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China detecting illegal border crossings with satellite
China is using a high-resolution earth observation satellite to detect illegal border crossings from the DPRK, Chinese state media reported on Monday. The Gaofen-1 satellite has been used to discover “about 10” such crossings both on the China-DPRK border and in the Xinjiang Uygur region of northwest China, said China Daily reported, quoting the China National Space…
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DPRK takes Ulchi war games protest to UN
North Korea has taken its protest of the Ulchi Freedom Guardian war games to the United Nations. Ja Song Nam, the DPRK’s ambassador to the U.N. sent a letter earlier this week to the president of the Security Council protesting the exercise, which is due to begin this weekend and involves thousands of troops in…
