DefenceTalkNorth Korean leader Kim Jong Un personally oversaw the successful test of the country’s newest intercontinental ballistic missile, state media reported Thursday, days after Pyongyang threatened to down any US spy planes that enter its airspace. A beaming Kim, flanked by his wife and key aides, was shown in state media images applauding enthusiastically after […]https://www.defencetalk.com/north-korea-says-conducted-new-test-of-solid-fuel-icbm-80041/

DefenceTalkNorth Korea said Thursday it has successfully tested the Hwasong-18, its new solid-fuel intercontinental ballistic missile, for the second time. The test on Wednesday unlocks a major breakthrough for North Korea’s banned weapons programmes, but what exactly is a solid-fuel missile and why does it matter that Pyongyang has one? What is a solid-fuel missile? […]https://www.defencetalk.com/north-koreas-solid-fuel-icbm-five-things-to-know-80046/

DefenceTalkNorth Korea fired two short-range ballistic missiles Tuesday, Seoul said, Pyongyang’s second launch in three days and the first since South Korea and the United States began their largest joint military drills in five years. Washington and Seoul have ramped up defence cooperation in the face of growing military and nuclear threats from the North, […]https://www.defencetalk.com/north-korea-fires-two-ballistic-missiles-seoul-says-79943/

DefenceTalkNorth Korea said Sunday it had test-fired an intercontinental ballistic missile as a warning to Washington and Seoul, saying the successful “surprise” drill demonstrated Pyongyang’s capacity to launch a “fatal nuclear counterattack”. In response, the US and South Korea staged joint air drills featuring a strategic bomber and stealth fighter jets, Seoul said. North Korean […]https://www.defencetalk.com/north-korea-says-it-fired-icbm-as-warning-to-us-seoul-79863/

DefenceTalkNorth Korea fired an intercontinental ballistic missile Friday in one of its most powerful tests ever, with Japan saying the weapon may have had the range to hit the United States mainland. The missile was believed to have landed in Japan’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ), Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said as he blasted the launch […]https://www.defencetalk.com/north-korea-fires-icbm-lands-near-japan-79616/

DefenceTalkNorth Korea unsuccessfully fired an intercontinental ballistic missile during a new salvo of launches Thursday, the South Korean military said, with Washington urging all nations to enforce sanctions on Pyongyang. The launches prompted South Korea and the United States to extend their ongoing joint air drills, the largest-ever such exercises, citing North Korea’s “provocations”. People […]https://www.defencetalk.com/north-korea-icbm-launch-appears-to-have-failed-seoul-says-79595/

DefenceTalkNorth Korea fired at least 23 missiles Wednesday, including one that landed close to South Korea’s waters in what President Yoon Suk-yeol said was “effectively a territorial invasion”. It also fired an artillery barrage into a maritime “buffer zone”, in what experts said was part of an “aggressive and threatening” response by Pyongyang to the […]https://www.defencetalk.com/north-korea-fires-23-missiles-one-close-to-south-korea-79582/

DefenceTalkNorth Korea fired two short-range ballistic missiles on Friday, the South’s military said, the latest in a blitz of launches that Washington and Seoul have warned could culminate in another nuclear test. The launch comes as the South wraps up 12 days of amphibious naval military exercises, involving key security ally America, and ahead of […]https://www.defencetalk.com/north-korea-fires-ballistic-missiles-ahead-of-major-us-south-korea-air-drills-79556/

DefenceTalkNorth Korea has fired an unidentified ballistic missile, Seoul’s military said early Tuesday, part of a record-breaking streak of weapons tests by Pyongyang, as South Korea ramps up military drills with the US. “North Korea fired an unidentified ballistic missile east,” South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a statement, without giving further details. […]https://www.defencetalk.com/north-korea-fires-an-unidentified-ballistic-missile-79470/

DefenceTalkSouth Korea and the United States flew warplanes including stealth fighter jets over waters around the Korean peninsula Tuesday in a fresh show of force following recent missile tests by the North, Seoul said. Sixteen South Korean warplanes, including F-35 stealth fighters and four US F-16 jets, formed an attack squadron over the West Sea […]https://www.defencetalk.com/us-south-korea-fly-warplanes-after-norths-missile-tests-78896/