With U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un trading insults and threatening war, California officials are taking the threat of nuclear exchange seriously. Noting the heightened North Korean threat, the Los Angeles-area Joint Regional Intelligence Center issued a bulletin last month warning that a nuclear attack on Southern California would be
Read moreBy Daniel Salisbury, Stanton Nuclear Security Fellow at the Belfer Center, Harvard University. Earlier this month CIA Director Mike Pompeo suggested “the North Koreans have a long history of being proliferators and sharing their knowledge, their technology, their capacities around the world.” My research has shown that North Korea is more than willing to breach
Read moreIn his United Nations General Assembly speech Tuesday, American President Donald Trump said the United States is “ready, willing and able” to “totally destroy” North Korea in response to its “reckless pursuit” of nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles. His comments come just two days after U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley said the
Read moreRussia and China have kicked off naval drills from the largest Russian port in the region bordering North Korea, whose recent nuclear tests will likely cast a tall shadow over talks at the United Nations this week. Both Russia and China officially condemn the North’s aspirations to develop nuclear intercontinental ballistic missile capabilities. However, the
Read moreHal Kempfer, a noted international security expert, is getting a roomful of California public health officials and emergency responders to think about the unthinkable – a nuclear bomb exploding at the port of Long Beach, about four miles away. His message – coming on the same day North Korea threatened to reduce the mainland United
Read moreThere’s “no way to stop” Kim Jong Un’s regime and its missile and nuclear program, a North Korea expert told Fox News on Thursday, the warning coming amid Pyongyang’s continued threats to sink Japan and blast the U.S. “into ashes and darkness.” Leading Seoul-based North Korea expert Andrei Lankov told Fox News that Kim Jong Un
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On Sunday morning, even before the test, the North Korean media stunned the world with a sensation. The main information agency of the DPRK published photos on which the thermonuclear charge was demonstrated. And not a simple thermonuclear charge, but suitable for installation on a ballistic missile. As the launch vehicle, primarily is the intercontinental
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North Korea missile test Relatively few Americans know many details about how a war between North Korean, the US, South Korean and United Nations force would look. One of them is Rob Givens, who served as the deputy assistant chief of staff for operations of U.S. Forces Korea and as special assistant to the Chairman
Read moreThe single mountain under which North Korea most likely conducted its five most recent nuclear bomb tests, including the latest and most powerful on Sunday, could be at risk of collapsing, a Chinese scientist said. By measuring and analysing the shock waves caused by the blasts, and picked up by quake stations in China and
Read moreDr. Emily Landau, head of the Arms Control Program at the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS), spoke to Arutz Sheva about North Korea’s nuclear threat and its implications for the nations of the world. “We are now after 25 years of attempts to negotiate with North Korea and try to divert it from the
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