SA-3 ground-to-air missiles are displayed during a military parade in Pyongyang The United States Department of Defense has said it takes North Korea’s latest threats to strike targets on the US mainland, Hawaii, and Guam very seriously. “We are concerned by any threat raised by the North Koreans,” Pentagon spokesman George Little said on Tuesday. “We take everything they say and everything... 

North Korea has threatened to take military action against the United States and its allies if Washington continues to fly nuclear-capable bombers over the Korean Peninsula. Pyongyang denounced the joint US-South Korea military exercises and said the drills were an unpardonable provocation and rehearsals for invasion, the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported on Wednesday. “The US is introducing... 

Every military resource the US has, including nuclear arms, will be available to its ally South Korea in the confrontation with its northern neighbor, US Deputy Defense Secretary Ashton Carter pledged in Seoul. “We remain steadfast to our commitment to extended deterrence offered by the US nuclear umbrella,” Carter said after talks with South Korean Defense Minister Kim Kwan-Jin. “We’ll... 

A US Navy F/A-18 Super Hornet fighter lands on the deck of an aircraft carrier during joint military drills between the US and South Korea in the Yellow Sea, southwest of Seoul, on June 24, 2012. South Korea and the United States have continued joint military drills amid rising tensions on the divided Korean Peninsula. South Korean and US military forces took part in a joint base defense training operation... 

US Navy and South Korean ships sail in a 13-ship formation led by the Los Angeles-class attack submarine USS Tuscon (SSN 770) on July 26. The US and South Korea are conducting the combined alliance maritime and air readiness exercise 'Invincible Spirit' in the seas east of the Korean peninsula from July 25-28. In response to North Korea’s sinking of a South Korean navy ship early in March,... 

A first rate crisis is brewing in and around the Korean Peninsula that may well come to a head this week. The escalation of military tensions in the Yellow Sea that separates the Korean Peninsula from the Chinese mainland is likely to take two pathways – one originating in Pyongyang and the other in Beijing – or both. As Washington and Seoul respond with diplomatic and military measures... 

South Korean soldiers check fences set up along the demilitarized zone between South and North Korea, in Yanggu, north of Seoul, South Korea Monday, May 24, 2010. South Korean Defense Minister Kim Tae-young said Seoul would resume psychological warfare against the North that had been suspended in 2004 during a period of warming relations. South Korea won U.S. support Monday for slashing trade to North... 

Korean poster depicting US being crushed by North Korea Russian Defense Ministry reports circulating in the Kremlin this evening are warning that that the United States has ordered 3 of its aircraft carrier battle groups belonging to its Northern Pacific Third Fleet Naval forces to “COCKED PISTOL” alert status over growing war fears originating on the Korean Peninsula. The “COCKED PISTOL”...