The Pentagon on Thursday flight-tested a missile that had been banned under a treaty that the United States and Russia abandoned last summer. Some U.S. arms control advocates said the test risks an unnecessary arms race with Moscow.
Read moreIran’s defense minister Wednesday rejected the idea of a deal with world powers over the country’s missile program.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday he has ordered the military to prepare a “symmetric response” after Washington tested a formerly banned missile.
Read moreThe Pentagon is pulling the plug on a billion-dollar, technically troubled project to build a better weapon that would destroy incoming missiles. The move is aimed in part at considering new approaches to missile defense at a time of rapid technological change.
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President Trump says North Korea’s Kim Jong-un wants to meet again to “start negotiations” after joint U.S.-South Korea military exercises end, and that Kim apologized for the flurry of recent short-range missile tests that has rattled U.S. allies in the region.
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China warned Tuesday it would take unspecified countermeasures if the United States goes ahead with plans to deploy ground-based intermediate-range missiles in the Asia-Pacific region.
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North Korea continued to ramp up its weapons demonstrations by firing two presumed short-range ballistic missiles into the sea Tuesday while lashing out at the United States and South Korea for continuing military exercises that the North says could derail nuclear diplomacy.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin said Monday that Russia would deploy new intermediate-range missiles only if the United States does and called for urgent arms-control talks to prevent a chaotic arms race after the demise of a key nuclear pact.
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North Korea on Tuesday said U.S.-South Korean war games are a “flagrant violation” of efforts to reach peace on the Korean peninsula and reflect a lack of “political will” to improve relations.
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The United States withdrew Friday from a milestone arms-control agreement reached between Russia and the United States over three decades ago, freeing up the U.S. to test new missiles that would have been previously banned under the treaty.
Read moreNorth Korea carried out its third missile test in eight days Friday, according to the South’s military, but U.S. President Donald Trump said he had “no problem” with the spate of launches by Pyongyang.
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North Korea said Thursday that Kim Jong-un supervised the first test firing of a new multiple rocket launcher system that could enhance its ability to strike targets in South Korea and U.S. military bases there.
Read moreNorth Korea launched “multiple unidentified projectiles” on Wednesday, South Korea’s Yonhap news agency reported, days after firing two missiles as a warning over Seoul’s plan for military drills with the United States.
Read moreNorth Korea fired two short-range missiles into the sea Thursday, South Korea’s military said, the first weapons launches in more than two months and an apparent pressuring tactic aimed at Washington as North Korean and U.S. officials struggle to restart nuclear negotiations.
Read moreNorth Korean leader Kim Jong-un has inspected a newly built submarine and ordered officials to bolster the country’s military capabilities, state media reported Tuesday, as the North increases pressure on the United States before the possible resumption of nuclear diplomacy.
Read moreFrance’s Defense Ministry acknowledged Wednesday that U.S.-made missiles captured from the self-styled Libyan National Army belonged to the French military.
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says Russia’s S-400 air defense missiles are currently being prepared to be flown to Turkey.
Read moreThe U.S. envoy to NATO said Tuesday that Turkey will be axed from the high-tech F-35 fighter jet program if it goes ahead with plans to buy Russian S-400 air defense missiles.
Read moreYemen’s Iran-allied rebels said they launched a cruise missile Wednesday at a Saudi airport, an attack the kingdom said hit the arrivals hall and wounded 26 people, hours before Japan’s prime minister was expected in Iran for a historic visit aimed at defusing tensions in the Persian Gulf.
Read morePresident Trump said Monday he is not “personally” bothered by recent short-range missile tests that North Korea conducted this month, breaking with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who is hosting the president on four-day state visit full of pageantry.
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