Perhaps made complacent by a comparatively low death toll in 2022, the global ferry industry has disgraced itself with a near doubling of fatalities in 2023. Tragically, 2024 is already looking worse – much worse. In January 2024, alone, 237 people have been the victims of ten ferry accidents. The...
By Jack Kim SEOUL, Jan 29 (Reuters) – North Korea tested its new strategic cruise missiles for the second time in a week on Sunday, calling it a newly developed submarine-launched cruise…
https://gcaptain.com/north-korea-tests-submarine-launched-cruise-missiles-kcna-says/
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COVID steered shipping markets in 2000-2022. Geopolitics has steered markets ever since — and future...
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By Jon Herskovitz (Bloomberg) The missiles the US has accused North Korea of sending to Russia appear to be from its newest family of nuclear-capable rockets that are easy to hide,…
https://gcaptain.com/north-korea-likely-sending-its-newest-missiles-to-russia/
By Jon Herskovitz (Bloomberg) — A dormant North Korean port near the border with Russia has sprung back to life, fueling what experts say is a burgeoning trade in arms destined…
https://gcaptain.com/revived-north-korean-port-aids-russias-war-effort-in-ukraine/
Early September saw a ceremony at the Pong Dae Submarine Factory in Sinpo Shipyard wherein North Korea’s newest submarine was unveiled. Described by official North Korean sources as a “tactical nuclear submarine”, Hero Kim Kun-ok is actually a radically converted Soviet-designed Romeo-class...
North Korea’s Korean People’s Army Navy (KPAN) boasts large inventories of missile-armed fast attack craft and diesel-electric attack submarines, but its major surface warships are few and rarely seen. There was therefore considerable interest when, on August 21, 2023, Pyongyang’s Korean Central...
June 1 launch of Chollima-1 rocket. KCNA Photo
North Korea carried out an unsuccessful attempt to launch a military satellite on Thursday, with the launch vehicle breaking up into three separate parts that landed in the Yellow Sea, East China Sea and the Philippine Sea.
Thursday’s launch was the second attempt to deploy the Malligyong-1 reconnaissance satellite using a Chollima-1 rocket as the launch vehicle following the failure of the first attempt on May 31.
Earlier on Tuesday, the Japanese...
https://news.usni.org/2023/08/24/second-north-korean-launch-failure-draws-protest-from-japan
Some international issues should be non-sensitive and uncontroversial. One of these is the regulation of fishing fleets to prevent overfishing and ensure the sustainable ..
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JS Suzutsuki conducted a bilateral exercise with the French Navy Charles de Gaulle CSG in the vicinity of Western Arabian Sea. JMSDF Photo
Japanese defense officials warned the international community is facing its greatest post-war trial and has entered a new era of crisis. At the same time, Tokyo identified China, Russia and North Korea as the countries that pose a threat to Japan, according to the “Defense of Japan 2023” white paper.
The release follows the latest revisions to the national...
https://news.usni.org/2023/07/28/japan-warns-world-facing-its-greatest-post-wwii-period-of-crisis