By Hyonhee Shin and Daewoung Kim SEOUL/BUSAN, March 28 (Reuters) – North Korea unveiled new, smaller nuclear warheads and vowed to produce more weapons-grade nuclear material to expand its arsenal, state media said on…
https://gcaptain.com/north-korea-unveils-new-nuclear-warheads-as-uss-nimitz-arrives-in-south/
An unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile launches during an operational test at 1:13 a.m. Pacific Time on Oct. 2, 2019. US Air Force Photo
The biggest threat to modernizing the nuclear triad is to keep sustained modernization funding over multiple years and presidential administrations, a panel of national security experts told a key Senate panel on Tuesday.
The Air Force and the Navy are in the midst of replacing major decades old era strategic weapons programs. The Air Force...
Chinese DF-5B Nuclear Weapons. People’s Liberation Army Photo
The speed of China’s “unprecedented nuclear modernization” and its “build-out of a modernized triad” is the biggest concern for the vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff as he nears the end of his tenure.
In the last year, the Chinese have built two new ballistic missile silo fields for their intercontinental ballistic missiles.
“There’re no limits on what they can put in those silos,” adding to the threat, Air Force Gen. John...
https://news.usni.org/2021/09/14/hyten-chinas-unprecedented-nuclear-modernization-chief-concern
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A recent U.S. government job posting is a reminder that trucks carry some pretty interesting cargo across the country.
The Department of National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) is seeking drivers based in Amarillo, Texas, and Albuquerque, New Mexico, to transport nuclear weapons and other materials across the country.
The job posting for “nuclear materials couriers” closed on Tuesday and is currently reviewing candidates, according to NNSA. The salary ranges from $52,248 to $76,981 a...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/drivers-needed-to-transport-nuclear-weapons-across-us
A North Korean computer hacker has been charged in a plot using blockchain to get investors to unknowingly fund North Korean cargo ships with cryptocurrency as a way to evade U.S. sanctions.
The hacker, known as Kim Il, was part of a group of three computer programmers named in a federal indictment unsealed Wednesday in Los Angeles by the U.S. Attorney’s office. The indictment exposes a wide-ranging conspiracy to steal and extort more than $1.3 billion in money and cryptocurrency from financial...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/us-exposes-north-korea-blockchain-plot-to-evade-ship-sanctions
The following is the July 14, 2020 Congressional Research Service In Focus report, North Korea’s Nuclear Weapons and Missile Programs.
North Korea continues to advance its nuclear weapons and missile programs despite high-level diplomatic efforts and UN Security Council sanctions. In April 2018, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said that nuclear and long-range missile testing was no longer necessary because the country had achieved its objectives. However, in the past two years, North Korea has...
https://news.usni.org/2020/07/15/report-on-north-koreas-nuclear-weapons-missile-programs
Kim Jong Un and President Donald Trump shaking hands at the red carpet during the DPRK–USA in Singapore Summit on June 12, 2018. White House Photo
President Donald Trump declared sanctions against North Korea because of its remaining missile and nuclear weapons testing programs but didn’t rule out a future third summit try at negotiations with Kim Jong Un.
“I think that sanctions right now are at a level that’s a fair level,” he said Thursday as he met with South Korea’s President Moon Jae-in at...
https://news.usni.org/2019/04/12/trump-leaves-door-open-for-future-north-korea-summit
The following is the Congressional Research Service Insight report, The February Trump-Kim Hanoi Summit
From the report
On February 27 and 28, President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un met in Hanoi to discuss North Korea’s nuclear and missile programs, as well as the establishment of a new relationship between the two countries. The two leaders had held one prior summit, in Singapore, in June 2018. The Hanoi summit ended earlier than scheduled, with the cancelation of both a...
https://news.usni.org/2019/03/07/report-congress-trump-kim-summit-hanoi
