Why did South America never became a Missile power?

Report: Pyongyang Now Planning Nuclear Surge and Aggressive South Korea Spying

Report: Pyongyang Now Planning Nuclear Surge and Aggressive South Korea Spying

X-Bow lands $11M to build Pentagon’s next rocket motor

For decades, only two American companies could build the powerful solid rocket motors that launch the Pentagon’s biggest missiles into the sky, and the Missile Defense Agency just handed nearly 11 million to a New Mexico firm trying to break that monopoly wide open. X-Bow Launch Systems, based in Albuquerque, won a competitive 10,981,581 contract []

The Return of the Rivalry: Latin America in the New Great Power Contest

Until not so long ago Latin America had been considered a quiet region, located far from the world’s superpower main strategic confrontations, with sporadic but crucial moments that helped to shape the international order as we know it today. The Cuban Missile Crisis is the clearest example: it became the starting point for a series [] The post The Return of the Rivalry: Latin America in the New Great Power Contest appeared first on Modern Diplomacy.

China's ballistic missile launch was a message for the US

China has launched a ballistic missile into the South Pacific, drawing international criticism from many countries in the region

North Korea vows boost to nuclear buildup, military intelligence

SEOUL: North Korea will strengthen its nuclear force “both in quality and quantity” and expand the role of its military intelligence agency focused on South Korea, state media said Friday. Pyongyang is under widespread sanctions over its nuclear program, and the two Koreas remain technically at war as their 1950-53 conflict ended without a peace treaty. The announcement comes after North Korea has repeatedly spurned South Korean President Lee Jae Myung’s dovish overtures, labelling Seoul its “most hostile” enemy and declaring itself an “irreversible” nuclear state.