DefenceTalkNorth Korea has conducted a fifth nuclear test, its most powerful to date, South Korea’s President Park Geun-Hye said Friday, condemning the move as an act of “self-destruction” that would deepen its isolation. The test will send tensions soaring over the North’s nuclear and ballistic missile ambitions, which have already earned international condemnation and United […]https://www.defencetalk.com/north-korea-carries-out-biggest-ever-nuclear-test-seoul-68121/

DefenceTalkNorth Korean leader Kim Jong-Un has ordered an upcoming nuclear warhead test and multiple ballistic missile launches, escalating Pyongyang’s face-off with the international community just days after being slapped with tough UN sanctions. The order came after Kim monitored what was described as the successful simulated test of the warhead re-entry technology required for a […]https://www.defencetalk.com/north-korea-leader-orders-nuclear-warhead-test-missile-launches-67061/

DefenceTalkNorth Korean leader Kim Jong-Un has ordered further nuclear tests, state media said Friday, as military tensions surge on the Korean peninsula with South Korean and US forces engaged in large-scale joint exercises condemned by Pyongyang. Since the joint drills began Monday, the North has issued daily warnings and statements, talking up its nuclear strike […]https://www.defencetalk.com/north-korean-leader-orders-further-nuclear-tests-67044/

DefenceTalkNorth Korea’s fourth nuclear test earlier this month ended a short period of inter-Korean cooperation and restarted the Cold War standoff between Seoul and Pyongyang. While avoiding direct military confrontation that could easily escalate into a hot war, both North and South have resumed psychological war games and tactical maneuvers to demonstrate military readiness and […]https://www.defencetalk.com/koreas-ramp-up-psychological-warfare-after-nuclear-test-66383/

DefenceTalkRecent satellite imagery shows no sign of North Korea preparing an imminent nuclear test, despite a rise in military tensions on the Korean peninsula, a US think-tank said Wednesday. North Korea has ramped up the volume on its bellicose rhetoric in recent weeks in response to the launch of annual South Korean-US joint military exercises. […]https://www.defencetalk.com/no-sign-of-imminent-north-korea-nuclear-test-us-think-tank-63458/

DefenceTalkFiji soldiers exposed to radiation during British nuclear tests in the Pacific more than 56 years ago are finally to receive compensation, a government minister was reported as saying Tuesday. More than 70 military personnel, unaware of the mission they were on, were deployed from the then-British colony of Fiji to Christmas Island, now part […]https://www.defencetalk.com/payout-for-fiji-veterans-of-british-atomic-tests-62246/

DefenceTalkNorth Korea is showing no signs of preparing for a new nuclear test, a US think tank said Friday, citing recent satellite imagery. However one or more tunnels at the Punggye-ri nuclear test site are complete and ready for another test should Pyongyang decide to carry one out, the US-Korea Institute at Johns Hopkins University […]https://www.defencetalk.com/no-sign-of-north-korea-nuclear-test-preparations-us-think-tank-62015/

DefenceTalkNorth Korea has been testing engines for an inter-continental ballistic missile, a US think-tank said Friday, as Pyongyang announced a top military reshuffle that coincided with signs of a looming nuclear test. The US-Korea Institute at Johns Hopkins University said satellite images of the North’s Sohae rocket launch site suggested one “and maybe more” recent […]https://www.defencetalk.com/north-korea-icbm-engine-tests-stoke-nuclear-fears-59485/

DefenceTalkA North Korean nuclear test within days “cannot be ruled out” analysts said Saturday, after new satellite imagery showed heightened activity at the test site. The report by the Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS) chimes with other findings and suggests Pyongyang is moving towards an underground detonation. Pictures taken on Friday — the […]https://www.defencetalk.com/new-pictures-confirm-north-korea-nuclear-activity-59416/

DefenceTalkSatellite imagery has revealed new tunneling work at North Korea’s nuclear test site, but nothing that points to an imminent detonation, a US research institute said Wednesday. The activity appears to have begun in late April — at the height of a recent surge in inter-Korean tensions — and gathered momentum over the next few […]https://www.defencetalk.com/satellite-images-show-tunnelling-at-north-korea-test-site-48264/