North Korean missiles will be able to reach U.S. after modernization: Ifax cites Russian lawmaker 10/10/2017 10:21:21 PM North Korean leader Kim Jong Un speaks during the Second Plenum of the 7th Central Committee of the Workers Party of Korea (WPK) at the Kumsusan Palace of the Sun, in Pyongyang October 8, 2017. MOSCOW, Reuters, October 10, 2017   - North Korea’s leadership has told Russian lawmakers that it possesses a ballistic missile with a range of 3,000 kilometers (1864.11 miles) that will be able to reach U.S. territory after modernization, the Interfax news agency reported on Tuesday. Interfax cited Anton Morozov, a lawmaker and member of the lower house of parliament’s international affairs committee, who visited Pyongyang from October 2-6. North Korea aims to increase the range of its ballistic missiles to 9,000 kilometers (5592.34 miles), Morozov was quoted as saying. “There was no talk about the deadline (for solving this task),” he ...

NATO launches Black Sea force as latest counter to Russia 10/9/2017 7:11:41 PM NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg delivers a speech as he reviews NATO multinational brigade in Craiova, Romania, October 9, 2017. CRAIOVA, Romania (Reuters) - Oct. 9, 2017- NATO launched a new multinational force in Romania on Monday to counter Russia along its eastern flank and to check a growing Russian presence in the Black Sea following the Kremlin’s 2014 seizure of Crimea. The force will initially be built around a Romanian brigade of up to 4,000 soldiers, supported by troops from nine other NATO countries, and complementing a separate deployment of 900 U.S. troops who are already in place. The plans are to include additional air and sea assets to give the force greater capabilities. “Our purpose is peace, not war,” Romanian President Klaus Iohannis told the NATO Parliamentary Assembly of alliance lawmakers, which is meeting this year in Bucharest. “We are not a ...

North Korea preparing long-range missile test: RIA cites Russian lawmaker Kim Jong Un looks on during the test-launch of the intercontinental ballistic missile Hwasong-14, in this photo released July 5, 2017 MOSCOW (Reuters)OCT. 6, 2017 -- North Korea is preparing to test a long-range missile which it believes can reach the west coast of the United States, a Russian lawmaker just returned from a visit to Pyongyang was quoted as saying on Friday. Anton Morozov, a member of the Russian lower house of parliament’s international affairs committee, and two other Russian lawmakers visited Pyongyang on Oct. 2-6, Russia’s RIA news agency reported. “They are preparing for new tests of a long-range missile. They even gave us mathematical calculations that they believe prove that their missile can hit the west coast of the United States,” RIA quoted Morozov as saying.      North Korean leader Kim Jong Un visits the Command of the Strategic Force ...