Articles

A Potential War Looms over the Korean Peninsula

Pyongyang seems determined to keep tensions in the Korean Peninsula alive. In a provocative start to 2024, it launched new cruise missile test for submarine. By doing this, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un flaunted his growing nuclear arsenal, thereby....

February 13, 2024 International Relations and Diplomacy , Article , ICBM , summit diplomacy , provocations , Cheonan , spectre of a nuclear war , Northern Limit Line , nuclear-powered submarine , Yoon-suk Yeol

Korean Peninsula Back in Limelight Following ICBM Launch

Prof Rajaram Panda Article

Introduction

On 12 July 2023, North Korea fired a Hwasong-18 solid-propellant intercontinental range ballistic missiles (ICBM), the longest-ever flight for a North Korean missile, that flew for 74 minutes, triggering fresh tensions in the....

July 28, 2023 International Relations and Diplomacy , Article , ICBM , ASEAN , EU , G-7 , summit diplomacy , abduction issue , missile launch , MIRV , nuclear warheads , trilateral initiative

North Korea’s ICBM Launch Worrying – Part I

Prof Rajaram Panda Article

On 18 November 2022, North Korea successfully test-fired a Hwasong-17 (or Hwasongpho-17) intercontinental-range ballistic missile (ICBM), adding further to the already existing tensions and security threats in the Korean Peninsula. This launch was th....

December 01, 2022 International Relations and Diplomacy , Article , ICBM , UNSC , Kim Jong-un , Kim Yo Jong , Mike Pompeo , Hwasong-17 , Tae Yong-ho , Join statement , nuclear test preparations , inter-Korean summit

Fresh Challenge from North Korea with ICBM launch

Prof Rajaram Panda Article

Introduction

On 24 March 2022, North Korea ended a self-imposed moratorium on testing long range missiles and launched a new kind of ICBM for the first time since 2017. The launch was seen as a challenge and to assess South Korea’s Pres....

April 13, 2022 International Relations and Diplomacy , Article , ICBM , Kim Jong-un , Joe Biden , Kim Yo Jong , EEZ , summit diplomacy , Fumio Kishida , missile launches , Hwasong-17 , nuclear warhead , abductions

North Korea Conducts Series of Missile Tests, Remains Undeterred to Participate in the Dialogue Process

Prof Rajaram Panda Article

The nuclear armed and the recalcitrant North Korea returned to the business of missiles testing with seven rounds of weapons tests in January 2022, the latest being on 30 January and the most in a single calendar month since autumn 2019, raising ques....

February 09, 2022 International Relations and Diplomacy , Article , ICBM , Kim Jong-un , Moon Jae-in , Kim Il-sung , Fumio Kishida , missile tests , IRBM , cyberattack , Hamhung , Kim Jong-Il

Commentary: India’s Missile Arsenal - An Overview

Brig Gurmeet Kanwal

On January 18, 2018, the personnel of the Indian armed forces test-fired the 5,000-km-plus Agni-5 Interim Range Ballistic Missile (IRBM). The test, conducted from Kalam Island in the Bay of Bengal, achieved all the mission parameters that had been st....

January 31, 2018 National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence , Indian missiles , Agni , ICBM