China tightens supervision of senior military officers

BEIJING, May 17 — Chinese military authorities pledged Sunday to tighten supervision on senior and middle ranking officers, through strict punishment in cases of breach of duty and regular inspection of their work.
The military will adopt a strict system to investigate and punish senior officers for breaching duty or making mistakes, said a circular issued [...]

S. Korean Warship Keeping Tabs on N. Korea

Apr 07, 2009 — South Korea is keeping an advanced warship deployed in the East Sea to perform surveillance missions along with U.S. and Japanese destroyers even though North Korea already fired its long-range rocket, South Korea’s top general said Monday.

South Korea’s first Aegis destroyer “King Sejong the Great” (front) and other destroyers take part [...]

Poland will send 400 more troops to Afghanistan

WARSAW, Mar 24, 2009  – Poland will bolster its 1,600-strong contingent in Afghanistan with 400 more troops to help improve security in the leadup to an August election there, Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on Tuesday.

Armoured military vehicles roll down a downtown avenue during a military parade marking the Polish Army Day, in Warsaw, Poland, [...]

Japan expresses doubts over missile defense

TOKYO,March 24, 2009 — Japan may not be prepared to intercept debris that falls into Japanese territory if North Korea’s planned rocket launch fails, the country’s foreign minister said Tuesday.

Japanese Aegis-equipped destroyer Chokai fires an interceptor missile to shoot down the target in space, off the coast of the Hawaiian island of Kauai, Wednesday, Nov. [...]

NKorea says 2 US reporters detained, investigated

SEOUL, March 21,2009 — North Korea detained two Americans for illegally crossing its border and is investigating them, the communist country’s official news agency said Saturday.

These undated photo show two American journalists Laura Ling, rigtht, and Euna Lee. Ling and Lee were detained by North Korean soldiers while on a reporting trip earlier in the [...]

90 percent of Russia’s military technology is outdated

Moscow, March 20, 2009 — Russian President Dmitri Medvedev this week announced a large-scale military rearmament program, which he says will require considerable resources despite difficulties associated with the current global economic crisis. There are political and economic realities that could be driving as well as hindering Mr. Medvedev’s proposal.

Russian T-90 battle tanks roll through [...]

Salvadoran ex-rebels lead in presidential election

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador – El Salvador’s former guerrillas, behind the bespectacled, moderate face of a former TV journalist, took the lead in presidential elections Sunday that threaten to oust conservatives who have ruled since a bloody civil war.

Mauricio Funes, presidential candidate of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front, FMLN, and his wife, Vanda Pignato, [...]

Missile tests ‘a tried and tested NKorea tactic’

SEOUL — Critics call them provocative and a threat to regional peace but North Korea sees its missile tests as a sure-fire way of grabbing Washington’s attention, analysts say.

North Korean leader Kim Jong-il (C) visits the Hwanghae Steel company near Pyongyang in this picture released by North Korean news agency KCNA March 13, 2009(Reuters)
The communist [...]

Venezuela offers bases for Russian bombers

MOSCOW, March  14 — A Russian general said on Saturday Venezuela has offered the use of its La Orchila island airfield for Russian strategic bombers on long-range flights.

Russia’s strategic bomber Tu-160 or White Swan is  the largest supersonic bomber in the world .The Tu-160, known as the Blackjack in the West is a long-distance [...]

Japan warns it may shoot down North Korean satellite launcher

March 13, 2009 — Japan today threatened to shoot down a satellite that North Korea plans to launch early next month if it shows any signs of striking its territory.

U.S. Army soldiers chat near the Joint Tactical Ground Station, JTAGS , antenna, part of the missile defense initiative at Misawa Air Base in northern [...]