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SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea has conducted a test of its underwater nuclear weapons system in a protest against this week's joint military drills by South Korea, the United States and Japan, state media KCNA said on Friday. The test of the "Haeil-5-23" system, a name North Korea has given to its nuclear-capable underwater attack drones, was carried out by the defence ministry's think tank in the waters off its east coast, the report said, without specifying a date.

I have no idea why the DOJ is putting out a press release about this. It seems more like the sort of thing to never mention again. A U.S. Navy service member was sentenced today to 27 months in prison and ordered to pay a $5,500 fine for transmitting sensitive U.S. military information to an intelligence officer from the People’s Republic of China (PRC) in exchange for bribery payments. According to court documents, Petty Officer Wenheng Zhao, 26, aka Thomas Zhao, of Monterey Park, California, pleaded guilty in October 2023 to one count of conspiring with the intelligence officer and...

Wei allegedly began communicating with a Chinese intelligence officer in February 2022. Two U.S. Navy servicemembers have been arrested for allegedly transmitting sensitive military information to the Chinese government. Authorities detained Jinchao Wei, aka Patrick Wei, on Wednesday and charged him with "conspiracy to send national defense information to an intelligence officer working for the People’s Republic of China," according to a press release from the Department of Justice. Wei allegedly began communicating with a Chinese intelligence officer in February 2022. That official tasked Wei with providing information related to U.S. Navy ships. At the time, Wei was stationed about...

Joint exercises by the Indian and Japanese navies in the Indian Ocean at the weekend suggest the two countries are drawing closer to face what they perceive as a common threat from China, analysts say. While joint military exercises involving the two countries are not uncommon, the latest activity comes amid tensions both are experiencing with Beijing. Indian and Chinese troops remain locked in a face-off along the disputed Himalayan border where 20 Indian soldiers were killed in a recent clash with their Chinese counterparts, while Japan and China are locked in a war of words over a Japanese move...

/begin my translation S. Korea and U.S. to Do a Naval Excercise w/ U.S. Carrier Joining, Starting on 28th (in Yellow Sea) Kim Kwi-geun = S. Korea and U.S. will conduct joint (naval) exercise in Yellow Sea starting on Nov. 28th, U.S. Dept of Defense announced on Nov. 24 /end my translation

Carrier to avoid drill in Yellow Sea August 21, 2010 The U.S.S. George Washington, a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, will not take part in the second of a series of the combined military drills between South Korea and the United States following the Cheonan sinking, the UN Command said yesterday. An initial plan to mobilize the 97,000-ton aircraft career in the drill, scheduled to be held in the Yellow Sea early next month, drew strong protest from China, leading some to worry about a physical confrontation between the world’s superpowers. “The George Washington is not scheduled to participate in this ASW...

Japan to Stage Drill in Response to Chinese Naval Buildup Tension is growing in the South China Sea as Japan works out a response to China's naval buildup. The Japan Self-Defense Forces plan to stage a massive drill in December to practice recapturing islands in the Ryuku chain, also known as the Nansei Islands, which stretches from the southern tip of Kagoshima to Okinawa and waters near Taiwan. The drill is based on a hypothetical seizure of the islands by China, the Yomiuri Shimbun daily reported on Thursday. Japan will mobilize state-of-the-art equipment including F2 fighter jets and PC3 patrol...

N. Korea fires about 100 rounds of artillery into Yellow Sea SEOUL, Aug. 9 (Yonhap) -- North Korea on Monday fired some 100 rounds of artillery into its side of a disputed border with South Korea in the Yellow Sea, a South Korean military source said. The North Korean move comes right after South Korea ended large-scale five-day navy exercises near the inter-Korean border in a show of force against its communist neighbor blamed on sinking one of its warships in March. North Korea had warned of "strong physical retaliation" against the drills that it denounced as preparations for a...

N.Korea Mouthpiece Threatens Another Nuclear Test A North Korean mouthpiece in Japan on Monday issued a thinly veiled threat of another nuclear test by the North, which is peeved by a massive South Korea-U.S. naval exercise in the East Sea. The Choson Sinbo newspaper said the North "regards a nuclear test as an essential procedural requirement to gain a nuclear deterrent. In the past, it has not hesitated to conduct a test if it decided it needed one." The newspaper recalled that the North pledged to "step up nuclear deterrence." "Less than a year in power, the Obama administration led...

U.S. Ships Could Move to East Sea for Joint Drill South Korea and the U.S. are mulling a joint maritime drill in both the East and West Seas this month after China lodged a protest against a huge U.S. military presence on its doorstep. The idea is to deploy some of the bigger American ships including an aircraft carrier to the east of the Korean Peninsula instead. A government source on Monday said there is "near-consensus" for turning the planned West Sea drill into an exercise in both the East and West Seas to reflect the positions of Beijing and...

U.S. Forces on Korean Peninsula Reject China's Criticism of Maritime Exercises with S.Korea Commander of U.S. forces in South Korea, General Walter Sharp The leader of U.S. forces on the Korean Peninsula rejects China's criticism of maritime exercises planned with South Korea. But the top American general in South Korea asks Beijing to work more closely with Washington and Seoul to deter the North Korean threat. The commander of U.S. forces in South Korea, General Walter Sharp, says every nation, within its territorial limits, is obligated to train its forces against perceived threats. "South Korea has that right. And South...

US has to pay for provoking China * Source: Global Times * [03:14 July 06 2010] The widely anticipated and repeatedly postponed joint exercise between the US and South Korean navies in the Yellow Sea is still in the air. Yet the signs are that the other shoe will eventually drop in a week or two despite China's strong opposition. True, the US has the right to play its war game against the imagined threat from North Korea on the high seas. But the anxiety on the Chinese side will be huge if a US aircraft carrier enters the sea...

/begin my translation China Refused Kitty Hawk's Stay in Hong Kong due to Naval Exercise Aimed at Taiwan (Hong Kong = Yonhap News) Chung Ju-ho = Ming Bao of Hong Kong reported on Nov. 24 that large-scale Naval Exercise by PLAN is a reason why China refused U.S. carrier Kitty Hawk's scheduled stay in Hong Kong for a while. According to sources, PLAN's Eastern and Southern Fleet conducted large-scale joint military exercise recently in the area of Pacific east of Taiwan, and north of Philippines, practicing hypothetical blockade of Taiwan. Russian-made missile frigates and submarines, 022 stealth missiles, and...

India to hold biggest ever naval exercise in Bay of Bengal New Delhi, July. 13 (PTI): Twenty warships from five countries, including three aircraft carriers, nuclear submarines and fighters, will assemble in the Bay of Bengal in September for a major naval exercise to be hosted by India. The other countries taking part in the wargame are the US, Japan, Australia and Singapore and the warships that will be fielded for it include two American nuclear-powered aircraft carriers, USS Nimitz and Kitty Hawk, defence ministry officials here said today. Besides the carriers with their full complement of 80 to 100...

Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force (MSDF) destroyer Ishikari blasts off an anti-submarine rocket during a rehearsal ahead of next Sunday's naval fleet review, at Sagami Bay off Yokohama October 22, 2006. Japan plans to monitor ships heading to North Korea in waters off its western and southern coasts following the U.N. resolution to punish Pyongyang for its nuclear test, a newspaper reported on Sunday. REUTERS/Issei Kato (JAPAN) Reuters - Oct 22 1:04 AM Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force (MSDF) Aegis ship Choukai (C) leads the MSDF fleet as a Japanese naval flag flutters during a rehearsal ahead of next Sunday's naval...

JERUSALEM, Jan 2: Israel is to host an annual joint search and rescue exercise with the Turkish and the United States navies off its Mediterranean coast in the middle of the month, officials said Sunday. "The objective of this exercise is to practice coordinated emergency search and rescue procedures in order to save lives in times of distress at sea," a spokesman for the Israeli Defence Force (IDF) said in a statement. "By familiarizing themselves with each others capabilities and working together, elements of the three naval forces which regularly operate in the Mediterranean Sea will be able to provide...

MANILA: The Philippines and the United States on Wednesday began a 10-day joint naval exercise from a former US base, officials said. Both countries have about 1,400 sailors, marines and coast guard forces each participating in the exercise that will culminate in a mock amphibious assault, US military spokeswoman Leslie Hull-Ryde said at a press briefing at the former Subic base. Most of the training will take place at sea with the main focus on readiness for disaster relief efforts, she said. Five US ships and five Philippine ships are participating. Philippine military spokesman Lt Col Danilo Servando said US...