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"I do think that he is after reunification under a single communist system, so he is after what his grandfather failed to do and his father failed to do," Adm. Harry Harris said. (Jason Reed/Pool Photo via AP)

National Security

US Pacific commander: Kim Jong Un wants his nuclear weapons to conquer South Korea

Travis J. Tritten · February 14, 2018 4:28 pm

The budget also includes money for other layers of the U.S. missile defense system, including the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense and the Aegis system, which can be deployed on ships or on land. (Missile Defense Agency photo)

National Security

Trump defense budget adds $10 billion, 20 interceptors to bolster missile shield

Jamie McIntyre · February 12, 2018 8:18 pm

President Trump, stop the appeasement of North Korea

Washington Examiner · February 10, 2018 12:01 am

Testifying before the House Armed Services Committee Tuesday, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis tried repeatedly to make the case that the whole point of having a handful of low-yield missile warheads was not for the U.S. to use them, but to make sure America's enemies don't use theirs. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Jim Mattis: Low-yield nukes mean US won’t have to choose between ‘surrender’ and ‘suicide’

Jamie McIntyre · February 6, 2018 7:12 pm

In this Dec. 1, 2017 file photo, Hawaii Emergency Management Agency officials work at the department's command center in Honolulu. The Hawaii government has conducted an internal review into the incident in which a day shift warning officer with the state's emergency management agency erroneously disseminated the message alerting more than 1 million people via cellphones, televisions, and radio stations of the supposed missile. (AP Photo/Caleb Jones, File)

National Security

FEMA to revamp training programs after Hawaii emergency alert bungle

Naomi Lim · February 6, 2018 6:09 pm

Jim Mattis says the proposal is really just a bargaining chip for negotiations with the Russians, who the U.S. says are violating a Cold War-era treaty that bans intermediate-range missiles. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

National Security

The new nuclear weapon the Pentagon doesn’t really want, except as a bargaining chip

Jamie McIntyre · February 6, 2018 5:37 pm

Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis, left, meets with Offutt Air Force Base with Gen. John E. Hyten, the head of Strategic Command, in Bellevue, Neb., on Sept. 14. Mattis will be receiving classified briefings at Strategic Command, which will help him in his "nuclear posture review," a top-to-bottom reassessment of U.S. nuclear weapons policy. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)

Understanding Trump’s plan to avoid nuclear war and outfox the Russians

Jamie McIntyre · February 6, 2018 5:01 am

Honolulu attorney Michael Green, right, sits with his client, the former Hawaii Emergency Management Agency employee who sent a false missile alert to residents and visitors in Hawaii, left, during an interview with reporters on Friday. The ex-state employee says he's devastated about causing panic, but he believed it was a real attack at the time. The man in his 50s spoke to reporters Friday on the condition he not be identified because he fears for his safety after receiving threats. (AP Photo/Jennifer Sinco Kelleher)

Hawaii employee who sent botched missile alert was ‘100 percent sure’ a threat was imminent

Diana Stancy Correll · February 3, 2018 1:51 am

"It did not meet our objectives, but we learn something all the time with these tests and we've learned something from this one," chief Pentagon spokeswoman Dana White said. (Missile Defense Agency photo)

National Security

Pentagon confirms Hawaii missile test failed, chalks it up to a learning experience

Travis J. Tritten · February 1, 2018 8:43 pm

The Hawaii based test was conducted by the personnel assigned to the Aegis ashore missile defense system. (U.S. Missile Defense Agency photo)

Beltway Confidential

A US ballistic missile defense test just failed. Here’s what it means

Tom Rogan · January 31, 2018 9:08 pm

This picture displays part of the Aegis Ashore missile defense system in Romania. The Defense Department says that they tested the Aegis Ashore system in Hawaii on Wednesday, but a later report says that an interceptor missile failed to launch that day. (Photo courtesy of Navy.mil)

Test of new land version of US ship-based missile defense fails to intercept target: Report

Jamie McIntyre · January 31, 2018 8:22 pm

After users of CNN's app received dozens of push notifications for an updated story on the false ballistic missile alert in Hawaii,
many Twitter users wondered what was happening, noted the irony, and made fun of the cable news network. (Screenshot via Twitter)

Twitter mocks CNN for repeatedly sending push alert about false ballistic missile alert

Mandy Mayfield · January 30, 2018 11:26 pm