The United States has increased its surveillance activities in the Western Pacific, deploying more spy planes to keep an eye on China, North Korea, and Russia. These three countries have been growing closer in recent years,

North Korea on March 8 released images of leader Kim Jong-un inspecting the construction of what it calls a “nuclear-powered strategic guided missile submarine,” marking its first public acknowledgment of the project.

North Korea may soon seal its place in an exclusive global club after Kim Jong Un unveiled the country’s first nuclear-powered submarine under construction. ‘These incomparably revolutionary vessels must fulfill their mission as a nuclear power’s formidable deterrent that will overpower the hostile forces’ entrenched “gunboat diplomacy”‘,