Good morning! Start your Friday with SOFREP’s Morning Brief for May 23, 2025—your quick intel on defense and global affairs.

On Wednesday, local media were given access to the Korea Air and Space Operations Center (KAOC), a highly secured command post located within Osan Air Base in Pyeongtaek, about 60km south of Seoul.

The Russian Security Council pointed out that during the forum, "high-level experts will, in a professional atmosphere free of politicization, discuss global and regional security issues that require ...

North Korea began a full-scale investigation into an accident that damaged a new warship at its launch ceremony this week, ...

On Tuesday, South Korean military officials announced that North Korea likely received help from Russia to develop a new air-to-air missile — a missile fired from an aircraft to destroy another ...

North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un was left red-faced and furious after a navy destroyer was badly damaged during a botched launch as he looked on.

Song Sang-hyun said "the time is right" for Ukraine to file a complaint over North Korea's military assistance to Russia.

A major accident occurred at the launch of a new North Korean naval destroyer, state media reported on Thursday, with leader Kim Jong Un calling the mishap a 'criminal act.' ...

A 5,000-ton North Korean destroyer suffered a "serious accident" during a launch ceremony, state media reported Thursday, ...

Russia has announced that its troops have fully reclaimed the Kursk region, nearly nine months after losing chunks of the ...

President Vladimir Putin visited Russia’s Kursk region for the first time since Moscow claimed that it drove Ukrainian forces out of the area last month, the Kremlin said Wednesday. Putin visited the ...

Pyongyang is dependent on the world's second-largest economy, but the "blood-cemented alliance" doesn't extend to security ...