In fact, North Korea still relies on old Soviet-era MiG-21 warplanes the country acquired from the Soviet Union in the 1960s. North Korea wants its neighbors—and the United States—to fear it.

The North Korean military has unveiled a new class of domestically developed air-to-air missile as well as a standoff weapon ...

North Korea has conducted a live-fire test of a domestically developed medium-range air-to-air missile (AAM). The missile, ...

The MiG-21 had no official Russian identifier ... Today, 18 countries still operate this warbird, including Cuba and North Korea, not to mention NATO allies Croatia and Romania.

Credit: U.S. Air Force/ Senior Airman Trevor Gordnier Subscribe for ads-free reading During the Cold War the Korean People’s Army (KPA) Air Force, the official name of North Korea’s air force ...

After receiving state of the art MiG-21 fighters from the Soviet Union from 1963, North Korea quickly deployed them to intercept U.S. aircraft that it claimed violated its airspace. North Korean ...

Kim, who inspected anti-aircraft combat and air strike drills by North Korea's 1st Air Division on Thursday, called for "all units in the entire military" to bring about "a breakthrough in war ...

A veteran of more than 100 combat flights, the 21-year-old pilot climbed ... a $100,000 reward to the first North Korean pilot to defect with a MIG. Rowe maintained that he knew nothing of that ...