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The guided-missile destroyer USS Fitzgerald fires the first Naval Strike Missile from a US destroyer on July 18, 2024, in the Pacific Ocean. (US Navy photo)
Fast-attack submarine USS North Carolina (SSN 777) enters Dry Dock 1 at Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard and Intermediate Maintenance Facility, Hawaii, on September 4, 2024. (US Navy photo by Justice Vannatta)
A South Korean Army K1E1 tank crosses a pontoon bridge on the Imjin River during a joint river- crossing exercise as part of the Freedom Shield military drills with US and ROK forces in the border town of Yeoncheon, South Korea, on March 20, 2025. (Getty Images)
A long-range ground-based interceptor is launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, and intercepted an intermediate-range ballistic missile target launched from the U.S. Army’s Reagan Test Site on Kwajalein Atoll, June 22, 2014. (MDA/Released)
Thailand's Crown Prince Maha Vajiralongkorn walks in the procession during the royal cremation of Princess Galyani Vadhana in Bangkok, Thailand on November 15, 2008. (Patrick AVENTURIER/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)
Philippines' President Rodrigo Duterte (R) by his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping before a signing ceremony in Beijing on October 20, 2016. (NG HAN GUAN/AFP/Getty Images)
US President Barack Obama (L) speaking during a press conference in Hangzhou, China, and Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte (R) speaking during a press conference in Davao City, the Philippines, September 5, 2016. (SAUL LOEB,MANMAN DEJETO/AFP/Getty Imag
People watch a news report on North Korea's first hydrogen bomb test at a railroad station in Seoul on January 6, 2016. (JUNG YEON-JE/AFP/Getty Images)