China has supplied the transporter erector launchers for North Korea’s new long-range missiles, said Richard Fisher during his May 24 Capitol Hill speech. He did not say China provided the missiles themselves as we incorrectly reported in Wednesday’s column. We have corrected our original entry.
Gene Smith, Former POW and AFA Chair, Dies at 91
Jan. 19, 2026
Lt. Col. Richard “Gene” Smith, who overcame five and a half years as a prisoner of war in the notorious Hanoi Hilton from 1967 until 1973, died Jan. 16. He was one day short of his 91st birthday.
