With the largest South Korea-U.S. spring war drills in six years in full swing, North Korea on Friday announced it had successfully tested a new weapons class, a nuclear underwater unmanned vehicle, or UUV, designed to take down targets with a radioactive tidal wave. Published March 24, 2023
Japanese prime ministers are not known for stealing the spotlight, but Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Tuesday managed to upstage Chinese leader Xi Jinping during his high-profile summit in Russia, making a surprise visit to Kyiv for talks with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and top Ukrainian officials. Published March 21, 2023
Furious over U.S.-South Korean war games it insists are a rehearsal for an invasion, North Korea tested another short-range ballistic missile on Monday which it says is part of a broader push to revamp and sharpen its own warfighting doctrines. Published March 20, 2023
The leaders of South Korea and Japan took steps Thursday to boost frayed diplomatic and economic relations, but their high-profile Tokyo summit was held under a pair of shadows: the latest North Korean ballistic missile test and a new lawsuit in South Korea that could scupper hopes of resetting bilateral relations. Published March 16, 2023
"Japan should make an apology -- the victims want a true apology!" stormed an angry Kim Ji-myung. "We Korean people are so ashamed of our president!" Published March 15, 2023
Philippine and U.S. troops will hold a wide-range set of joint drills next month in locations that could be strategically vital in potential conflict with China. Published March 15, 2023
Defying North Korean anger, threats and missile tests, South Korean and U.S. forces launched more than a week of major new joint military drills Monday, the first full-scale exercises of their kind on the divided peninsula in six years. Published March 13, 2023
Regional tensions are expected to spiral Monday, as South Korea and the United States kick off their first full-scale spring war games in six years, and North Korea rattles its sabers in protest. Published March 10, 2023
South Korea's government on Monday announced a new plan to resolve a long-running historical division with Japan and end a complex and emotive spat on wartime forced labor that drove bilateral relations to all-time lows in 2018. Published March 6, 2023
China and Japan kicked off their first direct defense talks in four years in Tokyo this week, aiming to cool tensions after a period of major stress for the region. Published February 22, 2023
Newly revealed evidence about radiation leaks near North Korea's prime testing site may explain a deepening mystery -- why the regime of Kim Jong-un has not conducted a nuclear weapons test in more than five years. Published February 21, 2023
North Korea's test of an intercontinental ballistic missile over the weekend - its first such test of 2023 - set tensions soaring once again on the divided peninsula and spurred the U.S. to send strategic bombers over the region in a show of force. Published February 19, 2023
While the world's attention has been focused on Chinese balloons in near outer space, a far more terrestrial struggle in playing out across East Asia following a string of moves by the Biden administration to deepen American economic, diplomatic and military footprints on China's periphery. Published February 19, 2023
China is flexing some naval and diplomatic muscle off the southern coast of Africa just as tensions with the U.S. deepen on a range of fronts. Published February 17, 2023
Officials with the U.S. Forest Service have announced they are moving forward with a plan to destroy a herd of 50 to 150 feral cattle in New Mexico's Gila Wilderness by shooting them from the air. Published February 17, 2023
Confounding pre-war predictions, Russia's cyber offensive against Ukraine has proven unprepared, uncoordinated and unable to overcome a well-prepared, flexible series of Ukrainian defenses that have relied on experience and expertise. Published February 16, 2023
Rumors have been flying that young Kim Ju-ae, believed to be 9 or 10, is being groomed already to succeed her father, grandfather and great-grandfather as the next head of the hermetic Kim dynasty. Published February 14, 2023
North Korea's parade of 11 intercontinental ballistic missiles through the streets of Pyongyang last week put on display a force that analysts say is capable of overwhelming the systems the U.S. military has put up to defend the homeland. Published February 10, 2023
North Korea rolled 11 intercontinental ballistic missiles, or ICBMs, through the heart of Pyongyang in a parade that started late Wednesday night and ended on Thursday morning -- more than have ever been publicly displayed by the regime of Kim Jong-un in one space before. Published February 9, 2023
Amid the storm of hot air surrounding the U.S. downing of a Chinese surveillance balloon Saturday, a similar incursion reportedly took place in South Korea, concluding with far less drama. Published February 6, 2023
