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Japan, US Agree to Take ‘All Necessary Measures’ Against North Korea

Brandon Morse reports: On Monday, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said that he and President Donald Trump have agreed to take further actions against North Korea after the communist country’s latest missile test. North Korea conducted its [...]

Air Self-Defense Force members participate in a training exercise in June involving the Patriot Advanced Capability 3 (PAC-3) surface-to-air guided missile unit at Camp Asaka in Tokyo's Nerima Ward. (Takayuki Kakuno)

Air SDF, U.S. Forces to Test Missile Defenses at Yokota Base

The Air Self-Defense Force will test its capabilities to shoot down North Korean ballistic missiles in a joint training exercise with U.S. troops at the hub of the two allies’ defense cooperation–Yokota Air Base. The exercise, which [...]

Army soldiers walk by a TV news program showing a file image of a missile being test-launched by North Korea in Seoul on Tuesday.

HERE WE GO AGAIN: North Korea Launches Missile, Nearing Japanese Waters

Leslie Shaffer reports: North Korea launched a missile on Tuesday, with Japan saying it appeared to have landed in the Japanese exclusive economic zone (EEZ), Reuters reported. On its website, South Korean state news agency Yonhap cited South [...]

Japan Weighs Adding Missile Shelters as North Korea Threat Grows

Isabel Reynolds and Yuki Hagiwara report: Japan’s ruling party urged Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to consider building missile shelters and carrying out more evacuation drills in response to the growing threat from North Korea. Television and [...]

A ballistic rocket is test-fired through a precision control guidance system in this undated photo released by North Korea’s Korean Central News Agency on Tuesday.KCNA via Reuters

U.S. Believes China is Using Back Channel to Stop North Korea

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley said Tuesday the Trump administration believes China is using “back channel networking” with North Korea to try and get Kim Jong Un to stop nuclear and ballistic missile testing. “We believe [...]

File photo of Ballistic rocket is seen launching during a drill by the Hwasong artillery units of the KPA Strategic Force in this undated picture provided by KCNA in Pyongyang on July 21, 2016. KCNA | Reuters

AGAIN: S. Korea Military Reports Another N. Korean Unidentified Projectile, Lands in Japan’s Maritime Economic Zone

SEOUL (AP) — North Korea on Monday fired an apparent ballistic missile off its east coast that landed in the waters of Japan’s economic zone, South Korean and Japanese officials said, the latest in a string of recent test launches as the North [...]

North Korea’s latest ballistic missile test flew further and higher than last one posing ‘grave threat’ to Japan

The projectile – believed to be a ballistic missile – was launched from a region near the country’s west coast, South Korea’s military said. North Korea’s latest ballistic missile test has flown further and higher than [...]

North Korea Fires Ballistic Missile Off its Coast

The South Korean military says North Korea launched an unidentified projectile early Saturday morning, according to Reuters. The news agency says the unidentified projectile was fired from North Korea’s west coast, citing a South Korean [...]

A general view shows an annual central report meeting in this undated photo released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) in Pyongyang Sunday. | KCNA / VIA REUTERS

Going Rogue: North Korea Tests Ballistic Missile, Test Fails

Christine Wang reports: North Korea test-fired a ballistic missile on Saturday in local time, Korean news service Yonhap reported citing South Korea’s military. Yonhap reported that the test appears to have failed. One U.S. official confirmed [...]

[VIDEO] Japan Warns Citizens They Might Have Only 10 Minutes to Prepare for a North Korean Missile

TOKYO — Anna Fifield reports: North Korea might be talking about building missiles that can reach the United States, but Kim Jong Un’s regime already has lots of missiles that can reach Japan. So the Japanese government is preparing its [...]

Japan: ‘Take all possible steps to prepare for contingency on Korean Peninsula’

Military tensions are heightening between the United States and North Korea. The Japanese government must take all possible measures to prepare for any contingency. The USS Carl Vinson nuclear-powered aircraft carrier is heading northward to waters [...]

North Korea Fires Ballistic Missile Ahead of Trump-Xi Meeting

SEOUL (AP) — North Korea fired a newly developed powerful ballistic missile into its eastern waters Wednesday, U.S. and South Korean officials said, amid worries the North might conduct nuclear or long-range rocket tests ahead of the first summit [...]

Cyberwar Ignites a New Arms Race

Dozens of countries amass cyberweapons, reconfigure militaries to meet threat. Damian Paletta, Danny Yadron and Jennifer Valentino-DeVries report: Countries toiled for years and spent billions of dollars to build elaborate facilities that would [...]