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North Korea Fires 10 Missiles After Trump Curtails Ulchi Freedom Shield, Announces Kim Summit

SEOUL, Aug. 22 -- South Korea's Defence Minister sat in an emergency security meeting Friday as the news came in: more than ten KN-25 missiles, short-range ballistic type, launched from the Pyongyang ... Read More


China and Indonesia Hold First-Ever 2+2 Talks, Plan Naval Drill East of Taiwan

New Delhi, Aug. 22 -- JAKARTA - China has never done this before, not with Russia, not with Pakistan, not with any country. The ministerial format Beijing unveiled on Thursday in Jakarta - a joint for... Read More


Iran War Drains US Military Assets From Asia, Leaving Allies Wary of China

TOKYO, Aug. 22 -- When parts of the Terminal High Altitude Area Defence system were shipped out of South Korea last month for use against Iran, the move did not make the front pages in Seoul or Tokyo.... Read More


North Korea Fires 10 Ballistic Missiles a Day After US and South Korea Cut Back Military Exercises

On Wednesday evening, Aug. 21 -- The concession lasted less than twenty-four hours. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's sister and the voice his government uses to communicate its most consequential si... Read More


China Urges South Korea to Reject US Bloc Politics, Blames Washington for Korean Peninsula Tensions

SEOUL, Aug. 20 -- South Korea's new government spent most of this year signaling that it wanted better relations with Beijing. On Wednesday, China made clear what it wants in return. Chinese Foreign ... Read More


South Korea Braces for Worst Case as Trump Cuts Ulchi Freedom Shield Drills

New Delhi, Aug. 18 -- The 11-day Ulchi Freedom Shield exercises were already underway on Monday when Donald Trump announced he had told the Pentagon to cut them. the exercises were to be "substantial... Read More


Indonesia Earthquake: Death Toll Rises to 65, 5.9 Aftershock Leaves 12,000 Displaced on Flores

New Delhi, Aug. 17 -- The camps looked like they might begin to empty on Sunday. By Monday afternoon, nobody was moving. it had stood at 53 as recently as Sunday morning, before rescue teams reached ... Read More


Xi Jinping Hails Jiang Zemin's 'Indelible' Legacy at Birth Centenary in Beijing

BEIJING, Aug. 17 -- He died in November 2022, but on Monday Jiang Zemin received the treatment still available to a Chinese Communist Party patriarch: an audience with his successor, a recitation of h... Read More


Trump Orders Cuts to US-South Korea Military Drills, Calling Them 'Hostile' to Kim Jong Un

WASHINGTON, Aug. 17 -- South Korea's Ministry of Defence announced Monday morning that its annual joint military exercises with the United States would proceed on schedule, hours after President Donal... Read More


South Korea Fires First 2026 Warning Shots After North Korean Troops Cross the MDL

SEOUL, Aug. 16 -- For the first time this year, South Korean forces fired warning shots along the most heavily fortified border on earth. The soldiers who triggered them were North Korean, apparently ... Read More