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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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