BRUSSELS -- NATO and the European Union are ramping up efforts to persuade China to help get North Korea to stop sending ...

TOKYO — Donald Trump in his second term as president is likely to accept North Korea as a nuclear weapons state and ask for ...

U.S., Japanese and South Korean naval forces exercised together in East Asian waters on Thursday in their most complex and ...

For instance, in May, China held a trilateral summit with South Korea and Japan after a five-year hiatus. On the same day in June that Putin visited Pyongyang, Chinese and South Korean officials held ...

Japan's top national security official said he conveyed "serious concerns" to China's foreign minister over North Korea's ...

Japan’s top security envoy is in Beijing for talks with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi to discuss a response to North Korea’s deployment of troops to Russia’s war in Ukraine, but experts ...

China has extended its visa waiver program to citizens of seven more countries, including South Korea and six European ...

Japan, under a new security strategy adopted in 2022, has been rapidly accelerating its military buildup through its alliance ...

“Japan is now facing off against North Korea, Russia and China and that makes for a severe security environment,” Minoru Kihara, Japan’s defense minister until the government changed last ...

TOKYO, Oct 17 (Reuters) - Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba sent an offering to Tokyo's Yasukuni Shrine, his office said on Thursday, drawing criticism from South Korea and China which view ...

Japan's Ishiba Sends Offering to Yasukuni Shrine, Angering S.Korea, China TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba sent an offering to Tokyo's Yasukuni Shrine, his office said on ...

That could embolden the North to act more aggressively toward South Korea or Japan, and at the same time, diminish Beijing’s ability to influence the reclusive state even as it relies on China ...