But negotiations have since stalled as North Korea continues to insist the abduction issue was resolved when it permitted five Japanese nationals to leave the country in 2002. Japan suspects that ...

U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth made introductory phone calls on Friday to Japan Defense Minister Gen Nakatani and ...

White House official says US will pursue 'complete denuclearisation' but analysts believe Trump will instead pursue ...

Donald Trump’s planned tariffs on Mexico and Canada are also dealing a blow to some of the US’s closest allies in Asia.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth spoke Friday with his counterparts in South Korea and Japan, vowing to strengthen military ...

North Korea could carry out new missile tests in response to the South Korea-U.S.-Japan drills because it views such training as a security threat. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un called recent ...

North Korea announced it had performed a test of its cruise missile system on Saturday. It was the communist country’s fourth ...

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un called for "indefinitely" strengthening his regime's nuclear weapons capacity, state media ...

North Korea launched "several short-range ballistic missiles," that landed in the Sea of Japan Tuesday morning local time, South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff said. North Korea's state-run Korean ...

North Korea said Sunday it tested a cruise missile system, its third known weapons display this year, and vowed “the toughest” response to what it called the escalation of U.S.-South Korean military ...