U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter announced in Washington on Oct. 19 the establishment of a much higher-level bilateral organization to guarantee America’s nuclear pledge to defend and protect South Korea. (more…)
The nuclear-powered super carrier, the USS Ronald Reagan, sailed to within a couple hundred miles of the Chinese coast on Oct. 15 and took part in a joint naval (more…)
The Japanese government is outraged by the unobserved execution earlier this month of a Japanese citizen convicted by a Chinese court for his involvement in the alleged illegal sale (more…)
A South Korean presidential advisory agency has advised President Park Geun-Hye to explore the re-deployment of tactical nuclear weapons in South Korea. During much of the Cold War, the (more…)
Japan has officially unveiled a plan to expand its military base in Djibouti on the Horn of Africa overlooking the Red Sea and the Sea of Aden. The move (more…)
How times have changed. Only a year ago, Beijing and Seoul seemed united on a major strategic partnership, threatening to break up the pivotal Washington-led mutual defense alliance system (more…)
At least two senior North Korean diplomats stationed in Beijing fled with their family members to the Japanese embassy to seek political asylum, according to South Korean newspaper reports (more…)
Japan’s Defense Minister Tomomi Inada, a hardline female defense hawk, has visited the U.S. in recent weeks in what was a consequential trip. She achieved an unprecedented and unambiguous (more…)
On Oct. 2, the U.S. Navy’s USS Frank Cable, a submarine tender, and the USS John S. McCain, an Arleigh Berke class guided missile destroyer, made history by becoming (more…)
