The top U.S. and South Korean military officers agreed to make a strong response to North Korea’s latest ballistic missile launch on Tuesday, including possible unspecified military measures, South Korea’s Yonhap news agency said. The chairmen of both countries’ Joint Chiefs of Staff agreed on a phone call “to take response measures at the earliest […]

The United Nations Security Council will meet late Tuesday to discuss the latest North Korea missile launch, Reuters reported, citing diplomats. North Korea fired a ballistic missile that passed over Japan early Tuesday local time, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe told reporters. A South Korean military official told NBC News that the missile was fired around […]

Call it a conundrum. Despite North Korea launching a ballistic missile that passed over Japan, in what Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe called an “unprecedented, serious and significant threat,” traders still see the yen as a safe-haven play, and they’re pushing the currency higher. The yen has surged, with the dollar fetching as little as […]

Asian shares fell in early Tuesday trade as investors turned to safe-haven assets and U.S. futures opened lower after North Korea fired a missile. Japan’s Nikkei 225 dropped 0.72 percent in early trade after a North Korean missile flew over the country early on Tuesday. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said in a statement that […]

North Korea fired a ballistic missile that passed over Japan early Tuesday, and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe had strong words about its gravity. Abe said the missile was an unprecedented, serious and grave threat to Japan. The Japanese prime minister also said he would ask the United Nations to up the pressure on Pyongyang. A […]

The Japanese government has warned that a North Korean missile is headed toward the Tohoku region at the northern end of the country, according to Japanese broadcaster NHK. NHK also reported that Japan took no action to shoot down the projectile. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe told reporters that it appeared that a ballistic missile […]

South Korean President Moon Jae-in urged defense officials to step up military reform in case the North “crosses the line,” local media reported Monday. Moon told officials to “strongly push” for the military to “meet the requirements of modern warfare so that it can quickly switch to an offensive posture in case North Korea stages […]

India and China have agreed to an “expeditious disengagement” of troops in a disputed border area where their soldiers have been locked in a stand-off for more than two months, India’s foreign ministry said on Monday. The decision comes ahead of a summit of the BRICS nations – a grouping that also includes Brazil, Russia […]

A Jakarta court has sentenced a female would-be suicide bomber to seven and a half years in prison, prosecutors and her lawyer said, the first time a woman has been convicted in Indonesia for planning such an attack. Dian Yulia Novi, 28, was arrested late last year on suspicion of plotting to blow herself up […]

Chinese conglomerate Dalian Wanda Group said in a statement to Reuters on Monday that areport claiming its billionaire chairman, Wang Jianlin, was prevented from leaving the country was groundless and it planned to take legal action. Taiwanese news site Bowen Press had reported on Sunday that Wang was stopped from leaving Tianjin airport on Friday […]