The current situation is the result of a match between the interests of Russia and North Korea, one analyst said. “If this war ends in any form, as Trump has pledged, the needs of the two for each other may change.”

Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te will stop over in Hawaii and Guam during his trip to the South Pacific, drawing criticism from China.

Russian Defense Minister Andrei Belousov arrived in North Korea on Friday for talks with North Korean military and political leaders as the countries deepen their cooperation over Russia’s war in Ukraine.

Coffee drinkers can sip their beverages and view a quiet North Korean mountain village from a Starbucks shop at a South Korean border observatory.

Human bones discovered this spring on Camp Schwab have prompted Okinawa police to request public assistance in identifying the remains.

South Korea’s National Assembly has approved a new cost-sharing agreement with the United States for stationing roughly 28,500 American troops on the Korean Peninsula, clearing the way for the deal to take effect in 2026.

South Korea scrambled fighter jets Friday after six Russian and five Chinese military aircraft entered the country’s air defense identification zone over a period of several hours.

A Japanese court handed a U.S. Navy contractor a six-month suspended sentence for possessing a small amount of marijuana after smoking with a coworker.

Members of the American military community, alongside family and friends, gathered here recently to wish an early 100th birthday to a World War II veteran who served with the 326th Glider Infantry Regiment in France. 

The Air Force’s generative artificial intelligence platform, NIPRGPT, launched in June and has quickly grown to include thousands of users, according to a service spokeswoman.