Japan tips its hand via North Korea

US President Barack Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping will hold their first meeting since Xi became president in March when they sit down for a June 7-8 summit in Rancho Mirage, California.

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SEOUL - North Korea launched its fourth short-range rocket in three days Monday, again stirring tensions that had appeared to ease after recent threats directed at South Korea and the U.S. The trajectory of the latest rocket wasn't immediately ...

Keeping the sanctions on North Korea intact, the Japanese government is keenly watching the North's response to Cabinet adviser Isao Iijima's talks with its leaders on resolution of the issues relating to abduction of Japanese nationals by the ...

BEIJING (Kyodo) -- An adviser to Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe held talks Thursday with North Korea's No. 2 leader Kim Yong Nam in Pyongyang, the North's official Korean Central News Agency reported. Details of the meeting between Isao Iijima ...

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is set to hold talks with President Vladimir Putin and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Sochi on Friday. Issues on the agenda include the Syrian civil war and the North Korean crisis, UN spokesman Martin ...

NEW DELHI ― North Korean declarations of a state of war on the Korean peninsula tend to make people forget bloodier border confrontations elsewhere in Asia. None is more volatile than the standoff along nearly 3,000 kilometers of heavily guarded ...

North Korea is a mythically strange land, an Absurdistan, where almost nothing is known about the people or, more important, their missile-launching leaders. There is, however, one man—a humble sushi chef from Japan—who infiltrated the inner ...

Russia has called for an extraordinary meeting of the UN Security Council (UNSC) Tuesday to discuss the recent nuclear test conducted by North Korea.The meeting has been called for by Russia's UN envoy Vitaly Churkin. Russia, which is holding the rotating ...