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Japan military jet with six aboard missing

  Tokyo, Japan (AFP)—-A Japanese air force plane with six people aboard went missing on Wednesday, the defense ministry announced, and a search was under way in mountainous terrain. The U-125 aircraft left a base in Kagoshima prefecture on Kyushu island in southwestern Japan in the early afternoon, said Yoshiyuki Sugiyama, head of the Air Self-Defense Force. The small jet “disappeared from the radar,”  Sugiyama told a press briefing. Public broadcaster NHK showed footage of […]

U.S. and South Korea in talks for more strategic assets to Korean peninsula

The United States and its ally South Korea are in talks towards sending further strategic assets to the Korean peninsula, South Korea’s defence ministry said, a day after a U.S. B-52 bomber flew over South Korea in response to North Korea’s nuclear test last week. “The United States and South Korea are continuously and closely having discussions on additional deployment of strategic assets on the Korean peninsula,” Kim Min-seok, spokesman at the South Korean defence […]