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TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — Japan will Tuesday deploy an additional missile defense system on its northern island of Hokkaido, a defense ministry spokesman told AFP, days after North Korea launched a missile over the island. “We are deploying a PAC-3 system at about noon” to a base of the nation’s Ground Self-Defense Force in the southern tip of Hokkaido, said Kensaku Mizuseki. According to local officials, Japan has already deployed the Patriot Advanced Capability-3 missile […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — Tokyo’s benchmark Nikkei index rose past 20,000 for the first time in six weeks on Tuesday after Wall Street edged up to a new record close and a weak yen lifted exporters. The bellwether Nikkei 225 index climbed 1.12 percent, or 223.25 points, to 20,132.75 in early trade, breaching the barrier of 20,000 for the first time since early August. The broader Topix index was up 1.01 percent, or 16.58 points, […]
WASHINGTON,United States (AFP) — The United States has “many” military options against North Korea, including some that don’t put Seoul at risk, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said Monday. His comments come after President Donald Trump’s administration ramped up pressure on North Korea on Sunday, warning Pyongyang will be “destroyed” if it refuses to end its “reckless” nuclear and ballistic missile drive. “There are many military options, in concert with our allies, that we will take […]
UNITED NATIONS, United States (AFP) — US President Donald Trump and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping committed to “maximizing pressure on North Korea,” the White House said Monday, amid an escalating crisis over Pyongyang’s ballistic and nuclear weapons programs. In a phone call the two men discussed “North Korea’s continued defiance of the international community and its efforts to destabilize Northeast Asia,” the White House said. “The two leaders committed to maximizing pressure on North […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — A powerful typhoon ripped through the Japanese archipelago on Monday, leaving two people dead and three others missing, officials and news reports said. Typhoon Talim made landfall Sunday in Kyushu, the southernmost of Japan’s four main islands, packing winds of up to 162 kilometers (105 miles) per hour, the Japan Meteorological Agency said. The storm, moving northeast along the country, reached the nation’s northern island of Hokkaido by Monday morning, dumping […]
A powerful typhoon that left the Philippines last Wednesday, September 13, ripped into southern Japan on Sunday, dumping torrential rain, grounding hundreds of domestic flights and halting train services. Typhoon Talim, which was named as “Lannie” in the Philippines, made a landfall in Kyushu, the southernmost of Japan’s four main islands, packing winds of up to 162 kilometres (105 miles) per hour, the Japan Meteorological Agency said. At least 644 domestic flights have been cancelled […]
SEOUL, South Korea — For the second time in less than a month, North Korea has fired a ballistic missile over Japan, days after the international community further tightened its sanctions over its banned weapons and nuclear program. Here’s how the program got to where it is: Late 1970s: North Korea starts working on a version of the Soviet Scud-B (range 300 kilometers or 186 miles). Test-fired in 1984 1987-92: Begins developing variant of Scud-C (500 km), […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — Japan condemned Friday’s North Korean missile launch “with strongest words,” the top government spokesman said, saying the country could “never tolerate this repeated extreme provocative action.” “We have strongly protested to the North, telling them of the strong anger of the Japanese people,” Yoshihide Suga told reporters. © Agence France-Presse
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — North Korea fired an unidentified missile eastwards over Japan and into the Pacific on Friday, Seoul and Tokyo said, its latest provocation amid high tensions over its banned weapons programs. The launch, from near Pyongyang, came after the United Nations Security Council imposed an eighth set of sanctions on the country over its ballistic missile and atomic weapons programmes. That was in response to its sixth nuclear test — by far […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — A North Korean organization demanded Thursday that the United States be “beaten to death” like a “rabid dog” for spearheading fresh United Nations sanctions on Pyongyang over its latest nuclear test, adding ally Japan should be “sunken into the sea.” The UN Security Council unanimously imposed an eighth set of sanctions on the North Monday, banning it from trading in textiles and restricting its oil imports, a week after Pyongyang […]
Panda cub in Japan turns three months old. It’s the first panda to be born in Tokyo’s Ueno zoo in five years. (AFP Video) https://youtu.be/GuhzA3P1AAw
BEIJING, China (AFP) — China has concluded that radiation levels remain normal in the provinces near the North Korean border after Pyongyang’s most powerful nuclear test yet spurred concerns of residual environmental damage. The Ministry of Environmental Protection announced Sunday it was ending its emergency radiation monitoring in response to the blast last week, which the North claimed was the successful detonation of a hydrogen bomb. “A comprehensive assessment has concluded that this DPRK nuclear […]
