Senior diplomats of South Korea, the United States and Japan reaffirmed Friday the need to maintain "strong" deterrence ...

Japan is facing its most severe security environment since World War II as three potential adversaries in East Asia – China, ...

“It is most likely that the [North Korea-Japan] relations would be set gloomier if the Japanese Prime Minister makes a wrong start from the beginning, as it is doing now,” the statement said.

Last Friday, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un marked 10 years in power. Recent observers have focused on nuclear weapons and diplomacy with South Korea and the United States, but there are under ...

Japan-North Korea relations . Japan’s Struggle ... The mother of Yokota Megumi, the most famous of the Japanese civilians abducted by North Korea, continues to push for her daughter's return.

Korea-Japan relations can be further strengthened if the two push forward joint ... Ishiba emphasized the U.S.-Japan relations, ... His policies toward China and North Korea are similar to ...

Japan Japan's PM offered to meet with Kim Jong Un 'as soon as possible,' North Korea says Relations between the countries have been strained in part because of North Korea's 2002 abduction of 13 ...

Twenty years have passed since North Korea officially admitted to abducting Japanese citizens in the 1970s and 1980s. Since this admission, Japan–North Korea relations have been cold. Tokyo and ...

North Korea and Japan don’t have diplomatic ties, and their relations have been overshadowed by North Korea’s nuclear program, the abduction issue and Japan’s 1910-45 colonization of the ...

In 2002, North Korea admitted for the first time to abducting Japanese nationals in the 1970s and ‘80s and apologized at a summit meeting with Japan, according to Japan’s Foreign Ministry.

Japan’s leader blamed South Korea’s president for the poor state of relations between the two U.S. allies, setting a chilly tone at their first formal meeting in more than a year.

SEOUL — In their first bilateral summit in 12 years, the leaders of South Korea and Japan portrayed their meeting in Tokyo as a sort of springtime, after an extended period of frosty ties.