The visit by Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba is the first major indication of how the Trump administration will handle relations with allies such as Japan and South Korea.

Japan initiated secret talks with North Korean officials on two occasions this spring in an apparent attempt to reopen negotiations on resolving the decades-old abduction issue once and for all.

North Korea sent directives to a secret organization formed by a former executive of South Korea's largest labor union, ordering it to incite anti-Japanese sentiment, according to sources at Suwon ...

South Korean Vice Defense Minister Kim Seon-ho, right, poses with North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Secretary General Mark Rutte, center, and the defense ministers of Australia, Japan and New ...

"We strongly condemn the launch as a clear provocation that seriously threatens the peace and stability of the Korean peninsula," the Joint Chiefs of Staff said. It warned the North against ...

SEOUL-North Korea condemned on Jan 17 joint military drills between South Korea, Japan and the United States held this week, threatening to respond by exercising its right to self-defence “more ...

Meanwhile, defense analysts are apprehensive that the military technology exchange between Russia and North Korea could escalate regional tensions especially with South Korea and Japan as Kim Jong ...