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Japan has warned of escalating military threats from China in a new defense report. The report highlights China's growing military activity near Japan’s southwestern coasts and the Pacific as a major strategic challenge.
North Korea focuses on improving quality of new solid-fuel missiles and hypersonic weapons, Japan defense white paper says
Japan has raised strong caution about China’s rapid acceleration of military activity in extensive areas from around its coasts and into the Pacific, describing the moves as the biggest strategic chal
The Japan Self-Defense Force has missed its recruitment goal for the last several years and is struggling to meet those goals amid rising tensions in the region.
A sign of the shifting outlook toward North Korea is the government’s desire to describe North Korea not as the South’s ‘main enemy’ but simply as
South Korea, Japan and the United States conducted a joint air drill on Friday involving a U.S. B-52 strategic bomber and fighter jets of the three allies over international waters, the South's defence ministry said.
North Korea made similar comments in April, after the U.S. flew B-1B Lancers over the peninsula alongside South Korean fighter jets. The exercise was a “grave provocation” that raised military tension to an “extreme dangerous level,” North Korea’s military said April 17 via KCNA.
The Manila Times on MSN3d
SKorea, Japan, US urge NKorea to stop threatsThe top military officials of South Korea, Japanese and the United States urged North Korea on Friday to halt all unlawful activities threatening regional security as the three nations flew advanced warplanes for a joint exercise in a show of force against Pyongyang.
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