Residents of northern Japan woke up to horrifying alerts warning of a North Korean missile attack Tuesday morning, and many have told local news outlets they had little idea what to do or where to go to stay safe.
North Korea’s state propaganda outlets have not tempered their rhetoric in the hours following a shocking missile launch over northern Japan early Tuesday morning, instead threatening the United States and its allies with “nuclear catastrophe” if they continue to object to Pyongyang’s nuclear ambitions.
Contents: China and India announce pullback agreement on Doklam Plateau; Many unanswered questions about the China-India Doklam agreement; North Korea launches ballistic missile into Japan’s airspace
President Donald Trump answered North Korea’s missile launch over Japan with a statement declaring that “all options are on the table” for responding to their aggressive actions.
North Korea launched its latest missile on Monday, part of a series of launches seemingly intended to express anger at a joint U.S.-South Korean missile drill currently in progress. The Monday launch reportedly passed over Japanese territory, in a significant escalation of North Korea’s provocative behavior.
The Chinese Foreign Ministry blasted India over the Doklam border dispute on Thursday, accusing the Indian government duplicity and “slapping its own face” by planning to build a road in contested territory – much as China has already done.
North Korea’s state newspaper, Rodong Sinmun, published two editorials Wednesday threatening the use of “absolute force” against “mad guy” President Donald Trump and a “barrage of fire” over South Korea.
As State Department holds press conference with Japanese dignitaries, CNN journalist obsess on Steve Bannon’s influence in the White House
The American economy is being held back by stalled wages, but rising wages are boosting Japan’s robots-and-no-immigration economy, says the editor of a globalist publication owned by progressives billionaire Mike Bloomberg.
Contents: North Korea threatens US bases on island of Guam; Japan to deploy more advanced PAC-3 Patriot Missiles to defend U.S.; Japan’s government will invoke ‘collective self-defense’ to defend the United States
Japan continues taking the North Korean threat very seriously, following up on the resumption of air raid drills for the first time since World War 2 with the relocation of Patriot missile batteries to the heart of Tokyo on Thursday.
Friday at his New Jersey golf club, President Donald Trump answered questions after meeting with national security adviser H.R. McMaster, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley. Trump said, “South Korea is very happy,”
Japan’s annual defense report is focused on the threat from North Korea, but it also has a good deal to say about China. Those two Japanese concerns converge in a live-fire exercise held by the Chinese Navy off the Korean coast this week, in which dozens of different types of missiles were tested, air intercepts were simulated, ground assaults were practiced, and submarines prowled the waters.
A grim milestone appears to be passing, as both U.S. and Japanese intelligence analysts believe North Korea has developed the technology to miniaturize nuclear warheads and fit them inside long-range missiles, years ahead of schedule.
At the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) meeting this weekend, Australia and Japan joined the United States in calling for a legally binding “code of conduct” for the South China Sea. More to the point, they want an internationally-recognized legal barrier to China’s conduct in the region.
Fox News reports that “the once unthinkable has started to go mainstream in Japan”: a nuclear arsenal to deter North Korean and Chinese aggression.
Unusual submarine activity by North Korea may be a harbinger of submarine-launched missile tests to come, a worrying development given the outlaw regime’s recent advances in intercontinental ballistic missile technology.
Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and American President Donald Trump vowed to take “concrete actions” to discourage further North Korean belligerence following yet another missile launch last week in an extended phone conversation Monday.
Contents: North Korea tests a ballistic missile capable of reaching US mainland; South Korea’s president Moon approves new THAAD development; What could trigger another world war?; War between Russia and China
The Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, Boris Johnson, is anticipating “a fantastic, all-singing and all-dancing, UK-Japan free trade agreement” following talks in Tokyo. Speaking after a meeting with Japanese counterpart Fumio Kishida, the former Mayor of London said
TOKYO (AP) – British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said Friday his country stands “shoulder to shoulder” with Japan in efforts to put an end to North Korea’s nuclear and missile tests. “We all need to increase the pressure on Pyongyang
British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson is in Japan for talks on increasing security co-operation and trade after Brexit.
Contents: China establishes its first foreign military base, in Djibouti; Russia, India, Japan prepare for war with China
Nearly half of young Japenese people have had no sexual experiences by the time they are 30, according to a report by Japan’s National Institute of Population and Social Security Research.
The Japanese ambassador to the United Kingdom slapped down premature celebrations of a Japan/EU trade deal, as Hungary admits it is the EU which stands to lose if it does not make a deal with Britain.
The U.S. Air Force confirmed that two American bombers flew over disputed territories in the South China Sea on Friday, where China has illegally built numerous military facilities. China condemned the flight and demanded America stop “flaunting” its military assets in the region.
President Donald Trump met with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and President Moon Jae-in of South Korea ahead of the G20 summit in Hamburg, Germany on Friday. The three leaders issued a joint statement on “the serious and escalating threat posed by the nuclear and ballistic missile programs of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.”
In telephone calls ahead of the G20 summit, President Donald Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe agreed to partner with South Korean president Moon Jae-in and take the lead in the effort to tackle the threat posed by North Korea’s nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles build-up.
American and Japanese warplanes have been equipped with long-range Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missiles (JASSM), ideal weapons for taking out targets such as North Korea’s mobile missile launchers from great distances. The move has been described by South Korean defense officials as preparation for “another strategic provocation, such as a sixth nuclear test.”
Japan sent the Izumo-class helicopter carrier, the nation’s largest warship, into the South China Sea this week as part of an effort to strengthen ties with southeast Asian nations, angering the Chinese the government.
A joint military exercise between the United States and Japan began in the Sea of Japan on Thursday amid tensions caused by North Korean missile launches and a possible upcoming nuclear test.
In the wake of North Korea’s latest missile test, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said North Korea is “a top priority for the international community,” and his country would work with the United States to “take specific action to deter” the outlaw regime.
“MetaLimbs,” an extra set of robotic arms and hands which can be controlled with your feet, have been created by a group of Japanese engineers.
Sportswriter Terry Frei of the Denver Post may have thought he was boosting for the U.S.A. when he wrote a Tweet saying he was “uncomfortable” that a Japanese driver won the Indianapolis 500 on Memorial Day weekend, but he soon found that few if anyone agreed with him when Twitter lashed back at him but good.
Craig Shirley, author of the seminal Ronald Reagan biographies Last Act: The Final Years and Emerging Legacy of Ronald Reagan, Reagan’s Revolution, and Rendezvous with Destiny: Ronald Reagan and the Campaign That Changed America, was a guest on the Breitbart News Daily Memorial Day special edition.
Contents: North Korea launches ninth ballistic missile test this year; The US deploys three aircraft carriers to Korean waters amid talk of war
A survey published Sunday found that over half of Japanese voters support amending the pacifist constitution to legitimize the Self-Defense Forces (SDF), the nation’s armed forces, by giving them a formal role in the government.
On Friday, the Japanese cabinet approved a bill that would allow 83-year-old Emperor Akihito to abdicate his throne.
Contents: North Korea launches medium-range ballistic missile; North Korean missile launch sends a message to everyone
Sunday during a special broadcast of Fox News Channel’s “Special Report,” Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer reacted to comments made by President Donald Trump in an interview that had aired earlier of Fox News regarding how the United States should
