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South Korean President Park Geun-hye will travel to Washington for an October 16 summit meeting with U.S. President Barack Obama to discuss issues including North Korea’s nuclear program, South Korea said on Thursday.

A U.S. military helicopter crashed off the Japanese island of Okinawa on Wednesday, injuring six people, NBC News reported.

The desperately poor nation is led by an egotistical madman, and in another effort to distract the people of North Korea from thinking too much about the ongoing starvation in the country, “Great Leader” Kim Jong Un has declared that the country will now operate in...

What makes this choice interesting is that Windows 10 isn’t specifically localized for North Korea’s dialect of Korean (which is different from that used in the South, similar to the difference between American and British English) and the operating system’s...

“Ulchi Freedom Guardian will entail tough military counteraction of the army of the DPRK to firmly defend the dignity of the nation and sovereignty of the country”, the North’s Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said in a statement.

“The overall situation in the South China Sea is stable and there is no possibility of major conflict”, said a statement issued by the Chinese Foreign Ministry early yesterday morning.

Since then, Japan, North Korea and South Korea have run on the same local time – nine hours ahead of Greenwich Mean Time.

Back in 2007, Venezuela also decided to turn its clocks to use the daytime more effectively.

In February Prime Minster Abe said had the expanded security measures been in place, he could have sent in the military to rescue two Japanese hostages held by the Islamic State that were eventually executed.

“The white paper has launched unfounded accusations against China’s constructions on its own islands – obviously an attempt to depict China as a bully in regional conflicts, supporting the Japanese government’s knavish claim over the disputed waters in the...

TOKYO (AP) – The opposition walked out before the vote, and thousands of protesters took to the streets the previous night, but none of that stopped Japan’s lower house of parliament from approving a contentious set of bills Thursday to allow a greater role for the...

An anti-war protester yells while waving a sign that reads: “Don’t destroy Article 9 of the constitution” during a Thursday rally in Tokyo after Japan’s lower house of parliament approved legislation that would expand the role of the nation’s military.

The unpopular legislation was crafted after Abes Cabinet adopted a new security policy previous year that reinterpreted a part of Japans post-World War II constitution that only permitted the nations military to use force for its self-defense.

Zaha Hadid’s controversial plans for the 2020 Olympic Stadium in Tokyo have been scrapped.

Sakari Momoi, a retired teacher who lived in Saitama city north of Tokyo, passed away due to chronic kidney failure Sunday, Kyodo News cited the municipal office as saying.