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Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / ANALYSIS
Sep 29, 2016
Rethinking U.S. policy of 'strategic patience' with North Korea
North Korea's fifth nuclear test on Sept. 9 — its second this year — and its raft of missile tests have left nations groping for an appropriate response, one that could arrest Pyongyang's inexorable march toward atomic disaster.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Sep 29, 2016
The underground pipeline shaping North Korea's new capitalists
As the United States and other nations grasp for new ways to sanction Pyongyang in response to its latest nuclear test, some North Korean defectors see investment in its rudimentary market economy as a way to foment gradual change from within.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Sep 28, 2016
U.S. to deploy anti-missile THAAD system to South Korea 'as soon as possible'
The United States plans to speed up deployment of the THAAD anti-missile system to South Korea given the pace of North Korea's missile tests, and it will be stationed there "as soon as possible," a senior U.S. official said Tuesday.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 27, 2016
Life in the shadow of North Korea
The one place in the world that's not on edge about North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un's increasingly scary militarism is South Korea.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Sep 26, 2016
U.S., South Korea conduct joint naval exercises in the Sea of Japan
The U.S. and South Korea conducted joint naval exercises in the Sea of Japan on Monday amid growing tensions with North Korea over its nuclear weapons program.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Sep 26, 2016
Some of North Korea's old friends take steps to isolate regime of Kim Jong Un
From kicking out North Korean workers and ending visa-free travel for its citizens, to stripping flags of convenience from its ships, Cold War-era allies from Poland to Mongolia are taking measures to squeeze the isolated country.
ASIA PACIFIC
Sep 26, 2016
China probes North Korea bank suspected of nuclear link: report
China is investigating executives of a North Korean bank believed to finance the illicit procurement of arms and materials related to the isolated country's banned nuclear program, South Korea's JoongAng Daily reported on Monday.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Sep 24, 2016
U.S. says THAAD not negotiable, but confident on North Korea sanctions
The planned U.S. deployment of the THAAD anti-missile system in South Korea is not negotiable as part of efforts to agree new U.N. sanctions on North Korea after its fifth nuclear test, but Washington is confident tougher steps will be agreed before long, the senior U.S. diplomat for Asia said Friday....
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 22, 2016
Offer Kim security for a freeze
A freeze on the development of North Korea's nuclear weapons and missile programs in exchange for an end to sanctions and the establishment of ties with the U.S. would be a win-win situation for everyone.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 22, 2016
Preparing for North Korea's inevitable collapse
Washington should quietly push China and South Korea to begin planning with the U.S. for the day the North Korean regime falls.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Sep 22, 2016
U.S. bombers fly over South Korea for second time since North's nuclear test
Two supersonic U.S. bombers flew over South Korea on Wednesday — with one landing on the Korean Peninsula for the first time in 20 years — amid soaring tensions after the North's fifth nuclear test on Sept. 9.

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