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NORTH KOREA

Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Mar 4, 2019
Is Pyongyang slicing the salami too thin?
The second U.S.-North Korea summit meeting in Hanoi was a fiasco and provided no relief for Japan.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 4, 2019
What's next for U.S.-North Korea talks?
Now that the U.S. has exhausted what it usually considers its ultimate diplomatic mean — a summit with the its president — how to move forward from this point on will be uncertain at best.
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 4, 2019
The upside of 'no agreement' in Hanoi
By walking away at the Hanoi summit, both the U.S. and North Korea now have an opportunity to reconvene talks at the working level and allow for greater creativity in reaching long-term, sustainable solutions that summit diplomacy was unlikely to achieve.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Mar 4, 2019
U.S. and South Korea kick off smaller-scale military drills as Trump blasts costs
The U.S. and South Korea militaries began a new, smaller-scale joint exercise Monday after the Trump administration canceled large-scale drills just days after U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un met in Hanoi for their second summit that ended without any deal on denuclearizing...
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics / ANALYSIS
Mar 2, 2019
Kim-Trump summit exposes frailties over North Korea
As the dust settles in the wake of the much-vaunted and, ultimately, failed second summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Vietnam, are the two countries now back at square one?
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / ANALYSIS
Mar 2, 2019
Melting missiles: Just one problem with F-35s stopping North Korean weapons
Looking for a quick way to stop North Korean missiles immediately after liftoff, the Pentagon is studying as a near-term option whether a group of F-35 fighter jets hovering around North Korean airspace could pick off freshly launched rockets.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics / ANALYSIS
Mar 1, 2019
For Japan, 'no deal' at Kim-Trump summit beats a bad deal with concessions to nuclear North Korea
At a glance, this week's Kim-Trump summit meeting in Hanoi, held to foster progress toward the denuclearization of North Korea, generated few tangible victories — despite U.S. President Donald Trump's boasts of the "tremendous" achievements he had expected.
EDITORIALS
Mar 1, 2019
A friendly failure in Hanoi
Trump was right to demand more of North Korea.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 1, 2019
Trump-Kim summitry a work in progress
Engaging with Kim to establish a working relationship that can greatly reduce the risks of a catastrophic war is a big deal.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Mar 1, 2019
A chance to strengthen the weak link of Tokyo-Seoul ties?
The need to quickly improve diplomatic, economic and security relations between Tokyo and Seoul are all too clear.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / ANALYSIS
Mar 1, 2019
As Trump returns empty-handed from summit with Kim, some in Washington breathe sigh of relief
Among some U.S. officials, congressional aides, analysts and others who track North Korea, there was a sigh of relief Thursday as President Donald Trump headed home from Vietnam empty-handed from his talks with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / ANALYSIS
Mar 1, 2019
Burden falls back on diplomats after Trump and Kim fail to reach deal on North Korea nuclear arms
The failure of U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to secure even a limited deal at their second nuclear summit means any breakthrough now depends on working-level talks that have made little progress since last year.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Mar 1, 2019
After summit collapse, North Korea's Kim vows to meet Trump again
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un vowed to meet again with President Donald Trump to continue nuclear negotiations after a two-day summit between the leaders collapsed Thursday amid discord over sanctions and conflicting accounts of Pyongyang's demands.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Mar 1, 2019
Pyongyang disputes Trump claim Kim sought end to all sanctions, warns leader may have 'lost the will' for deal
North Korea struck a pessimistic tone after the collapse of a two-day summit between Kim Jong Un and Donald Trump, hardening its stance with a warning by a top diplomat that Kim may have "lost the will" to reach an agreement on curtailing his country's nuclear program.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics / ANALYSIS
Feb 28, 2019
'Sometimes you just have to walk': Trump and Kim fail to reach nuke deal at second summit
“It was about the sanctions,” the U.S. president said. “Basically they wanted the sanctions lifted in their entirety, and we couldn't do that.”
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / ANALYSIS
Feb 28, 2019
Focus on North Korea's nuclear arsenal obscures threat posed by chemical and biological weapons
As U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un held their summit in Vietnam, the narrow focus on nuclear weapons obscured a major danger: Kim holds the whip in a three-ring circus of weapons of mass destruction. The other two rings, adjacent and in many ways more frightening, feature...
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Feb 28, 2019
'Friends always!' Dennis Rodman touts Trump for Nobel in open letter ahead of U.S.-North Korea summit
Ahead of the U.S.-North Korean leaders second summit in Hanoi, there was perhaps no one who saw it more as a slam-dunk opportunity for peace than former U.S. basketball star and friend to leader Kim Jong Un than Dennis Rodman.
Ukraine risks losing all Russian land it seized within months, U.S. says
Ukrainian soldiers carry the coffins of three comrades killed in recent fighting in eastern Ukraine during their funeral in the western city of Lviv on Dec. 20.
Osamu Suzuki, who ran Suzuki Motor for five decades, dies at 94
Osamu Suzuki, a former president of Suzuki Motor, in October 2016
Uranium detected in extracted Fukushima nuclear fuel debris
Nuclear fuel debris recovered from the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant No. 2 reactor
Rejecting the Nippon Steel bid is a slap in the face to Japan
U.S. Steel workers who support the takeover by Nippon Steel rally outside the company's headquarters in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in September.
Flu cases surge above ‘warning’ levels in much of Japan
Authorities are calling for utmost vigilance as Japan heads into the New Year holiday season, when many people plan getaways.
How Hokkaido quietly became a culinary treasure trove in 2024
The central Hokkaido city of Asahikawa made headlines this year when one of its suburbs was named as the best place to live in Japan — a ranking earned in part due to the community's many outstanding restaurants and cafes.
Bling-Bang, baby: The J-pop soundtrack of 2024
Hip-hop duo Creepy Nuts' uptempo “Bling-Bang-Bang-Born” quickly became a TikTok favorite after its release days into 2024, which helped turn the song into a Billboard Japan Hot 100 topper for 19 weeks before rising up viral streaming charts around the world.
Flu cases surge above ‘warning’ levels in much of Japan
Authorities are calling for utmost vigilance as Japan heads into the New Year holiday season, when many people plan getaways.
Dodgers voice Stephen Nelson paves way for Japanese Americans in media
Dodgers announcers Stephen Nelson and Jessica Mendoza pose with Ichiro Suzuki before a game against the Mariners in Seattle in 2023.
Start the new year not with one temple visit, but seven
At each shrine and temple, priests create festive, decorative go-shuin stamps, and you can collect the marks of all seven of the lucky gods on one piece of paper (called a shikishi) to serve as a good-luck talisman.

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