Japanese Delegation and European Parliament Engage in Dialogue for Improving the Human Rights Situation in North Korea On May 4, 2017, a delegation led by Katsunobu...
The abduction of Japanese citizens by North Korean agents decades ago is a national tragedy. It is designated by the Abe administration as the “Most...
“There’s a tendency to underestimate North Korea’s capabilities for political reasons,” Jenny Town, a leading researcher from John Hopkins University in Washington DC, said...
East Asia is in the midst of tremendous geopolitical changes. Japanese politicians have preferred to play it safe, frustrating Japanese conservatives who see the...
The Trump administration in April launched a missile attack on a Syrian air base, apparently as punishment for the Assad regime’s supposed use of chemical...
This week, in the wake of increasingly shrill North Korean threats, Vice President Mike Pence is in East Asia, rallying the US-South Korea-Japan alliance around the...
The Trump administration is using both military and economic means to exert strong pressure on North Korea as it races to strengthen its nuclear and missile...
Those who would destroy the international community’s rules and order must be unwaveringly opposed. In that regard, President Xi Jinping personally just witnessed the United States’...
Malaysia and North Korea seemed to have ended their diplomatic row, which was sparked by Kuala Lumpur’s investigation into the brutal murder of Kim Jong-Nam,...
As the new United States administration prepares for its’ first Heads of State summit with China it will be very important for America’s close allies in...
March 2017 marks twenty years since the families of Japanese citizens abducted by North Korea formed a group to represent their concerns. On the eve of...
North Korea chose the moment of the U.S.-Japan summit meeting to launch intermediate-range ballistic missiles into the Sea of Japan, and soon after assassinated Kim Jong-nam,...