The last time North Korea fired a ballistic missile over Japan was in 2017. This marks North Korea’s 23rd missile launch this year, including the most ballistic missiles fired in a single year ...

Driven by concerns over China’s military might and North Korea’s provocations, Japan is moving towards greater defence ...

National Security Adviser Wi Sung-lac met with his Japanese counterpart, Masataka Okano, in Seoul on Friday to discuss ways ...

North Korea said that it plans to launch a satellite, which may be an attempt to put its first military reconnaissance satellite into orbit. It said the launch window is from May 31 to June 11.

In 2014, North Korea promised to conduct a survey of all Japanese still in North Korea from the end of the Second World War, to include the abduction victims. In return, Japan would lift its own ...

The South’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said the military identified and tracked the individual near the central-west section of ...

North Korea has accused Japan of sabotaging peace efforts on the Korean peninsula “at any cost.” The ongoing animosity between Pyongyang and Tokyo threatens to mar progress as the region and ...

North Korea launched an intermediate-range ballistic missile on Tuesday that flew over Japan for the first time in five years, the South Korean government said, triggering alerts across Japan.

She was just one of more than 93,000 people who left Japan for North Korea from 1959 to 1984. Most departed in the first wave, which lasted until 1963.

Japan says North Korea abducted at least 17 Japanese citizens, possibly many more, during the 1970s and 1980s. Twelve remain missing. They include school children and others living along Japan’s ...

Japan and North Korea will face off in back to back matches for the 2026 FIFA World Cup qualifying. The first game will take place in Tokyo with the later being played in Pyongyang.

The North Korean flag is seen during the 19th Asian Games gold medal match between Japan and North Korea’s women’s soccer teams at Huanglong Sports Centre Stadium in Hangzhou, China, on Oct. 6 ...