Asia Pacific Jun 5, 2023
South Korean support for building own nukes plummets, survey finds
The plunge in support comes despite North Korea’s increased pace of missile launches and weapons tests.
The plunge in support comes despite North Korea’s increased pace of missile launches and weapons tests.
The meeting, the first in more than three years, was another signal of the neighbors’ rapprochement on the security front after a 2018 fire-control radar incident.
Defense Minister Yasukazu Hamada said the three countries would work toward launching the trilateral system “within the next few months."
The U.S. and Japanese defense chiefs met for talks in Tokyo a day after a failed North Korean rocket carrying a spy satellite briefly triggered an emergency alert for Okinawa Prefecture.
The rocket carrying the country's first military spy satellite failed due to engine problems, state-run media said, after the launch prompted Japan to briefly issue an alert for Okinawa.
The U.S. said a Chinese fighter jet had flown directly in front of a U.S. reconnaissance plane — the latest in a series of close encounters between the two powers.
A top North Korean defense official said the satellite will be "indispensable" in tracking and coping with "the dangerous military acts of the U.S. and its vassal forces."
Pyongyang plans to launch a military satellite between Wednesday and June 11, in what would be its first space rocket launch in more than seven years.
The Group of Seven summit wrapped up with the Ukrainian leader making his case for further support in repelling Russia's invasion.
Ahead of a bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the G7 summit, Kishida and Yoon visited the memorial together, placing flowers in front of it in a highly symbolic gesture.