Taiwan's top diplomat has ripped into the Chinese Communist Party's official newspaper after it referred to the island nation as part of China in a tweet praising Taipei's passage of a law legalizing same-sex marriage. In a Twitter post Sunday morning, Taiwan Foreign Minister Joseph ...

Former U.S. national security adviser H.R. McMaster has said that the United States accepting North Korea as a de facto nuclear power would prompt Japan to debate whether or not it needed its own nuclear weapons, a claim that comes amid rekindled tensions on ...

North Korea has lashed out at the United States for criticizing it over human rights abuses, with the country's Foreign Ministry warning such moves were pushing Pyongyang in "a direction where the U.S. does not want to see." A senior official with the Foreign Ministry's ...

U.S. President Donald Trump, who has repeatedly touted the halt of North Korean missile tests as one of his top foreign policy achievements, has played down the significance of leader Kim Jong Un's recent decision to test short-range missiles. The North's second missile launch in ...

North Korea's two launches of short-range missiles in just five days — part of what it said were military drills designed to bolster the nuclear-armed country's "various long-range strike means" — will heap more pressure on U.S. President Donald Trump amid stalled nuclear talks. The ...

North Korea fired two projectiles Thursday that appeared to be short-range missiles, the South's military said, just days after it launched a presumed ballistic missile amid stalled denuclearization talks with the United States. The projectiles were fired from the northwestern area of Kusong in an ...

Naval vessels from Japan, the U.S., India and the Philippines have sailed together through the disputed South China Sea in a nearly weeklong multilateral drill amid tensions with China over the strategic waterway. The Maritime Self-Defense Force's Izumo — Japan's largest flat-topped helicopter carrier — ...

A Chinese military spokesman has said the People's Liberation Army will remain "on high alert and take all necessary measures" to protect what it claims is its "national sovereignty" after the U.S. Navy sent two warships near two Chinese-held man-made islands in the disputed ...

North Korea fired several rounds of unidentified short-range "projectiles" into the Sea of Japan on Saturday, the South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff said. The North "fired multiple rounds of unidentified projectiles from its east coast town of Wonsan in the northeastern direction between 9:06 ...

More people across the globe are unhappy with the state of democracy in their countries than are content, according to a new poll that showed 56 percent of people in Japan voicing dissatisfaction. The survey, released Tuesday by the Pew Research Center, found that 56 ...