Pentagon report says forces likely training for strikes against U.S., allies
China's military has expanded overwater bomber operations farther from the country's shores, likely training for strikes against the United States and its allies, including Japan, the U.S. Defense Department said Thursday. In an annual report to Congress on military and security developments involving China, the ...
Guam hopes to attract more Japanese tourists after their numbers fell from top market
Guam is stepping up its effort to attract more Japanese tourists after they fell from the top spot of visitors who vacation on the Pacific island. According to the Guam Visitors Bureau, arrivals from Japan fell 16.8 percent in 2017 to 620,547, giving way to ...
Some see U.S. already on North Korea war footing, waiting for allies to get onboard
Is a war pitting the U.S. and its allies against nuclear-armed North Korea on the horizon? While most analysts, regional security experts and government officials say the odds of conflict erupting on the Korean Peninsula remain low, observers say there has in recent months been ...
Fewer Japanese tourists visit Guam amid North Korea missile scare
The island had been a popular tourist destination for Japanese nationals who accounted for roughly half the total number of visitors to Guam in 2016.
Taiwan's president visits U.S. territory of Guam despite Chinese ire
Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen arrived on the U.S. Pacific island of Guam on Friday on her way back from visiting diplomatic allies in the Pacific — a trip that caused strong objections from China. Beijing had urged the United States not to allow Tsai to ...
The Hyogo Prefectural Government said Wednesday it will hold an evacuation drill Sept. 17 in Nishinomiya to prepare for a possible ballistic missile attack. The drill, also involving the central government, will be held in response to North Korea's recent announcement of a plan to ...
Guam urges Japanese tourists to ignore North Korea missile threat
Guam's lieutenant governor on Wednesday urged Japanese people to visit the Pacific island despite North Korea's threat to fire missiles near the U.S. territory, saying Washington has prepared for any contingency. "All the defenses are already in place" such as the Aegis missile defense system, ...
Japan may be able to shoot down North Korean missiles but has no legal basis: experts
While some experts differ regarding the technical capability to shoot down a North Korean missile flying toward Guam, all agree the SDF is not legally allowed to do so.
What Kim Jong Un hopes to gain from nuclear game plan
On October 3, 1942 — 75 years ago this year — a prototype German V-2 rocket launched from the German military firing range at Peenemunde in the Baltic reached an altitude of 84.5 km (52.5 miles). It was, by some definitions, the first human-built ...
North Korea will develop a plan by mid-August to launch four intermediate range missiles at the U.S. territory of Guam before presenting it to leader Kim Jong Un, who will make a decision on whether to proceed, the North's state media said on Thursday. The ...
North Korea threatens missile strike near key U.S. military outpost on Guam
Nuclear-armed North Korea revealed Wednesday that it has drafted a plan to strike the area near a major U.S. military base on the island of Guam with a barrage of missiles, state-run media said. The North's official Korean Central News Agency, quoting a spokesman for ...
The United States plans to transfer about 4,000 of 19,000 marines stationed in Okinawa Prefecture to Guam over a period from 2024 to 2028, the head of the U.S. Pacific Command said Wednesday. Adm. Harry Harris told a congressional hearing that "the movement of the ...
