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Lebanon tries to dispel Israeli allegations of secret Hezbollah rocket sites
Lebanon's foreign minister led dozens of ambassadors to locations near Beirut's international airport on Monday, including a golf course and a soccer stadium, seeking to dispel Israeli allegations of secret Hezbollah rocket facilities. In a speech before the U.N. General Assembly last week, Israeli Prime ...
The municipal assembly for Abu, named in May as a potential host site, unanimously adopted a petition asking the Defense Ministry to retract its plan to deploy the missile system.
Top official in North Korean missile, nuclear weapons program dies
A veteran North Korean official who was sanctioned for his suspected role in development of the country's nuclear and missile technology has died, the North announced Tuesday. The state-run KCNA news agency said "academician and professor" Ju Kyu Chang died Monday at the age of ...
Japanese and North Korean university students resume exchanges in Pyongyang
Japanese and North Korean university students discussed thorny issues such as Pyongyang's past abductions of Japanese nationals in the North's capital last week, resuming an annual exchange program that had been canceled the previous year amid easing tensions on the Korean Peninsula. In the program, ...
Japan's Defense Ministry to request record ¥5.3 trillion budget for fiscal 2019
The Defense Ministry is considering making a record request of over ¥5.3 trillion for the fiscal 2019 budget, informed sources said. The amount will be over ¥100 billion bigger than its initial budget for fiscal 2018 because of the plan to buy into Aegis Ashore, ...
Japan eases alert level for North Korean ballistic missile launches
Japan has lowered its alert level for North Korean ballistic missile launches amid diminishing tensions following the historic summit between the U.S. and North Korean leaders last month, government sources said Monday. As a result, the Maritime Self-Defense Force's Aegis vessels, which are equipped with ...
Japan to cancel missile evacuation drills following Trump-Kim summit
Tokyo has decided to cancel nationwide evacuation exercises designed to prepare for North Korean ballistic missile launches, a government source said Thursday. Following North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's summit this month with U.S. President Donald Trump, the government has changed its stance on the ...
Saudi air defenses on Sunday intercepted a ballistic missile over the southern city of Jizan after being fired from rebel-held territory in neighboring Yemen, a Saudi-led military coalition said. Debris from the missile landed in residential areas of Jizan without causing casualties, the coalition said ...
Israel orders Golan missile shelters readied over Iran 'activity' in Syria
The Israeli army said Tuesday it has asked authorities in the occupied Golan Heights to open and prepare missile shelters over "irregular activity by Iranian forces in Syria," across the demarcation line. "Following the identification of irregular activity of Iranian forces in Syria, the IDF ...
Chinese missiles are transforming balance of power in the skies
For a quarter century, the U.S. and its allies owned the skies, fighting wars secure in the knowledge that no opponent could compete in the air. As tensions with Russia and China surge, that's no longer the case. Rapid technological progress in China's aerospace industry, ...
U.S. to conduct next test of antiballistic missile co-developed with Japan by end of 2018: Pentagon
The United States will conduct its next test of an antiballistic missile it has jointly developed with Japan by the end of the year, following a test failure in January, a Pentagon official said Wednesday. The Standard Missile-3 Block IIA is "an extremely capable interceptor," ...
The Osaka District Court on Friday dismissed a request by a resident to halt two reactors at the Takahama nuclear power plant in Fukui Prefecture because they might be attacked by North Korean missiles. While noting that North Korea is developing missiles that put Japan ...
