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PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — In an implicit challenge to President Donald Trump, North Korea fired a ballistic missile early Sunday in its first such test of the year. North Korean state media said leader Kim Jong Un was at the site to observe the...

PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — North Korea reportedly fired a ballistic missile early Sunday in what would be its first such test of the year and an implicit challenge to President Donald Trump’s new administration. Details of the launch, including the...

Defense Secretary Jim Mattis reassured South Korea on Thursday that the United States would stand by its longtime Pacific ally, pledging to talk to Seoul officials about the deployment of a missile defense system intended to combat North Korean aggression...

North Korea conducted a ballistic missile test early on Sunday morning (local time), the first such test of the new Trump administration. The missile was fired into the sea, a provocative, though not unprecedented move by Pyongyang in violation of U...

This is a local re-up of a broad predictive overview of East Asian security issues in 2017 published first at the Lowy Institute a few days ago. The standard first line of reviews like this is to bemoan North Korea and China. I do a little of that here...