By Benjamin Sand North Korean and U.S. officials met this week to discuss the nuclear standoff on the Korean Peninsula. It appears they came no closer to resuming multilateral talks on ending Pyongyan...
By Michael Drudge South Korean President Roh Moo-Hyun says a peaceful approach to solving North Korea's nuclear threat is preferred over the more forceful action advocated by some hard-liners in the U...
By Steve Herman Japan is lodging a protest with North Korea after forensic tests confirmed that what Pyongyang said were the remains of a Japanese woman abducted by North Korean agents are actually th...
By Steve Herman Diplomatic efforts continue to try getting North Korea back to the negotiating table to discuss dismantling its nuclear weapons program. Japanese and Russian diplomats say it is too so...
By Steve Herman Japan has taken another step towards freeing itself from military restrictions in place since the end of World War II. The changes are a significant retreat from the pacifist policies...
By Kate Pound Dawson Recent rumors have prompted speculation that North Korea's government could be facing dangerous instability. While many experts say the speculation is overblown, they warn that Se...
By Ron Corben Cambodia's prime minister has told aid donor countries he will step up efforts to curb corruption in his country. Mr. Hun Sen's comments were made as donor countries and international in...
By Michael Kitchen At the opening of a two-day national conference on illegal drugs, President Hamid Karzai likened opium cultivation to the Soviet Union's occupation of Afghanistan during the 1980s....
By Douglas Bakshian U.S. plans to withdraw about 70,000 troops from Europe and Asia are prompting defense officials in Europe to modernize their own security strategies to deal with threats in the 21s...
Douglas Bakshian U.S. plans to withdraw 30,000 troops from Germany are a sign of changing international conditions, according to a German government spokesman, and he says the move comes as no great s...
