#Northern Japan

With two feet planted firmly at the 38th parallel, US Defense Secretary James Mattis on Friday accused North Korea of building a nuclear arsenal to “threaten others with catastrophe, according to local media reports. Mattis, who is visiting South Korea and a handful of regional allies before

Via TheAntiMedia.org, The Japanese utility Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) has received approval to operate reactors for the first time since the 2011 Fukushima meltdown. On Wednesday, the Nuclear Regulation Authority said TEPCO’s two reactors in northern Japan met new and stricter safety

Update 5: US Secretary of State Tillerson has issued a rather aggressive (towards China and Russia) statement: North Korea's Missile Launch   North Korea's provocative missile launch represents the second time the people of Japan, a treaty ally of the United States, have been directly

Less than a day after US officials observed North Korea moving mobile missile launchers and engaging in preparations for what appears to be another missile test, a North Korean state committee has stepped up its belligerent rhetoric, threatening to use nuclear weapons to “sink” Japan and reduce the

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