by Andrea Pinto The Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni flew to Japan to meet the Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida. Many topics will be covered in the bilateral meeting. One above all is the handover, on the occasion of the change of presidency of the G7 which passed from Japan to Italy in January 2024. But not […]
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Vard, the Norwegian company controlled by the Fincantieri Group, recently signed a contract with the leading Japanese company Toyo Construction for the design and construction of a cutting-edge hybrid cable-laying vessel. The value of the contract amounts to over 200 million dollars, as officially announced by the Group. The ship, designed to meet the needs of the growing […]
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Saudi Arabia is trying to become a partner in the consortium of nations that are funding the new generation fighter project called GCAP - Global Combat Air Program. Last December Italy, the United Kingdom and Japan decided to join the efforts of their defense industries to build the fighter of the future, the fighter [...]
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Through a complex logistical operation, the Air Force will deploy multiple assets in Japan for training activities, including four F-35 aircraft. The joint exercise will take place from 4 to 8 August at the Japanese Komatsu air base will see Air Force and Japan Air Self-Defense Force aircraft train together on different tasks in an operational scenario. For […]
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Of the two AW169s ordered, one is assigned to the fire department of a territorial authority, while the other will be able to meet new requirements arising from emerging market opportunities Mitsui Bussan Aerospace (MBA), the official distributor in Japan of the AW139, AW169 and AW189 helicopters, announced together with Leonardo new orders for two AW169 helicopters during the Paris Air Show. […]
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Next week, the leaders of the G7 countries will discuss China's use of "economic coercion" in foreign relations, according to a high-level US official. The issue will be part of a section of the final joint statement at the end of the May 19-21 summit in Hiroshima, Japan. They will also be referred to as […]
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Almost 70 AW139 in service in Japan today with more than 110.000 flight hours accumulated for multiple missions Over 150 Leonardo helicopters of various types fly in Japan today for public order, EMS, search and rescue, firefighting, civil protection, VIP transport /corporate, publishing support and utility missions in the maritime environment The AW139 is […]
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The Global Combat Air Program's (GCAP) ISANKE & Integrated Sensing and Non-Kinetic Effects & Integrated Communications Systems (ICS) domain brings together defense electronics excellence from three nations. At the ongoing DSEI Japan exhibition in Tokyo, leading defense electronics companies from Japan, the United Kingdom and Italy announced […]
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Leonardo participates in DSEI Japan (Tokyo, 15-17 March 2023 – stand H7-300), a reference event in the defense sector in the Asia-Pacific area, where it will exhibit technologies, products and systems in the aerospace, defense and safety. Also highlighted is the sixth generation systems system, also known as GCAP (Global Combat Air Program), the big news [...]
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Yesterday, North Korea tested two strategic cruise missiles by launching them from a submarine. The news was released by state news agency KCNA. The joint US-South Korea military exercise began today. KCNA said that the successful launch confirmed the reliability of the weapon system and tested the submarine offensive operations [...]
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Ansa reported that North Korea today launched two new ballistic missiles towards the Sea of Japan. The alarm was raised by the South Korean army general staff: two short-range ballistic missiles launched from the Samsok area, in Pyongyang, towards the Sea of Japan. The new launches [...]
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Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, during an election rally in Nara, was shot by a man who has already been arrested by local police. At the moment Abe seems to show no signs of life. According to local authorities, Shinzo Abe was shot in the chest and shoulders twice at close range. The episode is [...]
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Russia is moving to "downsize" a natural gas joint venture, putting the investments of Shell and two Japanese energy companies at risk. A decree issued last Thursday by President Vladimir Putin concerns Sakhalin-2, a project in the Russian Far East that serves as an exporter of liquefied natural gas to Japan. The decision […]
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The US, Japan, India and Australia - Quad - have started a maritime surveillance program in the Pacific to control Beijing. Biden spoke with the premier, the Japanese Kishida, the Indian Modi, and the Australian of Italian origin, Albanian, about all the world disputes, including Ukraine, specifying that the latter is more than a question [...]
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The Japanese government, worried about Chinese military expansionism, plans to increase its defense spending by $ 6,8 billion. At the instigation of the new Prime Minister Fumfo Kishida, Japan wants to anticipate the purchase of American Patriot missiles upgraded to defend the military bases in the southwestern islands from probable North Korean attacks. Furthermore Tokyo [...]
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The intelligence chiefs of the United States, Japan and South Korea will meet in Seoul behind closed doors this week. A very important meeting to bring South Korea and Japan closer together after the diplomatic quarrel of the last two years that risked compromising intelligence cooperation between the two countries. The agreement, known as [...]
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Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga is ready to announce his resignation, and for this reason he will not seek re-election to the presidency of the Liberal Democratic party, at the head of the ruling coalition. To report the Ansa that takes a Japanese agency, which cites government sources aware of the facts. Suga for the same reasons would have abandoned the [...]
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In April 2019, the Parma State Police made access to the home of a 48-year-old native of Reggio in search of a drug. The man, in fact, already arrested in 2018 by the same agents as he was found in possession of 7 ounces of hashish, was under investigation, at the local prosecutor's office, for drug trafficking. [...]
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Japan is running for cover to combat social unrest following the Covid-19 pandemic. Next week the Japanese country has decided to launch a powerful economic maneuver, injecting almost 76 billion euros into the economy. They will be used to give a cash bonus of 860 euros to all resident citizens and foreigners, regardless of [...]
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This morning at about 06.37 at the military airport of Pratica di Mare, the KC-767A aircraft of the Italian Air Force, coming from Tokyo Haneda (Japan) landed at 14.34, Italian time on 21 February. The flight carried 37 domestic and international passengers. Therefore, before landing at Pratica di Mare airport, the Air Force flight [...]
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According to reports from the South Korean General Staff, North Korea would have launched a ballistic missile from a submarine towards Japan. The missile, launched near the port of Wonsan, would have traveled about 450 kilometers reaching a maximum altitude of 910 kilometers before arriving in the Sea of Japan. The launch, which took place [...]
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GSOMIA pact between South Korea and Japan terminated South Korea formally stopped sharing information with Japan as relations between the two countries reached their lowest point since they formally recognized each other in 1968. Seoul's decision is the latest in a series of [...]
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Liaison Officer and Attaché of 23 joined together to talk about safety. China, USA, Mexico and Japan among the participants Common policies and intervention plans, support for new forms of collaboration, strategies to fight crime, this is the agenda for law enforcement representatives, present today at the operational meeting, organized by the Management [...]
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Leonardo: agreement with Suzuyo for the first AW139 helicopter simulator in Japan Leonardo and the Japanese Suzuyo & Co. (Suzuyo) announced today, at the Paris Aerospace Show, the signing of a Letter of Intent which provides for the purchase of a 'Full Motion' simulator of the AW139 helicopter. Under the agreement, the simulator will be located in a dedicated facility [...]
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The United States and Japan fear that the remains of the F-35 that fell into the sea last week could fall into the hands of the Russians or Chinese. The US and Japan have covered the affected sea area with a massive search device. The research involves P-8A Poseidon aircraft, intended for anti-submarine combat, and the destroyer Uss Stethem, equipped with [...]
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Japan accident F-35, the pilot had asked to interrupt the mission. Tokyo: ready for the updated 22 F
The pilot of the Japanese Air Force F-35A, lost at sea on the evening of Tuesday 9 April, during a training flight off the coast of northern Japan, had asked to stop the mission shortly before Misawa Air Base lost contact with the aircraft. The Japanese media reported it. The aircraft had disappeared [...]
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Leonardo and the Japanese operator Nakanihon Air Service, Co. (Nakanihon Air Service) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) at Heli-Expo for the start of a working group that will study the requirements for the use of the AW609 multirole tiltrotor. Several Japanese civil and government customers are already using Leonardo's advanced helicopter technologies with satisfaction. [...]
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According to reports from the Italian news agency Nova, the Japanese space probe Hayabusa 2 has successfully touched the surface of the asteroid Ryugu, 340 million kilometers from the earth. This was announced by the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (Jaxa). The arrival at the asteroid marks the beginning of the next phase in the Hayabusa mission, although it will take a few days to [...]
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Yellow Uranium Cake Police in Japan are studying how a man was able to put uranium up for sale through an online auction site run by Yahoo !, an Internet service provider based in California. Japanese news agencies reported Friday that the alleged product was exhibited inside [...]
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Japan has released some secret documents from 1942 relating to a Tokyo spy center led by Richard Sorge, a German who spied for the former Soviet Union and is often referred to as invaluable help for Moscow to win World War II. The documents describe the efforts made by the Japanese government, in time [...]
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The European Union and Japan have signed the historic Free Trade Agreement (EPA). The President of the Commission Jean-Claude Juncker and the President of the European Council Donald Tusk have signed the agreement which provides for the launch of various collaborations on multiple regional and multilateral issues. The agreement, signed after 4 years of negotiations, is aimed at increasing the exchange [...]
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In Japan, a strong earthquake caused at least three victims and hundreds of injured, according to an initial still provisional toll. The quake was recorded this morning near Osaka. No tsunami risk, however the authorities have decided to close the closed schools and stop transport. According to the US Earthquake Bureau, the [...]
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The Prime Minister of Iraq, Haider al-Abadi went to Japan to seek aid for the reconstruction of his country. After meeting, on Wednesday 4 April, the representatives of the main Japanese companies to discuss how to increase Japanese investments in Iraq, Prime Minister Haider chaired a meeting in Tokyo together with the Japanese Prime Minister, [...]
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Japan is probing with the North Korean government the possibility of organizing a bilateral summit, the Japanese newspaper Asahi reported today. Kim Jong Un's government has informed the leaders of the Korean Workers' Party of North Korea of the possibility of a summit with Japan, the newspaper said, citing sources [...]
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Despite warnings from US trading partners, Donald Trump has formalized his decision to impose import taxes of 25% on steel and 10% on aluminum. With the signing of the two decrees, Trump imposes import duties on steel and aluminum "pardoning", however, the main US allies. The new duties will be effective in 15 days [...]
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Japan is preparing to abandon domestic development projects for a new advanced fighter aircraft to replace the expensive F-2 fighter-bomber after 2030. In recent years, the Japanese Ministry of Defense had identified three alternatives to replace the expensive aircraft derived from the ' F-16, and developed independently by Japan with the help of thrusters [...]
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The Nova agency announced that, last weekend, the Japanese Defense Minister, Itsunori Onodera, visited the Misawa air base, in Aomori prefecture, a month after the deployment of the first F-fighter-bomber there. 35A supplied to the National Air Self-Defense Forces. During the visit, the minister [...]
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The collaboration agreement in the field of strategic studies between the Centro Alti Studi della Difesa (Casd) and the Japanese National Institute for Defense Studies (NIDS) was signed at the Italian Embassy in Tokyo. The ceremony, attended by Ambassador Giorgio Starace and accompanied by the Defense Officer, Colonel Francesco Giordano, saw guests from the Nisd [...]
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Japan's Foreign Minister Taro Kono will receive his Mongolian counterpart, Foreign Minister Damdin Tsogtbaatar, next week to discuss North Korea. The news was released by a Japanese government source quoted by the local newspaper "Japan Times". Tsogtbaatar, whose country has diplomatic ties with Pyongyang, has [...]
read moreAs reported by the Nova agency, the economic and regulatory ecosystem for Japanese producers of "clean" energy from domestic systems will radically change next year. In fact, in November 2019 the ten-year system that obliges the country's large utilities to purchase energy produced by households at fixed rates will expire. The filing of this regulatory scheme has already [...]
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Prime Minister Shinzo Abe reiterated the Japanese government's commitment to relocate a controversial US air base stationed in Okinawa, Japan's southernmost prefecture. This is due to the growing antipathy on the island to a recent massive US military arrival and related misadventures. "By gaining the understanding of local citizens, we will proceed with [...]
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The Japanese foreign ministry, through a note on its website, announced that the eighth session of negotiations between Japan and Turkey for the adoption of an economic partnership agreement was concluded yesterday in Ankara. Representing the Japanese delegation for negotiations on free trade and economic partnership was present [...]
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As announced by the Japanese Foreign Ministry, in a statement, the capital of Tajikistan, Dushanbe, hosted last weekend the twelfth high-level meeting between officials of the Central Asia-Japan Dialogue. During the meeting there was a discussion on cooperation between Japan and Central Asian countries, in particular transport, logistics, [...]
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One of Japan's largest digital currency exchanges reports it has lost around $ 534 million (£ 380 million) of virtual money in a hacking attack on its network. This is Coincheck where deposits and withdrawals have been suspended for all crypto-currencies except Bitcoin as it has evaluated [...]
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North Korea shipped coal using a Russian route last year. Unloaded in two Moscow ports, the coal was then transported to South Korea and Japan, in a probable violation of UN sanctions. The UN Security Council had banned coal exports on 5 August [...]
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According to reports from the Nova Agency, Toyota Tsusho Corp is developing a system for connecting electric cars, which would then function in all respects as batteries, to the national distribution network. In this way, the cars would "transform" into a dynamic energy storage system, which can be drawn on in a controlled manner based on [...]
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(by Pasquale PREZIOSA) President Trump accepted, on the first day of his inauguration, the congratulatory phone call from Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-Wen. The last official contact with the Taipei authorities on the US side dates back to 1979. Right from the start, the change of strategy in Trump's international policy towards China was evident. [...]
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Japan is considering restructuring the Izumo aircraft carrier so that it can land U.S. stealth fighter-type F-35B fighters, government sources said, as Tokyo faces China's maritime expansion and North Korea's nuclear and missile development. Japan has never had a complete aircraft carrier after the defeat of the Second [...]
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The United States, Japan and South Korea will hold two days of ballistic missile testing this week as tensions rise in the region over North Korea's rapidly growing weapons programs, Nova reported. This was reported by the respective ministries of defense relaunched by the local press. Korea [...]
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Japan is planning to acquire offensive surface-to-air missiles to counter North Korea's military threat, according to the Tokyo Defense Minister. Itsunori Onodera clarified that his ministry plans to ask for a special budget for the fiscal year starting in April 2018, to be able to purchase the missiles [...]
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According to the NOVA agency, the Japanese emperor Akihito will almost certainly abdicate in March or April next year. This was reported by Japanese government sources today, on the eve of the next meeting of the Imperial Household Agency scheduled for 1 December. The date of the meeting was confirmed today by the cabinet secretary [...]
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The US military authorities on Okinawa Island, Japan, have imposed a ban on alcohol consumption on the military stationed there. The new provision, after a fatal accident during a collision between a US military truck and a private vehicle which caused the death of a 61-year-old man driving the [...]
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United States President Donald Trump has arrived in Tokyo, the first stop on his first presidential trip to Asia. On the agenda of the day, the North Korean nuclear crisis and trade. Air Force One landed at Yokota Air Base west of Tokyo after an eight-hour flight from Hawaii. The president [...]
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The threats from the Pyongyang regime and the missile tests in recent months have put the whole area on alert. The US-South Korea, India-Japan and many other countries that feel threatened for various reasons are intensifying. Perhaps it is the prelude to an impending American attack? Meanwhile Japan in [...]
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The Marine of India and Japan began an anti-submarine drill in the Indian Ocean yesterday which will end on October 31st. The operations take place in the Arabian Sea and involve a long-range P-8 Poseidon reconnaissance aircraft of the Indian Navy and two P-3 Orions of the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force. The P-3 Orions have [...]
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Typhoon Lan reached the central southern coasts of Japan in the early hours of Monday, with all its violence causing at least two deaths and one person missing, due to strong winds and violent rainfall. Lan is the twenty-first typhoon of the season, coming from the side of the Pacific Ocean, it had caused extensive damage during [...]
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Prime Minister Shinzo Abe won the election. The Liberal Democratic Party of Abe (LDP), which was favored in the polls, according to the exit polls released by the public broadcaster NHK would obtain between 253 and 300 of the 465 deputies that make up the lower house, and would therefore have an absolute majority (233 seats ); together with the current government partner Komeito, who [...]
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Japan intends to support the agreement signed with Iran by the six major powers, including the United States, despite the fact that US President Donald Trump has decided in recent days not to certify the agreement. The Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Kono reiterated this to his Iranian counterpart Javad Zarif through a videoconference, whose resolutions [...]
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A very positive day for Mercedes, Lewis Hamilton said, commenting on the first pole position won at Suzuka in the Japanese Grand Prix: “It's incredible, it was a very positive day. Every ride was great. I've never been able to find a good balance in the past, but we finally made it, the car [...]
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The 2017 Nobel Prize for Literature goes to Kazuo Ishiguro Japanese by birth but British by adoption. The writer was born on November 8, 1954 in the infamous Nagasaki which only nine years earlier, due to the effects of the atomic bomb, had known total devastation. In 1959 the family moved, for a stay that would [...]
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The missile just launched from North Korea had a range of approximately 3.700 kilometers and most likely sank in the North Pacific. Seoul military sources told Yonhap. The missile flew to a height of approximately 770 kilometers. South Korean maneuvers have been underway in the Sea of Japan for several hours, [...]
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New threats arrive from Pyongyang, which announces that it wants to use nuclear weapons to "sink" Japan and "reduce the United States to ashes and obscurity". They are launched by the North Korean Committee for Asia-Pacific Peace, which manages the regime's external relations and propaganda activity. The Committee accuses the two countries of holding them responsible for [...]
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Mario Draghi takes time on Qe Quantitative easing: the decision on the next downsizing of the bond purchase program postponed to October. And it does so by pushing itself to the maximum limit in the field of exchange rates: it describes the strong euro as a "source of uncertainty" that is beginning to worry. But the euro, instead of depreciating as expected, driven by [...]
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Tension skyrocketing on the Korean peninsula. A few days after launching a missile that flew over Japan, North Korea conducts its sixth nuclear test since 2006, the most powerful yet, and announces that it has tested a hydrogen bomb with "perfect success". A decisive escalation in the tension between Pyongyang on the one hand, [...]
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New provocation from North Korea. After the launches of two Hwasong-14 intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) on 4 and 28 July capable of hitting the US, Pyongyang would have carried out its sixth thermonuclear test by detonating, this time a hydrogen bomb (H bomb) is feared , in an underground site. Explosion identified thanks to the shock caused [...]
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Millions of Japanese woke up to an alarming message from the government, on cell phones and via email, urging them to stay indoors and seek refuge because a North Korean missile was flying over the territory. The sirens sounded on all the locations located in the trajectory of the ballistic missile, which flew over Japanese territory [...]
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The UN Security Council will meet urgently today at the request of the US, South Korea and Japan "on threats to peace and stability" for the latest ballistic missile launched in the morning by North Korea. The news was reported by the Yonhap agency, citing an official from the Seoul Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The carrier flew over Japan ending [...]
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Japan has sent its largest helicopter destroyer on an escort mission to American warships crossing offshore as part of the crisis with North Korea. The Izumo will have to escort, according to the Japanese media, an American support ship with supplies for the US fleet in the region. A mission made possible by [...]
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