Ten South Korean military personnel are being disciplined for their roles in an unapproved C-130 Hercules flight over Japanese airspace that caused Tokyo to scramble fighter jets.

An Air Force F-16C Fighting Falcon that crashed off South Korea’s western coast last year went down after an engine stall caused by hardware failure, according to Pacific Air Forces’ investigation.

North Korea said leader Kim Jong Un inspected a new weapons factory that’s key to his plan to accelerate mass production of missiles in a weekend visit before he departs for a major military parade in China.

In September 1942, the crew of a B-17 was declared missing in action. Over eight decades had passed since the disappearance when in April 2023, a logging company’s equipment hit the engine of the lost plane in Papua New Guinea.

Japan plans to deploy its domestically developed long-range missiles a year earlier than planned, the Defense Ministry announced Friday, as the country steps up efforts to strengthen its strike-back capability.

Two Japanese contractors died last year after inhaling hydrogen sulfide gas while servicing a U.S. Navy vessel at Sasebo Naval Base, according to a Japanese government investigation.

The 459th Airlift Squadron is retiring its Hueys, which have flown out of Yokota Air Base in western Tokyo for decades.

Japan’s Ministry of Defense unveiled a record-high defense spending request of $60.1 billion for fiscal 2026, citing what it called severe and continuing security threats from China and North Korea.

The U.S. Army will deploy its mid-range missile system, Typhon, to Japan for the first time during a Marine Corps-led exercise in September.

Kim Jong Un will attend a huge military parade in China, where he can admire the weapons his regime aspires to make. With Putin’s help, he’s making progress.