A Chinese agency backed by the country’s internet overseer is pushing for an investigation into Intel Corp. products sold domestically, warning of security flaws and high failure rates.

Free English classes for North Korean defectors are part of a project founded by a senior at Humphreys High School and the daughter of a retired soldier living on base.

Ukrainian public radio reported several North Korean soldiers stationed in Russia deserted their posts this week, fueling accounts that Pyongyang has deployed troops to Moscow’s ongoing war with neighboring Ukraine.

Contractors looking for unexploded ordnance found two suspected World War-II era bombs on Miyakojima, a popular tourist destination.

An American Red Cross event at Yokota Air Base featured quake and smoke simulators, as well as info on earthquakes in Japan.

North Korea confirmed Thursday that its recently revised constitution defines South Korea as “a hostile state” for the first time, two days after it blew up unused road and rail links that once connected the country with the South.

China’s President Xi Jinping made a rare visit to a province facing Taiwan following military exercises that mobilized China’s navy, air force, missile force and land troops to simulate a blockade of the self-governing island democracy that Beijing claims as its own territory and threatens to annex by force.

The U.S. and its allies are “alarmed” by North Korea’s nuclear and missile threats as well as its increasing military support for Russia’s war in Ukraine, a senior U.S. official said Wednesday, but couldn’t confirm Ukrainian claims that North Korean soldiers were sent to fight for Moscow.

Leaders and top officials from an international group founded to counter Western alliances met in Pakistan’s capital Wednesday, with Moscow and Beijing announcing they will boost cooperation.

City-sponsored tours of the heavily fortified Demilitarized Zone that separates North and South Korea resumed.

Some members of Congress are calling for the suspension of the so-called five-year rule, a measure that for many years has capped how long government service employees can work overseas in a military assignment.

A pair of CV-22 Ospreys from Yokota Air Base flew to Okinawa for the first time since a deadly accident in November.

On Monday, Chinese ships and aircraft swarmed around Taiwan for a daylong military exercise.

Philippine and Chinese government vessels collided last week in the South China Sea, according to officials from both nations, the most recent skirmish involving competing claimants to territory in the strategic waterway.

Survivors of last year’s deadly wildfire that decimated a historic Maui town will receive an additional year of housing assistance from the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

Shaken by multiple militant attacks, Pakistani authorities have locked down the capital in a major security move as senior officials from several nations arrive for an Asian security group meeting.

To compensate Pocheon residents for the noise, the South Korean defense ministry agreed to construct a gymnasium, golf course and other sports facilities around the range at an undetermined date, citizen’s group spokesman says.

The only U.S. warship equipped with the High-Energy Laser with Integrated Optical-dazzler and Surveillance, or HELIOS, system recently joined 7th Fleet.

North Korea blew up the northern parts of inter-Korean roads no longer in use on Tuesday, South Korea said, after the rivals exchanged threats of destruction amid rising animosities over North Korea’s claim that South Korea flew drones over its capital.