North Korea says it has ratified a major defense treaty with Russia stipulating mutual military aid. Russia last week completed the ratification process of the treaty that is considered both countries’ biggest defense deal since the end of the Cold War.

The wreck of the USS Edsall, a lone American destroyer that fought a Japanese fleet, has been found in the Indian Ocean, the U.S. Navy says. Edsall’s zigs and zags in an attempt to escape prompted a Japanese observer to dub it “the dancing mouse.”

Japan’s Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba received some rare good news as parliament backed him to stay in the job ahead of an expected high-stakes meeting with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump.

Military veterans and troops from more than 20 countries gathered here Monday to pay their respects as an unknown Korean War service member was laid to rest at the U.N. Cemetery in Korea.

China has built a land-based prototype nuclear reactor for a large surface warship, in the clearest sign yet Beijing is advancing toward producing its first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, according to a new analysis of satellite imagery and Chinese government documents provided to The Associated Press.

The National Veterans Day Parade in Washington on Sunday featured military marching bands that included the National Guard Band, Navy Band, U.S. Marine Drum and Bugle Corps and the 3rd Army Fife and Drug Corps. Several high school and college bands from across the nation also participated.

Marine veterans, active-duty military and families gathered at The National Museum of the Marine Corps on Sunday in Triangle, Va., for a time-honored cake-cutting ceremony, a longstanding Marine Corps birthday tradition.

With the 80th anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge a month away, Harry Miller, 96, and Frank Cohn, 99, another Army veteran of the battle, will take center stage Nov. 13 at a small theater in the nation’s capital to share eyewitness accounts of the five-week fight.

Oil- and mineral-rich Balochistan is a hub for Pakistan’s ethnic Baloch minority, as well as separatist groups and Islamic militants. The separatist group BLA mostly targets security forces and foreigners, especially Chinese nationals who are in Pakistan for the Belt and Road Initiative.

Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto pledged to maintain close ties with China. But he is scheduled to visit four other nations, including the U.S. and the U.K., suggesting that Indonesia will continue its longstanding stance of neutrality between Beijing and Washington.

Tensions between the rival Koreas have escalated as North Korean leader Kim Jong Un flaunts his advancing nuclear and missile program and engages in psychological warfare, such as flying thousands of balloons to drop trash and anti-South Korean propaganda leaflets in the South.

U.S. bases on Guam resume COR 4. Man-yi hurtling southwest away from Guam as a tropical storm. All warnings and watches canceled.

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba renewed a pledge to build up his country’s military and deepen its alliance with the United States under President-elect Donald Trump. Ishiba said the security environment surrounding Japan and the international community has worsened due to escalating tensions with China, Russia and North Korea.

Gen. Ronald Clark can trace by decades his roots in Hawaii. He hopes the experience will serve him well as he takes command of U.S. Army Pacific and its 106,000 personnel in an increasingly volatile region of the world.

Marcos signed the Maritime Zones Act, which seeks to make the Philippines’ maritime rights well-defined by creating routes over its waters, and the Philippine Archipelagic Sea Lanes Act, which establishes a system through which foreign vessels exercise the right of passage.

A survey found just over a third of South Korea’s “strategic elites” support nuclear armament. But more than half of those opposed said they might change their minds if the U.S. were to withdraw its troops or jack up the price of U.S. protection, as Trump has threatened.

The Defense Health Agency is warning patients about a website posing as its online military records system and patient portal, Military Health System Genesis.

Caitlyn Webber, a military spouse, self-published author and substitute teacher at Camp Foster, Okinawa, is collecting books for a book swap at Kubasaki High School.

The Pentagon anticipates major upheaval once President-elect Donald Trump returns to the White House, amid fears that the once and future commander in chief will follow through on vows to deploy the military domestically against American citizens, demand fealty from key leaders and attempt to remake the nonpartisan institution into one explicitly loyal to him.