North Korea already gives the president of South Korea plenty of headaches, what with the missile tests and all. The last thing Moon Jae-in needs now is Pyongyang going off about balloons drifting across the border.
Going to college just became easier for many Filipinos.
When North Korea launched its second intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) last week, of immediate concern was how far the missile traveled, and where it could have reached had it been sent on a lower trajectory (most of the US, as it turns out). But the launch location mattered, too.
In September 2015 China shut down factories and roads in order to ensure blue skies for its WWII military parade in Beijing. But at a parade on Sunday (July 30), part of celebrations surrounding the 90th anniversary of the People’s Liberation Army on Tuesday, the military brass welcomed a little dirt.
To get faster internet, the Solomon Islands, a struggling island nation northeast of Australia in Oceania, plans to lay an undersea fiber optic cable about 4,000 km (2,485 miles) from its capital Honiara to Sydney. Currently it relies on satellite-based services that are slow, unstable, and expensive.
In the South China Sea, no area is quite so heavily contested as the Spratly archipelago, where five countries occupy various reefs, cays, and islets and watch each other warily. Taiwan occupies the best and largest bit of land, an islet called Itu Aba.
The contested South China Sea has large deposits of oil and natural gas. Perhaps luckily for the environment, drilling for these resources has been discouraged by political tension among nations in the region. In particular, energy companies worry about China’s ongoing insistence that everything within its infamous nine-dash line—which marks off nearly the entire sea—is its own territory, despite an international tribunal invalidating the sweeping claim last year.
The $12.9 billion USS Gerald R. Ford, which can carry about 5,000, is the first new US aircraft carrier designed in 40 years. Of course, a lot has changed in 40 years.
China clearly knows its rights under the law of the sea. But whether it can accept others having those same rights remains to be seen.
The US will soon ban Americans from traveling to North Korea.
Hawaii isn’t panicking about a North Korean nuclear attack, and it considers the likelihood of one to be low. But it’s worried enough to start preparing for one, just in case.
Tesla recently watched sales plummet in Hong Kong after expired tax-breaks for electric vehicles made its cars suddenly far more expensive than they had been. But in South Korea, its vehicles will soon become a much better deal than they are now.
The long search for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 failed to solve one of the greatest aviation mysteries of all time. But it did reveal the wonders of the deep.
A judge in Hawaii has struck again, and Donald Trump will not be pleased.
China is a rising power, but so far in modern times it’s had no overseas military bases. That’s about to change.
North Korea isn’t exactly known for its pop culture, but when there’s an important missile launch to be celebrated, it apparently knows how to party.
On June 15, 1991, an otherwise unremarkable mountain in the Philippines blew its top. And with that massive eruption, Mount Pinatubo became an unlikely actor that profoundly shaped today’s South China Sea power contest.
For all the attention North Korea’s first launch of an ICBM is getting this week, you’d think we know every last detail about the actual weapon. In truth, much remains a worrying mystery about the rogue nation’s missiles.
For years, North Korea has been doggedly working toward fielding an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) capable of hitting the US. Today (July 4), it says it achieved that goal.
The American student Otto Warmbier was looking for a bit of fun when he signed up for a five-day trip to North Korea in late 2015. Instead, he was sentenced to 15 years of hard labor for allegedly taking a banner from his hotel. This week his parents reported he died at the age of 22 at a Cincinnati medical center, days after being returned by North Korea in a vegetative state.
Few think of North Korea as being a prosperous nation. But it is rich in one regard: mineral resources.
Donald Trump has called climate change a hoax. He might want to check with US military experts about that.
Like most of the world, China is fed up with North Korea, which on May 29, in defiance of international pressure, conducted its third missile test in three weeks. The unpleasant neighbor is steadily progressing toward its goal: the ability to hit much of the world, including the US mainland, with nuclear-tipped intercontinental ballistic missiles.
North Korea expressing gratitude for the United States? American officials praising Pyongyang for being “very cooperative”?
