US, S Korea, Japan hold joint military exercise

The United States, South Korea and Japan opened an air and naval exercise off a South Korean island Monday in their latest joint drill condemned by North Korea as a “reckless show of strength.”

S.Korea, Japan to hold meeting on Fukushima inspection

 South Korea and Japan plan to hold working-level consultations this week to discuss details of Seoul’s inspection of Tokyo’s plan to discharge contaminated water from the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant, the Foreign Ministry here said on Thursday.

S Korea, US heighten measures to counter nuke threat

The defence chiefs of South Korea and the US have agreed to reinforce both policy and military measures to reinforce readiness against evolving North Korean nuclear and missile threats, an official here said on Sunday.