North Korea still poses ‘serious and imminent threat’ — Japan

North Korea still poses a "serious and imminent threat", Japan said Tuesday in its first annual defense review since tensions eased on the Korean peninsula. Japan's 2018 defense white paper also took aim at China's rise as a military power, saying Beijing was sparking "strong security concerns in the region and international community, including Japan". Last year's defense review was published at the height of the tensions with North Korea, amid nuclear and missile tests and with US President Donald Trump threatening to rain down "fire and fury" on Pyongyang if it kept up its threats. But since then, a spectacular diplomatic detente has taken place, culminating in the historic s...

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