Pyongyang has carried out a series of unprecedented military drills and threatened to use nuclear weapons in an invasion of South Korea. It's partly encouraged by closer alliances with Russia and China, experts say.
Japanese armed-forces chief General Yoshihide Yoshida didn’t mince his words in the face of growing threats from China, North Korea and Russia, in comments observers say demonstrated a ‘jarring bluntness’.
Thousands of Japanese armed forces personal previously traveled around the world to help the UN out in some of the most tense hotspots. But priorities at home have shifted.
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