In response to concerns that North Korea would perform its first nuclear test in five years, South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol instructed the military to “promptly and sternly” react in case of any provocation. According to the presidential office, Yoon, who assumed office in May, chaired his first meeting with ...
China expresses serious concern and resolute protest over NATO’s new Strategic Concept, Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesman Zhao Lijian said on Thursday. “The so-called NATO’s new Strategic Concept ignores facts, distorts the truth, <…> vilifies China’s foreign policy, makes irresponsible statements about China’s natural military development and its national defense policy, ...