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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has suggested that U.S. forces in South Korea could be deployed for regional contingencies.

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The commander of U.S. Forces Korea is urging military planners to rethink how they view East Asia — literally.

Gen. Xavier Brunson, the commander of US Forces Korea, presented an upside-down map of East Asia to stress the role of USFK and the strategic value of the Korean Peninsula in deterring China and ...

A South Korean court ruled on Thursday against popular K-pop group NewJeans, whose members had sought to cut contractual ties with their label ADOR over what they called "mistreatment" by the agency.

BENGALURU – India’s government on Oct 22 proposed that artificial intelligence and social media firms should clearly label AI-generated content to tackle the spread of deepfakes and misinformation, ...

BEIJING – Chinese Customs seized 60,000 maps it deemed “problematic” over their labelling of Taiwan and omission of territory Beijing claims in the South China Sea, the authorities said. China claims ...

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When Taiwanese traveler Eric Weng goes to South Korea, he resigns himself to toggling between three different map applications to navigate his way around. That’s because Google Maps, ubiquitous in ...