North Korea

Japan is condemning North Korea’s latest launch of a ballistic missile. The Japanese government sent emergency alerts to residents in the northern part of the country because the missile traveled over Japanese territory. HPR’s Bill Dorman has more in this Asia Minute.

Vice President Kamala Harris is back in the United States after spending most of this week in Northeast Asia. HPR’s Bill Dorman has more in this Asia Minute.

China, North Korea and Russia are said to be the biggest threats to the U.S. and security in the Pacific region. Retired Air Force Lt. Gen. Dan Leaf spoke with The Conversation about the nuclear landscape.

Ukraine has been a topic of international gatherings in Europe this week. But from the G-7 leaders meeting in Germany to the NATO summit in Spain, the Asia-Pacific is also a big part of the conversation. HPR’s Bill Dorman has more in this Asia Minute.

COVID cases are increasing in parts of the world, including Hawaiʻi. Now even North Korea admits the virus has made it into the country. But now attention is shifting to a different issue: how to deal with it. HPR’s Bill Dorman has more in this Asia Minute.

The top U.S. policy expert on North Korea was in South Korea on Tuesday. The trip follows North Korea’s latest weapons test — and comes at a time of political transition in Seoul. HPR’s Bill Dorman has more in this Asia Minute.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken met his Japanese and South Korean counterparts in Hawaiʻi to discuss the threat posed by nuclear-armed North Korea after Pyongyang began the year with a series of missile tests.

A widely followed measure of public corruption shows several changes in its latest edition — and many are not encouraging. The United States continues to fall in the rankings, while in the Asia Pacific there is a broad range of scores. HPR’s Bill Dorman has more in this Asia Minute.

The launch corresponded with an unexplained order by the FAA to ground some flights on the U.S. West Coast.

In 2015, 30 women from across the world walked across the Demilitarized Zone in a highly publicized — and criticized — call for peace. The Conversation spoke with organizer Christine Ahn and activist and physician Kalama Niheu, both of whom appear in the film "Crossings," about its Hawaiʻi ties.