Look out, Guam.
EPA/Andy Wong
The US’s military heft in East Asia may have met its match.
EPA/Jeon Heon-Kyun
The euphoria many South Koreans feel at the demise of Park Geun-hye is offset by worries about the future of their political system.
EPA/Hitoshi Maeshiro
Hosting a military base is difficult in the best of circumstances, but some bases are more dangerous than others.
EPA/Fazry Ismail
A precise, lethal chemical weapon hit in a foreign capital is a reminder that North Korea knows what it’s doing.
Don’t panic.
EPA/KCNA
One of the world’s worst nightmares could in fact be an unexpected opportunity.
Kim Jong-Un, increasingly the world’s pariah.
EPA/Rodong Sinmun
The precise wording of UN resolutions and the smallest of concessions by Pyongyang are telltale signs that change is underway.
Busan’s controversial Comfort Women statue.
EPA/Yonhap
A small bronze statue in Busan has kicked off a surprisingly big argument.
EPA/Peter Foley
It’s all very well to be intimidating, but China needs to win people over too.
Mea culpa: Park Geun-hye.
EPA/Jeon Heon-Kyun
One of the world’s cleaner democracies just threw out its president for corruption. How can countries do a better job of keeping their leaders clean?
Taiwanese premier Tsai Ing-wen converses with Donald Trump.
EPA/Office of the President of Taiwan
The frenzied response to this year’s most examined courtesy call played right into Beijing’s hands.
EPA/Song Kyung-Seok
Will the world be safer if Trump meant the things he said on the campaign trail, or if he didn’t?
Hands up if you’re top of the class.
East Asian pupils continue to outpace their counterparts in Western schools.
EPA/Erik S. Lesser
China may have more to gain from Trump’s rise than any other nation – but the risks of a miscalculation are enormous.
Living it up? Hardly.
EPA/Ramon Abarca
The world’s most isolated country has a lot going on – and its complex internal dynamics are too often overlooked.
Voice of America
After North Korea’s fifth nuclear test on Sept. 9, the U.S. is calling for tighter global sanctions. New research shows that this strategy actually helps North Korea.
En garde in the Spratly Islands.
EPA
Vietnam is deeply spooked by the struggle over the South China Sea – but its friends in south-east Asia aren’t so keen to stand up to Beijing.
Welcome to Hangzhou.
EPA/Rolex Dela Pena
China’s stewardship of the G20 has been unusually practical and results-focused. Can the world’s biggest economies live up to it?
EPA/Christopher Jue
Japan is already in the midst of one delicate constitutional debate – and now it’s been confronted with another.
Here’s hoping…
EPA/Pavel Golovkin
Two of East Asia’s biggest powers are still technically at war and deadlocked over contested territories. Now one of them wants to be friends.
Barack Obama and Shinzō Abe at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial.
EPA/Kimimasa Mayama
Speaking at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial, Barack Obama sounded a hopeful note – but both the US and Japan still fall short.