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Kim Jung-man, one of South Koreas most famous commercial photographers, died Saturday at the age of 68 while fighting pneumonia, according to his family.

Kim Jung-man, one of South Koreas most famous commercial photographers, died Saturday at the age of 68 while fighting pneumonia, according to his family.

Despite being allies of the United States, South Korea and Japan did not have a direct security partnership during the Cold War. During the Korean War, South Korean President Syngman Rhee threatened to shoot Japanese forces first if they arrived to “help” Korea from the communist invasion. Japan, officially a pacifist state with “self-defense forces,” also did not affirm its security commitment to the neighboring democracy. The two countries animosities over past history and their relian...

South Korean Army carried out regular military drills on a disputed territory with Japan, Yonhap News Agency reported on Friday citing a Seoul official familiar with the matter. The islands, where the...

South Korea conducted regular military drills earlier this week to enhance the defense of its easternmost islets of Dokdo, an informed source said Friday, following Japans renewed claims to the East Sea outcroppings in a revised security document.

Japan said on Dec. 23 it had lodged a protest with South Korea over military drills conducted in waters near a pair of islets in the Sea of Japan, claimed by both countries.

Tokyo, Dec 23 (Prensa Latina) The Japanese Government protested on Friday against South Korea's military exercises near the Dokdo islands (called Takeshima by Tokyo), which are the focus of a long-standing territorial dispute between the two countries.

Growing threats from North Korea and China have Japan rethinking its national security

After Tokyo announced its new security strategy, Pyongyang threatened to take a “decisive military step” in response. 

This year marks the 70th anniversary of the entry into force of the San Francisco Peace Treaty. Forty-eight allied powers, including the United States, the victor of World War II, and Japan, the defeated country, signed the treaty in 1951 to clear up responsibility for the Asia-Pacific War and establish a peace regime in East Asia.