Japan’s Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi will host a summit with South Korean President Lee Jae Myung on Tuesday to ensure stable and friendly ties as her country faces growing tension with Beijing.

South Korean President Lee Jae Myung is set for a summit with Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi on Tuesday, a week after one with Chinese President Xi Jinping, as Seoul seeks to balance ties with both neighbours.

Investors will be keeping an eye on oil prices as protests continue in Iran and U.S. President Donald Trump reportedly is weighing options to intervene.

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi will host South Korea's President Lee Jae Myung for talks on Tuesday aimed at demonstrating their cordial ties as Beijing pressures Tokyo over its stance on Taiwan.

South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a statement it detected several ballistic missile launches from North Korea's capital region around 7:50 a.m. It stated that the missiles flew approximately 560 miles and that South Korean and U.S. authorities were analyzing the details of the launches.

South Korean President Lee Jae Myung said that a dispute between China and Japan was not desirable for regional peace, adding that Seoul would not meddle in the ongoing row.

South Korean President Lee Jae Myung flew to China this week for a summit with his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, for the second time in two months.

A computer simulation ordered by the government showed that everyone on board would have survived if the concrete berm had been made of materials that easily broke apart.

Gross domestic product in Asia’s fourth-largest economy is projected to expand 2.0% in 2026, up from the government’s forecast of 1.8% in August.

The Inspire Resort, with three five-star hotels, a 15,000-seat K-pop arena and a foreigners-only casino, had its grand opening in 2024 by the Mohegan tribe. The development on an island near South Korea’s Incheon international airport was the first outside North America for the tribe, which has a 600-acre reservation in Connecticut.

The secretary of state’s failure to include South Korea within the U.S. defensive perimeter in Asia in a January 1950 speech sparked accusations that he had invited North Korea’s invasion five