The United States and South Korea began their annual joint military exercises on Sunday.
Japan's government has drafted new basic maritime policy guidelines with a focus on security in response to North Korea's nuclear and missile programs, as well as the East China Sea situation.
A defunct Chinese space station is expected to re-enter earth's atmosphere on either Sunday or Monday, possibly showering the planet's surface with debris.
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The United States and South Korea began their annual joint military exercises on Sunday.
The drills usually begin in February or March, but were delayed for the PyeongChang Winter Olympics and Paralympics.
The exercises include the Foal Eagle field exercise in which marine landing practice is conducted. Members will also check a command-and-control collaboration in a computer-simulated Key Resolve exercise.
South Korean defense ministry officials say the scale of the drills is the same as usual.
But military officials say the period of the drills will be halved to about one month, and there are currently no plans to include US aircraft carriers or bombers.
North Korea strongly opposed the annual drills and took provocative actions such as launching ballistic missiles in the past. But its leader Kim Jong Un reportedly softened his tone when he met South Korean envoys in March.
Some observers say the schedule of the drills may have been adjusted in light of inter-Korean talks scheduled for late April, and a possible summit between the US and North Korea by the end of May.
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Japan's government has drafted new basic maritime policy guidelines with a focus on security in response to North Korea's nuclear and missile programs, as well as the East China Sea situation.
The guidelines for the next 5 years change the focus from maritime resource development to security, setting out that Japan's maritime interests are under more serious threat and more at risk than ever before.
The guidelines call for the Cabinet Office to gather information gained by satellites and other means, and to share it with the Defense Ministry, the Coast Guard and other relevant government bodies.
The guidelines also urge coordination with allies and other friendly nations to beef up maritime monitoring.
The guidelines call for urgently boosting Coast Guard patrols around the Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea to deal with intrusions by Chinese government ships into Japanese territorial waters.
Japan controls the islands. China and Taiwan claim them. The Japanese government maintains the islands are an inherent part of Japan's territory, in terms of history and international law. It says there is no issue of sovereignty to be resolved.
The guidelines stress the need for a mechanism to swiftly relay information to ships operating near the Japanese archipelago should the North launch ballistic missiles.
The guidelines include a plan to increase the development and research of the Arctic, saying Japan will actively participate in making international rules on resource development and other aspects.
The Cabinet will approve the draft guidelines in April.
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A defunct Chinese space station is expected to re-enter earth's atmosphere on either Sunday or Monday, possibly showering the planet's surface with debris.
The Tiangong-1 prototype space lab, which China launched in 2011, became uncontrollable in 2016 and has been gradually losing altitude ever since.
A Chinese organization working on manned space flight says the spacecraft was in orbit at an average altitude of 167.6 kilometers as of Sunday morning, and that it is likely to re-enter the atmosphere on Monday.
The European Space Agency estimates that re-entry will occur between Sunday and Monday, while a US organization expects it to happen between 1900 UTC on Sunday and 0900 UTC on Monday.
The spacecraft is 10 meters long, weighs 8.5 tons and is about the size of a bus.
The Agency says most of the space lab will burn up upon re-entry, but the remaining debris may reach the earth's surface anywhere between the latitudes of 43 degrees north and 43 degrees south.
This includes much of Japan and many of the world's major cities, including Washington.
It also says the probability of a person being hit by a piece of debris is 10 million times smaller than the annual chance of being struck by lightning.
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Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai says she will continue her campaign for girls' education. The Oxford University student is visiting Pakistan for the first time since she was shot by Islamic militants in 2012.
In an interview with the BBC, Malala said that when she was about 12 years old, she thought that by becoming prime minister, she could solve every problem.
She said it seems it's not that simple, and her focus right now is continuing her work through the Malala Fund.
Malala visited her family's house on Saturday.
Security has been tight for her trip due to fears of another attack.
One of her friends said everyone was crying and it was a moving moment.
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