World Aug 20 How a Japan-South Korea dispute ended a key intelligence pact The agreement streamlines intelligence sharing between the U.S., Japan and South Korea about North Korean nuclear activity. It automatically renews annually unless one of the countries decides to pull out by Aug. 24. By Bryan Wood
World Dec 28 South Korea, Japan reach breakthrough settlement on WWII sex slaves South Korea and Japan reached a breakthrough settlement of $8.3 million to resolve a decades-long dispute regarding Korean women forced into sex slavery by the Japanese military during World War II. By Yena Oh