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Yang Jin-hyeok, director of operations at South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff, speaks during a briefing on the final results of a joint task force investigating a landmine explosion at the Demilitarized Zone that separates the two Koreas, on Monday in Seoul.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Oct 6, 2026
South Korea preparing to force North Korea to apologize over DMZ mine blast
The mine blast in the Demilitarized Zone between the two Koreas seriously wounded two South Korean soldiers, a defense ministry spokesperson has said.
An observation post inside the Joint Security Area on the Demilitarized Zone
ASIA PACIFIC
Sep 29, 2026
Seoul says North Korea’s mines likely behind DMZ explosions
South Korea’s military vowed to respond if a final investigation confirms Pyongyang’s involvement in the blasts that injured three soldiers.
Raju Modiyam, who lost a leg in a land mine explosion, rests in the Lankapalli village of Chhattisgarh's Bijapur district, India, on April 1.
ASIA PACIFIC
Apr 22, 2026
Maoist land mine legacy haunts India
India’s blood-soaked six-decade Maoist insurgency may be over, but a lethal legacy remains.
A drone explodes during a Russian drone strike in Kyiv on Nov. 14.
WORLD / Society
Nov 20, 2025
Explosive weapons killed most children on record in 2024: NGO
Save the Children U.K. attributed the surge to conflicts taking place more and more in urban areas.
Japan is deploying two officers to Lithuania for demining training in support of Ukraine, marking a key step in its evolving security strategy and the maturation of its defense policy.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Oct 31, 2025
91AV原创 demining deployment is a security milestone
This deployment is the latest in demining support that Japan has delivered to Ukraine since Russia’s full scale invasion began in February 2022.
An unexploded missile fired by an Israeli aircraft lies among rubble in the northern Gaza Strip.
WORLD
Oct 24, 2025
Clearing Gaza’s surface of bombs will take up to 30 years, aid group says
“If you’re looking at a full clearance, it’s never happening, it’s subterranean. We will find it for generations to come,” said Nick Orr of Humanity & Inclusion, however.
Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi (center) and others attend a conference on land-mine clearance in Ukraine, in Tokyo on Wednesday.
JAPAN
Oct 23, 2025
Tokyo hosts international conference on Ukraine land mines
The Japanese government emphasized the need to strengthen cooperation with other countries experienced in land-mine clearance.
A member of the Thailand Mine Action Center (TMAC) demonstrates a PMN-2 mine detonation during a media visit organized by the Royal Thai Army, following a ceasefire between Cambodia and Thailand, in Surin province, Thailand, on Aug. 20.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Oct 16, 2025
Land mines that sparked Thai-Cambodia clash were likely newly laid, experts say
Cambodia denies Thailand’s accusation that it laid the mines along parts of their joint frontier.
A Palestinian child walks past a mural warning against approaching unexploded ordnance, in Deir Al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip on Oct. 8.
WORLD
Oct 15, 2025
Unexploded bombs pose ‘enormous’ risks in Gaza, mine-clearing organization warns
Unexploded ordnance, ranging from undetonated bombs or grenades to simple bullets, has become a common sight in the Gaza Strip during the two years of the war.
Defense Minister Gen Nakatani speaks during a news conference on Friday at the ministry.
JAPAN
Oct 10, 2025
Japan to assist Ukraine with mine removal training
Instructors will deliver lectures on explosive ordnance disposal and conduct practical exercises for Ukrainian soldiers.
Thai soldiers on the back of an army truck in the border province of Si Sa Ket on July 26.
ASIA PACIFIC
Aug 9, 2025
Thai soldiers injured by land mine near Cambodia amid fragile ceasefire
One soldier lost a foot and two others were injured after one of them stepped on a land mine.
A mine-detection rat sniffs for land mines in an area being demined in Preah Vihear province, Cambodia, in 2021.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jul 22, 2025
Land mine dispute escalates tensions between Thailand and Cambodia
Thai authorities said that three soldiers were injured by a land mine, with one losing a foot, while on a patrol on July 16 on the Thai side of the disputed border area.
A Thai anti-mine worker demonstrates how to demine in a Thai village bordering Cambodia's Preah Vihear Temple in 2008.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jul 21, 2025
Thailand claims Cambodia planted land mines, escalating dispute
Three soldiers were injured when they stepped on a land mine during a routine patrol along an established route within Thai territory on July 16.
A service member of the 13th Operative Purpose Brigade "Khartiia" of the National Guard of Ukraine operates a mine-laying unmanned ground vehicle with anti-tank land mines installed on it, in the Kharkiv region, Ukraine, on Jan. 13.
WORLD / Politics
Mar 19, 2025
Poland and Baltic nations plan to withdraw from land mine convention
Poland and the Baltics are concerned that an end to the war in Ukraine could lead Russia to rearm and target them, instead.
U.S. President Joe Biden leaves after delivering remarks from the White House Rose Garden in Washington on Tuesday.
WORLD / Politics
Nov 28, 2024
Biden readies $725 million arms aid package for Ukraine, sources say
The Biden administration plans to provide a variety of anti-tank weapons from U.S. stocks to blunt Russia’s advancing troops.
U.S. President Joe Biden in Brazil for the Group of 20 summit on Tuesday. Biden's reversal of his previous curbs on U.S. landmines comes just days after Washington gave Ukraine the green light to use U.S.-made long-range missiles on targets within Russia.
WORLD / Politics
Nov 21, 2024
U.S. cites new Russian tactics for decision to supply landmines to Ukraine
President Joe Biden’s policy reversal comes just days after Washington gave Ukraine the green light to use long-range missiles on targets within Russia.
Ukraine’s government has turbocharged its pitch for international help in land-mine clearance, attracting a rush of special machinery from Japan and funds from philanthropist Howard Buffett with astonishing results.
WORLD
Nov 17, 2024
Ukraine supercharges mine-clearing push to revive war-torn farms
Safe access to farmland is essential for a country known as Europe’s breadbasket and demining Ukraine could take decades.
Dul Saroth (left) and Soeum Samrach, deminers with the Cambodian Mine Action and Victim Assistance Authority, practice using the Advanced Landmine Imaging System in Cambodia’s Siem Reap province in August.
JAPAN / Longform
Oct 7, 2024
The Japanese tech that could one day make Southeast Asia landmine-free
The Advanced Landmine Imaging System being tested in Cambodia promises to speed up landmine clearance work and save lives.
Ukrainian Interior Minister Igor Klymenko speaks in the suburbs of Kyiv on Tuesday in front of mine-clearing vehicles provided by Japan.
JAPAN
Jul 10, 2024
Ukraine receives first shipment of mine-clearing vehicles from Japan
The shipment is part of ?91 billion in grant aid aimed at assisting the country’s reconstruction, with about 20 units scheduled for delivery this year.
Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa delivers a speech in Tokyo on Thursday.
JAPAN
Jul 5, 2024
Japan and Cambodia to help countries with land mine removals
Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa is set to make the announcement Saturday during her trip to Cambodia.
Two Japanese climbers die on remote Himalayan peak in Nepal
Rescuers have recovered the bodies of two Japanese climbers missing for over a week on a remote Himalayan mountain.
Aging Japanese village turns to Peru in search of new residents
Guests from Peru's Belen district interact with a baby in Nanmoku village in Gunma Prefecture.
Budget-friendly restaurant chain Saizeriya succumbs to rising costs
A Tokyo branch of Saizeriya, a chain of family-style Italian restaurants
U.S. has for years asked Musk to alter Starlink service in Ukraine and Middle East, sources say
A Ukrainian soldier sets up a Starlink satellite internet system near the frontline in the Donetsk region, Ukraine, on Oct. 16
U.S. military bans Chinese-made BYD cars from key air base in Okinawa
An F-22 Raptor lands at Kadena Air Base in Kadena, Okinawa Prefecture on Oct. 9. The base is a crucial hub for U.S. military operations in the region.
A dramatic bear hunt in a midsize Japanese city could be a harbinger of what is to come
Zookeeper Tetsuo Iso at the site of frantic search for a wild bear in Utsunomiya on June 9. Iso, 65, was asked by the prefectural government to help capture the bear and it was his shot with a tranquilizer gun that put an end to the saga.
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Tourists enjoy themselves while crossing the famous Shibuya Crossing in Tokyo on Oct. 12.
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Ryan Roddy (second from left back) is pictured with the Ireland sumo team at this month's World Sumo Championships in Baku, Azerbaijan.
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