Japanese Defense Minister Nobuo Kishi plans to visit the United States in early May for talks with his U.S. counterpart Lloyd Austin on boosting cooperation amid ongoing tensions in the wake of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, sources familiar with the matter said Thursday.Kishi is expected to also discuss how to deal with North Korea's repeated ballistic missile launches and affirm with Austin the importance of enhancing their bilateral alliance as a deterrence in the face of an increasingly assertive China, the sources said.Two months into the Ukraine war, the United States and its partne…READ FULL ARTICLE
