NATO chief says expansion of joint drills eyed with Japan

NATO wants to increase and expand its joint exercises with Japan in areas ranging from maritime to cyberspace, in order to deal with the more and more intertwined security challenges of Europe and Asia, the transatlantic alliance's chief said Friday."The partnership with Japan has become even more important," NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said in an interview with Kyodo News, especially as such interconnectivity has been laid bare by the Ukraine crisis, "where China, North Korea (and) Iran are enabling Russia's brutal war of aggression."Speaking in Washington a day after concludin…READ FULL ARTICLE