February 14, 2002
| China and North Korea in particular have expressed strong concern with the "dangerous trend" in Japan's emerging activist security posture.
February 1, 2002
| Immediately after the September 11 attacks in New York, South Korean and U.S. forces went into a state of heightened security alert that the North claimed was "threatening," leading Pyongyang to break off ongoing negotiations on family reunions that remai