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Andrew Salmon

Seoul, South Korea-based Andrew Salmon, Asia Editor at The Washington Times. brings two decades of journalistic experience to the position. Before joining The Washington Times, he was Northeast Asia Editor of Hong Kong-based Asia Times. Andrew’s reporting previously appeared in The Daily Telegraph, Forbes, The International Herald Tribune, The South China Morning Post, The Times and The Washington Times. He has made television appearances on Arirang TV, CNN and France24. He can be reached at asalmon@washingtontimes.com.

Articles by Andrew Salmon

Friendlier China-Philippines relationship could undercut potential U.S. defense of Taiwan

The U.S.-Israel war with Iran is generating a surprise side effect in the Indo-Pacific: Philippine expressions of amity toward China.

April 3, 2026

Iran bolstered by CRINK partner North Korea with offensive missiles, defensive tunnels

Iran's ongoing resistance to Israeli-U.S. bombardment is built on a solid foundation: Its relationship with a fortress state that defied one of the heaviest U.S. bombing campaigns ever, and which today boasts one of the world's biggest missile armories.

March 31, 2026

North Korea is nuclear armed — but cannot copy Iran’s resilience strategies

As conflict rages in the Middle East, one nation likely to be taking careful notes about embattled Iran's capacity to sustain resistance against America is North Korea.

March 28, 2026

What happened to Britain’s Royal Navy? Mideast conflict exposes London’s inability to deploy ships

On the fringes of the U.S.-Iran war, a lone British destroyer arrived off the coast of Cyprus this week to help defend the drone-struck, strategic island in the Eastern Mediterranean.

March 25, 2026

U.S. ally South Korea feels collateral impact from Middle East

With conflict in the Middle East igniting a powder keg that has set the global energy sector aflame, U.S. allies are feeling the heat.

March 19, 2026

Japan’s Takaichi sails toward Middle East

Perhaps no leader on the global stage is as chummy with President Trump as Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, but their upcoming Thursday summit in Washington could prove tense.

March 17, 2026

Japan, South Korea, noncommittal on joining Trump-proposed escort mission in Strait of Hormuz

South Korea and Japan on Monday downplayed the possibility of sending warships to secure tanker transit through the Strait of Hormuz, defying U.S. President Trump's call for global powers to join the effort.

March 16, 2026

North Korea test-fires 10 missiles as South Korea, U.S. stage war games

North Korea test-fired 10 short-range ballistic missiles into the Sea of Japan Saturday, five days after South Korea and its U.S. allies kicked off their annual spring war games.

March 14, 2026

Seoul OKs $350B investment in U.S. as Washington announces probe of South Korean trade practices

South Korea's National Assembly on Thursday passed a bill to invest hundreds of billions of dollars in the U.S. -- just as Washington announced a probe into alleged unfair trade practices by Seoul.

March 12, 2026

Defection-wary Iran will not send soccer team to upcoming World Cup in U.S.

After six members of the Iranian women's soccer team defected on a recent trip to Australia, Tehran says its men's team will not take part in the upcoming World Cup in the United States.

March 11, 2026

As spring war games begin in South Korea, economic nerves are frazzled by Middle East fallout

The annual spring war games involving South Korean and American forces began Monday against the backdrop of a very real conflict in the Middle East.

March 9, 2026

Shock, dismay, as Family Federation churches seized by liquidators across Japan

Persons of faith were stunned Wednesday when they arrived at places of worship to find them surrounded by police and liquidators, whose presence made clear that their religious organization -- which had committed no crime -- was being dismantled.

March 5, 2026

‘Dangerous precedent’ for religious freedom: Critics assail Tokyo court’s Unification Church ruling

Prominent U.S. political figures and global religious-freedom advocates assailed an extraordinary ruling from a Tokyo court Wednesday that upheld the dissolution of the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification, warning that the decision will erode Japan's standing as a champion of religious liberty.

March 4, 2026

How Iran plans to win: Make the U.S. burn through missiles faster than it can replace them

The conflict in the Middle East is shaping up as an ultramodern war of attrition, with Tehran betting its scattershot regional attacks will force the U.S. to overextend air-defense capabilities, leaving Gulf state allies vulnerable to Iran's drone swarms.

March 4, 2026

Japan court rebuffs appeal, orders dissolution of former Unification Church

In what looks to be a landmark ruling against religious freedom in Japan, a Tokyo court Wednesday upheld the dissolution of the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification, the religious organization formerly known as the Unification Church, on claims that it solicited major donations.

March 3, 2026

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