To Japan now, where Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his Australian counterpart, Malcolm Turnbull, toured a military training camp outside Tokyo on Thursday.

The tour comes as diplomats from the two countries finalize a proposed defense pact. The pact will lay the ground for Japanese military exercises out of the northern Australian city of Darwin -- which was heavily bombed by Japan during the second World War. Turnbull took the opportunity to urge the international community to keep up the pressure on Pyongyang as regional tensions continue. Turnbull also said Australia and Japan are committed to signing an Asia Pacific trade deal by March. His statement comes after an APEC meeting in Vietnam last November. Delegates aimed to keep the Trans Pacific Partnership trade deal alive after Washington withdrew from the pact it once championed. Chief negotiators from the eleven APEC countries will meet in Tokyo next week, to work towards signing the new agreement.