TWO developments in the Asia-Pacific this week have scaled up anxieties about an arms buildup in the region that could bring it closer to being the flash point in the great superpower face-off.

In Pyongyang, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un vowed before visiting Chinese state officials to bring relations with Beijing to a "new high."

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