South Korean President Moon Jae-in openly speaks about a new era of peace and prosperity, but absent from the discussion has been the North’s human rights abuse.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un announced Wednesday that he has agreed to allow international inspectors observe the dismantlement of facilities key to Pyongyang’s missile program.
Moon and North Korean leader Kim will discuss ways of improving inter-Korean ties, reducing military tensions on the peninsula, and how to move denuclearization talks forward.
The S. Korean president travels to Pyongyang Tuesday with a delegation that includes heads from some of the countries largest companies.
South Korean president travels to Pyongyang next week, will continue to press Kim for ‘irrevocable progress’ toward complete denuclearization.
Analysts predict that Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will be successful in his re-election bid in a September 20 party election.
Kim says he wishes to denuclearize and end hostilities with Washington before 2021.
Since becoming Philippines president nearly 18 months ago, Rodrigo Duterte has largely adopted a nonconfrontational approach toward Beijing and its competing claims in the South China Sea, but that may change at APEC summit in Vietnam.
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Recent report issued by office of United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights chronicles killings, gang rapes, beatings, disappearances, and other crimes and acts of cruelty against ethnic Rohingya Muslims.
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Philippines President Duterte withdraws from a cease-fire agreement. Asylum seekers on the island of Nauru are apprehensive about the US-Australia resettlement deal.
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