月: 2017年5月

1. South Korea’s new President Moon Jae-in has talked with U.S. President Donald Trump over the phone just after his inauguration. They agreed to cooperate closely to resolve the issues of North Korea’s nuclear and missile programs.
2. U.S. President Donald Trump has expressed willingness to mend ties with Russia in a meeting with the country’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.
3. The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency has created a unit dedicated specifically to North Korea’s nuclear and ballistic missile threat.

1. Liberal politician Moon Jae-in has won South Korea’s presidential election. Moon was inaugurated on Wednesday.
2. U.S. President Donald Trump has dismissed FBI director James Comey.
3. The World Health Organization has indicated that Taiwan will not be able to attend an annual meeting this month unless China gives consent.

1. Voting continues in South Korea to choose a successor to ousted president Park Geun-hye.
2. Climate change negotiators meeting in Bonn, Germany, have called for the United States to stay in the Paris agreement.
3. A top U.N. official has called on both nuclear and non-nuclear nations to contribute to global efforts toward nuclear disarmament.

1. French independent centrist Emmanuel Macron has won Sunday’s presidential run-off, beating far-right National Front candidate Marine Le Pen.
2. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe says Japan will remain high on alert for further provocations by North Korea.
3. South Korean presidential candidates are making their final appeals to voters on Monday, one day before the election to choose a successor for ousted President Park Geun-hye.

1. Voters in France are set to cast their ballots for president on Sunday.
2. Nigeria’s government says Boko Haram militants have released 82 of the more than 200 school girls they abducted 3 years ago.
3. Fighting has resumed in Syria despite an agreement to establish safe zones by Russia, Iran and Turkey.

1. An advisory body to UNESCO has recommended a group of ancient monuments in southwestern Japan be registered on the World Cultural Heritage list.
2. Japan has pledged an offer of 40 million dollars to a new fund of the Asia Development Bank to help promote eco-friendly infrastructure in the region.
3. North Korea has accused the U.S. and South Korean intelligence agencies of sending a terrorist group into the country to assassinate leader Kim Jong Un.

1. China has dismissed North Korea’s criticism that Beijing has sided with Washington in putting pressure over its nuclear and missile programs.
2. The U.S. House of Representatives has narrowly passed a revised bill to replace the health care reform law implemented by former president Barack Obama.
3. Crude oil futures in New York dropped sharply to a 5-month low on Thursday, due to growing oil production in the United States.

1. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has said he wants to put a revised constitution into force by 2020.
2. North Korea’s state-run media has made a rare direct criticism of China, saying Beijing has sided with the United States in putting pressure on Pyongyang over its nuclear and missile programs.
3. Participants in the Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade deal have agreed to decide on the direction of the pact without the United States at ministerial talks that will take place in Vietnam late this month.

1. A preparatory meeting for the 2020 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference opened on Tuesday at the U.N. office in Vienna.
2. The U.S. and Russian presidents have agreed to cooperate on resolving the issue of North Korea’s nuclear and missile development.
3. Events will be held across Japan on Wednesday to mark the 70th anniversary of the Constitution.

1. U.S. President Donald Trump has expressed willingness to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong Un under the right circumstances.
2. A U.S. research group says satellite imagery of North Korea shows the existence of a second launch facility for submarine-launched ballistic missiles, or SLBMs.
3. The 2 remaining candidates in the French presidential election have traded barbs at their respective campaign rallies.