日: 2017年7月1日

1. U.S. President Donald Trump and South Korean President Moon Jae-in have held their first summit. They have agreed to increase pressure on North Korea.
2. Chinese President Xi Jinping has warned against an independence movement in Hong Kong, saying no activity that might threaten national sovereignty will be tolerated.
3. A Japanese delegation has completed a feasibility study for proposed joint economic activities on Russian-held islands claimed by Japan.

1. South Korea’s president has sought understanding from U.S. congressional leaders about a delay in starting full-fledged operation of an advanced U.S. missile defense system in his country.
2. China’s leader Xi Jinping, who is on his first visit to Hong Kong as president, has lauded the region’s senior officials for curbing pro-independence activity.
3. Three former executives of the operator of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant have pleaded not guilty over the March 2011 accident.

1. Japanese government officials say it may be difficult to hold a three-way summit with the leaders of China and South Korea in Tokyo next month.
2. Hong Kong police have arrested pro-democracy protesters who staged a sit-in ahead of the Chinese leader’s first visit to the city since taking office.
3. North Korea has vowed to impose the death penalty against former South Korean President Park Geun-hye, whom it accuses of planning to assassinate North Korean
leader Kim Jong Un.

1. Japan’s defense minister has retracted a remark suggesting that the Self-Defense Forces support a specific candidate in the Tokyo metropolitan assembly election.
2. A second draft of a legally binding nuclear ban treaty has been presented to negotiators at a U.N. conference in New York.
3. The European Union’s police agency says a massive cyberattack has affected government offices and companies mainly in Europe.