月: 2017年8月

1. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and U.S. President Donald Trump have agreed to put more pressure on North Korea.
2. Defense officials from Japan, the United States and South Korea have stressed the need for North Korea to immediately abandon its nuclear and missile programs.
3. Prime Minister Abe and his British counterpart, Theresa May, held unofficial talks in Kyoto on Wednesday. May is visiting the country for the first time as prime minister.

1. North Korea’s state-run media reports that the country conducted a launch drill of a Hwasong-12 intermediate-range ballistic missile on Tuesday, with leader Kim Jong Un observing.
2. The U.N. Security Council has strongly condemned North Korea’s firing of a ballistic missile over Japan and demanded that Pyongyang immediately halt such actions.
3. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and South Korean President Moon Jae-in have agreed to seek a tougher U.N. Security Council resolution on North Korea in cooperation with the United States.

1. Japan’s government says the ballistic missile that North Korea fired Tuesday morning traveled about 2,700 kilometers and reached an altitude of 550 kilometers.
2. The Japanese prime minister says the latest launch is an unprecedented, serious and grave threat for Japan.
3. The Japanese foreign minister says his government has lodged a protest “in the strongest term” with Pyongyang.

1. U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson says North Korea’s latest missile launches were a provocation.
2. The death toll from growing clashes between Myanmar’s security forces and an armed group of minority Rohingya Muslims has exceeded 100.
3. Japan’s Tomokazu Harimoto has been crowned Men’s Singles champion at the International Table Tennis Federation World Tour, becoming the youngest-ever player to win the title.

1. Japan’s Maritime Self-Defense Force says it has recovered a flight data recorder that belonged to a helicopter that went out of contact in the Sea of Japan.
2. Opponents of former Thai prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra say the military-led interim government may have helped her flee the country.
3. Venezuela has begun military exercises against possible military intervention by the United States.

1. The U.S. military says North Korea launched 3 short-range ballistic missiles on Saturday morning which all ended in failure.
2. A Japan-sponsored international ministerial meeting on African development has ended in Mozambique. The statement stressed the need to implement measures that promote private-sector investments.

1. North Korea marks the purported anniversary of the start of its “military-first” policy on Friday.
2. Japanese defense officials say Chinese war planes were flying closer to the country. They report 6 Chinese bombers flew near central Japan.
3. Japan’s foreign minister says Tokyo hopes to proceed with agreements with African nations with the aim of encouraging Japanese firms to invest in the continent.

1. The mayor of Nagasaki has urged Japan’s government to serve as a bridge between nuclear and non-nuclear powers so that the recently adopted U.N. treaty banning nuclear weapons will become more effective.
2. The U.S. military’s Osprey aircraft has participated in nighttime flight training in a join exercise with Japan’s Self-Defense Forces.
3. North Korea’s state-run media reports suggest the country may be developing a new land-based solid-fuel ballistic missile.

1. More than half of the international delegates at U.N. disarmament talks have criticized North Korea over its nuclear and missile development.
2. U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson says he is “pleased” to see what he calls “restraint” from North Korea since the U.N. Security Council adopted a new sanctions resolution against the country.
3. Japan’s Foreign Minister Taro Kono will leave for Mozambique on Wednesday to attend a ministerial meeting of a Japan-led African development conference.

1. Japan’s Defense Ministry plans to request a record budget for the next fiscal year as North Korea continues its nuclear and missile programs.
2. Cambridge University Press is under fire after it temporarily blocked readers in China from accessing academic articles after a request by Chinese authorities.
3. Spanish police say they have shot dead Younes Abouyaaqoub, a suspect in last week’s deadly terrorist attack in Barcelona.