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.
日: 2017年8月23日
August 22, Tuesday, 2017 (2:00 p.m.) Read by Ms. Fumiko Konoe and Ms. Risa Shimizu
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.