月: 2017年9月

1. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has pledged to continue working for the further development of relations with China.
2. China has ordered North Korean firms and joint ventures in the country to shut down.
3. Hundreds of protesters have rallied in Hong Kong to mark three years since the massive pro-democracy demonstrations known as the “Umbrella Movement.”

1. Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has dissolved the Lower House on Thursday for a snap election.
2. The International Civil Aviation Organization says it will consider, as early as next month, a response to North Korea’s repeated launches of ballistic missiles.
3. Russian President Vladimir Putin has announced that his country is destroying its last stockpiles of chemical weapons in line with the Chemical Weapons Convention.

1. U.S. President Donald Trump says his country is fully prepared for an option that would be devastating for North Korea.
2. The top North Korean official in charge of U.S. affairs is in Moscow for diplomatic talks with her Russian counterparts.
3. Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike says her new political party will aim to break from conventional politics and reset Japan.

1. North Korea’s foreign minister has denounced U.S. President Donald Trump’s recent criticism of Pyongyang as a declaration of war on his country.
2. European ambassadors to the United States have cautioned President Trump about the consequences of abandoning a nuclear deal with Iran.
3. Kurds in northern Iraq have finished voting in an independence referendum. A majority is expected to back independence from Iraq.

1. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will hold a news conference on Monday to announce a plan to dissolve the Lower House on Thursday for a snap election next month.
2. Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservative bloc has come in first in Germany’s federal election, giving Merkel a fourth term as chancellor.
3. Parties to a global treaty designed to regulate mercury have attended an inaugural conference in Switzerland.

1. North Korea’s foreign minister has slammed U.S. President Donald Trump for calling his country’s leader Kim Jong Un “rocket man.”
2. A tremor was detected near North Korea’s nuclear test site on Saturday. South Korea’s meteorological agency and an international nuclear test watchdog both say the jolt was probably not man-made.
3. Syria’s foreign minister has told the U.N. General Assembly that victory against Islamic-State militants and other insurgents is now within reach.

1. The United States has condemned comments by a North Korean official that the country may test a hydrogen bomb over the Pacific.
2. The General Conference of the International Atomic Energy Agency has unanimously adopted a resolution strongly condemning North Korea.
3. The death toll from a strong earthquake that hit central Mexico on Tuesday has topped 290. International rescuers continue their search for survivors.

1. U.S. President Donald Trump has announced his signing of an executive order to enforce additional sanctions that will increase pressure on North Korea.
2. North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho says the country’s leader Kim Jong Un’s statement may have suggested conducting a hydrogen bomb test in the Pacific Ocean.
3. International rescue teams have joined the search for people trapped under rubble in quake-hit central Mexico.

1. Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has called on countries to strictly and fully implement the U.N. Security Council resolutions on North Korea.
2. 50 countries and regions have signed a global treaty at U.N. Headquarters to legally ban nuclear weapons.
3. Mexican officials have confirmed 230 deaths in the magnitude 7.1 earthquake that hit the central part of the country on Tuesday.

1. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has asked Iranian President Hassan Rouhani to steadily implement U.N. Security Council sanctions resolutions on North Korea.
2. A powerful earthquake with a magnitude of 7.1 hit southern Mexico on Tuesday as of 9:50 p.m. local time. Media reports say at least 149 people have been killed.
3. Japanese Prime Minister Abe is to hold a news conference next Monday to explain why he wants to call a snap election.