月: 2018年1月

1. The presidents of South Korea and the United States have agreed it is possible that inter-Korean talks could lead to dialogue between the U.S. and North Korea on denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.
2. The White House has announced that Vice President Mike Pence will attend the opening ceremony of the PyeongChang Olympics in South Korea next month. He will also visit Japan.
3. Software manufacturers are urging users to update their computers after a serious flaw was found in their central processing units, or CPUs.

1. The U.S. Geological Survey says a magnitude 7.6 earthquake struck north of Honduras in the Caribbean Sea at a depth of 10 kilometers shortly before 9 p.m. Tuesday local time.
2. High-ranking officials from North and South Korea have concluded their talks with 3 points of agreement.
3. South Korean Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha says the country’s government will not renegotiate the 2015 agreement with Japan on those referred to as comfort women.

1. South Korean government officials say North Korea says it will send a delegation to the upcoming PyeongChang Olymopic and Pralympic Games.
2. U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis has apologized after a string of accidents and mishaps involving its military helicopters in Okinawa Prefecture, southern Japan.
3. Chinese and French presidents will hold talks on Tuesday. They will likely discuss China’s “One Belt, One Road” economic initiative, climate change and North Korea.

1. Monday is North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s birthday, but it is not marked as a national holiday in his country.
2. U.S. military personnel have removed from a beach in Okinawa Prefecture a helicopter that made an emergency landing there on Saturday.
3. In Saudi Arabia, 11 princes have been detained after staging a protest at a royal palace in the capital, Riyadh.

1. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has welcomed the first talks between North and South Korea in 2 years.
2. Iran’s foreign minister has ridiculed the United States for its attempt to get the U.N. Security Council to censure his country for its handling of anti-government protests.
3. The foreign ministers of Japan and the Maldives have agreed that freedom on the seas is vital for global peace and prosperity.

1. China’s special representative on Korean Peninsula affairs and his South Korean counterpart have agreed that improvement in inter-Korean relations will help create an environment for resuming dialogue for denuclearization of North Korea.
2. The Chinese government says it is limiting exports of crude oil and refined oil products to North Korea in line with new U.N. sanctions on the North.
3. The U.N. Security Council has discussed deadly anti-government protests in Iran. The United States called on Iran to improve its human rights situation. But Russia and China argued that it is a domestic issue.

1. North Korea has accepted Seoul’s offer to hold high-level inter-Korean talks at the truce village of Panmunjom next Tuesday.
2. The presidents of the United States and South Korea have agreed not to stage joint military drills during the Winter Olympics in PyeongChang.
3. The Japan Coast Guard says a record number of cases of wooden boats suspected to have come from the Korean Peninsula were reported last year.

1. Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has expressed hope that unrest in the country will end in a few days.
2. U.S. President Donald Trump has threatened to cut off financial aid to the Palestinian Authority.
3. North Korea has reopened the hotline with South Korea to discuss issues, including sending athletes to the PyeongChang Winter Olympics.

1. Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has accused other countries of instigating anti-government protests.
2. A U.S. State Department spokesperson says North Korea might be “trying to drive a wedge of some sort” between the United States and South Korea.
3. Pope Francis has issued a card for World Peace Day that shows a young victim of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki in August 1945.

1. Japan’s Emperor has offered New Year’s greetings to the public at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo.
2. Fourteen people, including a police officer, have reportedly been killed in Iran, as the anti-government protests continue.
3. Seven years have passed since the nuclear accident at the Fukushima Daiichi plant. The operator is hoping to eventually remove fuel debris from the damaged reactors.