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- The top national security advisers of Japan, the United States and South Korea have agreed to keep applying maximum pressure on North Korea until it takes irreversible and verifiable steps toward denuclearization.
- Russian President Vladimir Putin has secured a historical landslide victory, by winning more than 76 percent of the votes, while some opposition forces are protesting the election was leaked.
- Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says the country’s forces have taken control of the central part of Afrin, a Kurdish stronghold in northwestern Syria.
- The foreign ministers of Japan and South Korea have agreed that their nations need to maintain maximum pressure on North Korea in order to denuclearize the country.
- Russians are voting in a presidential election that is expected to give President Vladimir Putin a fourth term in office.
- Former U.S. President Barack Obama will next week visit Japan for the first time since he left office.
- Japan and the United States have agreed to continue applying maximum pressure on North Korea until it takes concrete action toward denuclearization.
- Japanese Finance Minister Taro Aso has reiterated that he will not resign. Opposition parties are demanding that he step down to take responsibility for the ministry’s document-tampering scandal.
- Chinese President Xi Jinping has been reelected for his second 5-year term at China’s National People’s Congress. His key ally, Wang Qishan, was elected as vice president.