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- The Japanese government says it will closely cooperate with the United States and South Korea to achieve progress on North Korean matters.
- North Korea’s state-run media says the country will return to the same time zone as South Korea on May 5th.
- Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has arrived in the United Arab Emirates on the first leg of a 5-day tour of the Middle East.
- Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe says he and U.S. President Donald Trump have reaffirmed that North Korea must take concrete action toward denuclearization. They say they will closely watch its moves.
- South Korea’s presidential office says North Korean leader Kim Jong Un told President Moon that a nuclear test site in the North will be scrapped in May.
- Prime Minister Abe has started his Middle East tour to strengthen relationships with countries in the region from the viewpoint of energy security.
- The issue of how North Korea will denuclearize has been left to a discussion at a summit between the United States and North Korea.
- U.S. President Donald Trump has expressed a determination to seek a nuclear-free Korean Peninsula through his upcoming summit talks with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
- Australia and Canada will dispatch military aircraft to a U.S. base in Japan to monitor illicit ship-to-ship transfers involving North Korean vessels.
- South Korean President Moon Jae-in and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un have begun talks at the truce village of Panmunjom.
- Mike Pompeo has been sworn in as U.S. Secretary of State.
- China’s Defense Ministry says it has deployed new intermediate-range ballistic missiles, which have a high speed that makes interception difficult.
- South Korean President Moon Jae-in and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un are set to meet on Friday at a facility on the South Korean side of the military demarcation line in the truce village of Panmunjom.
- Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has expressed discontent over France’s new proposal on his country’s nuclear and missile development.
- The foreign ministers of Japan and Iran have agreed that Iran’s nuclear deal with 6 world powers must remain intact, with the United States upholding the deal.
- Negotiations over the Iran nuclear deal continue after the U.S. president did not respond to a proposal by his French counterpart aimed at preserving the agreement.
- Russian Ambassador to Japan Mikhail Galuzin has suggested the Japan-U.S. alliance is a hindrance to the development of his country’s ties with Japan.
- White House officials say the Trump administration plans to nominate the head of the U.S. military’s Pacific Command, Admiral Harry Harris, to the post of the ambassador to South Korea.
- U.S. Acting Secretary of State John Sullivan has called on the international community to keep pressure on North Korea until the country completes denuclearization.
- Japan’s government has approved the resignation of a top Finance Ministry bureaucrat who is at the center of a sexual harassment scandal.
- Finance Minister Taro Aso says the ministry will put off paying a retirement allowance to its top bureaucrat while a probe continues into allegations that he sexually harassed female reporters.
- Foreign ministers from the G-7 industrialized nations have agreed to maintain maximum pressure on North Korea toward denuclearization.
- Canada will host the world’s first all female foreign ministers’ meeting later this year.
- A United Nations official says the world body plans to announce a new action plan for disarmament and put pressure on tackling the issue.
- Finance ministers and central bank chiefs of the International Monetary Fund policy-making body have warned of trade conflicts as downsize risks of the world economy.
- Japanese and the U.S. governments are planning to hold the first round of talks on a new framework to discuss bilateral trade and investment as early as June.
- The Japanese and Canadian foreign ministers have agreed to continue “maximum pressure” on North Korea besides the country’s pledge to suspend nuclear and missile launch tests.
- North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has announced that his country will suspend nuclear and missile tests from Saturday and will also shut down a nuclear test site.
- The defense chiefs of Japan and the United States have agreed to demand that North Korea abandon all weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missiles.
- Finance ministers and central bank governors from the Group of 20 economies have agreed to aim for economic growth by promoting trade.