- U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and the vice chairman of North Korea’s ruling workers’ Party, Kim Yong Chol, have ended their first day of talks in New York.
- A North Korean official preparing for the historic summit between the United States and his country has visited the hotel in Singapore where his U.S. counterpart is staying.
- Japan’s Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera says it is a positive move by the U.S. military to have renamed the Pacific Command the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command.
May 31, Thursday, 2018 (2:00 p.m.) Read by Ms. Yuka Matsumoto and Ms. Hiroko Kitadai