日: 2018年7月28日

1. 16 Asia-Pacific countries have made progress in negotiations on a free trade deal known as the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, or RCEP.
2. China’s special representative on Korean Peninsula affairs Kong Xuanyou wrapped up a 3-day visit to North Korea on Friday and returned to Beijing. 
3. Japanese weather officials say a strong typhoon could make landfall in the Tokyo region of central Japan sometime between late Saturday and early Sunday morning.

1. Friday marks the 65^th anniversary of the signing of the armistice agreement for the Korean War.
2. The World Health Organization has issued a public health guide in connection with reports of extreme heat around the world.
3. U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer has urged Japan to open its agricultural market to more beef and other exports from the United States.

1.The main culprits behind a series of attacks that terrorized Japan in the 1990s are dead. Japan’s justice minister has confirmed the execution of 6 jailed members of the doomsday cult Aum Shinrikyo.

2.U.S. President Donald Trump and European Union Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker have agreed on work together to avert an escalation of trade dispute.

3. U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has said that North Korea continues to produce nuclear material, but that the U.S. hopes to achieve full denuclearization while President Donald Trump is in office.