1. A South Korean joint investigation team including police has issued a summons to impeached President Yoon Suk-yeol to appear for questioning next week over the short-lived martial law he declared earlier this month. 2. Japan’s core consumer price index climbed 2.7 percent in November from a year earlier as prices for rice soared to a record. The internal affairs ministry also reported a 0.4 percentage point increase in CPI from October. That’s the first such gain since August. 3. Japanese government sources say the team of US President-elect Donald Trump has proposed a meeting with Prime Minister Ishiba Shigeru in the United States in mid-January before his return to the White House. Ishiba is expected to decide whether to attend after considering his planned visit to Southeast Asia from early January and the opening of an ordinary session of the Diet.