Key words : kim meeting
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North Korea has convened a key meeting of the ruling Workers' Party to discuss policy issues, including diplomatic and defense strategies, with leader Kim Jong Un in attendance.
The Workers' Party newspaper Rodong Sinmun reported on Saturday that the plenary meeting of the party's Central Committee opened the previous day in Pyongyang.
The paper said the meeting will review the work of all sectors, including the economic field, in the first half of the year, as well as diplomatic and defense strategies to "cope with the changed international situation."
South Korea's Yonhap news agency says participants are expected to discuss plans to strengthen ties with friendly nations such as China and Russia to counter the United States and South Korea.
The committee's previous plenary meeting was held over four days in February. It is rare for North Korea to hold two plenary meetings in the first half of the year.
North Korea announced on May 29 that the meeting would take place in early June. Some observers say it was likely pushed back after the country's failed attempt to launch what it called its first military reconnaissance satellite on May 31.
It is not known whether Kim, who appeared in public for the first time in about a month, will deliver a speech at the meeting that mentions relations with the US, as well as Pyongyang's nuclear and missile development programs.
Key words : us national security visit
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US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan says the recent progress in Japan-South Korea ties is profoundly impacting the strength of their trilateral relationship.
He was speaking to reporters on Friday during a visit to Tokyo.
Sullivan commented on Washington's extended deterrence, defined as a commitment to defend allies with nuclear and conventional weapons.
He said the US will for the time being focus on deepening bilateral mechanisms with Japan and South Korea.
Sullivan added that Washington will at some point make a judgement regarding some kind of trilateral mechanism.
He also said China's buildup of nuclear weapons requires intense consultations among the world's nuclear powers.
Sullivan said the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council should be engaged in that conversation, adding that the US and China should also hold bilateral discussions on disarmament and risk reduction.
Sullivan said US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will convey those views to China when he visits on Sunday and Monday.
Key words : blinken china Sunday
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Japanese government sources have told NHK that the Group of Seven foreign ministers could discuss China next week following a visit to the country by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken.
The talks would take place on the sidelines of an international conference in London on Wednesday and Thursday aimed at discussing ways to help Ukraine recover from Russia's invasion.
In a communique issued at May's G7 summit in Hiroshima, the G7 leaders say they strongly oppose any unilateral attempts to change the status quo by force or coercion in the East and South China Seas.
The communique also says they are prepared to build constructive and stable relations with China to tackle global challenges.
Japanese Foreign Minister Hayashi Yoshimasa, who visited Beijing in April, is expected to reaffirm the G7's stance in London.
Blinken will visit China for two days from Sunday.
Key words : senior researcher ibaraki
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Investigative sources in Japan say a Chinese researcher arrested on suspicion of leaking sensitive data to his country is believed to have been involved with a Beijing-run initiative to recruit foreign talent.
Quan Hengdao is a senior researcher at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology in Ibaraki Prefecture.
He is suspected of violating the Unfair Competition Prevention Act by emailing research data on fluorine compounds to a Chinese company. He reportedly denies the allegations.
Beijing's Thousand Talents Plan is aimed at strengthening science and technology in China by recruiting foreign researchers, as well as Chinese citizens active overseas.
But the United States and other Western countries say technologies and information are being leaked in exchange for large wages.
Key words : naruhito and seven-day departed
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Japan's Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako have left Tokyo on a seven-day official visit to Indonesia. It is their first goodwill trip abroad since the Emperor ascended the throne in 2019.
The couple departed from Haneda Airport on a government plane on Saturday morning, after being greeted by Crown Prince and Crown Princess Akishino, Prime Minister Kishida Fumio and the charge d'affaires of the Indonesian Embassy in Tokyo.
They will arrive at Soekarno-Hatta International Airport near the capital, Jakarta, on Saturday afternoon, local time.
They are scheduled to meet Indonesian President Joko Widodo and his wife and attend a luncheon on Monday.
On Tuesday, the Imperial couple are to lay flowers at Kalibata cemetery, which is dedicated to national heroes who fought for the country's independence. Those buried there include Japanese soldiers who remained in what is now Indonesia after World War Two and joined the fight for independence.
Indonesia is the 14th country the couple has visited since they were married in 1993.
Key words : nato ukraine member
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NATO defense ministers held two days of talks in Brussels to prepare for a leaders' summit next month in Lithuania. On Friday, they announced they are creating a new council with Ukraine. They said they will use July's meeting to hold the council's first session with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
NATO leaders have been weighing Ukraine's prospects for membership. They say they are not yet ready to discuss a formal invitation.
However, Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said that in the new council, Ukraine will be equal to NATO allies and consult and decide on security issues of mutual concern.
In 1997, NATO created a commission with Ukraine to discuss defense and other issues. Russia's annexation of Crimea in 2014 prompted them to hold several extraordinary sessions.
Stoltenberg said the new council will be "something different." He added that Ukraine will sit at the table with "the same rights" and that they will "make decisions together."
The defense ministers had also hoped to draw up their first new defense plans since the Cold War. They did agree to increase their capabilities but were unable to decide how much members should increase their defense budgets beyond the current 2 percent of GDP.
Key words : daniel died
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Daniel Ellsberg, a US military analyst who leaked the classified Pentagon Papers and revealed the extent of Washington's involvement in the Vietnam War, has died at the age of 92.
A statement published by his family said he died of pancreatic cancer at his home in the US state of California on Friday.
Ellsberg worked at the Defense Department and the State Department during the Vietnam War.
He leaked a 7,000-page classified Defense Department document to the media in 1971, and accused successive administrations of hiding facts about Vietnam and maneuvering to expand the US role in the war.
The document, called the Pentagon Papers, set off an anti-war furor at a time when the public was already angry about US involvement in a conflict with no apparent end in sight.
Ellsberg was indicted on a range of charges, including espionage, which was later dismissed. His disclosure of the document was dramatized in a 2017 movie.
The New York Times, which published the Pentagon Papers, reported Ellsberg's death on Friday. The newspaper wrote he approached the publication because he was "deeply disturbed by the accounting of American deceit" and that his disclosures "rocked the nation."
Key words : non-consensual
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A revision to Japan's Penal Code and other legislation to better respond to sex crimes has been enacted after the Upper House of the Diet unanimously approved it on Friday.
Under the revision, the crime of "forcible sexual intercourse" is renamed to "sexual intercourse without consent" and the offense of "indecency through compulsion" is renamed to "indecency without consent."
The revised Penal Code specifies for the first time the eight types of acts that would serve as the basis for such crimes. They include intoxicating the victim with alcohol or drugs, not giving the victim a chance to refuse, and frightening or shocking the victim, in addition to assault or intimidation.
When people commit any of these acts and make it difficult for victims to express their lack of consent before engaging in sexual acts, they will face the charges of non-consensual sexual intercourse or indecency.
The statute of limitations for these crimes has been extended by five years.
The age of consent for sexual acts has been raised to 16 from the current 13. A sexual act with anyone younger than 16 is now a punishable crime except for those between people in the same age bracket.
In addition, the revision makes "grooming" a crime. This involves psychologically controlling children for sexual purposes through social media and other means.
Taking indecent images or offering them to third parties will also be a crime under the revision.
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