The US government will analyze North Korea's reaction to the cancellation of the planned summit meeting between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
North Korea's state-run media reports that the Punggye-ri nuclear test site has been completely dismantled.
Malaysia's newly inaugurated government has confirmed that the country's debt exceeds 250 billion dollars.
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Key words : US government analyze cancellation
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The US government will analyze North Korea's reaction to the cancellation of the planned summit meeting between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
A high-ranking US government official attributed the cancellation to a series of broken promises on the part of North Korea.
On Thursday, the White House released a letter from Trump addressed to Kim, in which the president said he feels it is inappropriate at this time to hold the meeting, which is set for June 12th in Singapore.
The US official said North Korean officials failed to show up for a high-level meeting in Singapore last week to prepare for the summit and that there had been no contact on the matter.
The official also cited the North's failure to invite international experts to witness the closure on Thursday of a key nuclear test site, despite an earlier promise to do so. The United States claims this made it impossible to verify what actually happened there.
In the wake of these developments, Trump reportedly made the decision on Thursday morning to cancel the summit after consulting with Vice President Mike Pence and other senior officials.
Trump later told reporters that a summit with Kim could still take place.
An NHK reporter says the Trump administration will decide whether to seek a summit again or to ramp up pressure on North Korea after judging its response.
Key words : high-ranking called on
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A high-ranking North Korean official has called on US President Donald Trump to rethink his decision to cancel a planned summit with the North's leader Kim Jong Un. He says his country is willing to give the United States time and opportunities to reconsider the decision.
First Vice Foreign Minister Kim Kye Gwan on Friday issued a statement through the state-run Korean Central News Agency. He is a long-time negotiator with the US.
Kim said Trump's decision does not meet the desire of humankind for peace and stability, both on the Korean Peninsula and throughout the world.
Kim said the cancellation demonstrates the grave status of hostile North Korea-US relations and how urgently a summit should be realized to improve ties.
Kim said North Korea had high regard for President Trump's efforts, unprecedented by any other president, to create a historic summit.
He said the unilateral cancelation was "unexpected" and "very regrettable."
Kim said the North is willing to sit down face-to-face with the United States and resolve issues at any time and in any format.
Key words : Japan work closely
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Japan's top government spokesman said Japan will work closely with the United States and South Korea to persuade Pyongyang to change its policies and return the Japanese abductees as soon as possible.
Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga made the remark on Friday, following US President Donald Trump's abrupt cancellation of his summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
Suga said the most important point is not the meeting itself, but the opportunity to resolve the issues of North Korea's nuclear and missile development and the abductions of Japanese nationals by North Korean agents.
He said Japan, the United States and South Korea as well as China and Russia must firmly implement the UN Security Council sanctions resolutions against the North.
Suga said the Japanese government is working closely with Washington and Seoul to gather and analyze intelligence on North Korea's nuclear and missile activities.
He stressed that the government will continue to keep a close watch on the North under the Japan-US alliance to ensure the safety of the Japanese people.
Key words : abducted
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The son of a Japanese woman abducted by North Korea decades ago has expressed regret that US President Donald Trump canceled his summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
Koichiro Iizuka spoke to NHK after Trump made the announcement. His mother is abductee Yaeko Taguchi. He and other relatives of abductees visited the United States in early May to solicit cooperation in resolving the abduction issue.
Iizuka said he had anticipated progress on the issue through the US-North Korea summit, and there's nothing that can be done to change the US government's decision.
Iizuka said he wants North Korea to respond sincerely on the issue.
He also expressed hope that the Japanese government will gather information quickly on the possible impact of the cancellation, and work to help the abductees return home as soon as possible.
The Japanese government says at least 17 of its citizens, including his mother, were abducted during the 1970s and 1980s.
Five were returned after a 2002 summit between the leaders of Japan and North Korea. But the other 12 remain unaccounted for.
Key words : state-run media completely dismantle
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North Korea's state-run media reports that the Punggye-ri nuclear test site has been completely dismantled. It has released footage of the dismantling process observed by foreign journalists.
The media reported on Friday what Pyongyang calls the dismantling of the site. The facility in the country's northeast was used for 6 underground nuclear tests.
It says the dismantling process was opened to media crews from the United States, South Korea, Britain, China and Russia.
It describes the dismantling of the site as a "vivid manifestation" of the North Korean government's fixed stand to make positive contribution to building a nuclear-free world.
The released footage shows a North Korean official briefing international journalists near what appeared to be an entrance to a tunnel and a building being blown up and releasing a cloud of dust.
Key words : US government explain
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The US government is starting to explain why it decided to launch a probe on auto imports.
Commerce Department officials want to determine whether the rising number of foreign cars coming into the country poses a threat to national security.
The Commerce Secretary has been speaking with US TV channel CNBC.
Wilbur Ross stressed that the new investigation is to correct imbalances with the country's trading partners.
He was asked whether auto imports are an issue of national security.
Ross said "Without economic security, you can't have military security. National security is broadly defined to include the economy, to include the impact on employment."
Ross criticized trading partners for imposing high tariffs on US automobiles and also maintaining significant non-tariff barriers.
He said competition is not fair, as US duties on imported cars are relatively low.
Officials at the department are planning to hold public hearings and listen to opinions of others including foreign automakers.
US President Donald Trump is considering tariffs as high as 25 percent on foreign cars which would be 10 times the current duty on passenger vehicles.
Key words : Malaysian confirm
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Malaysia's newly inaugurated government has confirmed that the country's debt exceeds 1 trillion ringgit, or 250 billion US dollars.
The national debt is 30 percent higher than the amount the previous government had disclosed.
Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad says his government will take another look at mega projects, such as a high-speed rail line to Singapore.
Malaysian Finance Minister Lim Guan Eng told reporters on Wednesday that the debt has been run up through borrowing by a state investment fund known as 1MDB.
Former prime minister Najib Razak has been mired in a multibillion-dollar scandal involving 1MDB, which he set up.
Najib's government said in 2017 that the debt stood at 685 billion ringgit.
Lim said it is clear that the previous government was regularly deceiving the public.
On Thursday, Najib arrived at the anti-graft agency in the administrative capital of Putrajaya for a second round of questioning on the corruption scandal this week.
Najib has been denying any wrongdoing at 1MDB. He said "I have answered all questions as best as I could, and Malaysia's Anti-Corruption Commission has done its duty well and professionally. The members said the statement session has been completed."
The investigation was reopened earlier this month following Najib's surprise election defeat that brought Mahathir back to office.
Key words : international team
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An international team of investigators says the Russian military was the source of the missile that downed Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 in 2014.
At a news conference in the Netherlands on Thursday, the team announced the findings of its investigation, showing photos of the wrecked plane.
The passenger aircraft was shot down while it was traveling over eastern Ukraine from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur. All 298 people on board were killed.
The team says the missile was brought into Ukraine by a Russian army unit based in the western Russian city of Kursk.
The team had previously said the missile was a Russian-made "Buk" that was fired from an eastern Ukrainian community under the control of pro-Russian rebels.
The team says it has yet to identify whether the missile was launched by the Russian military or pro-Russian insurgents in Ukraine. It plans to gather more accounts from eyewitnesses and other people.
The team consists of investigators from the Netherlands, Ukraine, and 3 other nations.
Russia's Defense Ministry issued a statement denying the involvement of the Russian military.
It says the investigation is focused on substantiating its conclusions by using only images from social networks that were skillfully edited by computer graphic software.
It adds the investigators have rejected the evidence of eyewitnesses testifying to the missile's launch from territory controlled by the Ukrainian armed forces.
Key words : chinese indicated
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Chinese Premier Li Keqiang has indicated his country is willing to talk with the German government about the widow of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo.
The premier spoke at a joint news conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Beijing on Thursday.
The German government has been urging China to improve the situation surrounding Liu Xia, who remains under surveillance in China.
The premier said the Chinese government has to respect the actions taken by judicial bodies in accordance with the law, but at the same time it must respect humanitarianism.
It is rare for China to express willingness for talks on human rights issues, rather than dismissing calls for talks as an intervention in internal affairs.
Supporters of Liu Xia say she has expressed a wish to live overseas, although she cannot leave China due to restrictions by the authorities. They add that both her physical and mental conditions are deteriorating.
Liu Xiaobo was a symbol of China's pro-democracy movement and was openly critical of the country's one-party rule. He died of liver cancer in July last year while serving a prison sentence for inciting subversion of state power.
Key words : cut diplomatic
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Burkina Faso has cut diplomatic relations with Taiwan. It's the 2nd country to do so this month. The Dominican Republic in the Caribbean severed ties on May 1st.
Taiwanese authorities said on Thursday that Burkina Faso's government had notified them that it is ending bilateral relations, which began in 1994.
Taiwan responded that it is also severing ties with the West African country.
Burkina Faso's government issued a statement, noting that it was acting because of the need to review diplomatic ties under changing global conditions.
It is expected to establish relations with mainland China in the near future.
Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen said that China toys with dollar diplomacy and promises huge sums of money to entice many countries to build relations. She added that Taiwan will no longer tolerate or yield to Beijing's pressure.
China's Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lu Kang said that Beijing appreciates Burkina Faso's decision.
Beijing has been intensifying pressure on the Tsai administration, claiming that it has not accepted the one-China principle.
Burkina Faso is the 4th country to have cut diplomatic ties with Taiwan since Tsai became president in 2016.
Taiwan now has formal relations with 18 nations, the least in its history.
Key words : a man in eastern Japan
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A man in eastern Japan has been referred to prosecutors for allegedly sending discriminatory and threatening messages online to an ethnic Korean woman.
Investigative sources say the 44-year-old woman told police that she began receiving such Twitter messages after she took part in an anti-hate speech rally in January 2016.
Police determined that those messages were from a 50-year-old unemployed man living near Tokyo.
The sources say the suspect was referred to prosecutors on Friday of last week for alleged intimidation.
In the messages, the suspect called himself a racist. And he threatened her by writing "his patience has run out" and "he is planning to buy a hatchet."
A lawyer for the woman says she received hundreds of discriminatory postings for about 18 months.
The sources say the man admitted to the charge, saying he did not expect things to turn out like this.
Last month, another man was indicted on a charge of libel after livestreaming a discriminatory video online concerning a Korean school in Kyoto.
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