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RI JONG HO

Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Oct 20, 2019
U.S. offered to help North Korea build up tourist area in exchange for denuclearization: report
The U.S. reportedly offered a long-term plan to help North Korea develop a tourist area in return for denuclearization during recent working-level talks in Stockholm that ended with the North side walking out, according to a new report.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / ANALYSIS
Oct 16, 2019
North Korean leader visits sacred mountain as speculation grows of fresh provocation
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has made yet another improbable trek to the top of 2,744-meter-high (9,003-feet-high) Mount Paektu, which the country calls "the sacred mountain of the revolution" — and this time, he did it atop a white steed.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Oct 13, 2019
North Korea may be hiding hog apocalypse from the world
By official accounts, the pig contagion wreaking havoc across Eastern Asia has virtually skipped over North Korea, with a single outbreak reported there in May. But wayward feral pigs have stoked concern that Kim Jong Un's reclusive state is hiding an African swine fever disaster.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Oct 13, 2019
North Korea demands Japan pay compensation over sinking of fishing boat
North Korea has “strongly demanded” Japan pay compensation for a fishing boat that sank after it collided with a Fisheries Agency patrol boat in the Sea of Japan.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 9, 2019
North Korea exploits its advantages in talks with U.S.
Trump must disabuse the North Koreans of the notion that they can get a better deal from him if they refuse to engage seriously with his team.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Oct 2, 2019
North Korea fires ballistic missile built to be launched from submarine into Japan's EEZ
North Korea tested a suspected sub-launched ballistic missile in a technological advancement, if successful, could make it significantly more difficult to destroy its nuclear arsenal.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Sep 27, 2019
Pyongyang says lack of progress casts doubt on prospects for future summit with U.S.
North Korea said on Friday that a lack of progress in implementing agreements made between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un cast doubt on prospects for a future summit, state news agency KCNA said.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Sep 21, 2019
North Korean chief negotiator welcomes Trump's call for 'new method' at nuclear talks
North Korea's chief nuclear negotiator welcomed on Friday U.S. President Donald Trump's suggestion that a "new method" be used in talks on Pyongyang's nuclear weapons programs.
Japan Times
JAPAN / FOCUS
Sep 18, 2019
Abe used Cabinet reshuffle to renew focus on North Korea abductions, but resolution remains out of reach
In last week's Cabinet reshuffle, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe replaced some of the key personnel responsible for handling the issue of North Korea's abductions of Japanese nationals — again demonstrating his determination to resolve the decadeslong problem.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 16, 2019
Trump's appeasement of North Korea is failing
While both leaders have managed to extract benefits from the impasse thus far, it is Kim who stands to gain the most in the months ahead
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Sep 16, 2019
North Korea's Kim invited Trump to visit Pyongyang, report claims
In a move that could see President Donald Trump set foot on North Korean soil again, Kim Jong Un has invited the U.S. leader to Pyongyang, a South Korean newspaper reported Monday, as the North's Foreign Ministry said it expected stalled nuclear talks to resume "in a few weeks."
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics / ANALYSIS
Sep 11, 2019
Trump clips hawkish adviser Bolton's wings in firing expected to reverberate in Tokyo and Pyongyang
The U.S. president, citing strong policy disagreements, fires his national security adviser John Bolton — the White House's third national security chief in less than three years.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Sep 11, 2019
With latest weapons tests, North Korea's Kim lives up to 'rocket man' nickname
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is living up to his "rocket man" nickname, with state-run media on Wednesday saying that the previous day's weapons test had been yet another of a "super-large multiple rocket launcher."
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Sep 9, 2019
U.S. hopes for North Korea talks in days or weeks, Mike Pompeo says
The United States hopes to get back to denuclearization talks with North Korea in the coming days or weeks, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Sunday.

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A woman passes an "akichi" (vacant lot) in Bunkyo Ward, Tokyo. The capital is littered with such small lots in part because of Japan's aging and shrinking population.
Dealing with rising land vacancies as Japan shrinks