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Vostochny Cosmodrome, Russias massive spaceport that is about 5,500 kilometers east of Moscow, drew international attention on Wednesday, as the leaders of two isolated countries, North Korea and Russia, met in a high-profile summit. The spaceport sprawls across 551.5 square kilometers of land -- outsizing South Koreas state-run Naro Space Center by over 100 times. It began operation as the main spaceport there in ...

Kim Jong-un is likely to seek missile and warhead technology in an expected visit to Russia, and he is already getting a public embrace he has long sought.

Trilateral summit opens new chapter in security, economic partnership Asia News Network (ANN) is the leading regional alliance of news titles striving to bring the region closer, through an active sharing of editorial content on happenings in the region.

South Korea, the US and Japan agreed to bolster security and economic cooperation at a Camp David summit Friday that sought a stronger coalition on China and North Korea, signing for the first time a pledge to jointly respond to common security threats. The summit US President Joe Biden held with President Yoon Suk Yeol and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida at his presidential retreat condemned China’s &ldq...

(Bloomberg) -- South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol said the world would never accept North Korea as a nuclear weapons power while opening the door to a possible breakthrough in cooperation on deterrence with the US and Japan when leaders from the nations meet in a landmark summit later this week.Most Read from BloombergRussia Calls Emergency Key Rate Meeting as Ruble PlungesHollywood Studios Offer Writers a New Deal With Push From Netflix, Iger to End StrikeRussia’s Emergency Rate Hike F...

Yoon is set to meet Kishida, Biden in a landmark summit in the US. Read more at straitstimes.com.

This is an interesting time for Russia to host the Africa summit. The emerging multipolar world, especially Russias partnership with China, briefly put Vladimir Putin in a stronger position in Africa vis-à-vis the West. Most African leaders seem to favor the multipolar order. Putins invasion of Ukraine significantly disrupted that positive trend for Russia.

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Seoul Says N.Korea, China Reopen Freight Train Traffic

Bilateral relations between South Korea and China could turn from bad to worse, according to diplomatic observers, as Seoul prepares for full-fledged deployment of a U.S. anti-missile system at the displeasure of Beijing.