KOREA
China Reasserts Itself, to Contain North Korea’s
Tilt Toward
Russia
David
Pierson, Choe
Sang-Hun, New
York Times -
June 8
China’s Xi Jinping calls for strengthened
‘strategic
cooperation’
with North
Korea in rare
summit with
Kim Jong Un
Simone
McCarthy,
Yoonjung Seo,
CNN - June 8
Lee calls for talks with North Korea on nuclear
moratorium as
Xi meets Kim
Joon
Ha Park, NK
News - June 8
Xi and Kim express hopes for greater ties between
China and
North Korea
Hyung-jin
Kim, Ken
Moritsugu, AP
News - June 8
Xi Vows Deeper Ties With Kim While Again Avoiding
Nuclear Issue
Nectar
Gan, Bloomberg
- June 8
Xi Gets Warm North Korea Welcome as Kim Draws
Nuclear Red
Line
Bloomberg
- June 8
China’s Xi Goes to North Korea to Court Kim
John
Feng, Newsweek
- June 8
Xi’s North Korea Trip Puts Kim Jong Un at the
Center of the
World
Tom
O'Connor,
Newsweek -
June 8
IRAN
Israel Halts Strikes After Trump Claims Progress
Toward Nuclear
Talks,
Officials Say
Maggie
Haberman,
Jonathan Swan,
Ronen Bergman,
New York TImes
- June 8
IAEA calls on Iran to 're-engage' as West
pressures it
with
resolution
Francois
Murphy, John
Irish, Reuters
- June 8
Trump denies that he campaigned on ending wars:
‘I didn’t
promise
anything’
John
Bowden, The
Independent -
June 8
US Pushes Iran Rebuke Over Uranium Missing Since
Bombings Began
Jonathan
Tirone,
Bloomberg -
June 8
EUROPE
Macron’s nuclear pact expands across Scandinavia
as global
forces surges
Jonas
Olsson,
Breaking
Defense - June
8