South Korea
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PM of Japan will not attend opening ceremony of Beijing Winter Olympics.
Fumio Kishida, Japan’s prime minister, has indicated he will not attend the Winter Olympics in Beijing’s opening ceremony, but it is unclear whether the country will join a US-led diplomatic boycott over human rights abuses. Kishida has only stated that he will make a decision based on Japan’s “national interest,” possibly by the end of…
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Dalai Lama Congratulates Korean Leaders’ Peace Initiative
The Tibetan spiritual leader His Holiness the Dalai Lama has written separate letters to the leaders of the South and North Korea on Monday to welcome and congratulate their peace initiatives to get rid of the Korean peninsula of nuclear weapons and turn armistice that ended the world Korean war into a peace treaty this…