Red carpet treatment: What's at stake in Putin's state visit to North Korea?

Pacific Asia • Jun 19, 2024, 6:10 PM

1 min de lecture

You know you've got a reclusive regime when an outside world hungry for clues salivates at the prospect of a visit by Vladimir Putin. Putin is on his first visit to North Korea in 24 years. We ask our panel what they’ve parsed from reviews of honour guards, official communiqués and hagiographic state media coverage. More broadly, do these images project strength or weakness?

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Japan's Supreme Court rules that forced sterilisation law was unconstitutional

Pacific Asia • 7:09 AM

1 min

Thousands of Japanese people who were forcibly sterilised between 1948 and 1996 will be able to request government compensation after the country's Supreme Court ruled that its now-defunct eugenics law was unconstitutional.

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