Rare espionage joke from China's Xi makes headlines in South Korea
Pacific Asia • Nov 3, 2025, 5:33 AM
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China's leader Xi Jinping made headlines in South Korea over the weekend as he joked that a pair of smartphones he gifted to the country's president could be used for espionage. Experts said the unusually lighthearted exchange likely indicated closeness between the two leaders who were meeting on the sidelines of an APEC summit.
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North Korea's former symbolic head of state Kim Yong Nam dies
Pacific Asia • 7:31 AM
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North Korea's former ceremonial head of state Kim Yong Nam has died at age 97, state media reported on Tuesday. Kim Yong Nam defied the country's purge-prone political scene to serve as head of parliament for 20 years, a role experts suspect he retained
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North Korea fires artillery rockets ahead of US defence secretary's border visit, Seoul says
Pacific Asia • 7:00 AM
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Pyongyang fired around 10 rockets an hour before US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth on Monday visited the demilitarised zone between North and South Korea, Seoul said on Tuesday.
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