▪ Pompeo wishes Koreans well for Liberation Day
▪ Commemorative ceremony marking Int’l Memorial Day for Comfort Women to be held in Cheonan
▪ S. Korea, Japan far apart on wartime history, export curbs, intel sharing
▪ N. Korea will not allow any foreign aid for flood damage recovery to prevent COVID-19 outbreak
▪ Letters exchanged between leaders of N. Korea, U.S. to be made public in Woodward’s new book
▪ Hong Kong can ‘never succeed’ under China control: Trump
▪ Israel-UAE sign agreement to normalize full diplomatic ties, brokered by U.S.
▪ Doctors across S. Korea go on 24-hour strike in protest against gov’t health reform plan
▪ Silent COVID-19 transmissions happening simultaneously across S. Korea
▪ Last band of heavy monsoon showers in central regions, scorching in south