1.The South Korean government on Monday held its own ceremony in Japan to honor Korean forced labor victims of Japan’s Sado mines during World War II, after boycotting a memorial event that Japan hosted the previous day over Tokyo’s apparent insincerity in delivering its pledge to remember the victims.
2.Main opposition Democratic Party leader Lee Jae-myung was acquitted Monday of charges of suborning a formal mayoral secretary to make a false court testimony in his favor.
3.An Ukrainian media outlet reported Sunday that about 500 North Korean troops were killed in a missile strike by Kyiv in Russia’s western Kursk region.
