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Title: President Park hails success of Korea-ASEAN summit
Our top story this evening...
President Park Geun-hye has hailed the success of the Korea-ASEAN Commemorative summit that wrapped up Friday in Korea′s southern city of Busan... saying it laid the groundwork for even stronger ties as the Southeast Asian nations prepare to launch the ASEAN Economic Community at the end of next year.
President Park made the remarks on Saturday during bilateral talks with Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen at the presidential office of Cheong Wa Dae.
The ASEAN Economic Community aspires to create a single market and production base with a free flow of goods, services, investments, capital and skilled labor within ASEAN.
During the Korea-ASEAN summit, Korea and the Southeast Asian nations pledged to boost two-way trade volume to 200 billion U.S. dollars by 2020.
Title: U.S. Congress passes legislation requiring report on N. Korea′s political prison camps
The United States will launch a full-blown probe into the status of North Korea′s system of political prison camps.
Sources in the U.S. say a bill calling for an investigation passed through the House of Representatives and the Senate earlier this week.
The report will be required to include the size of the camps, reasons behind the inmates′ detainment as well as satellite imagery of the prisons.
The legislation also calls for the identification of individuals and agencies responsible for conditions in each camp at all levels of the North′s government.
It′s believed to be first time the United States has passed a law calling for a probe into the North′s political prison camps.
This latest development adds to growing international pressure on North Korea to improve its abysmal human rights record.
Title: Chinese President Xi calls for end to hatred as China marks Nanjing Massacre anniversary
Chinese President Xi Jinping has called on China and Japan to set hate aside.
Delivering a speech at China′s first state memorial ceremony for the victims of the Nanjing Massacre,... the Chinese leader said the two countries should look forward, but he warned Japan against trying to downplay some of the heinous crimes it committed.
Kim Hyun-bin reports.
Chinese President Xi Jinping says Beijing and Tokyo should set aside their hatred and work to prevent Japan′s historical wrongdoings negatively affecting relations between the two countries now.
China has been marking its first national memorial day for the Nanjing Massacre.
It was during this massacre in December 1937 that China says more than 300-thousand Chinese civilians and soldiers were killed by the Japanese military.
A postwar Allied tribunal put the death toll at 142-thousand, but some conservative Japanese politicians an
