EU leaders poured cold water on Theresa May’s Brexit plans at an informal summit in Salzburg on Thursday (20 September) but they remained divided over migration, with French president Emmanuel Macron launching a broadside at the EU’s ‘troublesome’ member states. Source: Euractiv
Agreement comes amid visit to China by DPRK’s top judicial offical. Chinese and North Korean officials at meetings in Beijing on Tuesday agreed to expand legal cooperation exchanges and cooperation, the state-run Xinhua News Agency reported. Source NK News
Pyongyang might end the scheduled working-level negotiations with Washington if a planned joint military exercise between the United States and South Korea happens, the foreign ministry of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) warned here on Tuesday. Source XinHuaNet
South Korean President Moon Jae-in said on Monday Japan’s reported accusations that South Korea had exported banned goods to North Korea posed a “grave challenge” amid a growing dispute over Japanese export curbs. Source Reuters
