Situation between North Korea, Japan and the rest of the world

27 May: Japan lifts warnings after North Korea fires ‘unidentified projectile’ The launch appeared to originate from Dongchang-ri, a northwestern area of the country where North Korea’s main space flight centre is based. An emergency warning ordered Japan’s residents in Okinawa to take cover, but was quickly lifted by the prime minister’s office. June 7

Second weekend of 2023 June: In the News

The Tories claimed that Labour’s main economic policy was “in tatters”, after the party’s shadow chancellor scrapped its flagship plan to spend £28 billion a year on green investment. Friday June 9 Boris Johnson’s resignation honours list published Boris Johnson’s long-awaited resignation honours list has been released – find out who received peerages here. Meanwhile,

Cold War over and back again to bring a war in Ukraine as the end of the liberal world order

Rather than a distressing violation of the post-Cold War norm, the Russian invasion of Ukraine that started at the end of February 2022, feels like a decisive end to the era that Bush proclaimed on the White House Lawn.