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War in Ukraine: Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida to meet Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Kiev

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War in Ukraine: Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida to meet Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Kiev, Magnate Daily
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Sylvie Claire / March 22, 2023

 

Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is on his way to Kiev for a surprise visit and a meeting on Tuesday with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, the Japanese Foreign Ministry announced.
 
Kishida will “convey to President Zelensky his respect for the courage and perseverance of the Ukrainian people in defending their homeland under his command, as well as the unfailing solidarity and support for Ukraine from Japan and the G7,” which the Asian country is hosting this year, the ministry said in a statement.
 
Fumio Kishida was the only member leader of the group who had not yet been to Kiev since the Russian invasion in February 2022. He was regularly called upon to visit Ukraine. In February, U.S. President Joe Biden also made a surprise visit to Kiev. 
 
Japanese television NHK said its reporters in Poland filmed a car carrying the prime minister to the town of Przemysl, from where foreign officials often took a train to Ukraine.
 
“The convoy entered the Przemysl station and parked in front of a platform used by international trains heading to Ukraine. Prime Minister Kishida got out of the first car of the convoy and got into the last car of the train,” she added.
 
According to the channel, the train left at 01:30.
 
Mr. Kishida had repeated that the trip was “under consideration”, with government sources mentioning security concerns and logistical challenges to the Japanese media.
 
He became the first Japanese Prime Minister to visit a war zone since the end of World War II.
 
His visit comes at a time when Chinese President Xi Jinping is in Moscow for a meeting with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin and, at the center of discussions, the conflict in Ukraine. 
 
Tokyo joined the Western sanctions against Russia and offered assistance to Kiev.
 
In February, Japan announced a further $5.5 billion in aid to Ukraine.
 
Tokyo also sent defensive equipment and offered to host those fleeing the conflict.
 
Japan did not provide military aid, however, as its pacifist constitution required it to limit its military capabilities to defensive measures.
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China sends its first civilian astronaut into space

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Eva Deschamps / June 1, 2023

The three astronauts’ stay is scheduled to last six months, and marks a new stage in the progress of Beijing’s space program.
 
On Tuesday May 30, China sent three new astronauts to its Tiangong space station, including for the first time a civilian. This is a valuable experience for the Asian giant, which has reaffirmed its desire to send a Chinese astronaut to the Moon by 2030, a major objective of a space program that has been progressing steadily for several decades.
 
The trio on the Shenzhou-16 mission lifted off aboard a Long March 2F rocket at 9:31 a.m. local time from the Jiuquan launch center in the Gobi Desert, according to AFP reporters on site. The launch was a “total success” and the “astronauts are in good shape”, said Zou Lipeng, director of the launch center.
 
Mission commander, veteran engineer Jing Haipeng, on his fourth space flight, is accompanied by engineer Zhu Yangzhu and Gui Haichao, a professor and the first Chinese civilian in space. A specialist in space science and engineering, Haichao will be in charge of experiments on the station. He does not come from the armed forces, as has always been the case until now. Their stay in Tiangong (“Heavenly Palace” in Chinese) is scheduled to last six months.
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The big announcement tonight: North Korea confirms launch of military spy satellite in June

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The big announcement tonight: North Korea confirms launch of military spy satellite in June, Magnate Daily
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Sylvie Claire /  June 1, 2023

North Korea confirmed on Tuesday that it will launch a military spy satellite in June, in order to “confront dangerous US military actions”, according to the official KCNA agency.
The “military reconnaissance satellite number 1” will be “launched in June”, in order to “confront the dangerous military actions of the United States and its vassals”, according to Ri Pyong Chol, vice-chairman of the ruling party’s Central Military Commission, quoted by KCNA.
On Monday, Japan announced that it had been informed by North Korea of a forthcoming satellite launch, a project which the Japanese government believed to conceal a ballistic missile launch.
According to Tokyo, Pyongyang has told the Japanese coastguard that a rocket will be launched between May 31 and June 11, and is expected to land in an area near the Yellow Sea, the East China Sea and east of Luzon Island in the Philippines.
North Korea has already tested ballistic missiles in 2012 and 2016, which it described as satellite launches and which flew over the island department of Okinawa in southern Japan.
The development of a reconnaissance satellite was one of Pyongyang’s key defense projects unveiled last year by Kim Jong Un.
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China to send its first civilian into space on Tuesday

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Steph Deschamps / June 1, 2023

On Tuesday, China will send a civilian astronaut into space for the first time in its history on a manned mission to the Tiangong space station, the China Human Spaceflight Agency announced.

 

This astronaut, Gui Haichao, a “payload specialist”, is “a professor at the Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics”, Lin Xiqiang, spokesman for the space agency, told a press conference on Monday.

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Until now, all Chinese astronauts who have launched into space have been members of the People’s Liberation Army.

 

Mr. Gui will be “mainly responsible for in-orbit management of payloads” dedicated to space science experiments, the spokesman said.

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The civilian astronaut will orbit alongside Shenzhou-16 mission commander Jing Haipeng and astronaut Zhu Yangzhu.

 

The crew is due to take off from the Jiuquan launch base in northwest China at 09:31 local time, according to the space agency.

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Projects linked to China’s “space dream” are multiplying under the presidency of Xi Jinping.

 

The Asian giant has been investing billions of euros in its military-led space program for several decades, enabling it to make up most of the ground lost to the Americans and Russians.

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China sent its first astronaut into space in 2003, and its Tiangong (“Celestial Palace”) space station has been fully operational since late 2022. In 2019, a Chinese spacecraft landed on the far side of the Moon. Then, in 2021, China landed a small robot on the surface of Mars. China plans to send its first crew to the Moon by 2029.

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