内容摘要：, backed by the powerful Culinary Workers Union that represents 60,000 hotel and casino workers, would have ended Nevada’s longstanding ban on lotteries. It failed after the Legislature’s first major deadline in April.

, backed by the powerful Culinary Workers Union that represents 60,000 hotel and casino workers, would have ended Nevada’s longstanding ban on lotteries. It failed after the Legislature’s first major deadline in April.

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said he wants to hold summit talks with Lee “as early as possible,” saying he hopes to further promote bilateral ties, both public and commercial. The U.S. State Department said that Seoul and Washington share “an ironclad commitment” to the alliance grounded in their mutual defense treaty, shared values and deep economic ties.It’s unclear how North Korea would react to Lee’s speech, as it has shunned any talks with South Korea since 2019. North Korea in recent years has supplied weapons and troops to support Russia’s war against Ukraine, and South Korea, the U.S. and their partners suspect Russia might in return transfer high-tech technologies to North Korea to help it perfect its nuclear weapons program.

Russia’s Tass news agency said Wednesday that one of President Vladimir Putin’s top security officials, Security Council Secretaryhas arrived in Pyongyang for a meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, in the latest sign of the countries’ alignment over Putin’s war in Ukraine.Lee said revitalizing a slowing domestic economy would be his top priority and that his government would immediately launch an emergency task force to wage a “head-on battle” against the threats of recession. He also promised more aggressive government spending to help spur economic activity.

South Korea’s central bank last week cut its key interest rate and sharply lowered its growth outlook for 2025 to 0.8%, as it moved to counter Trump’s tariff hikes and weak domestic demand worsened by recent political turmoil.Lee also called for unity to address the country’s stark political divide deepened after Yoon’s martial law debacle, saying that he will “answer the people’s solemn call to let hope bloom over deep and painful wounds.” Lee still promised a thorough investigation into the circumstances surrounding Yoon’s martial law imposition, describing it as a “rebellion that seized people’s sovereignty with arms.”

Yoon and some of his top military and police officers already stand trial on high-stakes rebellion charges in connection with martial law. Lee’s push to bring those involved in Yoon’s martial law stunt accountable has subsequently caused speculations among his opponents that he would launch political revenge against Yoon associates and senior prosecutors whom he previously accused of fabricating evidence to initiate criminal charges against him.

Newly elected South Korean President Lee Jae-myung, center right, arrives for the Presidential Inauguration at the National Assembly in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, June 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man, Pool)South Korea’s Democratic Party’s presidential candidate Lee Jae-myung, center, and his wife Kim Hea Kyung, right, greet supporters outside of the National Assembly in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, June 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

South Korea’s Democratic Party’s presidential candidate Lee Jae-myung, center, and his wife Kim Hea Kyung, right, greet supporters outside of the National Assembly in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, June 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)Recently, Lee has made few contentious or radical comments on foreign policy and security issues, and rather has promised to pursue pragmatic diplomacy.

He’s repeatedly described South Korea’sas the foundation of the country’s foreign policy and stressed the need to maintain a trilateral