Comments from the White House national security adviser Robert O’Brien to US media (Axios)

• “We’ve reached out to the North Koreans and let them know that we would like to continue the negotiations in Stockholm that were last undertaken in early October.
• “We’ve been letting them know, through various channels, that we would like to get those [negotiations] back on track and to implement Chairman Kim’s commitment” to denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.

Leader of the Democratic Progressive Party, Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen has locked in a second term.

• Tsai has 57%, securing the highest number of votes for any candidate since Taiwan’s first direct presidential election in 1996. DPP has maintained its majority in the parliament
• Han on 39%

• Today, I want to once again, call upon the Beijing authorities to remind them that peace, parity, democracy and dialogue are the key to positive interactions and long term sustainable development
• China must abandon its threats of the use of force against Taiwan.