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South Korea, Japan, US Leaders Renew Pledge to Cooperate on Regional Challenges

US President Joe Biden, South Korea's President Yoon Suk Yeol and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida stand together for a trilateral meeting at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in San Francisco, California, US, November 16, 2023. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
US President Joe Biden, South Korea's President Yoon Suk Yeol and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida stand together for a trilateral meeting at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in San Francisco, California, US, November 16, 2023. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
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South Korea, Japan, US Leaders Renew Pledge to Cooperate on Regional Challenges

US President Joe Biden, South Korea's President Yoon Suk Yeol and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida stand together for a trilateral meeting at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in San Francisco, California, US, November 16, 2023. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
US President Joe Biden, South Korea's President Yoon Suk Yeol and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida stand together for a trilateral meeting at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in San Francisco, California, US, November 16, 2023. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

The leaders of South Korea, Japan and the United States issued a joint statement on Sunday marking the anniversary of their summit at Camp David and reaffirmed a pledge to jointly tackle regional challenges, South Korea's presidential office said.
The principles on trilateral cooperation established at the summit last year continue to serve as a roadmap for the three countries' cooperation, the statement issued by South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol's office said.
"We stand by our commitment to consult on regional challenges, provocations and threats affecting our collective interests and security," it said.
US President Joe Biden, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and Yoon met on Aug. 18 and agreed to deepen military and economic cooperation and take a united stand against China's growing power and security threats from North Korea, Reuters reported.
South Korean media said the leaders plan to meet again this year, citing unnamed sources, but said it was not yet clear when, especially since Kishida has announced he would be stepping down.

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Some India Doctors Stay Off Job After Strike over Colleague's Rape and Murder

Allahabad Medical Association (AMA) and Resident doctors of SRN Hospital protesting against the rape and murder of a medic in Kolkata last week, hold placards in Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh, India, Saturday, Aug. 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)
Allahabad Medical Association (AMA) and Resident doctors of SRN Hospital protesting against the rape and murder of a medic in Kolkata last week, hold placards in Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh, India, Saturday, Aug. 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)
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Some India Doctors Stay Off Job After Strike over Colleague's Rape and Murder

Allahabad Medical Association (AMA) and Resident doctors of SRN Hospital protesting against the rape and murder of a medic in Kolkata last week, hold placards in Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh, India, Saturday, Aug. 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)
Allahabad Medical Association (AMA) and Resident doctors of SRN Hospital protesting against the rape and murder of a medic in Kolkata last week, hold placards in Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh, India, Saturday, Aug. 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)

Some Indian junior doctors remained off the job on Sunday, demanding swift justice for a colleague who was raped and murdered, despite the end of a 24-hour strike called by the country's biggest association of doctors.
Doctors across the country have held protests, candlelight marches and have refused to see non-emergency patients in the past week after the killing of the 31-year old postgraduate student of chest medicine around the early hours of Aug. 9 in the eastern city of Kolkata, Reuters said.
Women activists say the incident at the British-era R.G. Kar Medical College and Hospital has highlighted how women in India continue to suffer despite tougher laws following the gang-rape and murder of a 23-year-old student on a moving bus in Delhi in 2012.
"My daughter is gone but millions of sons and daughters are now with me," the father of the victim, who cannot be identified under Indian law, told reporters late on Saturday, referring to the protesting doctors. "This has given me a lot of strength and I feel we will gain something out of it."
India introduced sweeping changes to the criminal justice system, including tougher sentences, after the 2012 attack, but campaigners say little has changed and not enough has been done to deter violence against women.
The Indian Medical Association, whose strike ended at 6 a.m. (0030 GMT) on Sunday, told Prime Minister Narendra Modi that as 60% of India's doctors are women, he needed to intervene to ensure hospital staff were protected by security protocols akin to those at airports.
"All healthcare professionals deserve peaceful ambience, safety and security at the workplace," it wrote in a letter to Modi.
But in Modi's home state of Gujarat, more than 6,000 trainee doctors in government hospitals continued to stay away from non-emergency medical services on Sunday for a third day although private institutes resumed regular operations.
"We have unanimously decided to continue our protest to press for our demands," said Dr. Dhaval Gameti, president of Junior Doctors' Association at B.J. Medical College in Ahmedabad.
"In the interest of patients, we are providing emergency medical services but not taking part in out-patient departments or routine ward work."
'COULD STOP EMERGENCY SERVICES'
The government has urged doctors to return to duty to treat rising cases of dengue and malaria while it sets up a committee to suggest measures to improve protection for healthcare professionals.
Most doctors resumed their usual activities, IMA officials said, although Sunday is generally a holiday for non-emergency cases.
"The doctors are back to their routine," said Dr. Madan Mohan Paliwal, the IMA head in the most populous state, Uttar Pradesh. "The next course of action will be decided if the government does not take any strict steps to protect doctors... and this time we could stop emergency services too."
But the All India Residents and Junior Doctors’ Joint Action Forum said on Saturday it would continue a "nationwide cease-work" with a 72-hour deadline for authorities to conduct a thorough inquiry and make arrests.
Dr. Prabhas Ranjan Tripathy, additional medical superintendent of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in the eastern city of Bhubaneswar, said junior doctors and interns had not resumed duty.
"The demonstrations are there today too," he told Reuters. "There is a lot of pressure on others because manpower is reduced."
R.G. Kar hospital has been rocked by agitation and rallies for more than a week. Police banned the assembly of five or more people around the hospital for a week from Sunday and deployed police in riot gear.
Blocking meetings, demonstrations and processions was justified to prevent "breach of peace, disturbances of the public tranquility", Kolkata Police Commissioner Vineet Goyal said in an order.
Reuters reporters saw no doctors at their usual protest site around the gates of the hospital on Sunday, as it rained in the area.