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Former lawmaker Au Kam San received a single 12-year-and-six-month sentence in Macau’s first publicly known national-security prosecution. The court acquitted him of two subversion counts; critics challenged the closed trial.
Seoul plans a November 13 Sado mines memorial for Korean wartime labor victims, while UNESCO keeps the heritage site's inscription in force.
Joshua Wong received a 10-year term after pleading guilty to conspiracy to collude with foreign forces. The High Court set out its sentencing calculation and how the new term overlaps with an earlier sentence.
Seoul detected multiple missile launches on November 4, while Kim Yo Jong said talks with Washington remained an option but not a priority. The FBI’s Binance accusation and North Korea’s later account of its weapons tests complicate the picture.