27 May 2022

Asia correspondent Elizabeth Beattie

From Nine To Noon, 9:45 am on 27 May 2022

Elizabeth talks to Kathryn about China's latest foray into the Pacific. And in Pakistan, there are reports of clashes in after ousted Prime Minister Imran Khan and his party have pushed on with protests plans, despite officials banning the demonstration. And on the heels of the US President's first Asia trip, North Korea has fired a series of ballistic missiles. Joe Biden had agreed, during a meeting with his South Korean counterpart, to deploy more U.S. support to South Korea to deter North Korea's weapons testing.

A screen grab taken from a KCNA broadcast on October 10, 2020 shows what appears to be new North Korean intercontinental ballistic missiles during a military parade on Kim Il Sung square in Pyongyang.

Photo: KCNA / AFP

Elizabeth Beattie is a journalist at Thomson Reuters, based in Tokyo