Bloomberg North Korea will get relief from international sanctions only when it has shown irreversible moves toward denuclearisation, US Secretary of Defense James Mattis said ahead of a summit next week between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. Speaking on Sunday in Singapore at the start of a meeting with the defense ministers of South Korea and ...

Bloomberg French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire has a message for the German government on reform in the euro area: “It is now or never — jetzt oder nie.” After more than eight hours of tough talks with his counterparts from the Group of Seven that focused mostly on a trade dispute with the US, Le Maire found some time ...

Bloomberg Singapore Defence Minister Ng Eng Hen criticised both the US and China for taking “unilateral actions,” lumping the two rivals together as nations challenging the current global order. In a speech to the annual IISS Shangri-La Dialogue security forum in Singapore, Ng said the world’s two-biggest economies were similarly using security considerations to justify their behavior — the US ...