One day after announcing upcoming nuclear talks with the United States, North Korea fired a ballistic missile from the sea into Japan’s exclusive offshore economic zone on Wednesday. A North Korean missile has not come that close to Japan since November 2017. South Korean military officials suggested but did not confirm North Korea launched the missile from a submarine.

A week after 79-year-old former abortionist Ulrich “George” Klopfer died, his wife reported finding boxes in the garage of their Crete, Ill., home filled with the remains of more than 2,000 aborted babies. Klopfer had stored them in sealed plastic bags filled with formalin, a chemical used to preserve biological material. Each bag was carefully labeled and dated from 2000 to 2002. Authorities have not disclosed the gestational age at which the babies died.

JAPAN: Typhoon Faxai made landfall early Monday morning just east of Tokyo—the most populous metropolitan area in the world—killing at least three people and leaving dozens injured and nearly a million people without power. The storm, which now has moved back out into the Pacific, left Japanese travelers and commuters stranded. Meanwhile, another powerful storm struck the Korean Peninsula over the weekend.

South Korea and Japan will no longer share information about the North Korean nuclear threat. A 2016 intelligence pact between the two countries was due for renewal Saturday, but South Korea said Thursday it is scrapping the deal. A longstanding feud between the two nations recently flared up, leading to a breakdown in cooperation between two of the United States’ most important allies in the region.

North Korea on Friday launched its sixth missile test in less than a month and rejected any further talks with South Korea. The two missiles fired from North Korea’s eastern coast flew 143 miles at an altitude of 18 miles before landing in the waters between the Korean Peninsula and Japan, according to South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff.

HONG KONG: Chinese authorities working with Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam this week declared war on protesters. Their strategy: to launch “preventive” arrests, deploy online trolls to promote contempt for young protest leaders, and use the army if needed. The U.S.

North Korea fired off its third missile launch in eight days on Friday. The latest rockets flew 137 miles into the Sea of Japan, also known as the East Sea, at an altitude of 15 miles.