1. According to the director general for Asia and Pacific affairs at South Korea’s foreign ministry on Thursday, the South Korean government is reviewing a method to compensate the victims of Japan’s wartime forced labor through a third party entity.

2. The United States and Japan on Wednesday agreed to reinforce their strategic alliance and outlined actions in a joint statement designed to deter growing Chinese military threats.

3. The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration temporarily grounded all domestic flights across the country on Wednesday because of a crucial alert system outage, creating thousands of flight delays and cancellations.