1.During a Cabinet meeting on Tuesday, President Yoon Suk Yeol said the government will temporarily raise health insurance payments to hospitals for the upcoming Chuseok holiday to better reward their services and to prevent disruptions in emergency medical care.

2.North Korea's state media reported Tuesday that North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has vowed to bolster the country's nuclear capabilities to deter any threats by enemies, saying it is steadily carrying out a policy to increase the number of nuclear weapons exponentially.

3.Tokyo Electric Power Company said in a statement Tuesday that its “pilot extraction operation” to remove a small amount of radioactive debris from Japan’s Fukushima nuclear plant had started. The operation will take about two weeks, and be a crucial step towards decommissioning the Fukushima Daiichi plant.