1. The defense ministry said Tuesday that South Korea, the United States and Japan launched a system to share North Korean missile warning data in real time, in the latest effort to bolster trilateral security cooperation against the North.

2. President Yoon Suk Yeol on Tuesday named National Security Adviser Cho Tae-yong to fill the vacancy left by the resignation of National Intelligence Service Director Kim Kyou-hyun last month. Former Second Vice Foreign Minister Cho Tae-yul was tapped to replace Foreign Minister Park Jin.

3. A magnitude 6.2 earthquake hit rural Gansu province in north-west China just before midnight on Monday, killing at least 118 people and injuring hundreds.