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South Korea's ex-deputy premier

Former South Korean Deputy Prime Minister Kang Kyung Shik stands trial for allegedly neglecting official duties in handling the financial crisis that forced South Korea to receive a bailout loan from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) last year. Kang appears in prison uniform at the first hearing at the Seoul District Court July 10.

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Okinawa governor criticizes Abe for neglecting Okinawa

Okinawa Gov. Takeshi Onaga speaks to reporters in Naha on May 26, 2016, following a meeting between U.S. President Barack Obama and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe the previous night. The governor criticized Abe for telling Obama that moving the U.S. Marine Corps' Air Station Futenma from a crowded residential area to a less populated coastal area within Okinawa is the only solution to remove the dangers posed by the air base. Onaga has called for relocating the base outside Okinawa. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ex-actor Oshio

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows former actor Manabu Oshio. In February 2012, the Supreme Court rejected his appeal, upholding a lower court ruling sentencing him to 30 months in prison for giving the synthetic drug MDMA, better known as Ecstasy, to a girlfriend and neglecting to take proper lifesaving actions when she became ill after consuming it. (Kyodo)

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Lubomir Metnar, Ales Opata

Only a military torso is left due to years of neglecting of the Czech army, and it is no time for slowing down the military upgrading now, Chief-of-Staff Ales Opata, right, told a military command meeting today, on Tuesday, February 25, 2020. We must reinforce the torso once again. The Russian equipment really is not our path anymore. The allies are moving away from us and the potential enemy is getting a generation ahead of us, he said. The military has been suffering enough in the recent years, he said. Opata said his priorities are soldiers, the military's rearmament, quick-impact-projects, the command and control system, and gaining new capabilities. He recalled that the Czech Republic repeatedly pledged at NATO summits to annually spend 2 percent of the gross domestic product on the military in 2024. Some Czech politicians have recently challenged this pledge. Opata said defence spending of 2 percent of GDP is neither money for the soldiers nor money for the army. It is two percent for our defence, he pointed out. Defence Minister Lubomir Metnar, left, (for ANO) said he considers his main goal to defend the stable and predictable financial framework of the military in the government and parliament. (CTK Photo/Michal Kruphanzl)

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Chief-of-Staff Ales Opata

Only a military torso is left due to years of neglecting of the Czech army, and it is no time for slowing down the military upgrading now, Chief-of-Staff Ales Opata told a military command meeting today, on Tuesday, February 25, 2020. We must reinforce the torso once again. The Russian equipment really is not our path anymore. The allies are moving away from us and the potential enemy is getting a generation ahead of us, he said. The military has been suffering enough in the recent years, he said. Opata said his priorities are soldiers, the military's rearmament, quick-impact-projects, the command and control system, and gaining new capabilities. He recalled that the Czech Republic repeatedly pledged at NATO summits to annually spend 2 percent of the gross domestic product on the military in 2024. Some Czech politicians have recently challenged this pledge. Opata said defence spending of 2 percent of GDP is neither money for the soldiers nor money for the army. It is two percent for our defence, he pointed out. Defence Minister Lubomir Metnar (for ANO) said he considers his main goal to defend the stable and predictable financial framework of the military in the government and parliament. (CTK Photo/Michal Kruphanzl)

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Chief-of-Staff Ales Opata

Only a military torso is left due to years of neglecting of the Czech army, and it is no time for slowing down the military upgrading now, Chief-of-Staff Ales Opata told a military command meeting today, on Tuesday, February 25, 2020. We must reinforce the torso once again. The Russian equipment really is not our path anymore. The allies are moving away from us and the potential enemy is getting a generation ahead of us, he said. The military has been suffering enough in the recent years, he said. Opata said his priorities are soldiers, the military's rearmament, quick-impact-projects, the command and control system, and gaining new capabilities. He recalled that the Czech Republic repeatedly pledged at NATO summits to annually spend 2 percent of the gross domestic product on the military in 2024. Some Czech politicians have recently challenged this pledge. Opata said defence spending of 2 percent of GDP is neither money for the soldiers nor money for the army. It is two percent for our defence, he pointed out. Defence Minister Lubomir Metnar (for ANO) said he considers his main goal to defend the stable and predictable financial framework of the military in the government and parliament. (CTK Photo/Michal Kruphanzl)

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Lubomir Metnar

Only a military torso is left due to years of neglecting of the Czech army, and it is no time for slowing down the military upgrading now, Chief-of-Staff Ales Opata, not on the photo, told a military command meeting today, on Tuesday, February 25, 2020. We must reinforce the torso once again. The Russian equipment really is not our path anymore. The allies are moving away from us and the potential enemy is getting a generation ahead of us, he said. The military has been suffering enough in the recent years, he said. Opata said his priorities are soldiers, the military's rearmament, quick-impact-projects, the command and control system, and gaining new capabilities. He recalled that the Czech Republic repeatedly pledged at NATO summits to annually spend 2 percent of the gross domestic product on the military in 2024. Some Czech politicians have recently challenged this pledge. Opata said defence spending of 2 percent of GDP is neither money for the soldiers nor money for the army. It is two percent for our defence, he pointed out. Defence Minister Lubomir Metnar, photo, (for ANO) said he considers his main goal to defend the stable and predictable financial framework of the military in the government and parliament. (CTK Photo/Michal Kruphanzl)

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Lubomir Metnar, Ales Opata

Only a military torso is left due to years of neglecting of the Czech army, and it is no time for slowing down the military upgrading now, Chief-of-Staff Ales Opata, right, told a military command meeting today, on Tuesday, February 25, 2020. We must reinforce the torso once again. The Russian equipment really is not our path anymore. The allies are moving away from us and the potential enemy is getting a generation ahead of us, he said. The military has been suffering enough in the recent years, he said. Opata said his priorities are soldiers, the military's rearmament, quick-impact-projects, the command and control system, and gaining new capabilities. He recalled that the Czech Republic repeatedly pledged at NATO summits to annually spend 2 percent of the gross domestic product on the military in 2024. Some Czech politicians have recently challenged this pledge. Opata said defence spending of 2 percent of GDP is neither money for the soldiers nor money for the army. It is two percent for our defence, he pointed out. Defence Minister Lubomir Metnar, centre, (for ANO) said he considers his main goal to defend the stable and predictable financial framework of the military in the government and parliament. (CTK Photo/Michal Kruphanzl)

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Lubomir Metnar

Only a military torso is left due to years of neglecting of the Czech army, and it is no time for slowing down the military upgrading now, Chief-of-Staff Ales Opata, not on the photo, told a military command meeting today, on Tuesday, February 25, 2020. We must reinforce the torso once again. The Russian equipment really is not our path anymore. The allies are moving away from us and the potential enemy is getting a generation ahead of us, he said. The military has been suffering enough in the recent years, he said. Opata said his priorities are soldiers, the military's rearmament, quick-impact-projects, the command and control system, and gaining new capabilities. He recalled that the Czech Republic repeatedly pledged at NATO summits to annually spend 2 percent of the gross domestic product on the military in 2024. Some Czech politicians have recently challenged this pledge. Opata said defence spending of 2 percent of GDP is neither money for the soldiers nor money for the army. It is two percent for our defence, he pointed out. Defence Minister Lubomir Metnar, photo, (for ANO) said he considers his main goal to defend the stable and predictable financial framework of the military in the government and parliament. (CTK Photo/Michal Kruphanzl)

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Lubomir Metnar

Only a military torso is left due to years of neglecting of the Czech army, and it is no time for slowing down the military upgrading now, Chief-of-Staff Ales Opata, not on the photo, told a military command meeting today, on Tuesday, February 25, 2020. We must reinforce the torso once again. The Russian equipment really is not our path anymore. The allies are moving away from us and the potential enemy is getting a generation ahead of us, he said. The military has been suffering enough in the recent years, he said. Opata said his priorities are soldiers, the military's rearmament, quick-impact-projects, the command and control system, and gaining new capabilities. He recalled that the Czech Republic repeatedly pledged at NATO summits to annually spend 2 percent of the gross domestic product on the military in 2024. Some Czech politicians have recently challenged this pledge. Opata said defence spending of 2 percent of GDP is neither money for the soldiers nor money for the army. It is two percent for our defence, he pointed out. Defence Minister Lubomir Metnar, photo, (for ANO) said he considers his main goal to defend the stable and predictable financial framework of the military in the government and parliament. (CTK Photo/Michal Kruphanzl)

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South Korea's ex-deputy premier

Former South Korean Deputy Prime Minister Kang Kyung Shik stands trial for allegedly neglecting official duties in handling the financial crisis that forced South Korea to receive a bailout loan from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) last year. Kang appears in prison uniform at the first hearing at the Seoul District Court July 10. ==Kyodo