# Heatwave gripping East Asia intensifies

https://mins.news/en/video/14366

- CNA, 2026-08-05 16:39 UTC
- World
- Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yt7btlfDU6A

> China, Japan and South Korea are enduring another week of dangerously high temperatures as an intensifying heatwave grips East Asia. Seoul says restarting talks with Pyongyang would be realistically difficult. Taiwan has also begun its largest annual military drills, adding a security development to the regional picture.

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