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East Asia Is Baking in ‘Cruelly Hot’ Summer

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A deadly heat wave is gripping large parts of East Asia, bringing the hottest temperature on record in South Korea and complicating earthquake recovery efforts in Japan.

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While extreme heat hits records and spreads its impacts across East Asia — leaving dead in South Korea, aggravating the situation of earthquake victims in Japan and leading North Korea to alert the population — meteorologists are already making a new alert to Southeast Asia. The expectation is that the region, according to the Specialized Meteorological Centre of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), faces warmer and dryer conditio…

·Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Japan and South Korea have also been suffering under extremely high temperatures in recent weeks. With all kinds of measures, from more relaxed clothing rules to...

(Beijing, Tokyo = Yonhap News) Correspondents Han Jong-gu and Cho Seong-mi = As a record-breaking heatwave of around 40 degrees Celsius continues in Korea, extreme sweltering heat is also raging in China and Japan...

·Seoul, Korea (the Republic of)
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연합뉴스-Yonhap News Agency broke the news in Seoul, Korea (the Republic of) on Tuesday, August 4, 2026.
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