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Arts minister Tony Burke and communications minister Anika Wells said the move would help to protect acting jobs.

Starting out as a low-ranking official in the ruling party, he rose to become foreign minister and then served as chairman of the Supreme People's Assembly for nearly all of Kim Jong Il's reign.

"The prime minister and the foreign secretary are the two people who can make it happen – and I'll be stressing this when I meet Yvette Cooper in the coming weeks."

Peru has announced it is breaking off diplomatic relations with Mexico after its government granted asylum to a former Peruvian prime minister facing charges for a 2022 coup attempt.

South Korea expects to launch its first nuclear-powered submarine by the late 2030s, a senior defence ministry official told ministers on Tuesday, days after Washington had approved Seoul's plans.