Xinhua Asia-Pacific News Summary at 1000 GMT, April 12

SEOUL -- South Korean President Moon Jae-in said Thursday that a denuclearization deal between the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) and the United States can improve inter-Korean relations.

Moon made the remarks during a meeting with the elder advisory group of the presidential preparation committee for the upcoming inter-Korean summit, according to the Blue House. (S.Korea-DPRK)

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TOKYO -- Search and rescue officials on Thursday recovered another body from a landslide in southwestern Japan's Oita Prefecture, that engulfed a number of residential homes a day earlier, bringing the death toll to two.

The body is thought to be one of five women aged between 21 and 90 who are still accounted for in the ongoing search missions. (Japan-Landslide)

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NEW DELHI -- India on Thursday launched into space a navigation satellite, the eighth one for what's being dubbed as its home-made global positioning system.

The state-owned Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)'s indigenous Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle blasted off with the navigation satellite IRNSS-1I from the southern spaceport of Sriharikota early Thursday and subsequently put it into space. (India-Satellite)

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SEOUL -- Three sailors have been killed and three others missing in a South Korean fishing boat collision with a foreign cargo ship in waters off the country's southwestern region, Yonhap news agency reported Thursday.

The 15-ton 2007 Yeongheung fishing vessel collided with a 498-ton refrigerated cargo ship of Tanzanian nationality at about 00:37 a.m. local time in waters off 9.6 km northwest of Sinan county, South Jeolla province. (S.Korea-Collision) Enditem