Winston Peters. Jacinda Ardern, whose Labour-led government took the helm in October last year, said today that her Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Affairs Minister, Winston Peters, would take up the new cabinet role. The greatest challenge we have today comes from North Korea, situated right here in our region," she told a foreign affairs conference in Wellington. On Friday, the United States announced that it was imposing its largest package of sanctions yet aimed at getting North Korea to give up its nuclear and missile programmes. The new disarmament minister Peters is among a handful of Western politicians to visit North Korea, during a previous tenure as foreign minister in 2005.

Source: Otago Daily Times February 26, 2018 22:18 UTC