Colombia, the Koreas, China.

Today's three stories you should know.

Colombia

At least eight people have been killed and 20 are still missing after landslides caused by heavy rains swept away several homes in Colombia. At the time of writing, rescue efforts were ongoing to locate the missing. “Relief agencies with drones are resuming the search,” local mayor Camilo Parrado said, adding that some households had lost “two, three, even four family members.” Colombia’s rainy season, which takes place from June to November, leads to deaths often numbering in the hundreds each year.

More from Al Jazeera here.

The Koreas

The US has docked a nuclear submarine in South Korea for the first time in forty years. The move will be sold by the US and South Korea as a response to North Korean threats but North Korea will see it as a provocation. Both sides engage in regular sabre-rattling at each other but recent missile tests by the North appear to have inflamed tensions. The USS Kentucky carries 20 Trident II D5 missiles, each of which can fire up to eight nuclear warheads at targets as far as 12,000km away.

More from BBC here.

China

Very interesting piece from Reuters news agency today with a provocative headline: ‘Will China ever get rich?’ The article talks about the slowdown in growth rates and raises the possibility that China could have “lost decades” ahead economically. Though that would please its rivals, the impact on the world economy is the question.

More from Reuters here.