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China’s Xi to visit North Korea as US nuke diplomacy stalls
BEIJING (AP) — Chinese President Xi Jinping will make a state visit to North Korea this week, state media announced Monday, as U.S. talks with North Korea on its nuclear program are at an apparent standstill. Xi will meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un during the visit on Thursday and Friday, Chinese state…
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North Korea Warns US to Drop ‘Hostile Policy’
TEHRAN (FNA)- North Korean state media warned that an agreement reached at a 2018 summit between the leaders of North Korea and the United States in Singapore could become “a blank sheet of paper” if Washington did not “withdraw its hostile policy” toward Pyongyang. “The arrogant and unilateral US policy will never work on the…
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Don’t try our patience, North Korea tells US a year after accord signed at Trump-Kim summit in S’pore
North Korea warned that if the US does not come up with something new “before it is too late”, the accord would just turn out to be a “mere blank sheet of paper”.PHOTO: ST FILE SEOUL (REUTERS) – North Korea warned the United States that agreements made between the two countries’ leaders in Singapore last…
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Weekly Update by Mark Armstrong – 31 May 2019
Greetings from Tyler, It’s been pretty intense this week. We found out that chairman Kim (according to South Korean sources) put to death some of those who negotiated with President Trump’s team when the summit ended without progress in Vietnam. You don’t offend the North Korean dictator and live to tell about it. Based…
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North Korea execution reports – why we should be cautious
Kim Hyok-chol is North Korea’s US delegate and appeared at the Trump-Kim summit in Hanoi earlier this year – EPA/YONHAP It is being reported across international media that North Korea’s nuclear envoy has been executed as part of a purge of officials involved in a failed summit between the US and North Korea. But there…
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Weekly Update by Mark Armstrong – 10 May 2019
Greetings from Tyler, If you planned to buy some cheap sporting goods gear or anything else made in China, you might want to hurry to the store. Trade talks appear to have reached an impasse, reflected by a gyrating stock market this week. It is well known and widely reported…
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Warning Signs from Pyongyang
Since the April 12 address to the Supreme People’s Assembly (SPA) in which Kim Jong Un took a tougher line toward both Seoul and Washington for continuing military exercises, Pyongyang media have been notching up criticism of South Korea. Over the past year, the North had confined its criticism of the South—all of it in…
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Putin And Kim Announce The U.S. Is Irrelevant
The summit between Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong-un is over. And their message was clear. The U.S. is welcome at the negotiating table but they are not necessary to resolving the situation. Russia, however, is. Kim went to Vladivostok to build a relationship with Putin and put the U.S. on the spot. Per Putin’s comments after…
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Kim supervises test launch of “new tactical guided weapon”
N. Korean leader refrains from remarks directed toward US. North Korean leader Kim Jong-un oversees flight drills of combat pilots of Unit 1017 of the Air and Anti-aircraft Force of the Korean People‘s Army on Apr. 16, as reported by Korean Central Television the following day. (Yonhap News) North Korea’s state-run newspaper the Rodong Sinmun…
