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by Laurent Thomet Agence France Presse BEIJING, China (AFP) — Chinese President Xi Jinping and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will seek to repair strained ties at a summit on Friday after an intense border dispute last year marred relations. Xi will host Modi for what has been described as an “informal summit” in the central Chinese city of Wuhan on Friday and Saturday. While last year’s high-altitude standoff in the Himalayas has been resolved, […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and the South’s President Moon Jae-in discussed denuclearization and a permanent peace on the Korean peninsula at their summit Friday, Moon’s spokesman said. “The two leaders had a sincere and frank dialogue over the denuclearization and the establishment of permanent peace of the Korean peninsula and development of inter-Korea ties,” said Yoon Young-chan. © Agence France-Presse
SEOUL, United States (AFP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un told the South’s President Moon Jae-in on Friday he was willing to visit him in Seoul “any time if you invite me,” Moon’s spokesman said. Kim made the remarks as the pair chatted ahead of their summit in the Demilitarized Zone that divides the Koreas, the official said. According to the official, Moon told the visitor he could “show you scenes far better than […]
by Park Chan-kyong Agence France Presse SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — When Pyongyang’s leader Kim Jong Un came down the steps towards the inter-Korean border Friday he was escorted by a phalanx of bodyguards carefully chosen for their fitness, marksmanship, martial arts skills and even looks. Men in sharp suits and matching blue and white striped ties fanned out ahead of and around Kim as he approached the Military Demarcation Line for a historic handshake […]
by Sunghee Hwang Agence France Presse GOYANG, South Korea (AFP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and the South’s President Moon Jae-in held a historic summit Friday after shaking hands over the Military Demarcation Line that divides their countries, in a gesture laden with symbolism. “I am happy to meet you,” a smiling Moon told Kim before the visitor stepped over the concrete blocks, making him the first North Korean leader to set […]
by Jung Hawon / and Sebastien Berger Agence France Presse SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and the South’s President Moon Jae-in have followed paths to power as radically different as their two countries, but they came together and shook hands in the Demilitarized Zone on Friday. Moon’s parents were both born in a small village in Hungnam, in what is now North Korea, and his father Moon Yong-hyung […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Friday hailed the beginning of a new era of peace, ahead of a summit with his Southern counterpart Moon Jae-in. “A new history begins now – at the starting point of history and the era of peace,” read the message Kim wrote in a guestbook at the Peace House summit venue on the southern side of the Demilitarized Zone that divides the Koreas. […]
by Sunghee Hwang Agence France Press SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — The leaders of North and South Korea set off Friday towards the Demilitarized Zone that divides their countries for a historic summit, the highest-level encounter yet in a recent whirlwind of nuclear diplomacy. The meeting on the southern side of the truce village of Panmunjom — only the third of its kind since the end of the 1950-53 Korean War — is intended to […]
BEIJING, China (AFP) — China flew bombers and fighter jets around Taiwan on Thursday, officials said, in a new show of force that the defense ministry said was directed at “independence forces” on the self-ruled island. H-6K bombers, early warning aircraft, reconnaissance planes and several types of fighter jets took off from multiple airports for “combat drills”, the air force said in a statement on its official microblog. The planes flew over Bashi Strait, […]
(Eagle News) — Two teenagers were killed in flash floods in separate incidents in Negev, a desert and semidesert region of southern Israel, and in the desert hills east of Bethlehem, on Wednesday, April 25, as Israel experienced a rare hail, as well as thunderstorms. The bodies of the two teenagers — a teenage Bedouin boy who was swept away in the Negev desert, and another young Palestinian girl who was swept away by […]
NEW DELHI, India (AFP) — At least 13 children were killed and five critically injured Thursday after a train smashed into a small school bus in northern India, an official said. The students, all aged below 10, were being driven to class in Uttar Pradesh state when a passenger train collided with their vehicle at an unmanned railway crossing. The impact of the crash lifted the bus several meter into the air, killing 10 […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — South Korean President Moon Jae-in and the North’s leader Kim Jong Un will meet at the Military Demarcation Line that divides the peninsula for their summit Friday, Seoul said, in an occasion laden with symbolism. Moon will greet his visitor at the concrete blocks that mark the border between the two Koreas in the Demilitarized Zone, the chief of the South’s presidential secretariat Im Jong-seok said.
