Tag: Korea summit

North Korea seeks to open up air travel to South: UN

MONTREAL, Canada (AFP)–North Korea has asked the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) for permission to open an air corridor to South Korea, the UN agency said Friday. The proposal to establish a new “air traffic services” corridor between Pyongyang and the South Korean city of Incheon, near Seoul, was submitted to the ICAO’s regional offices in Bangkok, Thailand in February, the agency said in an email to AFP. The ICAO, which is headquartered in Montreal, said it […]

Duterte congratulates Kim for successful Korea Summit; calls the North Korean leader the “man of the hour,” his “idol”

  (Eagle News) –“The man of the hour.” This was how President Rodrigo Duterte described North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, following the historic announcement the two Koreas would end the Korean war that ended only in an armistice between the two governments’ military forces in 1953. According to Duterte, “with one master stroke, Kim became the hero of everybody.” “To me the man of the hour would be (Kim). Marunong siya tumiming..Heroism is sometimes […]

Trump welcomes ‘historic’ Korea summit

WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — US President Donald Trump hailed Friday’s Korea summit as historic but warned that “only time will tell.” “After a furious year of missile launches and Nuclear testing, a historic meeting between North and South Korea is now taking place,” Trump tweeted after the leaders of North and South Korea agreed to pursue a permanent peace and the complete denuclearization of the divided peninsula. “Good things are happening, but only time […]