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SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — South Korea’s ruling Democratic Party (DP) won a landslide victory Wednesday in local elections held the day after a historic summit between the United States and North Korea. The triumph in the first elections since President Moon Jae-in took office around a year ago is widely seen as a boon to the country’s leader, who helped bring together the Cold War foes for an unprecedented meeting. Exit polls by […]
(Reuters) – Chinese President Xi Jinping said on Thursday that China would like to join South Korea in returning bilateral ties to the track of healthy development. He made the remarks while meeting with his South Korean counterpart Moon Jae-in in Hamburg ahead of a Group 20 (G20) summit to be held in the northern German port city. Xi said China and South Korea, two geographically close nations, share interconnected cultures and notable complementary advantages, […]
WASHINGTON DC, United States (Reuters) – United States President Donald Trump welcomed newly-elected South Korean President Moon Jae-in to the White House on Thursday (June 29). The President and First Lady Melania Trump greeted the South Korean leader and his wife, Kim Jung-sook, at the White House South Lawn entrance. Reporters shouted to the President, asking questions about Donald Trump’s Twitter attack where he called an MSNBC anchor Mika Brzezinski “crazy” and alleged she had […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) – South Korea’s new President Moon Jae-In on Friday scrapped state-issued school history textbooks introduced by his ousted predecessor, saying they represented an “outdated and one-sided” view of the past, his office said. The previous Park Geun-Hye administration had introduced state-authored history textbooks at middle and high schools, arguing that some existing tomes reflected left-leaning and pro-North Korea ideologies. Park’s conservative government began publishing the new textbooks this year despite opposition […]
