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May 25, 2018 Politics

[Breaking] Trump says Kim summit could still go ahead June 12

WASHINGTON - US President Donald Trump announced Friday that a landmark summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un could still take place on June 12 as originally planned, in the second about-face in as many days."It could even be the 12th. We're talking to them now," Trump said at the White House. "They very much want to do it. We'd like to do it. We'll see what happens."A day earlier, Trump announced in a letter to Kim that he was calling off the summit in Singapore, blaming "open hostility"

Trump calls N. Korea's statement 'warm' and 'productive'

U.S. President Donald Trump called North Korea's response to his cancellation of the June 12 Singapore summit with the North's leader Kim Jong-un "warm" and "productive." Donald Trump twitterHe wrote on his Twitter account on Friday night (Seoul Time), "Very good news to receive the warm and productive statement from North Korea. We will soon see where it will lead, hopefully to long and enduring prosperity and peace. Only time (and talent) will tell!"Earlier in the day, North Korea said it was

May 25, 2018
North Korea
N. Korea cancels joint taekwondo demonstration in Vatican

A planned demonstration of the Korean martial art taekwondo by a joint Korean team has been unilaterally canceled by the North, according to sources Friday. North Korean Taekwondo team. YonhapThe International Taekwondo Federation (ITF), an international organization led by the North, notified the South Korean-led World Taekwondo (WT) of the cancellation on Thursday.In the brief letter, the North Korean taekwondo federation reportedly cited the Max Thunder military exercise between South Korea

May 25, 2018
North Korea
S. Korea seeks to encourage direct communication between Trump, Kim

South Korea will continue with efforts to improve ties with North Korea and induce direct communication between the leaders of the United States and North Korea so as to put their scrapped talks back on track, Seoul officials said Friday.President Moon Jae-in's top security advisor Chung Eui-yong hosted a National Security Council (NSC) standing meeting, one day after U.S. President Donald Trump canceled his planned summit with the North's leader Kim Jong-un."NSC members agreed that it is import

May 25, 2018
Politics
Out of South Africa, reminiscing the indelible Eden

South Africa is a “rainbow nation,” where diverse people, cultures, languages and religions exist in harmony. It is also a land of magnificent wildlife, landscapes and vegetation, also a hotbed of thriving urban culture, music, festivity, food and wine.

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Travel
Trump’s ‘gamesmanship’ to blame for collapse of US-North Korea summit: experts

Analysts say summit might be rescheduled if Kim Jong-un decided to ignore ‘losing face'

May 25, 2018
North Korea
[Eli Lake] Trump can win by walking away from Korea talks

President Donald Trump finally did it. On Thursday he pulled the plug on next month’s big summit with North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-un. In sadness, but not anger, Trump said Kim’s insults were too much for now. That said, he left the door open for a future meeting. Why did Kim get cold feet and resume that anti-US rhetoric?North Korean apparatus tell us that their dear leader is skittish about negotiations after Trump’s national security adviser, John Bolton, suggested the “Libya model” for ridd

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Columnists
[Anjani Trivedi] Trump’s auto misfire will do nothing for Detroit

The latest salvo in President Donald Trump’s trade war promises to do more damage than good to an already anxious American auto industry.　Trump on Wednesday ordered the US Commerce Department to probe whether auto imports threaten national security under Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act -- the same executive power he used to apply tariffs on steel and aluminum earlier this year.　The president’s latest idea risks unwinding a global supply chain that powers sales of almost 20 million cars a

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Columnists
[Editorial] Door not closed yet

Accepting demands for complete denuclearization is only way to summit

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Editorial
Two Hanjin affiliates raided over owner family's suspected tax evasion, slush fund

Prosecutors on Friday raided two affiliates of Hanjin Group, a South Korean conglomerate embroiled in a scandal involving its controlling family, over allegations that they played a role in amassing illegal secret funds for the owner family and helped them evade taxes.Investigators from the Seoul Southern District Prosecutors' Office searched two trading companies with ties to Hanjin to confiscate evidence. They also raided a local supplier of Korean Air Lines Co., Hanjin's key unit, and the res

May 25, 2018
Social affairs
MoonMoon dropped from agency over spycam charge

A local entertainment agency on Friday terminated its contract with singer-songwriter MoonMoon after it was revealed he was convicted of a spycam crime. MoonMoon (Yonhap)The official statement released by MoonMoon‘s former agency, House of Music, came right after a local news report revealed the previous charge against the singer. According to the local news report, MoonMoon was charged for secretly filming in a public bathroom in Gangnam-gu, Seoul, in August 2016. He was then sentenced to a tw

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Music
[News Focus] Is China opening doors to Korean battery makers?

Commerce minister in Seoul optimistic, but industry insiders remain cautious

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Industry
[Weekender] Car valet services become essential in downtown Seoul

As a valet driver, Kim Sung-jin, 54, follows two rules that he set for himself -- always smile at his customers and park their cars right. “When you leave your key with me, you expect one thing and one thing only: that you don’t have to drive an extra hundred meters searching for a parking spot,” said Kim, who has worked 11 years for a local Pyongyang naengmyeon restaurant in Gangnam-gu, Seoul.“Nothing gets on customers’ nerves more than inadequate spaces for parking,” Kim said. “People can drop

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Social affairs
[Weekender] The war of parking

With limited space and inefficient regulations, Koreans learn to live with the art of parking, illegally

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Automode
Summit collapse likely to hit inter-Korean ties

Seoul emphasizes need for direct Trump-Kim communication

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North Korea

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