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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • MONDAY, APRIL 30, 2018
WORLD IN BRIEF
Associated Press
South Korean
leader says Trump
‘can take the Nobel’
SEOUL, South Korea — South Korean
President Moon Jae-in has shaken off a sug-
gestion that he receive the Nobel Peace Prize,
saying that President Donald Trump “can take
the Nobel prize” as long as the Koreas receive
peace in return.
Moon made the comment Monday in
response to a suggestion that he receive the
award by the widow of late South Korean Pres-
ident Kim Dae-jung, who was awarded the
Nobel Peace Prize in 2000 after a summit with
then North Korean leader Kim Jong Il.
Moon held a summit with current leader Kim
Jong Un last week in which Moon and Kim, the
son of Kim Jong Il, walked together across the
tense border and agreed to a raft of initiatives
meant to ease animosity. Moon responded to the
suggestion of Nobel glory by saying, “President
Trump can take the Nobel prize. The only thing
we need is peace,” according to the South’s
presidential office.
Double Kabul suicide
bombing kills 25,
including journalists
KABUL, Afghanistan — A coordinated
double suicide bombing by the Islamic State
group hit central Kabul on Monday morning,
killing at least 25 people, including eight jour-
nalists, officials said. An AFP photographer
and a cameraman for a local TV station were
among the fatalities, the police said.
At least 45 people were wounded in the twin
attacks, according to Kabul police spokesman,
Hashmat Stanekzai, who also added that four
policemen were among those killed.
The attack was the latest in a relentless
string of deadly large-scale bombings and
assaults that have struck Kabul and elsewhere
in Afghanistan so far this year. And as the
Afghan capital reeled from Monday’s assault,
a suicide car bombing a few hours later in the
southern province of Kandahar killed 11 chil-
dren, a police spokesman said.
In a statement posted on an IS-affili-
ated website, the Islamic State group said
two of its martyrdom seekers carried out the
double Kabul bombings, targeting the head-
quarters of the “renegade” Afghan intelli-
gence services.
The blasts took place in the central
Shash Darak area, home to NATO headquar-
ters and a number of embassies and foreign
offices — as well as the Afghan intelligence
service.
Missile attack in Syria
kills 26, mostly Iranians
BEIRUT — A missile attack targeting gov-
ernment outposts in Syria’s northern region
killed 26 pro-government fighters, mostly Irani-
ans, a Syria war monitoring group said Monday.
Iranian media gave conflicting reports about
the overnight incident amid speculation it was
carried out by neighboring Israel.
The attack came hours after Israeli Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu talked to Pres-
ident Donald Trump on the phone. The White
House said the two leaders discussed the con-
tinuing threats and challenges facing the Middle
East, “especially the problems posed by the Ira-
nian regime’s destabilizing activities.”
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for
Human Rights said the late Sunday night attack
appears to have been carried out by Israel and
targeted an arms depot for surface-to-surface
missiles at a base in northern Syria known as
Brigade 47. The Observatory said four Syrians
were also among casualties.
It said the death toll could rise as the attack
also wounded 60 fighters and there were several
others are still missing.
US says border crossing
didn’t have room for
asylum seekers
South Korea to
remove propaganda
loudspeakers at border
The two Koreas had been engaged in Cold
War-era psychological warfare since the
North’s fourth nuclear test in early 2016. Seoul
began blaring anti-Pyongyang broadcasts and
K-Pop songs via border loudspeakers, and
Pyongyang quickly matched the South’s action
with its own border broadcasts and launches of
balloons carrying anti-South leaflets.
SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea will
remove propaganda-broadcasting loudspeak-
ers from the border with North Korea this
week, officials said Monday, as the rivals move
to follow through with their leaders’ summit
declaration that produced reconciliation steps
without a breakthrough in the nuclear standoff.
During their historic meeting Friday at a
Korean border village, North Korean leader
Kim Jong Un and South Korean President
Moon Jae-in agreed to end hostile acts against
each other along their tense border, establish
a liaison office and resume reunions of sepa-
rated families. They also agreed to achieve a
nuclear-free Korean Peninsula, but failed to
produce specific time frames and disarmament
steps.
Seoul’s Defense Ministry said it would
pull back dozens of its front-line loudspeak-
ers on Tuesday before media cameras. Min-
istry spokeswoman Choi Hyunsoo said Seoul
expected Pyongyang to do the same.
South Korea had already turned off its
loudspeakers ahead of Friday’s summit talks,
and North Korea responded by halting its own
broadcasts.
TIJUANA, Mexico — After traveling
through Mexico with great fanfare for a month
under the Trump administration’s watchful eye,
nearly 200 Central American migrants attempt-
ing to seek asylum in the United States were
stopped in their tracks when border inspectors
said that a crossing facility didn’t have enough
space to accommodate them.
Trump vowed last week to “stop” the car-
avan while Cabinet members said they would
deliver a swift response. The asylum seekers
held firm, setting up a possible showdown.
In an anticlimactic twist, about 50 asylum
seekers were allowed past a gate controlled by
Mexican officials to walk across a long bridge
but were stopped at the entrance to the U.S.
inspection facility at the other end. They were
allowed to wait outside the building, technically
on Mexican soil, without word of when U.S.
officials would let them claim asylum.
Another 50 or so camped on blankets and
backpacks in Tijuana outside the Mexican side
of the crossing, prohibited from even getting
close to the U.S. inspection building.
The asylum-seekers began the day with
anticipation, traveling in red-and-white school
buses under police escort to a beachfront rally
in Tijuana, where a steel fence juts out into the
Pacific Ocean. They sang the Honduran national
anthem, and supporters on the San Diego side of
the fence waved a Honduran flag.
Pompeo says Israel,
Palestinian peace still a
US priority
AMMAN, Jordan — U.S. Secretary of State
Mike Pompeo said Monday that a resolution to
the Israeli-Palestinian conflict remains a prior-
ity for the Trump administration, despite its rec-
ognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and its
planned move of the U.S. Embassy to the holy
city over Palestinian protests.
Pompeo also said the U.S. is “fully support-
ive” of Israel’s right to defend itself and declined
to criticize the Israeli military for its use of live
fire against Palestinian protesters along the Gaza
border.
He spoke in the Jordanian capital of Amman
as he wrapped up the Middle East leg of his first
overseas trip as America’s top diplomat.
Pompeo called on the Palestinians to return
to long-stalled peace talks with Israel.
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