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Saturday, April 28, 2018
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Summit lays a path to peace, but no details
By FOSTER KLUG
Associated Press
GOYANG, South Korea — The
leaders of North and South Korea
vowed Friday to seek a nuclear-free
peninsula and work toward a
formal end to the Korean War this
year, though their historic summit
concluded with few specifics on
how they will reach those ambitious
goals.
North Korean leader Kim Jong
Un and South Korean President
Moon Jae-in set aside a year that
saw them seemingly on the verge of
war. They grasped hands and strode
together across the cracked concrete
marking the Koreas’ border.
The sight, inconceivable just
months ago, may not erase their
failure to provide any new measures
on a nuclear standoff that has
captivated and terrified millions,
but it allowed the leaders to step
forward toward the possibility of
a cooperative future even as they
acknowledged a fraught past and
the widespread skepticism that,
after decades of failed diplomacy,
things will be any different this
time.
On the nuclear issue, the leaders
merely repeated a previous vow to
rid the Korean Peninsula of nuclear
weapons, kicking one of the world’s
most pressing issues down the road
to a much-anticipated summit
between Kim and U.S. President
Donald Trump in coming weeks.
Still, the summit produced the
spectacle of two men from nations
with a deep and bitter history of
acrimony grinning from ear to ear
after Kim walked over the border
Korea Summit Press Pool via AP
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, right, and South Korean Presi-
dent Moon Jae-in walk together at the border village of Panmun-
jom in the Demilitarized Zone, South Korea on Friday.
to greet Moon, becoming the first
leader of his nation to set foot on
southern soil since the Korean War.
Both leaders then briefly stepped
together into the North and back to
the South.
The summit marks a surreal,
whiplash swing in relations for
the countries, from nuclear threats
and missile tests to intimations of
peace and cooperation. Perhaps the
change is best illustrated by geog-
raphy: Kim and Moon’s historic
handshake and a later 30-minute
conversation at a footbridge on the
border occurred within walking
distance of the spot where a North
Korean soldier fled south in a hail
of gunfire last year, and where
North Korean soldiers killed two
U.S. soldiers with axes in 1976.
Standing next to Moon after the
talks ended, Kim faced a wall of
cameras beaming his image live
to the world and declared that the
Koreas are “linked by blood as a
family and compatriots who cannot
live separately.” The leaders also
vowed to achieve “a nuclear-free
Korean Peninsula through complete
denuclearization,”
something
they’ve said before.
The latest declaration between
the Koreas, Kim said, should not
repeat the “unfortunate history
of past inter-Korean agreements
LONDON (AP) — The
new prince has a name — in
fact three.
The infant son of
the Duke and Duchess
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The palace said the
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The choice also honors
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Report: Russian
lawyer at Trump
Tower worked
with government
MOSCOW (AP) — An
organization established by
an exiled Russian tycoon
says it has obtained emails
showing collaboration
between Russian
government officials and the
lawyer who met with Donald
Trump Jr. in 2016 and has
denied having connections
to the Kremlin.
The emails the Dossier
organization said it was
sent suggest Natalia
Veselnitskaya worked
closely with a top official
in Russia’s prosecutor-
general’s office to fend off a
U.S. fraud case against one
of her clients.
Veselnitskaya has denied
connections to the Russian
government since her
meeting with then-candidate
Donald Trump’s son,
son-in-law Jared Kushner
and campaign chairman Paul
Manafort surfaced during the
investigation of Moscow’s
meddling in the 2016
presidential election.
The encounter at Trump
Tower in New York took
place after Donald Trump Jr.
was told the Russian lawyer
had potentially incriminating
information about Trump’s
election opponent, Hillary
Clinton.
But the Koreas made inroads
on a raft of other points of friction
between them. Moon agreed to visit
Pyongyang, North Korea’s capital,
sometime in the autumn, and both
leaders said they’d meet on a
regular basis and exchange calls via
a recently established hotline.
They agreed to settle their
disagreement over their western
maritime border by designating
it as a peace area and securing
fishing activities for both countries.
They said they’d open a permanent
communication office in the North
Korean border town of Kaesong
and resume temporary reunions of
relatives separated by the 1950-53
Korean War.
“I feel like I’m firing a flare at
the starting line in the moment of
(the two Koreas) writing a new
history in North-South relations,
peace and prosperity,” Kim told
Moon as they sat at a table, which
had been built so that exactly
2018
millimeters
separated
them, to begin their closed-door
talks. Moon responded that there
were high expectations that they
produce an agreement that will
be a “big gift to the entire Korean
nation and every peace-loving
person in the world.”
Kim
acknowledged
the
widespread skepticism over their
summit. “We have reached big
agreements before but were unable
to fulfill them. ... There are skeptical
views on whether the meeting today
will yield meaningful results,” Kim
said. “If we maintain a firm will and
proceed forward hand in hand, it
will be impossible at least for things
to get worse than they are now.”
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Britain’s new prince
is named Louis
that only reached the starting line”
before becoming derailed.
What happened Friday should
be seen in the context of the last
year — when the United States, its
ally South Korea and North Korea
threatened and raged as the North
unleashed a torrent of weapons
tests — but also in light of the
long, destructive history of the
rival Koreas, who fought one of the
20th century’s bloodiest conflicts
and even today occupy a divided
peninsula that’s still technically in a
state of war.
Trump
tweeted
Friday,
“KOREAN WAR TO END!”
and said the U.S. “should be very
proud of what is now taking place
in Korea!” Both Koreas agreed to
jointly push for talks this year with
the U.S. and also potentially China
to officially end the Korean War,
which stopped with an armistice
that never ended the war.
Many will be judging the summit
based on the weak nuclear language.
North Korea’s nuclear and missile
tests last year likely put it on the
threshold of becoming a legitimate
nuclear power. The North, which
has spent decades doggedly
building its bombs despite crippling
sanctions and near-constant inter-
national opprobrium, claims it has
already risen to that level.
South Korean conservative poli-
ticians criticized the joint statement
as letting North Korea off the hook
by failing to secure a clear commit-
ment on nuclear disarmament.
Liberty Korea Party Chairman
Hong Joon-pyo denounced the
summit as a “show camouflaged as
peace.”
it before drawing heavy
Israeli fire in one of the most
violent incidents yet in five
weeks of protests. Three
Palestinians were killed
and dozens were reported
wounded.
The Israeli military
accused Gaza’s Hamas
leaders of orchestrating
what it called a “serious and
irregular” attack and said it
would not tolerate similar
activity in the future.
The violence came
shortly after a top U.N.
official urged Israel to
refrain from using excessive
force. At least 38 protesters
have been killed.
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Deadly violence
erupts again in
Gaza at Israeli
border fence
GAZA CITY, Gaza
Strip (AP) — Hundreds of
Palestinians converged on
the Gaza Strip’s border fence
with Israel on Friday, trying
to burn and rip through
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