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Post by Admin on Dec 15, 2018 17:46:56 GMT
A South Korean fashion and cosmetics firm has stirred controversy with a facial mask featuring Kim Jong-un. The firm says it has sold more than 25,000 "unification moisture nuclear masks" since June. However many South Korean stores have halted sales amid a public backlash and concerns over the masks' legality.
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Post by Admin on Jan 8, 2019 18:01:05 GMT
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un this week made his fourth visit to China, arriving in the country for a three-day stay at the invitation of President Xi Jinping, according to state media. Kim's visit -- which coincides with the young leader's birthday -- comes as US and Chinese negotiators are trying to hash out the ongoing trade war between those two nations, one that is already starting to bite in China. In a report Tuesday, the state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said Kim left Pyongyang Monday afternoon with his wife Ri Sol Ju. He was also accompanied by key diplomats, KCNA added, including Kim Yong Chol, who has overseen negotiations with the US and other foreign countries. "He was warmly seen off by leading officials of the Party, government and armed forces organs at the railway station," the news agency said.
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Post by Admin on Feb 1, 2019 17:52:23 GMT
WATCH: President Trump Talks Border Wall, North Korea To The Media Kim "spoke highly of President Trump for expressing his unusual determination and will for the settlement of the issue with a great interest in the second DPRK-U.S. summit," said the Korean Central News Agency, via a translation from the KCNA Watch website. Last week, Trump announced he is planning to meet with Kim a second time in late February, with the specific date and location to be announced later. The two met in Singapore in June. Trump sought the second summit even though U.S. lawmakers and even some of his own advisers have criticized North Korea for not following up on Kim's pledge at the summit to denuclearize and dismantle his nation's nuclear weapons programs.
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Post by Admin on Feb 26, 2019 17:34:05 GMT
One hotel is not big enough for both the White House press corps and Kim Jong Un. Objections by Kim and his security personnel appear to have forced organizers to move the White House press filing center from the hotel where the North Korean leader is staying. "The American Media Center will be relocated from Melia hotel to International Media Center," the Vietnamese Foreign Ministry tweeted just a few hours before the facility was supposed to open, and Kim was scheduled to arrive. Journalists who were planning to use the filing center to transmit reports on the Donald Trump-Kim summit meeting in Vietnam are now using other facilities, including the area set for the international press.
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Post by Admin on Mar 12, 2019 17:52:52 GMT
After the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, which marked the beginning of the end of communist rule in Eastern Europe and presaged the collapse of the Soviet Empire, North Korean dictator Kim Il Sung was no doubt alarmed. There was, for sure, deep concern among the ruling elite in Pyongyang that the growing prosperity of South Korea would have the same gravitational pull that West Germany and the West in general had exerted on the Iron Curtain. But Kim Il Sung, who ruled from 1948 to his death in 1994 and remains “Eternal President of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea,” had a message for his subjects. Weeks after the wall in Berlin came down (which very few knew about to begin with), he told them a massive new concrete wall had just been built by the South Koreans to keep the peninsula divided. There was, as everyone knew, the heavily guarded demilitarized zone dating to the armistice of 1953, but Kim Il Sung was talking about a huge physical wall, imposing and medieval. For at least two decades, long after the eternal president’s death, references to that imaginary barrier were repeated and its existence reviled in North Korean propaganda.
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