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Trump to visit S.Korea for talks on N.Korea nukes: White House by Staff Writers Washington (AFP) May 15, 2019 President Donald Trump will visit South Korea in June to meet with his counterpart Moon Jae-in over their efforts to persuade North Korea to scrap its nuclear weapons arsenal, the White House said Wednesday. "President Trump and President Moon will continue their close coordination on efforts to achieve the final, fully verified denuclearization of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea," the White House said in a statement, using North Korea's official name. The White House said Trump's visit to South Korea would combine with his visit to nearby Japan, where he will attend a G20 summit in Osaka on June 28-29. Trump has made attempts to negotiate with North Korea a top priority. However, his two summits with all-powerful leader Kim Jong Un have produced no breakthrough in getting the totalitarian state to relinquish its nuclear weapons.
Unification support falls in S. Korea as talks stall Seoul (AFP) May 13, 2019 Ever more South Koreans prefer peaceful co-existence with the nuclear-armed North to reunification of the peninsula, a survey found Monday. Despite sharing a common language and ethnicity and centuries of history, North and South Korea have become radically different societies in recent decades. Ruled with an iron grip by three generations of the Kim family, the North has turned itself into a nuclear power - at the cost of international isolation - while the South has embraced democracy and ri ... read more
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