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New York Times
April 21, 2018
But top Justice Department officials have reservations. Mr. Garner's final gasps of “I can't breathe,” captured on a cellphone video, became a rallying cry for protesters around the country, and declining to indict would be certain to ignite fresh criticism. Above, Mr. Garner's mother, Gwen Carr, holding a portraitÃâà...
Spectrum News
April 21, 2018
South Korean and U.S. officials have said Kim is likely trying to save his broken economy from heavy sanctions,. After the announcement Saturday about testing, U.S. President Donald Trump tweeted, “This is very good news for North Korea and the World” and “big progress!” He also said he's lookingÃâà...
Axios
April 21, 2018
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has announced the country will stop conducting nuclear tests and launches of intercontinental ballistic missiles starting April 21, and shut down a nuclear test site in the north side of the country, through a broadcast on the state news agency KCNA reports, and PresidentÃâà...
New York Times
April 21, 2018
The North Korean leader's move could be tactical — putting the United States on the defensive in advance of talks on its nuclear arsenal. By extending an olive branch, American officials said, North Korea is putting pressure on the United States to accept a deal before Mr. Kim agrees to give up NorthÃâà...
PolitiFact
April 20, 2018
As of the morning Schumer spoke, North Korea itself hadn't said that it is willing to discuss denuclearization. It had spoken through others. At the end of March, North Korean President Kim Jong Un made a rare trip to Beijing to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping. Afterward, the official Chinese newsÃâà...
New York Times
April 20, 2018
North Korea issued an official government statement as recently as 2016 calling on Washington to announce the withdrawal of American troops if it wanted to ... Since the 1990s, however, North Korean officials have occasionally told the Americans and South Koreans that they could live with an AmericanÃâà...
NPR
April 8, 2018
Pyongyang has told Washington that it is ready to discuss the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula when North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and President Trump meet, a U.S. official has confirmed to NPR. In direct contacts between U.S. and North Korean officials, the latter relayed to the TrumpÃâà...
Sacramento Bee
March 27, 2018
A version of the train open to the North Korean public is more businesslike. A life-sized mock-up of one of the train's carriages is on permanent display in the ornate mausoleum on the outskirts of Pyongyang where national founder Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il lie in state. According to North Korea's officialÃâà...
The Southern
March 27, 2018
Speculation about a visit to Beijing by North Korean leader Kim Jong Un or another high-level Pyongyang official was running high Tuesday amid talk of ... Jong Il to China were surrounded in secrecy, with Beijing only confirming his presence after he had crossed the border by train back into North Korea.
New York Times
March 27, 2018
If President Trump actually meets Kim Jong-un in the next few months — an encounter that many American officials still doubt will come to pass — his ... The satellite image above shows a new North Korean reactor that appears to be coming online now, after years of construction, according to analysts.
CNBC
March 26, 2018
A high-ranking North Korean official appeared to have arrived by train in Beijing, Japanese media reported. Speculation that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is currently visiting the Chinese capital has not been confirmed. Kyodo, citing sources close to the matter, said the visit of the official was intendedÃâà...
Channel NewsAsia
March 26, 2018
A Chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman earlier told a regular press briefing that she was unaware of reports that North Korean officials were spotted at a train station in the northeastern Chinese city of Dandong, which borders North Korea, at the weekend. Japanese broadcaster NNN showed images of aÃâà...
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