DONALD TRUMP was characteristically emphatic: This is very good news for North Korea and the World—astronomical progress! seek forward to our Summit.” The tweet came on April 20th,shortly after North Korean state media reported that their country would close down the Punggye-ri blast site and cease testing missiles. South Korea also welcomed the move, which comes on the eve of a summit planned for April 27th between Kim Jong Un, and North Korea’s dictator,and Moon Jae-in, the president of South Korea, and with another one scheduled to take space by early June,for Mr Kim and Mr Trump.
Spring is definitely in the air. On April 19th Mr Moon said that the North Korean leader was no longer insisting on the withdrawal of American troops from the Korean peninsula as a precondition for giving up his nuclear weapons. Unlike in previous years, Mr Kim has not issued any condemnations of the military drills that America and South Korea hold been performing since the beginning of the month. Nor has he...
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Source: economist.com