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Speaking of the inter-Korean summit, how many S Koreans will fly to Pyongyang on Tue (9.18)? 230. That sounds like a lot but 300 went to Pyongyang with Kim Dae-jung in 2000 for the 1st summit. Another 300 went with Roh Moo-hyun in 2007 for the 2nd summit
yonhapnews.co.kr/politics/2018/…
Half of that 230 are security and Blue House staff. But the remainder may include Jaebol figures like Samsung's Lee Jae-yong & SK Group's Choi Tae-won. The list isn't final but the businessman contingent is likely to be strongly represented as in the past english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_e…
Moon couldn't recruit politicians from right-of-center opposition parties to go: Lib Korea Party leader Kim BJ declined and instead criticized taking so many businessmen to NK when UNSCR sanctions must be adhered to: "This just sends wrong message to NK" news.sbs.co.kr/news/endPage.d…
Son Hak-kyu heads Bareun-Mirae which is the largest of SK's 3 minor parties. He conveyed displeasure that Moon re-invited him after he already said no. "The summit is to make NK denuke so we can have peace on Korean Peninsula. It's not some media show"news.khan.co.kr/kh_news/khan_a…
Moon's Chief of Staff will announce those who'll accompany him to Pyongyang in 2 hours. Most are curious how many of SK's Big 4 Jaebols accepted invitation. Samsung's Lee Jae-yong and SK's Choi TW were both mired in Choi Soon-sil scandal. They may be going
yonhapnews.co.kr/nk/2018/09/16/…
There's actually a repeat visitor: former Uni Minister who now heads SK's left-of-center Democracy & Peace Party. Chung Dong-young went to NK in 2005 & came back with KJI's message that NK is willing to denuke, that it was the dying wish of KIS. He's going.
"I'm very intent on going," says this blast from the past. "We need a multiparty consensus on this. The summit isn't just for Pres Moon. It's for SK and NK. It's for peace that will affect everyone. All 5 party reps should go to Pyongyang."
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Donga reports an economic delegation composed of representatives of US agricultural & German mining businesses visited NK in late Sept. The German concern is interested in NK's magnesite/graphite reserves and US agro biz looked at investment opportunity
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The timing of this was late Sept when Pompeo's 4th visit had been decided and US-NK dialogue was ongoing. NK treated this economic delegation well. The US concern is supposedly the largest one that sells agro & animal protein prods (Cargill, Tyson Foods?)
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Front page news in SK courtesy of Donga. NK is known to have rather large mineral reserves other than just coal: copper, lead, iron ore, tungsten plus rare earth/rare metal elements like molybdenum. SK estimates it's worth $3.6 trillion (on the low side) imnews.imbc.com/replay/2018/nw…
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Foreign Minister Kang in another mini-controversy after Japan's Nihon-Kezai reports SoS Pompeo "blew up on her" after learning about the military agreement signed by SK and NK at the Pyongyang summit. N-K quotes Pompeo, "What do you think you're doing?"
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N-K: "There was no prior discussion about the nature of the military agreement SK struck with NK." Pompeo was said to be particularly upset about the 'no fly zone' established within proximity of MDL. US reconnaissance planes regularly fly near the area for surveillance of NK
Kang pretty much acknowledged something like that happened when asked about it at the National Assembly: "I wouldn't characterize it as 'furious' or 'blew up' but there was dissatisfaction re not being fully informed. So yes, I was asked a lot of questions"
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Japan declines to attend a naval event in Jeju after repeated calls by SK not to arrive with its Rising Sun Flag symbolizing Imperial Japan. However the real reason why it chose not to attend is more intricate.
koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20…
What happened is SK kept telling Japan's Embassy and Defense Minister that only the national flag should be flown. But Japan insisted it will come bearing the Rising Sun Flag. Then apparently SK NSA Chung and new Defense Minister Jung came up with a ploy
english.yonhapnews.co.kr/national/2018/…
They leaked news that the lead vessel of the host country may switch to ROKS Dokdo, which is the largest SK navy vessel. Dokdo is an island but also the name of this LPH-class amphibious vessel with a platform that can launch helis, Ospreys and even VTOLs
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Our stealth #PatriotPOTUS has been quietly working for months...many involved...lining it all up. Yesterday in Singapore was not the first step. It was the *NEXT* step in a series of actions that have been underway for peace in the world. 🇺🇸
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NEW: Donald Trump writes a letter to Kim Jong-un canceling the June 12 summit in Singapore.
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THREAD. Some thoughts on how this mess happened.

First, I translated Hankyoreh and Chosun editorials for 4 years each, meaning I've given a very close/thorough read of aprox to 10k Korean editorials.

Looks like two things went wrong here.

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And what went wrong here has something to do with how Korean editorials are often written and a serious problem with the translation. I'll start with the problem in the translation. For reference here's the original.
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Translation says "was reported as saying," but Korean says "...다는 *취지의 발언*을 한 것으로 전해진다," more accurately translated as "is said to have said *something to the effect of*," "reportedly uttered something that *essentially means*," etc. But you can see what's missing
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