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Jaebol businessmen going to Pyongyang: Samsung scion Lee Jae-yong and SK Group head Choi Tae-won will both accompany Moon to Pyongyang as part of SK's "economic delegation." Hyundai Group CEO Hyun Jeong-Eun and Seoul mayor Park Won-soon also going to NK.
What will Samsung Vice Chair Lee Jae-yong do in Pyongyang? There can't be any economic cooperation until NK denukes. One reporter asked about propriety of sending Lee who was in jail. Lim: "We had Jaebol CEOs as part of delegation back in 2000 and 2007"
hani.co.kr/arti/politics/…
SK's Big 4 Jaebols sending their leaders to Pyongyang: Samsung Electronics; Hyundai Auto; Lucky Group; and SK Holdings.
english.yonhapnews.co.kr/news/2018/09/1…
Why send Jaebol magnates? Actually it was NK that requested that SK send those with the resources and in position to make investment decisions. So this is more like SK acceding to NK's request. Of course the signal is, this is what could come if you denuke
news.donga.com/MainTop/3/all/…
This summarizes the sports-entertainment delegation. Jocks, musicians, labor activists and Moon Chung-in, who needs a separate category of his own. He's the only one to go to Pyongyang for all 3 inter-Korean summits. Nothing was gonna stop him from going news.mk.co.kr/newsRead.php?s…
Shouldn't give short shrift to the "spiritual delegation." We have an archbishop and someone representing the reformist Christian wing, plus heads of 2 Buddhist organizations. Will they meet their NK counterparts? Yes, they'll meet their rough equivalents
yonhapnews.co.kr/nk/2018/09/16/…
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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
news.donga.com/List/PoliticsN…
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?)
sedaily.com/NewsView/1S5Y4…
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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Part 1

For over 20 years, this is how events would play out when China announced they intended to send either a probe or a manned mission to the moon.

- China makes the announcement
- Nothing happens
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Here’s why...
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last night. Many people have asked us about #Lewisham so here is a VERY LONG
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Samsung have removed the 🕇 emoji on their keyboard, but all other religions easily on hand (🛐✡☦🕎🕉☯️☸🔯). #Samsung are bigoted assholes. us.community.samsung.com/t5/Other-Mobil…
The cross.
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Är ni beredda på låååång tråd? Ok, då kör vi! ⬇️ Jag kallar tråden #skärmpanik för att knyta ihop på Instagram om ni hellre läser där.
Nu hinner jag inte läsa själva forskningsartikeln men om ABC inte har missuppfattat totalt är resultatet inte ens det att skärmar i klassrum sänker betyget. De har visat att (FLASH!) skärmar som inte har med undervisningen att göra distraherar eleverna så att de får lägre betyg.
Nåväl, utan att gå all James Randi på er, ponera att vi faktiskt kan laxa upp en studie som visar att användning av skärmar i undervisningen ger lägre betyg. Då ser jag två grundläggande problem direkt.
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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo began his first trip to #Pyongyang since President Trump's summit with leader Kim Jong Un last month with a vow to nail down the specifics of Kim's commitments on denuclearization. wtvy.com/wrgx/content/n…
On the flight to Pyongyang, Pompeo said both sides made commitments at the Singapore summit on the complete denuclearization of North Korea and on what a transformed bilateral relationship might look like.
"On this trip, I'm seeking to fill in some details on these commitments and continue the momentum toward implementation of what the two leaders promised each other and the world. I expect that the DPRK is ready to do the same," Pompeo said. cbsnews.com/news/mike-pomp…
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