All posts tagged "summit"

  • President Park Geun-hye and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe shake hands during a trilateral summit with President Barack Obama at the U.S. embassy in The Hague. (Yonhap)
    US hopes for regular Park-Abe summit

    WASHINGTON (Yonhap) — The United States hopes to see South Korean President Park Geun-hye and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe hold talks on a regular basis, a senior American diplomat said, calling last week’s first summit between...

    • Posted November 5, 2015
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  • Protesters wearing masks of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, right, and South Korean President Park Geun-hye prepare to join in a rally against Abe's planned visit in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, Oct. 30, 2015. Abe and Chinese Premier Li Keqiang will visit Seoul for their trilateral summit with Park. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
    S. Korea, China, Japan hope to thaw relations with summit

    TOKYO (AP) — They’ve stayed apart for more than three years, divided by antagonisms dating back to before World War II. Now the leaders of Japan, South Korea and China hope to find political common ground despite...

    • Posted October 30, 2015
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  • President Park Geun-hye (L) is greeted by U.S. chief of protocol Peter Selfridge after arriving at Andrews Air Base in Washington on Oct. 13, 2015, to hold summit talks with U.S. President Barack Obama. During the talks on Oct. 16, Park and Obama are expected to discuss ways on how to further boost their countries' bilateral alliance and deal with North Korea's possible provocations. (Yonhap)
    Park arrives in US for talks with Obama on alliance, North Korea

    By Kim Kwang-tae WASHINGTON (Yonhap) — President Park Geun-hye arrived in Washington on Tuesday for talks with U.S. President Barack Obama on how to further boost their countries’ bilateral alliance and deal with North Korea’s possible provocations....

    • Posted October 13, 2015
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    Summits may give Park leverage over NK, Japan

    Possibility grows for a trilateral meeting of Seoul, Beijing and Tokyo By Kang Seung-woo President Park Geun-hye and Chinese President Xi Jinping will meet in Beijing today, the first in a series of upcoming talks expected to...

    • Posted September 1, 2015
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    S. Korea wary of holding summit with North in Russia

    SEOUL, April 2 (Yonhap) — South Korea is still cautious about holding summit talks with North Korea on the occasion of Russia’s war anniversary event in May, a Seoul official said Thursday. Both South Korean President Park...

    • Posted April 2, 2015
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  • North Korean leader Kim Jong-un tours a precision machine factory in Pyongyang. North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency reported it on Jan. 16, 2015, without saying when the visit was made. (Yonhap)
    North Korea demanded $10 billion and food from South for summit

    SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Late North Korean leader Kim Jong-il repeatedly pushed for summit talks with South Korea before his 2011 death but the plans failed because Pyongyang demanded $10 billion and large-scale shipments of food...

    • Posted January 29, 2015
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    NJ appoints its first-ever Korean American superintendent of schools

    New Jersey will see its first-ever Korean American superintendent of schools come March 1, 2015. According to NJ.com, June Chang, 34, was appointed the next superintendent of the Summit Public Schools by the Summit Board of Education...

    • Posted November 28, 2014
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