North Korea will reopen to international tourism this winter, tour operators say
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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea announced Monday it’ll suspend a rapprochement deal with North Korea to punish it over its launches of trash-carrying balloons, even after the North said it would halt its balloon campaign.
TOKYO -- Japan, China and South Korea will likely hold their first trilateral summit in about four and a half years in Seoul on May 26-27. Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, Chinese Premier Li Qiang and South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol are expected to discuss a range of issues aimed at promoting stability and prosperity in the region.
This article was originally published May 14, 2017 under the headline “Moon’s right-hand man former friend to the North.” It was republished on June 18, 2020, after then-Chief of Staff Im Jong-seok was mentioned as then-President’s Moon Jae-in’s possible nominee for the post of unification minister. Someone else ended up getting that job but now we are publishing the piece for the third time, with new headlines, in response to the news that ex-President Moon has said in a newly published memoir that he credits Kim Jong Un’s promise to abandon the North’s nuclear weapons.
Nearly two years into the presidency of Yoon Suk Yeol, South Korea has made a geopolitical pivot of potentially historic proportions.