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He already in a restarted Trade War with Dotard, once his PLA Air Force One sent Kim Jong Nuke to Pee Sai to sign that Toilet Paper. Once signed, Trade War Restarted!

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A Direct Result and instant Karma, Dotard dream his freedom from Kim's Hwasong ICBM he instantly restarted Trade Wars.

The BEST REWARD for Singapore (Karma) came instantly after hosting Dotard-Kim to sign a paper in Pee Sai:

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SINGAPORE: Singapore’s stock market closed at a nine-month low on Tuesday (Jun 19) as investors around Asia went on a selling spree amid the escalating trade dispute between the United States and China.

Hostility over trade between the world's two largest economies intensified on Tuesday when Trump threatened to impose a 10 per cent tariff on US$200 billion of Chinese goods, prompting a swift warning from Beijing of retaliation

Asian stocks wilted to a four-month low and Europe's main equity benchmarks sank 0.5 per cent to 1.3 per cent in early trading, while Wall Street futures pointed to similar falls there later.

"It's the darkest hour and the most agonising moment in the first half of this year...there are disaster victims everywhere," Zhang Yidong, strategist at Industrial Securities, wrote in a note.

China had warned it will take "qualitative" and "quantitative" measures if the US government publishes an additional list of tariffs on its products.

The trade frictions have unnerved financial markets, with investors and businesses increasingly worried that a full-blown trade battle could derail global growth.

"Trump appears to be employing a similar tactic he used with North Korea, by blustering first in order to gain an advantage in negotiations," said Kota Hirayama, senior emerging markets economist at SMBC Nikko Securities in Tokyo.

"The problem is, such a tactic is unlikely to work with China."

GREAT FALL OF CHINA

MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan fell 1.9 per cent to its lowest since early December. The losses had intensified through the day as the rout deepened in China.

The Shanghai Composite Index slumped nearly 5 per cent at one point to its lowest level since mid-2016 before finishing the session down 3.8 per cent.

Stirring memories of the 2015 equity market crash, more than 1,000 stocks slumped by their 10 per cent daily limit as Chinese investors dumped stocks across the board, which sent jitters through China's retail investment community.

"It will have a big effect on us normal people," said Gu Xiaoliang, a 31-year-old personal investor, who was watching market prices at the entrance of the Shanghai Stock Exchange in the city's financial district

"As an investor, I am not optimistic with my investments. Right now, I don't have clear judgement so I'm just going to wait and see."

China's economy is already clouded by a sharp slowdown in fixed asset investment growth due to the government's deleveraging drive, a problematic property sector, a mounting debt burden and rising credit defaults

Economists at Nomura wrote: "The rising risk of a disruptive trade conflict makes a bad situation tentatively worse."

Hong Kong stocks were also hit hard, with the benchmark Hang Seng index dropping nearly 3 per cent to its lowest closing level in six months.

In Singapore, the Straits Times Index closed 0.68 per cent lower at 3,301.05, the lowest close since 3,280.28 in Oct 11 last year. This takes STI’s year-to-date performance to a fall of 2.98 per cent.

The top active stocks were DBS, which declined 0.59 per cent, UOB, which gained 0.64 per cent, Singtel, which declined 0.31 per cent, OCBC Bank, which declined 1 per cent and Venture, with a 4.94 per cent fall.

Japan's Nikkei lost 1.8 per cent, South Korea's KOSPI retreated 1.3 per cent while Australian stocks bucked the trend and added 0.1 per cent, helped by a depreciating currency and an overnight bounce in commodity prices.

"Escalation (of trade tensions) is a sort of impossible thing to forecast, but if it stops at this level you have probably created some nice risk premia in Asia and emerging markets," said Hans Peterson, global head of asset allocation at SEB Investment Management.

"So if it doesn't get worse it is probably a buying opportunity."

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TOKYO: Asian stocks sank on Tuesday (Jun 19) and Shanghai shares tumbled to near two-year lows as U.S. President Donald Trump threatened new tariffs on Chinese goods in an escalating tit-for-tat trade war between the world's two biggest economies.

U.S. and European equity markets looked set to follow Asia into the red. S&P 500 futures were off 1 percent and Dow Jones futures were 1.1 percent lower.

Spreadbetters expected Britain's FTSE to open down 0.3 percent, with Germany's DAX seen shedding 0.7 percent and France's CAC losing 0.8 percent.

Trump threatened to impose a 10 percent tariff on $200 billion of Chinese goods, prompting a swift warning from Beijing of retaliation, as the trade conflict between the world's two biggest economies quickly escalated.

It was retaliation, Trump said, for China's decision to raise tariffs on $50 billion in U.S. goods, which came after Trump announced similar tariffs on Chinese goods on Friday.

China warned it will take "qualitative" and "quantitative" measures if the U.S. government publishes an additional list of tariffs on its products.

The trade frictions have unnerved financial markets, with investors and businesses increasingly worried that a full-blown trade battle could derail global growth.

"Trump appears to be employing a similar tactic he used with North Korea, by blustering first in order to gain an advantage in negotiations. The problem is, such a tactic is unlikely to work with China," said Kota Hirayama, senior emerging markets economist at SMBC Nikko Securities in Tokyo.

"A U.S.-China trade spat alone won't hurt global growth. But there is always potential for Trump to keep increasing his threats which could have broader implications. Increasing trade has helped growth in emerging markets and this could be negatively affected."

MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan fell 1.5 percent to its lowest since early February, with losses intensfiying through the day as the rout deepened in China.

The Shanghai Composite Index dropped more than 3 percent to its lowest since July 2016, while Hong Kong's Hang Seng shed 2.8 percent.

"China's economy has already been clouded by a sharp slowdown in fixed asset investment growth due to the government's deleveraging drive, a problematic property sector, a mounting debt burden and rising credit defaults," economists at Nomura wrote.

"The rising risk of a disruptive trade conflict makes a bad situation tentatively worse."

Japan's Nikkei lost 1.8 percent, South Korea's KOSPI retreated 1.3 percent while Australian stocks bucked the trend and added 0.1 percent helped by a depreciating currency and an overnight bounce in commodity prices.

DOLLAR, YUAN WEAKEN

The dollar fell 0.75 percent to 109.715 yen following Trump's tariff comments. The yen is often sought in times of market turmoil and political tensions.

The euro was steady at $1.1622.

China's yuan skidded to a five-month low. The Australian dollar, often seen as a proxy to China-related trades, brushed a one-year low of $0.7381.

In commodities, crude oil markets remained volatile ahead of Friday's OPEC meeting at a time when Russia and Saudi Arabia are pushing for higher output.

Brent crude futures fell 0.8 percent to $74.76 a barrel after rallying 2.5 percent overnight, while U.S. light crude futures retreated 0.9 percent to $65.27.

Lower-risk assets gained on the latest round of trade threats.

Spot gold was up 0.35 percent at $1,282.26 an ounce.

The 10-year U.S. Treasury note yield touched 2.871 percent, its lowest since June 1.

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So they want to play this game?

Flip Black & Flip White right?

变脸!? 黑白讲?!

Simple!

Ask Ah Nuke to fire all the ICBM on USA now, not enough ICBM PLA Rocket Army will supply FOC!



Peace is world's biggest Crime leading to Total Extinction Suicide.

Best time to Nuke is when Dotard dream peace with the piece of Toilet Paper signed - Nuke NOW!
 

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BEIJING - North Korea leader Kim Jong Un is in China on a two-day visit, Chinese state television said on Tuesday, his third visit to the North's major ally this year.

Kim will be in China on Tuesday and Wednesday but the brief report gave no other details.


Citing diplomatic sources, Japanese news agency Kyodo said a "high-ranking North Korean official, possibly Kim" was due to visit Beijing by air.


Kyodo later reported that a North Korean freight plane used for the June 12 Singapore summit had arrived in Beijing.

An AFP reporter in Pyongyang said the only scheduled international flight -- an Air Koryo plane to Beijing -- had been briefly delayed for no reason, which often happens when Kim travels.

Kim is seeking relief from economic sanctions in return for his pledge to denuclearise and is believed to be seeking support from China for that, the Nikkei said in a dispatch from Beijing.

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Following the historic US-North Korea summit in Singapore a week ago, China suggested the UN Security Council could consider easing the economic punishment of its Cold War-era ally.

China was not a direct player in the negotiations in Singapore but retains strong influence behind the scenes.

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo rushed to the Chinese capital to brief Xi and other top leaders soon after the Trump-Kim meeting.

In a joint statement following the Singapore meeting, Kim pledged to "work toward the complete denuclearisation of the Korean Peninsula."

Trump hailed this as a concession but critics said the stock phrase long used by Pyongyang stopped short of longstanding US demands for North Korea to give up its atomic arsenal in a "verifiable" and "irreversible" way.

In return, Trump said he would stop joint military drills with South Korea, long seen as a provocation by Pyongyang and Beijing.

On Tuesday, the US and South Korean militaries confirmed they have called off upcoming joint exercises following Trump's order.

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North korea is too small for trump. No time with "little rocketman" with small nuke buttons.
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Dotard Trump is so obsessed with his popularity ratings! Surrounded by his band of yesmen who merely stroke his already huge ego, very soon he will learn the hard truth about communist China and North Korea. China has grown too big to be defeated by Dotard USA whether it's a real war or trade war.
 

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North korea is too small for trump. No time with "little rocketman" with small nuke buttons.
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NK is the perfect front man to nuke USA. Small 25 million population. Less than 1/10 th of USA population. Can nuke 300+million US citizens to dust. So even USA nuke NK 100% dead still lost by 10 fold.
 

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BEIJING: Kim Jong Un declared North Korea's unstinting "friendship, unity and cooperation" with Beijing during his third visit to China this year, in a show of loyalty to his main ally following a landmark summit with United States President Donald Trump.

The two-day visit which ends Wednesday (Jun 20) is designed to reassure Beijing that Pyongyang will not neglect its interests as Trump and the young autocrat move into uncharted diplomatic terrain.

The performance is part of a delicate balancing act for Kim, who analysts say is seeking to play US and Chinese interests off each other while maintaining good relations with Beijing, his economic patron and diplomatic protector.

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The first ladies of North Korea and China joined their husbands Kim Jong Un and Xi Jinping at the gathering in Beijing. (Photo: AFP)

China and the US both hope to see the Korean peninsula free of nuclear weapons, but Beijing is concerned Washington and Pyongyang might move closer at its expense, a possibility that China sees as threatening to its economic and security interests in the region.

While China was not present at the Jun 12 summit in Singapore, it lent Kim a plane to travel to the city-state, a clear sign that it remains an influential force in the diplomatic shuffle.

The Cold War-era allies, which fought side-by-side against US-led UN forces and South Korea in the 1950 to 1953 Korean War, have sought to repair ties strained by Pyongyang's nuclear tests and Beijing's support of subsequent United Nations sanctions.

Kim chose Beijing for his first official foreign trip in March and met Xi again in April in the northeastern port city of Dalian.

Kim's agenda for Wednesday was not made public. An AFP journalist saw a motorcade leaving the Diaoyutai guest house for foreign dignitaries in Beijing, but it was unclear where it was headed.

During his meeting with Xi Tuesday, Kim thanked China for "positive and sincere support and good help for the successful" summit with Trump, according to North Korea's official KCNA news agency.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un inspects an honour guard accompanied by Chinese President Xi Jinping. (Photo: AFP)

The North Korean leader, who was greeted by a military honour guard and cheering children at the Great Hall of the People Tuesday, said he valued the "recently strengthened strategic cooperation" between the two countries.

"He expressed the determination and will to further develop the closer relations of friendship, unity and cooperation between the two parties and the two peoples of the DPRK and China," KCNA said.

Kim also invoked the "prospect for the denuclearisation of the Korea Peninsula" following his meeting with Trump.

For his part, Xi told Kim that China "speaks highly" of his summit with Trump and he urged Washington and Pyongyang to implement their agreement struck in Singapore.

The Chinese leader vowed that Beijing would continue to play a "constructive role" in the nuclear diplomacy.

TRADE CARD

The official media of both countries did not say whether Kim and Xi discussed the prospect of easing UN sanctions that have crippled North Korea's economy, though analysts said it could have been part of the agenda.

Shin Bum-cheol, a senior fellow at the Seoul-based Asan Institute for Policy Studies, said Kim and Xi were likely seeking "common ground" following the Singapore summit.

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For China, North Korea can serve as "an important card" as Beijing faces a potential trade war with the United States," Shin told AFP.

"For the North, it can also show to the world, especially the US, that Beijing has Pyongyang's back if the North's ties with the US sour in the future," Shin said.

North Korean officials have also visited China recently to learn about its economic reforms - yet another sign of Pyongyang's reliance on Beijing for its economic wellbeing.

"We are happy to see that the DPRK made a major decision to shift the focus to economic construction, and the development of the DPRK's socialist cause has entered a new stage in history," Xi told Kim, according to China's official Xinhua news agency.

China has backed United Nations sanctions against its ally but indicated last year that the UN Security Council could consider easing the punitive measures.

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Finally some one with some cow brains said a bit of truth. All Securities are Illusions & self-consolation. Made to temporarily control the panics of cowards. All securities can be overcomed instantly.

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No schedule has been set for North Korea's denuclearisation; meanwhile the US and South Korea have offered to suspend military drills, points out one observer.

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20 Jun 2018 06:42AM (Updated: 20 Jun 2018 06:50AM)
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SEOUL: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un returned home to a hero’s welcome from his historic summit talks in Singapore with President Donald Trump.

He scored a major diplomatic victory by fending off US demands for his regime’s immediate denuclearisation.

Not only that, by holding the first face-to-face peace talks with the US president, Kim symbolically ended seven decades of hostility with the world’s most powerful nation.

The major upshot of this development is that North Korea is now a nuclear state, with its arsenal comprising 20 or more nuclear devices and the means of carrying them to targets as far as the continental United States, despite ongoing US attempts to deny such status.

In Seoul and Washington, it’s becoming accepted wisdom that immediate denuclearisation is wishful thinking. Accomplishing this objective, even with Kim’s unlikely agreement, would take more than a decade, according to US nuclear experts.

That makes the Singapore summit much more relevant as a ballast for Kim’s dynastic rule. He has accomplished what neither his father nor his grandfather, the state founder, could achieve.

READ: Trump-Kim summit is a win regardless what happens next. A commentary.

READ: A commentary on how Kim Jong Un may have outmanoeuvred Donald Trump in Singapore.

READ: US-North Korea summit ends without marquee achievement, but wasn't a waste, a commentary.

His major challenge now is to use arms-control negotiations to bargain for economic aid, without sacrificing the integrity of his weapons capability. The United States and South Korea, targets of the North’s nuclear arsenal, can only hope that a vision of peace and prosperity would entice Kim to choose a rational way out of the crisis for survival.

As for rest of the world, it has added a ninth nuclear state, equipped with intercontinental ballistic capability and therefore much more dangerous than Pakistan.

Pakistani nuclear black marketeer Abdul Qadeer Khan helped Pyongyang’s nuclear ambitions by providing bomb designs and centrifuge technology.

Nuclear scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan smiles in Islamabad on Feb 6, 2009. (Photo: REUTERS/Mian Khursheed)

The thermonuclear device North Korea exploded last September was 15 times more powerful than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima and theoretically could be carried by the Hwasong-15 ICBM, tested in November, to targets within an estimated range of 10,000km.

Trump may have awakened to the reality, apparent to analysts for decades, that defanging the Pyongyang regime risks starting a new war on the Korean Peninsula with casualties running into millions of people on both sides of the border.

DIPLOMATIC FIASCO

For all that, Trump’s amateurish talks in Singapore have brought diplomatic fiasco.

A four-point joint statement issued at the end of the summit was vacuous, containing no detailed roadmaps leading to complete, verifiable and irreversible denuclearisation, the so-called CVID formula pushed by Trump and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo hours before the summit’s opening.

The joint statement, while talking about building a lasting peace regime and establishing new relations, merely repeated Kim’s commitment to “work toward complete denuclearisation of the Korean Peninsula,” a largely empty phrase devoid of details or binding clause.

The bland expression was described as “reaffirmation” of Kim’s earlier declaration signed at Panmunjom at separate talks in April with South Korean President Moon Jae-in. No mention was made of the North’s aggressive missile programme.

South Korean President Moon Jae-in shakes hands with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un during their summit at the truce village of Panmunjom, North Korea, in this handout picture provided by the Presidential Blue House on May 26, 2018. (Photo: The Presidential Blue House /Handout via REUTERS)

The statement amounted to an astonishing retreat for Trump who came to Singapore vowing he would “walk out” of the conference if Kim showed any sign of rejecting the CVID formula.

With Kim’s negotiators adamantly refusing to accept the denuclearisation timetable, Trump was pushed into the corner of either cancelling the talks and walking away, as he had threatened, or swallowing his pride.

Surprisingly, Trump buckled, turning the talks into a show-business event, not a summit of war and peace.

Trump’s inept diplomacy exhibited his lack of preparation and haphazardness. When talks got tough, Trump folded.

Inexplicably, he offered to suspend US–South Korean military exercises while negotiations were underway. He threw away a major bargaining chip without reciprocal concessions.

The military exercises, held three times a year for the past two decades, have sent a powerful message to the North that they can expect a robust counterattack in case of invasion.

Later in the middle of a rambling news conference summing up the talks, Trump justified suspension of war games in the name of economy; like North Korea, he called them “provocative” and “expensive” to boot. He delivered more shocks by suggesting he may eventually withdraw 28,500 US ground troops from South Korea, another demand pushed by the North since the 1953 signing of the armistice.

The unexpected statements dropped like thunder strikes on Seoul, where the government fights a conservative opposition campaign against Moon’s rapprochement policy with the North. The Korean currency’s value dropped to 1,097 won to the US dollar, as much as three per cent, after the summit.

To calm market nerves in Seoul, Moon issued a statement that the matter of US forces in Korea is strictly bilateral between Seoul and Washington, thus separate from the North Korean nuclear issue.

JAPANESE REACTIONS BORDERED ON PANIC

Reactions in Tokyo bordered on panic as removal of US forces would make Japan the first line of defence in a potential war with the North or even China.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who has held three sets of talks with Trump so far, each time advising a tough stance on Kim, was so shaken that he hurriedly asked Seoul and others to help arrange a summit with Kim for himself.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said his government has contacted the North Korean side "through various channels" in a bid to arrange his meeting with Kim. (Photo: AFP/Toru YAMANAKA)

Cancellation of military exercises has direct bearing on Japan’s security interests as the Japanese Navy sometimes participates in these exercises, and Tokyo has vital intelligence-sharing deals with both Seoul and Washington.

The Kim regime has already lobbed missiles over Japan’s skies during test launches that Tokyo citizens are getting used to hearing emergency sirens urging them to seek shelter during missile tests.

Reactions in Beijing, Kim’s main source of support, were of quiet elation.

China emerged as the biggest beneficiary from Trump’s new East Asian geopolitical vision that appeared destined to remove the United States as the security linchpin in the Western Pacific.

China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi said the joint statement showed that China’s formula of “freeze for freeze” was correct, referring to his proposal calling for the US to reward Kim’s nuclear and missile moratorium with suspension of US-Korean military exercises, and responding to Pyongyang’s denuclearisation with regime security and a peace accord.

CONFUSION OVER THE MEANING OF DENUCLEARISATION

In this maelstrom of terrible initiatives, Washington’s confusion over Kim’s nuclear challenge isn’t expected to end soon.

Pompeo, visiting Seoul and Beijing on summit briefing tours, reportedly said he expected Kim to complete his denuclearisation process – a huge undertaking requiring locating more than 100 secret sites related to bomb-making operations – in 30 months.

The timeframe was presumably calculated to match the timetable for Trump’s re-election campaign.

Leading nuclear scientist Siegfried Hecker of Los Alamos National Laboratory, who visited North Korean nuclear sites several times estimates that completing the disarmament process would require up to 15 years.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un inspects the intercontinental ballistic missile Hwasong-14 in this undated photo released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency in Pyongyang on July 5, 2017. (Photo: KCNA via REUTERS)

Days after the summit, the Kim regime insisted it was sticking to its own formula of “phased and synchronous” denuclearisation – a process of the United States matching every step of the North’s denuclearisation with political and economic rewards.

Indeed, the North’s state media have begun spelling out what the goal of “denuclearisation of the Korean Peninsula” means.

According to Choson Sinbo, Pyongyang’s propaganda voice published in Tokyo, the formula includes as an essential condition the removal of American troops and termination of US strategic commitments providing “extended nuclear coverage” or a “nuclear umbrella” for South Korea and maybe Japan as well.

Ultimately, this formula is unacceptable to the United States, South Korea or even Japan as it would mean curtailing the US's superpower role responsible for keeping Asia’s peace – a tall order indeed even if it comes from Kim Jong Un.

Shim Jae Hoon is a journalist based in Seoul. This commentary first appeared in Yale Global Online. Read the original here.

Source: CNA/nr

 

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金胖子became more healthy and lost weight from frequent traveling.

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Fly here fly there without golden escalators to go up and down the flights good for losing weight!
 

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Kim Jong Nuke sliming and looking sleepy.

Flying around too much these days, hot shot liao.

习近平会见朝鲜劳动党委员长金正恩
2018-06-20 17:31:09 来源: 新华网

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  6月20日,中共中央总书记、国家主席习近平在北京钓鱼台国宾馆会见朝鲜劳动党委员长、国务委员会委员长金正恩。习近平总书记夫人彭丽媛、金正恩委员长夫人李雪主参加会见。 新华社记者 李学仁 摄

  新华社北京6月20日电(记者李忠发)中共中央总书记、国家主席习近平20日在钓鱼台国宾馆会见朝鲜劳动党委员长、国务委员会委员长金正恩。

  仲夏的钓鱼台,草木葱郁、夏花绚烂。两党两国最高领导人在亲切友好的气氛中共品香茗、深入交谈。

  习近平强调,金正恩委员长百日内三度来华同我举行会晤,双方共同开创了中朝高层交往的新历史。我们高兴地看到,中朝双方达成的重要共识正逐步得到落实,中朝友好合作关系焕发出新的生机活力,朝鲜半岛对话缓和势头得到了有力巩固,朝鲜劳动党新的战略路线推动朝鲜社会主义事业迈上了新征程。我相信,在中朝双方共同努力下,中朝关系一定能够更好造福两国和两国人民。在中朝和有关各方共同努力下,朝鲜半岛和东北亚地区一定会迎来和平、稳定、发展、繁荣的美好前景。

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  6月20日,中共中央总书记、国家主席习近平在北京钓鱼台国宾馆会见朝鲜劳动党委员长、国务委员会委员长金正恩。这是当天,金正恩参观中国农业科学院国家农业科技创新园。新华社记者 王晔 摄

  习近平指出,当前,中国特色社会主义进入了新时代,中国共产党和中国各族人民正紧密团结在党中央周围,为实现“两个一百年”奋斗目标和中华民族伟大复兴的中国梦而努力奋斗。中方愿同朝方互学互鉴、团结合作,共同开创两国社会主义事业更加美好的未来。

  金正恩表示,当前朝中像一家人一样亲密友好、相互帮助,习近平总书记同志给予我们亲切感人的关爱与支持。此次对中国的访问,是进一步深化我同总书记同志的友谊和发展朝中关系的有利契机。我将同中国同志一道,竭尽全力把朝中关系提升到新高度,并为维护世界和地区和平稳定发挥应有的作用。相信在以习近平同志为核心的中共中央坚强领导和习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想指引下,中华民族伟大复兴的中国梦一定能顺利实现。

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  6月20日,中共中央总书记、国家主席习近平在北京钓鱼台国宾馆会见朝鲜劳动党委员长、国务委员会委员长金正恩。这是当天,金正恩参观北京市轨道交通指挥中心。新华社记者 姚大伟 摄

  习近平总书记夫人彭丽媛、金正恩委员长夫人李雪主参加会见。

  会见后,习近平总书记夫妇为金正恩委员长夫妇举行午宴。

  当天,金正恩参观了中国农业科学院国家农业科技创新园和北京市轨道交通指挥中心。中共中央政治局委员、北京市委书记蔡奇陪同。

  金正恩于20日结束访华离京回国。

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  中共中央总书记、国家主席习近平19日同当日抵京对中国进行访问的朝鲜劳动党委员长、国务委员会委员长金正恩举行会谈。两国领导人就当前中朝关系发展和朝鲜半岛局势坦诚深入交换了意见,一致表示要维护好、巩固好、发展好中朝关系,共同推动朝鲜半岛和平稳定面临的良好势头向前发展,为维护世界和地区和平稳定、繁荣发展作出积极贡献。



Xi Jinping Meets with Chairman of the Korean Workers’ Party Kim Jong Eun
2018-06-20 17:31:09 Source: Xinhuanet
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On June 20, General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee and President Xi Jinping met with Kim Jong-un, Chairman of the Korean Workers Party and Chairman of the State Council at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing. Mr. Peng Liyuan, wife of General Secretary Xi Jinping, and Mrs. Li Xue, wife of Chairman Jin Zhengen, attended the meeting. Xinhua News Agency reporter Li Xueren

Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, June 20 (Reporter Li Zhongfa) General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee and President Xi Jinping met with Chairman of the Korean Workers Party and Chairman of the State Council Kim Jung-un at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse on the 20th.

The Diaoyutai in midsummer is lush and lush. The top leaders of the two parties and the two countries have enjoyed a good conversation and in-depth talks in a cordial and friendly atmosphere.

Xi Jinping emphasized that Chairman Jin Zhengen had come to China to meet with me for the third time in a hundred days and the two sides jointly created a new history of high-level exchanges between China and the DPRK. We are pleased to see that the important consensus reached by China and the DPRK is gradually being implemented. The Sino-DPRK ties of friendship and cooperation are radiating new vitality. The momentum for the easement of dialogue on the Korean Peninsula has been strongly consolidated, and the new strategic line of the Korean Workers’ Party has promoted North Korean society. The cause of the cause has entered a new journey. I believe that with the joint efforts of China and the DPRK, China-DPRK relations will surely benefit the two countries and peoples. With the joint efforts of China and the DPRK and related parties, the Korean peninsula and the Northeast Asia region will surely embrace the beautiful prospects of peace, stability, development, and prosperity.

On June 20, General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee and President Xi Jinping met with Kim Jong-un, Chairman of the Korean Workers Party and Chairman of the State Council at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing. This was the day when Kim Jong-un visited the National Agricultural Science and Technology Innovation Park of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences. Xinhua News Agency reporter Wang Yi

Xi Jinping pointed out that at present, socialism with Chinese characteristics has entered a new era. The Chinese Communist Party and the people of all ethnic groups in China are closely united around the Party Central Committee and work hard to achieve the goals of the "two hundred years" struggle and the Chinese dream of a great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. struggle. The Chinese side is willing to learn from the DPRK, learn from each other, unite and cooperate, and work together to create a better future for the socialist cause of the two countries.

Kim Jong-un said that currently, the DPRK and China are as close and friendly as one family and help each other, and Comrade Xi Jinping has given us cordial and loving care and support. This visit to China is an opportunity to further deepen my friendship with General Secretary Comrade and to develop bilateral relations. I will work with China’s comrades and make every effort to upgrade the DPRK-China relations to a new height and play its due role in safeguarding the peace and stability of the world and the region. It is believed that under the guidance of the strong leadership of the CPC Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core and the socialist ideology of Chinese characteristics under the new era of Xi Jinping, the Chinese dream of a great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation will surely be realized smoothly.

On June 20, General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee and President Xi Jinping met with Kim Jong-un, Chairman of the Korean Workers Party and Chairman of the State Council at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing. This was the day when Kim Jong-un visited the Beijing Rail Traffic Command Center. Xinhua News Agency reporter Yao Dawei

Mr. Peng Liyuan, wife of General Secretary Xi Jinping, and Mrs. Li Xue, wife of Chairman Jin Zhengen, attended the meeting.

After the meeting, General Secretary Xi Jinping held a luncheon for Chairman Jin Zhengen and his wife.

On the same day, Kim Jong-un visited the National Agricultural Science and Technology Innovation Park of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences and Beijing Rail Traffic Command Center. Cui Qi, member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and secretary of the Beijing Municipal Committee, accompanied.

Kim Jong-un left China after his visit to China on the 20th.

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Xi Jinping Holds Talks with Chairman of the Workers' Party of Korea Kim Jong Eun

On the 19th, General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee and President Xi Jinping held talks with Kim Jong-un, chairman of the Korean Workers Party and chairman of the State Council, who arrived in Beijing on the same day. The leaders of the two countries exchanged views on the current development of China-DPRK relations and the frank and in-depth situation on the Korean Peninsula. They unanimously expressed the need to safeguard, consolidate and develop China-DPRK relations and jointly promote the sound momentum facing the peace and stability of the Korean Peninsula. We must make positive contributions to safeguarding peace, stability, and prosperity in the world and in the region.
 

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Gurkha-land chief also in Beijing. And at Nepal they have strong forces of Maoists army loyal to China. Xi can use Nepal to counter ABNN Modi.

http://www.xinhuanet.com/politics/leaders/2018-06/20/c_1123011875.htm

习近平会见尼泊尔总理奥利
2018-06-20 19:25:07 来源: 新华网

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  6月20日,国家主席习近平在北京人民大会堂会见尼泊尔总理奥利。 新华社记者饶爱民摄

  新华社北京6月20日电(记者侯丽军)国家主席习近平20日在人民大会堂会见尼泊尔总理奥利。

  习近平指出,中国和尼泊尔是患难与共的友好邻邦。中尼建交以来,始终在和平共处五项原则基础上开展互利合作。中方赞赏尼方坚定奉行一个中国政策,将一如既往支持尼方维护国家独立、主权、领土完整,支持尼方自主选择适合本国国情的社会制度和发展道路,祝愿尼泊尔早日实现发展目标。

  习近平强调,当前中尼两国关系正面临新的发展机遇。双方要密切高层交往,加强战略沟通,继续坚持和平共处五项原则,尊重和照顾彼此核心利益和关切,巩固中尼关系政治基础,提升中尼关系政治站位。中方愿同尼方加强“一带一路”框架下基础设施互联互通、灾后重建、经贸投资等领域合作,构建全方位互利合作格局。双方要加强文化交流,打造中尼人文合作新亮点,筑牢中尼友好民意基础。要加强执法能力建设合作,共同打击跨国犯罪,维护好中尼共同安全。中尼要加强在国际重大问题上沟通协调。

  奥利表示,尼中友谊源远流长,尼中关系是不同制度、不同大小国家关系的典范。尼泊尔钦佩中国的发展成就,高度评价中国在国际事务中的重要积极作用和亲诚惠容的周边外交政策,感谢中国对尼泊尔国家转型发展的支持。尼泊尔坚定奉行一个中国政策,决不允许任何势力在尼泊尔领土上从事任何反华活动。尼方愿同中方拓展新形势下合作。尼方高度评价习主席提出的人类命运共同体主张,并愿积极参与“一带一路”建设。

  杨洁篪、王毅、何立峰等参加会见。


Xi Jinping Meets with Nepali Prime Minister Ollie
2018-06-20 19:25:07 Source: Xinhuanet
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On June 20, President Xi Jinping met with Nepalese Prime Minister Olli at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. Xinhua News Agency reporter Rao Aimin

Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, June 20 (Reporter Hou Lijun) President Xi Jinping met with Nepalese Prime Minister Olli at the Great Hall of the People on the 20th.

Xi Jinping pointed out that China and Nepal are friendly neighbors that are in distress. Since the establishment of diplomatic ties between China and Nepal, they have always carried out mutually beneficial cooperation on the basis of the five principles of peaceful coexistence. China appreciates Nepal’s resolute adherence to the one-China policy and will, as always, support Nepal’s efforts to safeguard national independence, sovereignty, and territorial integrity, support Nigeria’s self-selection of social systems and development roads suited to its national conditions, and wish Nepal’s development goals as soon as possible.

Xi Jinping stressed that currently China-Nepal relations are facing new opportunities for development. The two sides should maintain close high-level exchanges, strengthen strategic communications, continue to adhere to the five principles of peaceful coexistence, respect and take care of each other's core interests and concerns, consolidate the political foundation of China-Nepal relations, and enhance political positions in China-Nepal relations. China is willing to strengthen cooperation with Nepal in the infrastructure connectivity, post-disaster reconstruction, economic and trade investment and other fields under the "One Belt and One Road" framework, and build a pattern of all-round and mutually beneficial cooperation. The two sides should strengthen cultural exchanges, create new highlights of Sino-Nigeria cultural cooperation, and build a solid foundation for friendship between China and Nepal. We must strengthen cooperation in law enforcement capacity building, jointly combat transnational crimes, and safeguard the common security of China and Nepal. China and Nigeria must strengthen communication and coordination on major international issues.

Olli said that the friendship between Nepal and China goes back to ancient times and the relationship between Nepal and China is a model of relations between different systems and countries of different sizes. Nepal admires China’s development achievements, highly appraise China’s important positive role in international affairs and the pro-Hinong’s neighboring foreign policy, and thanks China for its support for the country’s transitional development. Nepal firmly adheres to the one-China policy and will never allow any forces to engage in any anti-China activities on Nepalese territory. Nepal is willing to cooperate with China in expanding the new situation. The Nepalese side highly values Xi’s proposed community for human destiny and is willing to actively participate in the “One Belt and One Road” initiative.

Yang Jiechi, Wang Yi, and He Lifeng attended the meeting.
 
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