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where is SAKI ? go and tell your oga in Aso villa to come and tell us his own account on how he spent "government money" on his campaign.
no zombie should quote me oooooo cos i call your chairman on Nairaland

Assuming it's Chinese product, Western media won't let's hear word. The plane should be assembled and destroyed with latest nuclear weapons.
Also the company should be sued it seems they are not ready to take responsibility to the sorry incedence.

Trump says he’d win if he ran in Israeli prime ministerial elections
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US President Donald Trump waves as he boards Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews, in Maryland, on March 8, 2019 in Washington, DC. (Photo by AFP)
US President Donald Trump says he would gain 98 percent of the vote if he ran for Israeli prime ministerial vote.
Speaking at a closed meeting with Republican Party donors at Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence, Trump pointed to his rare popularity among the Israelis.
He cited his controversial decision to recognize Jerusalem al-Quds as Israel's “capital” and relocate the US embassy to the city as the reasons for his support base.
Jerusalem al-Quds remains at the core of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, with Palestinians hoping that the eastern part of the city would eventually serve as the capital of their future independent state.
The businessman-turned-president, however, seems to be taking his trade war to Israel.
According to Bloomberg, US trade negotiators will be visiting Israel this week to discuss upgrading the existing agricultural trade pacts and reducing tariffs for American farm exports to Israel.
Under the existing deal, virtually any product produced in Israel that can be competitive in the US market, can enter the US duty-free.
In contrast, US products continue to face high tariffs in many sectors limiting their access to the Israeli market, according to a 2018 report from the US Department of Agriculture’s Foreign Agricultural Service.
The US trade deficit with Israel, an economy 55 times smaller, was about $14 billion in 2017.
Ever since taking office in 2017, Trump has repeatedly vowed to reduce US trade deficits with its trade partners, calling out India, China and a number of European countries for their high tariffs.
PressTV-‘Trump tariff war not to secure US future’
An economist believes that the US trade war against other economic powers would not bring about a secure future for the country.
The president has put tariffs on $250 billion of Chinese goods, as well as on most foreign steel and aluminum, solar panels and washing machines.
Trump pulled the United States out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership and renegotiated the North American Free Trade Agreement, both of which he called some of the "worst" deals.
However, the US government’s Census Bureau revealed this week that the country’s trade deficit hit a 10-year high in 2018 as it grew to 621 billion dollars. That’s over $100 billion since he entered the White House.
Trump views the trade deficit as a measure of whether the US is winning or losing on trade.
https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2019/03/11/590747/Trump-win-sraeli-elections

beamtopola:
What abour lagos?

The problem is that there's no formidable opposition in Lagos and Lagos State government has not been performing below expectations

Good for him!! this fool has learnt his lesson but in a very hard way!!!!. How I wish all geographical zones in Nigeria do vote like SW no politicians will take us for granted. Mess up and get treated badly, simple as A,B,C......

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  Trump ex-aide Manafort sentenced to 47 months in prison
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Then US presidential nominee Donald Trump and Paul Manafort at the 2016 Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio, on July 21, 2016. (Getty images)
US President Donald Trump’s former election campaign chairman Paul Manafort has been sentenced by a federal judge to less than four years in prison for financial crimes revealed during US Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russia’s alleged role in the 2016 US presidential election.
US District Judge T.S. Ellis imposed the 47-month sentence on Manafort on Thursday during a hearing in Alexandria, Virginia, a surprisingly lenient sentence that was far less than government guidelines.
Manafort was convicted by a jury last August of five counts of tax fraud, two counts of bank fraud and one count of failing to disclose foreign bank accounts.
Ellis disregarded federal sentencing guidelines that called for a 20-year term, effectively a lifetime sentence for the 69-year-old Manafort. The judge also ordered Manafort to pay a fine of $50,000 and restitution of about $24 million.
Manafort has been jailed since June, so he will receive credit for the nine months he has already served.
He was brought into the courtroom in a wheelchair because of a condition called gout, and had no visible reaction as he heard the 47-month sentence.
The disgraced political consultant and lobbyist listened during the hearing as Ellis extolled his “otherwise blameless” life in which he “earned the admiration of a number of people” and engaged in “a lot of good things.”
PressTV-Mueller seeks long jail term for ex-Trump campaign chief
Paul Manafort is accused by the US special counsel of bank and tax fraud as well as breaching his plea deal.
Manafort was convicted after prosecutors accused him of hiding from the US government millions of dollars he earned as a consultant for Ukraine’s former President Viktor Yanukovych.
After Yanukovych’s ouster, prosecutors said, Manafort lied to banks to secure loans and maintain an opulent lifestyle with luxurious homes, designer suits and even a $15,000 ostrich-skin jacket.
Legal experts expressed surprise over the sentence. “This is a tremendous defeat for the special counsel’s office,” former federal prosecutor David Weinstein said.
Manafort’s sentence was less than half of what people who plead guilty and cooperate with the government typically get in similar cases, according to Mark Allenbaugh, a former attorney with the U.S. Sentencing Commission. “Very shocking,” he said.
Manafort’s legal troubles are not over. He faces sentencing next Wednesday in Washington in a separate case for two conspiracy charges involving lobbying and money laundering to which he pleaded guilty last September.
Legal experts said the light sentence from Ellis could prompt U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson to impose a sentence closer to the maximum of 10 years in the Washington case.
Manafort is the only one of the 34 people and three companies charged by Mueller to have gone to trial. Mueller is investigation any possible links or coordination between Trump's presidential campaign and the Russian government and whether Trump has unlawfully sought to obstruct the probe.
Trump, a Republican, has denied collusion and obstruction and Russia has denied US intelligence findings that it interfered in the 2016 election in an effort to help Trump defeat Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.

South Korea claims North Korea restoring part of destroyed ballistic missile site
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In this file photo, taken on April 8, 2012, a North Korean soldier stands guard in front of a Unha-3 rocket at the Sohae Satellite Launch Station in Tongchang-ri. (By AFP)
South Korea alleges that North Korea is restoring a ballistic missile launch facility it had torn down as an initial step toward denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, less than a week after US President Donald Trump cut short his second summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un without sealing a deal.
South Korea's Yonhap news agency cited on Tuesday a report by the country’s National Intelligence Service (NIS) as saying that North Korea “appears to be putting back a roof and a door (to a Dongchang-ri facility).”
The site, located in North Pyongan Province, is said to be served as the engine test site and missile launch facility for liquid-fueled intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM).
Last year, Pyongyang announced that the site, which is known by at least two other names, Tongchang-ri and Sohae, had been fully destructed.
The NIS, which announced the unexpected news during a briefing to the National Assembly's intelligence committee, further said “the US information is the same as ours.”
The report by the South’s spy agency confirmed, however, that late last year Pyongyang halted the operation of its 5-megawatt reactor at its mainstay nuclear complex in Yongbyon, north of Pyongyang, “with no signs of reprocessing activities there.”
It also said the underground tunnels of North Korea’s nuclear test site in Punggye-ri had remained shut and unattended since Pyongyang destructed them in May last year.
PressTV-US 'dealmaker in chief' walks away from Kim summit
In an unexpected turn of events, the US president will end denuclearization talks with the North Korea leader much earlier than excepted.
Trump and Kim met at a historic summit for the first time in June 2018 in Singapore, where they agreed to work toward denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula. Subsequent diplomacy between the two sides, however, made little progress, mainly because the US refused to lift its crippling sanctions.
So far, Pyongyang has taken several steps toward the goal by suspending missile and nuclear testing, demolishing at least one nuclear test site, and agreeing to allow international inspectors into a missile engine test facility.
The US, however, has insisted that sanctions on the North must remain in place until it completely and irreversibly dismantles its nuclear program.
The second summit between the two leaders was held in the Vietnamese capital, Hanoi, on February 28 with hopes of reaching an agreement on denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula and removing the harsh US sanctions but Trump abruptly walked away from the talks and held a press conference shortly afterward.
During the presser, a downbeat Trump told reporters that “he had to walk away” from the talks because of North Korea's demands to lift all economic sanctions against Pyongyang as a prerequisite to denuclearization.
However, a few hours later, North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong-ho offered a completely different breakdown of the summit, telling reporters in a separate presser that Pyongyang never asked for the removal of all sanctions, but only the partial removal of them.
PressTV-Official: Kim 'may have lost will to continue dealings'
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is changing his mind on negotiating nuclear program with the US, a top official says.
On Monday, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said he was hopeful about dispatching a team to North Korea in the coming weeks to resume negotiations on the North’s nuclear weapons program.
“In spite of lots of hard work that was done by (the) State Department team, (Department of Defense) team, all the folks at the Department of Energy over the past weeks working with the North Koreans to try and outline what a real big deal would look like, we didn't get there,” the US top diplomat said.
Pompeo also noted that the US would continue to work to make progress on eliminating the purported nuclear threat, both bilaterally and with partners around the world.
“So I am hopeful, although I have no commitment yet, that we will be back at it, that I'll have a team in Pyongyang in the next couple weeks continuing to work to find those places where there is shared interest,” he added.
The collapse of the summit also disappointed US-ally South Korea, which has been improving relations with the North since Kim and South Korea’s President Moon Jae-in met in January 2018

In rare decision, Japan court grants bail to ex-Nissan chief
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The former chairman of Nissan Motor Co Ltd, Carlos Ghosn (file photo by AFP)
A Japanese court has granted bail to the former chairman of Nissan Motor Co Ltd, Carlos Ghosn, more than three months after his arrest over allegations of financial misconduct.
Japan’s Kyodo news agency said on Tuesday that the Tokyo district court had set the bail at nine million dollars on the condition that Ghosn submit to video surveillance and communications monitoring as part of his bail application.
Prosecutors, however, appealed the surprise bail decision later in the day.
According to reports, granting bail before a confession is rare in Japan.
The same court had twice rejected Ghosn’s bail application, arguing that he was a flight risk and might try to tamper with evidence.
The ex-chairman of Nissan, Mitsubishi, and France’s Renault has been in custody at a detention center in the Japanese capital since his arrest last November.
PressTV-Nissan's boss arrested over misconduct allegations
Nissan Motor Chairman Carlos Ghosn was arrested on Monday, November 19, for alleged financial misconduct.
Ghosn is charged with under-reporting his compensation at Nissan for nearly a decade until 2018 as well as charges of aggravated breach of trust.
Japanese media reported that Ghosn had reported around 10 billion yen worth of annual compensation as around 5 billion yen.
Ghosn faces up to 10 years in prison if convicted on all charges.
The 64-year-old has denied any wrongdoing.
The new court decision came a day after Ghosn’s newly-appointed legal team, led by lawyer Junichiro Hironaka, vowed a “completely new legal strategy” to obtain their client’s release.
Given the number of people involved in the case, Hironaka said the case was likely to run over a “very long time span.”
However, he said prosecutors had begun handing over some “convincing” evidence prior to a potential trial in the coming months.
The Brazilian-born, of Lebanese descent, who is also a French citizen, began his career at Michelin tire manufacturer in France, moving on to Renault. He joined Nissan in 1999 after Renault bought a controlling stake and became its CEO in 2001. Ghosn remained in that post until 2017.

illitrate:
Religion? Show me one religious word or statement in my post and which of the religions. You are rather the one to have brought in religion.

l know where you are going with your initial statement that's why I said You should not bring religion into the matter.

Israeli helicopters strike Hamas posts in Gaza
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The file photo shows an Israeli helicopter during an air show in the Negev desert, December 29, 2016. (By AFP)
Israeli helicopters have struck posts of the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas in the besieged Gaza Strip.
The Tel Aviv regime's military said in a statement on Monday that two Hamas posts were targeted in response to the latest launch of a "balloon-borne device" from Gaza.
"A cluster of balloons carrying an explosive device was launched from the southern Gaza Strip" towards Israel, the statement said.
A Palestinian official, however, said three military observation posts were hit.
Hours before the helicopter assault, Israeli warplanes launched a fresh airstrike against one of the positions of Hamas in the east of Beit Hanoun, a city in the northeast of Gaza.
PressTV-Israel launches fresh air raid on besieged Gaza
Israeli jet fighters have launched a new attack on the north of the besieged Palestinian enclave Gaza Strip.
Hamas says Israel must be held fully accountable for the crimes it has committed in the besieged enclave.
Reacting to the latest airstrikes, the head of Hamas, Ismail Haniya, warned Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu against any "adventures" in the Gaza Strip ahead of Israeli elections next month.
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Also, Jerusalem will never be recognized as Israeli capital under international law! Quote me anywhere!

illitrate:
Russia captured the Island in 1945 after the war, but see how the world chastise Israel for capturing and occupying the Golan after war.

The whole Israeli land is completely illegal going by history! Don't bring religion into this matter ooooo

Cletus77:
America has the backing of many strong countries and military bases everywhere, that alone can make Russia cower

Countries like Israel, Switzerland and so on but America doesn't have the guy to carry out military operation in Russia even during the cold war days! Remember that is what led to the INF TREATY. Also, with the way Trump pulls out of the Treaty there will be rise in Nuclear arm race that's capable of possing a great threat to America Allies in Europe.
Remember also that Europeans are no more willing to enter into war for the benefit of US cos Trump has pulled from out a lot of deal that serves as "incentives" to the Europe.
All in all, both US and Russia will only be making threat at each other,no one is ready for war now cos the effect on war in this century is highly unimaginable!

Saintsami:
It is not what am thinking?

what are you thinking?
Be positive as you claim !

Saintsami:
It is not what am thinking?

what are you thinking?
Be positive as you claim ☹️☹️

Cletus77:
Warn abi advice in fear?

Russia no dey fear ooooo
they've been blowing hot since Trump pull of INF Treaty

alliance as threat to peace treaty talks
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Russian President Vladimir Putin and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe give a joint press statement following their meeting at the Kremlin in Moscow on January 22, 2019. (Photo by AFP)
Russia has warned against Japan’s security alliance with the United States, denouncing the move as a threat and an impediment to improving bilateral ties between Tokyo and Moscow.
Russia’s diplomatic sources said on Saturday that Moscow had expressed concern about the fate of talks with Tokyo on a peace treaty that would resolve a decades-old territorial dispute.
The talks concern four Pacific islands close to Japan’s northern coast, known as the Southern Kurils in Russia and the Northern Territories in Japan.
The disputed islands, which were inhabited by the Japanese, were captured by the Soviet Union in 1945. Japan continues to lay claims to the islands.
The sources said Russia had been increasingly looking at the US-Japan alliance as a major negative factor for Japan-Russia ties, calling on Tokyo not to side with the United States in imposing economic sanctions on Russian companies and officials.
Last November, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed to accelerate peace treaty talks based on a 1956 joint declaration aimed at ending their long-running territorial dispute.
Russia, Japan agree to intensify peace treaty talks
President Putin of Russia and Japan's Prime Minister Abe met in Singapore on Wednesday.
But the talks have made little progress as deep divisions remain over the territorial dispute, with Russia stressing that Japan must recognize the acquisition by Moscow of the four islands as the outcome of World War II.
Russia has on several occasions expressed alarm that the Tokyo-Washington’s security alliance may lead to the deployment of the US military in the territories if they are to be handed to Japan.
In an interview with Chinese and Vietnamese media last month, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov warned about Japan maintaining close ties with the United States, saying Washington has declared Russia as "its main adversary."
Japan's military alliance with the United States gives Washington "the right to deploy its armed forces anywhere in Japan and they are already deploying their missile defense system there, which creates risks for both Russia and China," Lavrov said.
"It would be a mistake to ignore the fact that, contrary to the declared goal, this actually worsens the quality of our relations (with Japan)."
Tensions between Russia and the US have escalated following Washington's move early last month to pull out of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty over claims that Moscow had violated the Cold War-era arms control treaty.

These Yeebow should be very careful! They are biting more than they can chew! Sanwolu must deport these fools back to their God forsaken region after he won if he really wants the best for Yorùbá land. The guy will lose our support if he fails to do that. Nonsense!

we shall see! Only time will tell.

Kudos to the coalition officer

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  Ayatollah Khamenei: Iran, Armenia must boost ties despite US opposition
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Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei (R) meets with Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian in Tehran on February 27, 2019. (Photo by leader.ir)
Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei says Iran and Armenia should work to further boost their relations irrespective of opposition from the US that seeks sedition, division and war across the world.
Ayatollah Khamenei made the remarks during a meeting with visiting Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian in Tehran on Wednesday.
The Leader underlined the need for Iran and Armenia to put the goal of achieving ever-growing friendship and cooperation on their agenda to serve the interests of the two countries.
“Indeed, the Americans are totally untrustworthy and are seeking sedition, corruption, division and war everywhere, and they are against Iran-Armenia relations as well as [other] nations’ interests, but we have a duty to boost our cooperation and interactions in response,” the Leader noted.
Ayatollah Khamenei described Iran and Armenia as good neighbors that enjoy historical ties and underlined the need for raising the level of their economic cooperation, stressing, “Unlike what the Americans desire, the relations between Iran and Armenia should be solid, constant and friendly.”
The Leader mentioned amicable relations between Iran and Armenia throughout the history and said, “Iran and Armenia have never had any problems with each other, and we feel duty-bound under Islamic teachings to practice good neighborliness. Of course, American officials like [National Security Adviser] John Bolton have no understanding of such issues and human relations.”
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani (L) attends a meeting between Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei (R) and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian in Tehran on February 27, 2019. (Photo by leader.ir)
Ayatollah Khamenei said the current level of economic cooperation between Iran and Armenia was way below the potential of the two countries, calling for the two sides to seriously follow up on the implementation of the agreements signed during the visit.
The Leader also touched on the Karabakh issue and said the dispute could be settled through continued negotiations between Armenian and Azeri officials and expressed Iran’s readiness to contribute to its resolution.
The Armenian premier, for his part, described his meetings in Tehran as “constructive and promising” and hoped for the immediate implementation of the agreements signed in his visit.
Pashinian said the history of Iran-Armenia good ties could contribute to further promotion of relations.
“Armenia has never joined and will not join any measure against Iran and we believe the development of ties with Iran serve our country and people,” he said.
Back in October, Bolton visited Armenia, where he vowed during an interview that President Donald Trump's administration would "squeeze Iran" with maximum economic pressure in response to what he called Tehran's "malign" behavior in the Middle East and around the world.
However, Pashinian told the Armenian Parliament a week later that he had made clear to Bolton during his visit that Armenia would maintain "special relations" with its neighbor Iran.
“I reaffirm the position that we should have special relations with Iran and Georgia that would be as far outside geopolitical influences as possible. This position was very clearly formulated also during my meeting with Mr. Bolton, and I think that the position of Armenia was clear, comprehensible, and even acceptable to representatives of the US delegation,” the Armenian leader said.
He added that Armenia “has its own national and state interests, which do not always coincide with the interests and ideas of other countries, any other country.”
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Iran committed to neighbors' security: G

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  Ayatollah Khamenei: Iran, Armenia must boost ties despite US opposition
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Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei (R) meets with Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian in Tehran on February 27, 2019. (Photo by leader.ir)
Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei says Iran and Armenia should work to further boost their relations irrespective of opposition from the US that seeks sedition, division and war across the world.
Ayatollah Khamenei made the remarks during a meeting with visiting Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian in Tehran on Wednesday.
The Leader underlined the need for Iran and Armenia to put the goal of achieving ever-growing friendship and cooperation on their agenda to serve the interests of the two countries.
“Indeed, the Americans are totally untrustworthy and are seeking sedition, corruption, division and war everywhere, and they are against Iran-Armenia relations as well as [other] nations’ interests, but we have a duty to boost our cooperation and interactions in response,” the Leader noted.
Ayatollah Khamenei described Iran and Armenia as good neighbors that enjoy historical ties and underlined the need for raising the level of their economic cooperation, stressing, “Unlike what the Americans desire, the relations between Iran and Armenia should be solid, constant and friendly.”
The Leader mentioned amicable relations between Iran and Armenia throughout the history and said, “Iran and Armenia have never had any problems with each other, and we feel duty-bound under Islamic teachings to practice good neighborliness. Of course, American officials like [National Security Adviser] John Bolton have no understanding of such issues and human relations.”
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani (L) attends a meeting between Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei (R) and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian in Tehran on February 27, 2019. (Photo by leader.ir)
Ayatollah Khamenei said the current level of economic cooperation between Iran and Armenia was way below the potential of the two countries, calling for the two sides to seriously follow up on the implementation of the agreements signed during the visit.
The Leader also touched on the Karabakh issue and said the dispute could be settled through continued negotiations between Armenian and Azeri officials and expressed Iran’s readiness to contribute to its resolution.
The Armenian premier, for his part, described his meetings in Tehran as “constructive and promising” and hoped for the immediate implementation of the agreements signed in his visit.
Pashinian said the history of Iran-Armenia good ties could contribute to further promotion of relations.
“Armenia has never joined and will not join any measure against Iran and we believe the development of ties with Iran serve our country and people,” he said.
Back in October, Bolton visited Armenia, where he vowed during an interview that President Donald Trump's administration would "squeeze Iran" with maximum economic pressure in response to what he called Tehran's "malign" behavior in the Middle East and around the world.
However, Pashinian told the Armenian Parliament a week later that he had made clear to Bolton during his visit that Armenia would maintain "special relations" with its neighbor Iran.
“I reaffirm the position that we should have special relations with Iran and Georgia that would be as far outside geopolitical influences as possible. This position was very clearly formulated also during my meeting with Mr. Bolton, and I think that the position of Armenia was clear, comprehensible, and even acceptable to representatives of the US delegation,” the Armenian leader said.
He added that Armenia “has its own national and state interests, which do not always coincide with the interests and ideas of other countries, any other country.”
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Iran committed to neighbors' security: G

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Unfortunately, Trump and Kim fail to make a deal and analysts describe this meeting as unsuccessful.
White House also issues a statement stating that the meeting will be cut short since no concrete development will be made further.

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More development!

It's because you are not the one feeling the effects of of crumbling economic sanctions on them. Also, the tensions in the penusula will not end without denuclearization of Korea.
Remember it's because of the Singapore meeting that led to the withdrawal of some America troops in South Korea. Analysts expect Kim to demand for full withdrawal during this meeting as part of the leverage to actualizations of Nuclear free Korea.
With no presence of US in that region,then things will improve in security,economy, international relations etc.

latest update now, waiting for that of press tv