SEOUL - Eight journalists from the Republic of Korea (ROK) will visit the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) Wednesday to cover the planned dismantling of the DPRK's nuclear test site, raising expectations for the suspended inter-Korean talks to be resumed in the near future.Seoul's unification ministry said the journalists will leave for the DPRK's east city of Wonsan at 12:30 pm local time (0330 GMT) on a government plane from an airport outside of the capital Seoul.The ROK airplane carrying the reporters will fly via a direct route in the eastern waters to the DPRK city.The visit was permitted at the last minute as Pyongyang received the list of the ROK journalists earlier in the day at the opening call of the inter-Korean hotline in the border village of Panmunjom.The DPRK has invited journalists from China, Russia, the United States, Britain and the ROK to let them witness the dismantling of the Punggye-ri underground nuclear test site, where all of its six nuclear tests were conducted, scheduled for May 23-25.Except for the ROK journalists, other press corps already arrived at Wonsan Tuesday on a flight from Beijing.The press corps, joined by the ROK reporters, were expected to go by train to the nuclear test site for reporting on the dismantlement scheduled for later this week.The DPRK had refused to receive the list of the ROK journalists, citing the annual ROK-US air combat exercises, codenamed Max Thunder.The air drills reportedly mobilized about 100 aircrafts, including eight US F-22 Raptor stealth fighter jets. The radar-evading fighter is used to secretly attack an enemy target.The ROK had claimed the joint air drills were defensive in nature, while the DPRK considered it a dress rehearsal for the northward invasion.As Pyongyang permitted the ROK media to cover the nuclear test site dismantling, expectations ran high for the suspended inter-Korean talks to be resumed.The DPRK made a pre-dawn cancellation last week of the scheduled high-level talks with the ROK citing the air drills between Seoul and Washington.During the summit meeting in Washington with US President Donald Trump, ROK President Moon Jae-in said he expected the resumption of the halted inter-Korean talks after the Max Thunder ends on May 25, according to the Blue House of the ROK.At the meeting, Moon and Trump agreed to make best efforts to let the DPRK-US summit happen on June 12 as scheduled, Moon's senior press secretary Yoon Young-chan said.Trump said at the meeting with Moon that his scheduled meeting with top DPRK leader Kim Jong-un in Singapore may not work out for June 12, raising a possibility for the delayed first-ever summit between the DPRK and the United States.The US president said certain conditions needed to be met for the DPRK-US summit, but he did not elaborate on details. If we don't, we won't have the meeting, said Trump.The DPRK warned last week that Pyongyang would have to reconsider whether to attend the Singapore meeting if the United States only wants to press the DPRK to abandon its nuclear arsenal. colored rubber bands for braceletshow do you make rubber band braceletsrubber wristbandsrubber braceletscustom charm bracelets
General Secretary Xi Jinping greets local residents in Sanhe, a village in Zhaojue county, Sichuan province, on Sunday. Ju Peng/Xinhua General secretary takes his message to impoverished villages in Sichuan. Communist Party of China Central Committee General Secretary Xi Jinping paid a visit to poor families in a mountainous area in Sichuan province on Sunday, where he talked with villagers about poverty reduction, ahead of the upcoming Spring Festival. Xi spent two hours on a bus traveling from Xichang to Sanhe and Huopu villages, both in Zhaojue county in the Liangshan Yi autonomous prefecture in southwestern China, on Sunday morning. Since the CPC's 18th National Congress in late 2012, Xi has visited poverty-stricken areas ahead of Spring Festival every year. Shortly before last year's Spring Festival, he visited poor families in Zhangjiakou, Hebei province, to talk with the people about how to increase their incomes. In February 2016, Xi visited Jinggangshan, home to the CPC's first rural revolutionary base, in East China's Jiangxi province, to inspect poverty alleviation work there. During his visit he said that the country should not leave any impoverished family or person behind. Measures and work to alleviate and eliminate poverty must be precise. Policies should be made according to the (needs of) households and individuals, Xi said in Jinggangshan. In December 2012, shortly after he was first elected general secretary of the CPC Central Committee, Xi paid a visit to impoverished Fuping county in Hebei province, where he chatted with farmer Tang Rongbin at his village home. The most arduous task facing China in completing the building of a moderately prosperous society is in rural areas, especially poverty-stricken regions, Xi said during the trip. The CPC has made a solemn promise to lift all rural residents living below the current poverty line out of poverty by 2020. It will be the first time in China's thousands of years of history for extreme poverty to be eliminated. The number of people living in poverty in rural areas was reduced by over 10 million last year, Xi said in his 2018 New Year address. While discussing with lawmakers from Sichuan during the annual session of the National People's Congress last March, Xi said that it was a heartbreaking moment when he read the news about pupils from the province who had to climb dangerous mountains to go to school every day. The whole process of poverty reduction requires tailored poverty relief policies and precise measures, and sometimes patience and accuracy akin to doing embroidery, Xi told the lawmakers of Sichuan. custom word braceletbest place to buy silicone wristbandsbracelet silicone montrerubber band bracelet charmsbasketball silicone bracelets<%2fcenter>
