WASHINGTON: South Korea’s foreign minister says North Korea’s leader has “given his word” he’s committed to denuclearization, a prime condition for a potential summit with President Donald Trump in May.
Trump has agreed to what would be historic talks after South Korean officials relayed that Kim Jong Un was committed to ridding the Korean Peninsula of nuclear weapons and was willing to halt nuclear and missile tests.
North Korea hasn’t publicly confirmed the summit plans, and a meeting place isn’t known.
South Korea’s Kang Kyung-wha says Seoul has asked the North “to indicate in clear terms the commitment to denuclearization” and she says Kim’s “conveyed that commitment.”
She tells CBS’ “Face the Nation” that “he’s given his word” and it’s “the first time that the words came directly” from the North’s leader.
South Korean diplomat says Kim has ‘given his word’ on nukes
Updated 19 March 2018
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South Korean diplomat says Kim has ‘given his word’ on nukes
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Muslim woman who refused handshake denied French citizenship
- An Algerian Muslim who refused to shake hands with officials during her citizenship ceremony has been denied a French passport.
- The government said her behavior showed she was “not assimiliated into the French community”.
Paris: France’s highest administrative court has upheld a decision to deny a French passport to an Algerian Muslim who refused to shake hands with officials during her citizenship ceremony, according to a ruling seen by AFP Thursday.
The woman argued that her “religious beliefs” prevented her from shaking hands with a senior official presiding over the citizenship ceremony in the southeastern Isere region in June 2016, as well as with a local politician.
The government said her behavior showed she was “not assimiliated into the French community” — one of the reasons it can invoke under the civil code to oppose citizenship for the spouse of a French national.
The woman, who has been married to a Frenchman since 2010, appealed the April 2017 decision, calling it an “abuse of power.”
But the Council of State, the court of last appeal in such matters, ruled the government “had not improperly applied” the law.
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