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12/7/2017 4:47:16 PM

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COINCIDENCES

Southern California is burning, and so is Rupert Murdoch’s house.

For your consideration, a series of facts:

1. There are five (five!) wildfires currently burning in the Los Angeles area today, and upwards of 50,000 people have been evacuated.

2. They look like this.

3. This has been (and continues to be) California’s worst wildfire season to date.

4. There are many reasons for that — including increased drought, tree disease, and rising temperatures due to climate change.

5. California news station NBC4 reported that media mogul Rupert Murdoch’s $30 million Bel-Air estate is one of the homes to succumb to the blaze.

6. Rupert Murdoch has deemed climate change “alarmist nonsense.”

7. The last two facts, taken together, are definitely a total!!! coincidence!!!!

8. Destruction wrought by climate change has a disproportionate effect on low-income people and people of color.

9. Rupert Murdoch will be fine.*

*That’s an educated guess, not a fact.

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12/7/2017 5:39:10 PM

The world produces more than 3.5 million tons of waste a day – and that figure is growing

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Since early 2016, I have traveled to six major cities around the world (Jakarta, Tokyo, Lagos, New York, Sao Paulo and Amsterdam) to investigate how they manage — or mismanage — their waste. There are some remarkable differences. And a question emerges: Is this just garbage, or is it a resource?

The world generates at least 3.5 million tons of solid waste a day, 10 times the amount a century ago, according to World Bank researchers. If nothing is done, that figure will grow to 11 million tons by the end of the century, the researchers estimate. On average, Americans throw away their own body weight in trash every month. In Japan, meanwhile, the typical person produces only two-thirds as much. It’s difficult to find comparable figures for the trash produced by mega-cities. But clearly, New York generates by far the most waste of the cities I visited: People in the broader metropolitan area throw away 33 million tons per year, according to a report by a global group of academics published in 2015 in the journal of the National Academy of Sciences. That’s 15 times the Lagos metropolitan area, their study found.

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Introducing Global Waste

With a sharp increase in the world population and many economies growing, we are producing more waste than ever. In Europe and the United States our trash is largely invisible once it’s tossed; in other parts of the world it is more obvious, in the form of waste dumps, sometimes in the middle of cities.

Dumps are a problem because they release methane, a potent greenhouse gas that traps heat in the atmosphere. Burning trash outdoors is also harmful, to the environment and people’s health.

Landfills and waste dumps are quickly filling up — with many of the largest receiving on average 10,000 tons of waste per day.

As a country becomes richer, the composition of its waste changes — more packaging, electronic components, broken toys and appliances, and relatively less organic material.

New York and San Francisco now have a goal of “zero waste” to be achieved by a reduction in trash and more recycling, but they still have a long way to go. In New York, plastic shopping bags are still provided in almost every store. The world produces over 300 million tons of plastic each year, of which only a small fraction is recycled.

By 2050, there will be so much plastic floating in the ocean it will outweigh the fish, according to a study issued by the World Economic Forum. Scientists estimate that there are at least 5.25 trillion plastic particles — weighing nearly 270,000 tons — floating in the oceans right now.

On average, a person in the United States or Western Europe uses about 220 pounds of plastic per year, according to the Worldwatch Institute, a research organization. The packaging industry, growing thanks to the rise of online stores and other factors, poses a huge challenge.

About one-third of the food produced in the world gets thrown away or otherwise wasted, according to U.N. data. The Dutch toss out the equivalent of over 400,000 loaves of bread per day, on average. The United States wastes by far the most food, due in part to fast-food restaurants at which employees and consumers dump unsold items or leftovers.


Scavengers dig through the trash at Jakarta’s Bantar Gebang, one of the largest landfills in the world. Residents of the Indonesian capital’s growing dump simply know it as “the Mountain.” It receives over 6,000 tons of trash per day
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Most waste in Africa, the United States and Asia ends up in dumps, many of which are already at capacity. Europe sends less of its waste to dumps or landfills and more to incinerators. While some of them are relatively clean, many are a threat to the environment and public health. Tokyo has more than 20 garbage incinerators in the metropolitan area. The city says they are not hazardous to public health, because they burn mostly organic material and use an advanced system to filter out damaging gases.

But if the world is not prepared to think about waste reduction and actually treat garbage as a resource, future generations will drown in their own waste.


In Jakarta, nowhere to go but up

The massive Bantar Gebang landfill in Jakarta. (Kadir van Lohuizen /NOOR)

Jakarta, Indonesia’s capital, has grown extremely fast in recent years, partly because of a national economic boom. Most of Jakarta’s waste ends up at Bantar Gebang, one of the biggest landfills in the world: It covers 272 acres and receives over 6,000 tons of trash per day.

The thousands of people who scavenge at Bantar Gebang work in dangerous conditions, navigating mountains of unstable trash at risk of toppling in avalanches of garbage.

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What waste looks like in Jakarta

Jakarta doesn’t have incinerators and has no space for another landfill. And the scavengers who work in the streets and at the landfill play an important role in recycling, in a city with hardly any formal recycling industry.

Waste flowing into the canals and rivers of Jakarta also causes issues. The waterways clog, causing extensive flooding. For the past two years, Jakarta has made a big effort to clean the garbage from its waterways.

Indonesia is one of the world’s biggest sources of plastic that is dumped into the oceans.


Plastic pellets produced from recycled materials are used to make plastic bags at the PT Elastis Reka Aktif plastics plant in South Cikarang, Indonesia, outside Jakarta. (Kadir van Lohuizen /NOOR)

A bold goal in the Big Apple: ‘Zero Waste’


Plastics carried by barge to a Brooklyn recycling plant. (Kadir van Lohuizen/NOOR)

The New York metropolitan area produces 33 million tons of garbage per year, according to a group of global scientists that calculated all the trash being tossed out by the city and its sprawling suburbs and exurbs. That puts it well ahead of the rest of the world’s major mega-cities, according to the researchers.

The United States is one of the planet’s biggest generators of waste, and New York presents a particular challenge because it is so densely populated. In most parts of the world, growing wealth is associated with an increased output of trash. But in the United States, the poorer population also contributes a considerable amount of garbage, much of it fast-food packaging. Food waste is also a huge issue, in New York and the rest of the country.


The Covanta Delaware Valley incinerator in Chester, Pa., is one destination for garbage out of New York City.

Despite its problems, New York does better in some ways than other U.S. cities when it comes to trash: Paper, plastic bottles and cans are often separated for recycling, even though the recycling industry is limited in size. Most of New York’s waste goes to landfills or to incinerators out of state.

Under Mayor Bill de Blasio (D), New York City has begun its “Zero Waste” initiative, which among other things will aim to reduce the amount of non-compostable trash and improve recycling. The city’s goal is to eliminate the transfer of garbage to out-of-state landfills by 2030.

In recycling and management, New York is more advanced than many other American cities, but the sheer amount of garbage it generates would be difficult for any municipal government to deal with.


The Brooklyn nonprofit Sure We Can was set up in 2007 to support the city’s community of “canners,” who collect cans and plastic bottles for deposit money, and aid recycling efforts. (Kadir van Lohuizen /NOOR)

Lagos works to slow a rising tide

A man carries a large haul of plastic bottles from the Olusosun landfill. (Kadir van Lohuizen /NOOR)

Lagos has a population of around 21 million people but produces only around 2.5 million tons of waste a year, according to a study by a global group of academics published in the journal of the National Academy of Sciences. Some estimates are higher. One of the fastest-growing cities in the world, Lagos struggles not only with how to deal with its own waste but with garbage sent to Nigeria illegally from Europe and the United States.

The biggest landfill in Lagos, Olusosun, is near capacity, and there is no viable alternative set to take its place in the near future. It receives about 3,000 to 5,000 tons of trash per day, officials say.

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What waste looks like in Lagos

The thousands of scavengers who work at the landfill help the recycling efforts, albeit under harrowing conditions. What looks apocalyptic is actually a well-organized work site. What is surprising is that the landfill doesn’t smell as bad as others do around the world. This is largely due to the fact that Nigerians hardly waste any food.

The city is planning to close the landfill and build transfer and sorting stations and incinerators — as well as another major dump 40 miles away, in the city of Badagry — but these steps will take years. In the meantime in some areas of Lagos, people use waste to create land, building homes on it.


A WestAfricaENRG waste-sorting facility in Lagos, where the growing city’s abundance of waste has created a new industry around recycling. “This is what comes from a burgeoning middle class,” said Lolade Oresanwo, the company’s chief operating officer.
Richard Newman Investments is a small Lagos company that recycles plastics to produce plastic bags. The company says it makes a million bags a day.
Mahashakti Nigeria is a Lagos company that recycles metals for export to Japan and India. Here cans are being melted in open pits.

Short on space, Tokyo gets proactive

An incinerator provides power to this swim facility. (Kadir van Lohuizen /NOOR)

The Tokyo metropolitan area is one of the most populous in the world, with at least 36 million people, and produces around 12 million tons of waste a year, according to a report published in the journal of the National Academy of Sciences.


A worker with the Tobe Shoji company in Tokyo cleans and checks glass bottles for reuse.

Constrained by a lack of space, Tokyo puts a lot of emphasis on recycling. It has 48 incinerators, which also convert garbage into energy. Authorities claim that the facilities are very clean and don’t pose a threat to public health. Households separate their waste into categories — such as burnable, nonburnable, bottles and cans, and oversize items — that are collected on different days.

There are 12 landfills, the largest of which is on reclaimed land in Tokyo Bay and is expected to last for about 50 years.


At Tokyo’s Eco-R, an automobile recycling and scrap company, a car door is set up to be photographed for sale online.

Shards from bottles, separated by color, form a mountain of glass at the Showa Glass recycling facility in Ryugasaki, Japan, outside Tokyo.


In Sao Paulo, relying on people power


The Franciscan-run Recifran cooperative in Sao Paulo recycles plastic, cans and paper, employing homeless people in an effort to help them reintegrate into society.

About 21 million people live in the Sao Paulo metropolitan area in Brazil. As the number of middle- and upper-class residents has grown over the past decade, Sao Paulo has produced ever more waste.

Most of it has ended up at landfills.


A recycling and sorting facility in Sao Paulo. According to the Brazilian Aluminum Association, the country recycles nearly 98 percent of the aluminum cans it uses, which would be one of the highest rates in the world.

Sao Paulo is one of the few cities where “garbage picker/scavenger” is an officially recognized profession. Such workers are organized in cooperatives and collect mainly plastic, cans and paper from the streets, to be sold to companies that handle recycling. The scavengers are seen as a solution to the problem.


Amsterdam looks to burn less, recycle more

A ship bound for Turkey is loaded with scrap metal. (Kadir van Lohuizen /NOOR)

Amsterdam has a population of around 900,000, a number that swells to over 2 million if the surrounding area is included.

Much of what people throw in the garbage goes to an incinerator, with metals removed. There are plans by the end of this year to open a new facility that will take out plastics and other recyclables, but it will not be able to handle all the city’s garbage.

The incinerator also receives British household waste: Britain doesn’t have enough incinerators, and Amsterdam has surplus capacity. Because the Dutch use waste as a source of fuel, they might be less likely to separate out recyclable material, burning it instead.

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What waste looks like in Amsterdam

Water company employees work to keep the canals free of waste. (Kadir van Lohuizen /NOOR)

Paper and glass are pretty well separated by the residents of Amsterdam, and they are starting to set aside plastic. At shops you have to pay for plastic bags. About 28 percent of the city’s waste is recycled.

Food waste is a huge issue in Amsterdam and around the world. The Dutch alone throw away more than 400,000 loaves of bread per day.


Old trains are dismantled at HKS Metals, a recycling and exporting company in Amsterdam.

Kadir van Lohuizen is an Amsterdam-based freelance photojournalist and founding member of the social documentary photography agency Noor. He began his career in 1988 as a conflict photographer and has been internationally recognized for his long-term projects on life along the world’s major rivers, the perils of rising sea levels, the blood-diamond industry and the impact of migration in the Americas.

(The Washington Post)

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12/7/2017 6:09:55 PM

PRESIDENT TRUMP'S JERUSALEM MOVE WILL FUEL ISIS AND JEWISH SETTLERS, TOP ARAB-ISRAELI LAWMAKER SAYS

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President Donald Trump’s decision to move the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem and recognize the ancient city as Israel’s capital will embolden the Islamic State militant group (ISIS) and extremist Jewish settlers, according to a top Arab-Israeli lawmaker.

Trump is scheduled to make a speech Wednesday announcing his intention to set in motion the relocation of the embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. It is a decision that will upend decades of U.S. policy and one that Arab leaders have warned could inflame the Muslim world.

The ancient city is revered by Jews, Muslims and Christians, holding some of their holiest sites of worship. It has been contested since Israel occupied the city’s east in the 1967 Six-Day War.

Ahmad Tibi, one of Israel’s most popular Arab lawmakers and the parliament’s deputy speaker, said in a phone call with Newsweek that Trump's move "will cause real damage. It will kill the so-called political process, and it will kill his efforts to bring the so-called ‘ultimate deal.’”

“It will also help to empower extremists in the Middle East. Both ISIS and settlers,” Tibi continued.

The region has long been blighted by Islamist extremism, with the Syrian war on Israel’s border. Young, disenfranchised Muslims across the Middle East have turned to ISIS, Al-Qaeda and, in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, Palestinian militant group Hamas.

An Israeli military occupation of the West Bank and its settlement enterprise have seen hundreds of thousands of religious Jews build outposts on territory earmarked by the Palestinians for a future state. It has given rise to Jewish extremists who attack Palestinians to assert their claim to the land.

Tibi said he had spoken with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, who talked with Trump on the phone Tuesday about the president’s intentions.

The move will be viewed in many quarters as effectively ending the peace process that has been dormant since 2014. Palestinians are already devoid of hope for peace, according to polling, and will likely feel there are even lower chances of progress after the U.S. recognizes the contested city as Israel’s official capital. Washington can no longer act as a broker between the two parties, according to Tibi.

“If you are a broker, and you are going to deliver a deal to both sides, you do not want to kiss one side and kick the other,” the lawmaker said. “This is a lack of wisdom.”

A picture shows the Dome of the Rock mosque and a general view of Jerusalem on December 1. U.S. President Donald Trump is expected to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. The majority of the international community says Jerusalem's status must be negotiated between Israelis and Palestinians.THOMAS COEX/AFP/GETTY

But Trump had made the relocation of the diplomatic building a key campaign pledge to evangelical Christians and religious Jewish Americans who are supportive of Israel and its claim to the city. In doing so, he will become the first U.S. president to recognize the city as Israel’s capital since the country was founded in 1948.

In a round of telephone diplomacy Tuesday, Trump spoke with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Abbas and other Arab leaders to discuss the policy change with them.

“Moving the U.S. Embassy is a dangerous step that provokes the feelings of Muslims around the world,” Saudi Arabia's King Salman told Trump over the phone, according to Saudi state television. The Turkish government said that the move would throw the region into “a fire with no end,” and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan threatened to cut ties with Israel.

Turkish state news agency Anadolu said Erdogan would host an “extraordinary meeting” of Muslim nations on December 13 about the issue of Jerusalem.

Hamas called for a popular uprising among Palestinians and the wider Muslim world and, in tandem with other Palestinians groups, organized three “Days of Rage” from Wednesday onward in reaction to the decision.

Quarrels over the city’s status go back to 1967, when Israel claimed East Jerusalem from Jordan in the Arab-Israeli War. It captured the territory from Jordan, occupying it and later annexing it, declaring Jerusalem to be the “eternal and undivided capital” of Israel.

The majority of the international community considers that the status of Jerusalem must be decided through bilateral negotiations, and does not recognize Israel’s claim to the city as its official capital.

As of 2011, the population of Jerusalem was around 800,000 people, which included almost half a million Jews (62 percent), 281,000 Muslims (35 percent) and 14,000 Christians (almost 2 percent).


(newsweek)

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12/8/2017 12:35:59 AM

Jerusalem latest: Hamas says Trump has opened 'the gates of hell' and calls for 'day of rage'

The US President recognised Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and will move the US embassy to the city

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Hamas has said US President Donald Trump's recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and the decision to move the US embassy there, "opens the gates of hell".

"Trump's decision on Jerusalem will not succeed in changing the fact that Jerusalem is an Arab Muslim land," a spokesperson for the militant group running Gaza noted.

The group has also repeatedly called for a Palestinian "day of rage" on 8 December as well.

“The youth and the Palestinian resistance in the West Bank need to respond with all means available to the US decision that harms our Jerusalem," the statement read.

Hamas called the decision about the city - home to holy sites for Jews, Muslims, and Christians - "a red line".

The statement was unequivocal: "The resistance will not allow any desecration of it."

The spokesperson said that "this decision is foolish and time will prove a that the biggest losers [from it] are" Mr Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

The embassy will not move for at least another six months per a waiver the President signed, if not longer but the recognition of the capital breaks with US foreign policy practise of the last 70 years.

“It would be folly to assume repeating the exact same formula” would yield different results said Mr Trump, adding that the parties are no closer to a peace agreement.

Mr Trump called the decisions “long overdue” because Jerusalem is the “seat of the modern Israeli government.”

The Knesset parliament, supreme court, and several ministries are located there.

The move is "nothing more or less than recognition of reality," the President said.

Trump says he will fight for peace deal between Israel and Palestine

Israeli Minister for Education Naftali Bennett thanked the President and said it was a "shiny day" for all Israelis.

Republican Senator Lindsey Graham immediately tweeted his support of the President’s decision, writing: “I fully support the Trump Administration’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel because this statement reflects the reality on the ground for the last 3,000 years.”

House Speaker Paul Ryan called Jerusalem the "eternal, undivided capital of the State of Israel" in a statement.

East Jerusalem was under Jordanian control from Israel's creation in 1948 until Israeli forces captured it during the 1967 Six-Day War.

Israel later annexed it in a move not recognised by the international community, including its historical ally, the US.

Palestinian leaders were seeking to rally diplomatic support to persuade Mr Trump not to recognise Jerusalem as Israel's capital after he first floated the possibility.

Turkey's Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavasoglu was also quick to respond via Twitter, posting that the decision was "irresponsible" and "is against international law and relevant UN Resolutions."

A spokesperson for United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said that: "Jerusalem is a final status issue that must be resolved through direct negotiations between the two parties on the basis of Security Council & General Assembly resolutions."

Senator John McCain echoed that sentiment, which has been the US foreign policy norm for decades.

Manuel Hassassian, the Palestinian ambassador to the UK, said a day before Mr Trump's announcement that recognition of Jerusalem as an Israeli capital is "a kiss of death to the two-state solution".

Mr Trump clarified today in his announcement that the move should not be seen as a "not intended in any way to reflect a departure from" a mutually acceptable peace deal and two-state solution, should "both sides" agree to it.

The "US remains deeply committed to helping facilitate a peace agreement," Mr Trump noted.

He had appointed son-in-law and White House advisor Jared Kushner as the point person for the Middle East peace process. Mr Kushner, Jewish by birth, and Mr Netanyahu have been family friends for several years and his parents have contributed money to Israeli settlements on land in dispute with Palestinians.

Many criticised the nepotism, but also that Mr Kushner had no foreign policy experience prior to entering the White House.

Mr Trump called on "all parties to maintain status quo...Above all our greatest hope is for peace."

"Peace is never beyond the grasp of those willing to reach," said the President, adding a call for all "young, moderate voices across the middle east" to speak up.

Out of fear of a violent reaction to Americans, the US State Department has limited suspended non-essential diplomatic staff travel to Israel, Jerusalem, and the West Bank until at least 20 December.


(independent.co.uk)

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12/8/2017 1:03:02 AM

NORTH KOREA SAYS WAR IS INEVITABLE BECAUSE OF TRUMP'S 'WARMONGERING' INNER CIRCLE

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North Korea believes the outbreak of a war on the Korean Peninsula is inevitable because of continual provocations from the U.S., including ongoing military drills with South Korea and statements from high-ranking U.S. politicians and officials.

In an article published by state-controlled news agency KCNA on Wednesday, a spokesperson for North Korea's Foreign Ministry called the start of war “an established fact.” The spokesperson was quoted as saying: “The remaining question now is: When will the war break out?”

The ministry spokesperson also blamed President Donald Trump’s inner circle for issuing provocative statements. The article referred to national security adviser H.R. McMaster, who said chances of war with North Korea are “increasing every day,” and Senator Lindsey Graham, who said North Korea’s latest missile launch meant war.

“These confrontational warmongering remarks cannot be interpreted in any other way but as a warning to us to be prepared for a war on the Korean Peninsula,” the North Korean spokesperson was reported as saying.

North Korean soldiers watch a fireworks display put on to celebrate the North's declaration on November 29 that it had achieved full nuclear statehood, during a mass rally on Kim Il Sung Square in Pyongyang on December 1.KIM WON-JIN/AFP/GETTY IMAGES

The spokesperson also mentioned CIA Director Mike Pompeo, who said on Saturday that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un does not have a good idea of how tenuous his position is.

“Worse still, the CIA director has made a provocation against us by impudently criticizing our supreme leadership, which is the heart of our people,” the spokesperson was reported as saying.

This was not the first time the CIA director—who is rumored to be set to take over from Rex Tillerson at the State Department—has commented on the North Korean leader, having suggested earlier this year that North Korean people “would love” to see him go. Pompeo’s remarks infuriated the North Korean regime at the time, and they have done so again.

“The careless remarks of war by the inner circle of Trump and the reckless military moves by the U.S. substantiate that the current U.S. administration has made a decision to provoke a war on the Korean Peninsula and is taking a step-by-step approach to get there,” the spokesperson was reported as saying.

North Korea insisted it does not want to fight a war but is prepared to use its nuclear weapons should the U.S. begin one. The spokesperson also said: “We do not wish for a war but shall not hide from it, and should the U.S. miscalculate our patience and light the fuse for a nuclear war, we will surely make the U.S. dearly pay the consequences with our mighty nuclear force, which we have consistently strengthened.”

North Korean officials have often made similarly bombastic statements, routinely threatening to destroy the U.S. and its allies South Korea and Japan. However, the intensity of the threats have increased alongside further testing of intercontinental ballistic missiles capable of reaching the U.S. Trump has often responded to Pyongyang with his own incendiary rhetoric.

North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho, right, and U.N. Undersecretary-General for Political Affairs Jeffrey Feltman shake hands in Pyongyang on December 7.KIM WON-JIN/AFP/GETTY IMAGES

North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho called Trump’s speech at the U.N. General Assembly, in which the president threatened to “totally destroy” North Korea, a “declaration of war” and said his country reserved the right to shoot down U.S. fighter jets, like B-1B bombers, even if these weren’t entering North Korean airspace.

The U.S. sent one of its B-1B supersonic jets from an air base in Guam to join the Vigilant Ace drills in South Korea on Wednesday. On Thursday, two B-1B bombers joined the exercise, simulating bombing drills over the Yellow Sea near North Korea and China, South Korean news agency Yonhap reported, quoting a defense official.

In an effort to defuse the tensions, the U.N. sent its undersecretary-general for political affairs, Jeffrey Feltman, on a four-day visit to Pyongyang on Tuesday, the first time a high-ranking U.N. official has visited the country since 2012. Feltman held talks with North Korean Vice Foreign Minister Pak Myong Gun on Wednesday and met Ri on Thursday.

(newsweek)


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