File photo of US President Donald Trump responds to a question about the DPRK before holding a meeting with Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, US March 6, 2018. [Photo/Agencies] President takes optimistic tone on prospect of talks, peninsula solution WASHINGTON - US President Donald Trump said on Friday that a deal with the Democratic People's Republic of Korea is very much in the making and will be good for the world. Trump's remarks came a day after the White House confirmed that he agreed to meet Kim Jong-un, the top leader of the DPRK, in a couple of months, signaling a big step toward resolving the Korean Peninsula nuclear issue. The deal with North Korea is very much in the making and will be, if completed, a very good one for the world. Time and place to be determined, Trump tweeted on Friday evening. Earlier in the day, White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders said at a briefing that Trump will meet with Kim after seeing concrete steps taken by Pyongyang. Signs of a thaw on the Korean Peninsula emerged earlier this year since working-level talks between the countries were held at the truce village of Panmunjom and the DPRK participated in the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics. In addition, the neighbors agreed to hold the third inter-Korean summit in late April. China welcomed the positive news on direct dialogue between the United States and the DPRK, a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson said on Friday. Trump tweeted on Saturday that the DPRK had agreed to not conduct another missile test until after the proposed meetings had taken place, as he sought to rally international support for a potential summit. North Korea has not conducted a Missile Test since Nov 28, 2017 and has promised not to do so through our meetings. I believe they will honor that commitment! Trump wrote on Twitter. The president continued the optimistic tone on Saturday night when he led a rally for the Republican candidate in a special House race in western Pennsylvania. I think North Korea is going to go very well, I think we will have tremendous success ... We have a lot of support, Trump told reporters before boarding his Marine One helicopter to travel to the rally. Trump shocked many inside and outside his administration on Thursday when he told Republic of Korea officials who had just returned from talks in the DPRK that he would be willing to accept Kim's meeting invitation. Earlier on Saturday, Trump tweeted that China was pleased that he was pursuing a diplomatic solution rather than going with the ominous alternative and that Japan is very enthusiastic about the agreed-to talks. Trump has spoken with both Chinese President Xi Jinping and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe since Thursday's announcement, and said Xi appreciates that the US is working to solve the problem diplomatically rather than going with the ominous alternative. Trump had previously threatened the DPRK with fire and fury like the world has never seen. Trump also said China continues to be helpful!. Trump said in another tweet on Saturday that Abe is is very enthusiastic about talks with North Korea and that the two discussed how to narrow the US-Japan trade deficit. It will all work out! Trump wrote. Xinhua - Ap - Reuters - Afp wristbands canadacustom silicone bracelets canadarubber bracelets canadasilicone bracelets canadasilicone wristbands canadacustom wristbands canadacanadian wristbandswristbands canada
President Xi Jinping grinds soy beans to make bean curd during his visit to Yingxiu, Wenchuan county, Sichuan province, on Monday. Xi said illiteracy and other obstacles can be thwarted by education. Ju Peng/Xinhua President turns his people-centered talk into actions during travels President Xi Jinping pledged to not leave a single person behind in the process of building a well-off society during his four-day inspection tour of mountainous Sichuan province. Xi, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, stressed the importance of implementing the spirit of the 19th CPC National Congress as well as the spirit of recent conferences on economic and rural work during the tour, which ended on Tuesday. While visiting the homes of poor ethnic Yi villagers in Zhaojue county, Xi asked them about their lives and discussed poverty alleviation with local officials and villagers. The CPC will not leave any ethnic group, any family or any person behind in the process of building a moderately prosperous society in all respects, Xi told the villagers. After hearing Ji Hao, a 10-year-old girl of Yi ethnicity, sang a song about how beautiful the national flag is, Xi said he hopes all the country's children will lead happy lives. Xi stressed the importance of building Party branches at rural, grassroots levels for reducing poverty in mountainous areas. The Party secretary and work teams dispatched to villages should set a goal of helping people to have better lives, he said. He said he was glad to see that the livelihoods of the ethnic Yi people are improving daily. He said that talents are important in rural areas to help enrich the areas. In building socialism, the CPC's goal is to enable people of all ethnicities to lead happy lives, Xi said. When Xi was leaving the village of Huopu in Jiefang township, the village's Party secretary presented him a chaerwa, a traditional ethnic Yi costume, to express their love and gratitude. Villagers sang an Yi song to bid the president farewell. Xi then traveled to Tianfu New Area in Chengdu, capital of Sichuan, where he called for building the newly approved new area into a bulwark for economic opening-up in inland areas. Xi visited an electronics technology company in Chengdu and urged the company to develop military-civil integration and improve the capability of innovation. I am a servant of the people. My job is to serve the people, Xi said on Monday while talking with people in Zhanqi, a village in Chengdu's Pidu district. We will safeguard the asset of the Communist Party of China to provide a happy life for the people, he said. Before going to Zhanqi, Xi visited Yingxiu, Wenchuan county, the epicenter of the 8.0 magnitude earthquake that struck Sichuan on May 12, 2008. There he saw the ruins of a middle school and laid flowers in memory of more than 80,000 people killed in the quake and the heroes who died during rescue work. Xi said the ruins must be protected to become a base for education in patriotism. He also saw the changes in Yingxiu over the 10 years since the quake and visited a tea-making workshop and a restaurant, where he helped brew buttered tea, cooked fried pork and ground soybeans to make bean curd. During the visit, Xi told villagers that China would continue to revitalize the countryside. The development of the countryside is not just about developing industries or materials, but about spiritual and cultural lives, he said. At a conference on Tuesday attended by officials of Sichuan province, Xi said the 19th CPC National Congress has set the direction for the Party and country's development. The whole Party and country should learn and implement the spirit of the congress, carry out the tasks of reform, development and stability, and make policies that benefit the people, he said. Noting that the country's development has been transferred from a high-speed period to high-quality period, Xi urged more effort to deepen supply-side structural reform and boost innovation. The president highlighted the importance of a people-centered development philosophy, saying the government should resolve such issues as education, employment, health, social security and stability for the people. The whole Party must safeguard the authority of the CPC Central Committee and its centralized and unified leadership, Xi said. This was the sixth consecutive year Xi visited the front lines of China's war against poverty in his Lunar New Year inspection tour. He visited northwestern Gansu province in 2013, northern Inner Mongolia autonomous region in 2014, northwestern Shaanxi province in 2015, eastern Jiangxi province in 2016 and northern Hebei province in 2017. The poor have been Xi's foremost concern. In his 2018 New Year speech, the word people appeared most frequently, and he emphasized the wellbeing of the Chinese people, displaying his people-centered governance philosophy.
