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At a White House event on May 1, US President Donald Trump praises the crew and passengers of a Southwest Airlines flight that had to make an emergency landing. (UPI)
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US congress submits bipartisan resolution supporting Korean peace progress
A decision appears to be imminent for the location and date of the first ever summit between the leaders of North Korea and the US, Kim Jong-un and Donald Trump. During an event at the White House on May 1 in which Trump praised the courage of the flight crew and passengers of a Southwest Airlines plane that had to make an emergency landing, Trump mentioned that the US is preparing for the summit with North Korea and that the location and date will probably be announced within a couple of days. “I’m not going to get into the deliberations on this at this point, but the list has been narrowed, as the President said. And we expect to have an announcement on that soon,” White House Spokesperson Sarah Huckabee Sanders said. Reports indicate that North Korea and the US are currently about to wrap up negotiations between Panmunjeom and Pyongyang. Trump also responded to South Korean President Moon Jae-in’s suggestion that Trump should win the Nobel Peace Prize. “I just think that President Moon was very nice when he suggested it. I want to get peace. It’s the main thing,” he said. “I thought it was very generous of President Moon of South Korea to make that statement and I appreciate it but the main thing is to get it done,” Trump added. In related news, the Hankyoreh learned on May 2 that Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, a Democrat congresswoman, and Rep. Ted Yoho, a Republican congressman and chairman of the Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific under the Committee for Foreign Affairs, submitted a bipartisan resolution titled “Supporting the President’s Diplomatic Efforts on the Korean Peninsula” to the House of Representatives on Apr. 27, shortly after the Panmunjeom Declaration was released. In the resolution, Gabbard and Yoho “[welcomed] the United States-North Korea summit which follows the South Korea-North Korea summit [and urged] President [Trump], the Supreme Leader of North Korea, and regional leaders to engage diplomatically to ease tensions on the Korean Peninsula, and exhaust all non-military policy tools before any use of military force.” By Yi Yong-in, Washington correspondent Please direct comments or questions to [english@hani.co.kr]
