North Korea's Naegohyang FC won the AFC Women's Champions League — on South Korean soil. Inside the DPRK, people are less interested in the trophy than in the fact that the players actually went there.
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A sigh of relief as Trump visits Xi

Trump will declare the meeting a win for his diplomacy and credit his personal relationship with Xi. The Chinese leader will be less effusive.

The Japan Times

KOREA: "one people, one nation, two governments" is over.

North Korea is reportedly dropping theoretical unification clauses from its constitution after 70+ years.

This isn’t all good news:
“… analysts said this did not necessarily indicate an end to Pyongyang’s aggressive rhetoric against its southern neighbour …Christopher Green, a senior consultant at the International Crisis Group added ‘Normal states define their adversaries in defence white papers and defence reviews and the like; they do not define their adversaries in the constitution.’ “

https://www.ft.com/content/7d795bbc-7c8e-46c9-8705-2f06c58eb961?syn-25a6b1a6=1

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North Korea formally drops goal of reuniting with South

Revised constitution scrubs references to original doctrine while defining country’s borders

Financial Times
This month in 2013: North Korea shut down the Kaesong Industrial Zone — the last symbol of inter-Korean economic cooperation — amid nuclear tensions. It never fully recovered. By 2016, it was gone for good.
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Air China's Beijing–Pyongyang route resumed March 30 — the first direct flight in six years. News spread fast inside North Korea, with people hoping Chinese traders will follow.
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Beijing–Pyongyang passenger rail is back for the first time in 6+ years. North Korea's "travel representatives" are already meeting with Chinese tour agencies in Beijing, Shenyang, and Dandong.
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This month in 2010: a North Korean torpedo sank the South Korean warship Cheonan. Seoul cut all trade with the North. 15 years later, the two are still technically at war.
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