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United States, which had been cautious about recent North Korean movements, decided to extend economic sanctions against North Korea a year. In the meantime, North Korea was defined as a "special threat." For more information, I will connect with Washington correspondents.

Correspondent Correspondent Kim Soo-hyung, how do we interpret that the United States has extended sanctions against North Korea?

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The six extended administrative orders against North Korea began in 2008 when he was President Bush.

It has been extended for one year at the end of June every year for the next 12 years, the title of "maintaining a national emergency against North Korea," and the phrase "North Korea is an extraordinary and special threat to the United States." Overlapping, it is also read as a warning to North Korea.

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Right. At this point, however, our foreign ministry official visited Washington, USA. What is the reason?

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Hoon Lee, the head of the Peace Bargaining Headquarters on the Korean Peninsula, suddenly flew to Washington. He said that he had come for a regular meeting with the Secretary of State, vegan, who has been in sync with the head of the North Korean issue.


The Blue House drew a line that it wasn't a special envoy, but I can't help discussing the recent deteriorating inter-Korean relations.

It is the US position that denuclearization and improving inter-Korean relations should be kept in line, but it will be discussed whether to seek a more flexible response or go hard.

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and former National Security Advisor Bolton, known as a hard-lineist in the North Korean issue, published a book that said the White House was quite noisy.

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Yes, it is. A memoir from former White House National Security Advisor Bolton is due next Wednesday, and the White House is in an emergency these days to stop it.

The Ministry of Justice says the court has requested an urgent order to block the release of the memoirs, as most of the book's content will set an ankle in President Trump's reelection.

President Trump begged Chinese President Xi Jinping last year to help him reelect, and begged him to buy US agricultural products. The eldest daughter Bangka used a personal email for government affairs, and President Trump tried to cover up, and Secretary of State Pompeo 2 During the North American summit in Singapore a year ago, Trump crossed a note of liars, and a month later, North American diplomacy was cut to zero as a possibility of success.

Bolton's book was ranked #1 in Amazon's bestsellers by pre-sales before publication.

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