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On the front page of the press, the announcement yesterday of the restoration of communication channels between the two Koreas, after more than a year of suspension.

According to

The Korea Times

, President Moon Jae-in and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un have exchanged letters on several occasions since April. Messages where they recognized "the problems resulting from the breakdown of inter-Korean relations and the need to rebuild mutual trust". This resumption of dialogue is hailed by the South Korean newspaper, which expresses "cautious optimism that North Korea may soon return to the negotiating table to discuss denuclearization with the United States", including the President Joe Biden agreed, during his meeting last May with Moon Jae-in, to "resolve the North Korean nuclear problem through dialogue and diplomacy."

In the United States, police officers testified yesterday about the assault on the Capitol on January 6 before the Congressional commission of inquiry into this attack by supporters of Donald Trump. "Honestly, I did not recognize my compatriots in this assault on Capitol Hill, nor the United States they claimed to represent": these are the words of one of these police officers, quoted by

The Washington Post

, which does not take offense at the attitude of part of the Republicans. According to the newspaper, the latter "persist in trying to justify what happened that day and still refuse to recognize the moral decay of the self-proclaimed 'patriots' who attacked the Capitol." "These rioters, insists the daily, were there at the instigation of President Trump who had convinced them that violence was a means likely to reverse the result of the presidential election."

The Washington Post

recalls that even today, polls indicate that a quarter of Republicans continue to approve of the actions of the rioters.

The Republican Party, whose radical fringes oppose any reform project of the Biden Administration. This systematic opposition, whether it concerns the infrastructure modernization plan, police reforms, the carrying of arms, or the right to vote, calls out to

Le Figaro

. The French daily sees Joe Biden "entangled in the divisions of America", confronted with the die-hardness of part of the Republicans, but also "with the excesses of the left wing of the Democratic Party, converted to" wokism " and the welfare state ". The newspaper is worried about the "gap (which) continues to widen with an America which has remained under Trump's wing and which has not given up on taking revenge."

Joe Biden is also facing the Covid-19 pandemic and the rapid spread of the Delta variant, which is leading him to consider making the vaccination of federal officials mandatory, according to

The New York Times

. The newspaper mentions "a significant change in the approach of President Biden, reflecting the growing concern of his administration over this highly contagious variant."

Now it's time for the Tokyo Olympics, where Simone Biles' decision to withdraw from the team gymnastics competition created astonishment. The decision of the young American gymnast made the headlines of many newspapers around the world, in particular of

La Vanguardia

. "Anxiety defeats the perfect gymnast", writes the Catalan newspaper, touched by the dismay of the young athlete with the 25 world medals, who evoked her internal "demons" and had already declared, before, to have "sometimes the impression of carry the weight of the world on (his) shoulders ".

French judoka Clarisse Agbégnénou became Olympic champion.

"Straight to the heart", headline this morning

L'Équipe

, almost as moved as the young woman, who has taken up the greatest challenge of her career by taking revenge on her lifelong rival, the Slovenian Tina Trstenjak - as Clarisse Agbégnénou kissed her after her victory, in a magnificent gesture that touched the audience a lot.

Simone Biles, Clarisse Agbégnénou, or the French Althéa Laurin, who yesterday won the bronze medal in taekowondo: these Tokyo Olympics are the first to welcome almost as many women as men, rejoices

Liberation

, who regrets, nevertheless , the persistence of sexist controversies, in particular over the outfits of female athletes.

The way is still long…

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