SEOUL - The Republic of Korea (ROK)'s President Moon Jae-in's special envoys to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) agreed to meet with top DPRK leader Kim Jong-un, the Blue House of ROK said Monday.Presidential Spokesman Kim Eui-kyeom told a press briefing that the special delegation had agreed with the DPRK side to have a meeting and a dinner with the DPRK leader from 6 pm local time (0900 GMT) on Monday.It was not known whether the dinner meeting had started as agreed upon.The 10-member delegation, led by Chung Eui-yong, top national security advisor for President Moon, took off from an airport in Seongnam, outside of Seoul, at about 1:50 pm local time.The delegation, composed of five envoys and five working-level officials, included Suh Hoon, director of the National Intelligence Service (NIS), Vice Unification Minister Chung Hae-sung, Second Deputy NIS Director Kim Sang-gyun, and Yun Kun-young, a senior Blue House official.The plane carrying the ROK delegation arrived in the Sunan International Airport in Pyongyang at around 2:50 pm local time, according to the Blue House.The special emissaries were greeted by Ri Son-gwon, chairman of the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland who visited the ROK last month as a member of high-ranking DPRK delegations to the opening and closing ceremonies of the 23rd Winter Olympics.ROK envoys moved to a resort facility in Pyongyang to meet with Kim Yong-chol, vice chairman of the Central Committee of the ruling Workers' Party of Korea who led the ranking DPRK delegation to the Olympic closing ceremony.During the meeting with the vice chairman, ROK envoys discussed schedules for their two-day stay in Pyongyang, agreeing to have a dinner meeting with the DPRK leader, according to the Blue House. rubber bracelets canadacamo silicone wristbandssilicone wristband usb flash driveprinted wristbandsplain black silicone wristbandsdebossed-wristbandembossed printed wristbandbusiness silicone wristbands
The first batch of cross-boundary vehicles on Wednesday left the Hong Kong Boundary Crossing Facilities to drive on the world's longest cross-sea bridge.The 55-km bridge connects China's Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR) in the east and the Macao SAR and Zhuhai of Guangdong Province in the west.The Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge is the result of nine years of construction.The bridge officially opened to public traffic at 9:00 a.m. local time (0100 GMT) on Wednesday, as the first batch of travelers entered the service hall for customs clearance.At 9:30 a.m. local time (0130 GMT) the first batch of cross-border buses full of passengers, as well as other vehicles hit the road on the bridge for Macao or Zhuhai on the other ends of the Y-shaped bridge.Without the bridge, drivers from Hong Kong, which faces Zhuhai across the Lingding Channel had to detour via several cities including Shenzhen and Dongguan to reach Zhuhai and other cities in the western part of Guangdong.Crossing the mega bridge is a bucket list experience for many residents. A Hong Kong resident surnamed Lee in his 70s was one of them. He got up early on Wednesday to take the first bus to ride on the bridge, only to catch a glimpse of the grand project.The bridge will slash road travel time from Hong Kong to Macao and Zhuhai remarkably.A Hong Kong resident surnamed Wong works in Macao and has to commute between Hong Kong and Macao regularly. He usually takes ferries, as road travel would take about three hours.But the new bus service via the bridge will take less than an hour and the ticket is cheaper, and he plans to take it as a key commuting alternative in the future, Wong said.
