A file photo of US President Donald Trump. [Photo/Agencies] CIA Director Pompeo makes secret Pyongyang visit to prepare for summit US President Donald Trump said that high-level talks have started between officials of the United States and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, as he will probably meet DPRK's top leader Kim Jong-un in May or early June outside the US. In his talks with visiting Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at his Mar-a-Lago retreat in Florida on Tuesday, Trump also said he had given his blessing to the inter-Korean talks aimed at formally ending the Korean War. We have had direct talks at very high levels, extremely high levels, with North Korea (the DPRK). I really believe there's a lot of good will; a lot of good things are happening. Trump later clarified the talks by saying: Let's leave it a little bit short of the highest level. White House Spokeswoman Sarah Sanders said: The president said the administration has had talks at the highest levels and added that they were not with him directly. US Secretary of State nominee and CIA Director Mike Pompeo had made a secret visit to DPRK over the Easter weekend and met with Kim, Trump confirmed on Twitter on Wednesday. Contacts between the two sides in recent weeks have involved US intelligence and State Department officials, according to the report. Trump said: We'll be having meetings with Kim Jong-un very soon. It will be - that will be taking place probably in early June or a little before that - assuming things go well. As to the venue of the Trump-Kim summit, Trump said the US is weighing five different locations, but none are located in the US. Trump, however, also said the summit might not happen. It's possible things won't go well and we won't have the meetings, and we'll just continue to go along this very strong path that we've taken, he said. But we will see what happens. Trump also said Seoul and Pyongyang are discussing an end to the war, and they have his blessing on that. Seoul and Pyongyang were scheduled to hold a summit on April 27, the first in 11 years. personalized rubber braceletssilicone bracelets24 hour wristbands couponpersonalized silicone bracelets
Qiao Daochun, an infant whose crying awoke his parents and helped save them from the landslide, is transferred to a hospital in Chengdu, Sichuan province.Yang Li / For China Daily Parents saved by their baby's cries at dawn An infant saved his parents and himself from almost certain death in a landslide that buried about 120 people in Southwest China on Saturday morning, Chengdu Economic Daily reported. Xiao Yanchun and her husband, Qiao Dashuai, both 26, live in Xinmo village, Maoxian county, in the Aba Tibetan and Qiang autonomous prefecture of Sichuan province. At about 5:40 am, their 38-day-old son was crying, so Xiao got up to change his diaper. When she was about to go back to bed after taking care of the baby, she heard a strange sound outside the door and felt the earth shaking. Seeing stones, water and mud flooding into the room, she grabbed the infant and struggled to get out. She and her husband literally swam through the moving mud as they attempted to get out, and were finally able to run to a safe area as the whole village was engulfed. At about 9 am, the family was sent to Maoxian County People's Hospital. Mud is all over our bodies, Xiao said. She said her baby swallowed mud and later, when it appeared in his excrement. The three remained in the hospital for treatment on Saturday evening, but their injuries are not life-threatening, the report said. However, the fate of Xiao's grandmother, parents and 3-year-old daughter, who were in a different house, is still unknown, according to media outlet The Paper.
