SEOUL - South Korea and the United States have agreed to hold a summit meeting in Washington in late June, the presidential Blue House said Tuesday. Senior presidential press secretary Yoon Young-chan told a press briefing that the summit between South Korean President Moon Jae-in and US President Donald Trump will be held in late June in the US capital. Detailed schedule and agenda for the summit will be discussed later through diplomatic channels, Yoon said. The agreement on the summit was reached at a meeting between Matt Pottinger, a senior director for East Asia at the National Security Council of the White House and Chung Eui-yong, a former South Korean ambassador to Geneva who now leads Moon's security and diplomatic task force. Pottinger who was leading a US delegation arrived here Monday evening. He paid a courtesy call to President Moon and delivered Trump's congratulations to Moon, according to the Blue House. He is the first senior White House official visiting South Korea since President Moon was inaugurated last week. The Blue House said South Korea and the United States agreed to seek a "bold and practical" measure for a denuclearized Korean Peninsula. personalized rubber braceletscustom wristbands uktrio spinnersblack rubber braceletsrubber wristbandsjordan wristbandprintable wristbands
Yang Shichai on board his garbage collection ship Canghai No 9 in the East China Sea. [Photo by Hua Zhibo/For China Daily] A businessman who once made a living from the ocean now spends his time and money on scooping trash from its waters. The garbage collection ship Canghai No 9 has just returned from its 438th mission and is moored in the port of the Shengsi Islands in Zhoushan, Zhejiang province. Measuring 16.5 meters long by 3.6 meters wide, the ship has a loading capacity of 21 metric tons. Its deck holds a big basket of trash, including plastic bags, bottles and disposable meal boxes. Its owner, Yang Shichai, is busy moving trash collected from the ocean off the ship. Its final destination is a garbage treatment plant on the island. Designed by Yang, the trash-collecting ship cost him about 530,000 yuan ($80,800) to build. Since it was put into use in May 2016, the ship has retrieved more than 2,000 cubic meters of garbage from the ocean. I've earned some money from the ocean. I just want to give back what I've gained, said Yang, who has tanned skin and scars on his hands from working long hours outdoors every day. Growing up on the shore, he started a refueling service for ships at sea at the age of 18. Later, he set up a company dedicated to recycling the oil residue. But his focus shifted from making a profit to cleaning up trash because of a video. A dead whale was found in the Pacific and its belly was full of trash, Yang said. The horrible scene from that video stuck in my mind.
