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 signature braceletfree cancer wristbands ukpersonalised material wristbandspalestine silicone wristbandpersonalized mother daughter bracelets
A C919 airplane takes off from the Shanghai Pudong International Airport for a test flight to Xi'an, Northwest China's Shaanxi province, on Nov 10, 2017. [Photo by Chen Zikuan/For China Daily] BEIJING - China is seeing major progress in three civil aircraft models, with the ARJ21 in operation, the C919 in flight tests and the CR929 in preliminary design, said their developer Monday. Embracing its 10th anniversary, the Commercial Aircraft Corp. of China (COMAC) has made great breakthroughs in cultivating a national civil aviation industry, said a statement from COMAC. COMAC had realized the process of developing civil jetliners and formed a product pedigree from short-medium-range narrow body to medium-long-range wide-body aircraft. The C919 large passenger aircraft is undergoing flight tests at the test base in Yanliang, Northwest China's Shaanxi province. China's first self-developed trunk jetliner, the C919 underwent its successful maiden flight on May 5, 2017, at Shanghai Pudong International Airport. To date, COMAC has received 815 orders from 28 customers worldwide. The ARJ21 regional jetliner is now flying on eight routes for Chengdu Airlines. The carrier has five ARJ21s which have flown around 74,000 passengers. The ARJ21 is a China-developed jet with 78 to 90 seats and a range up to 3,700 km. It made its maiden flight in June 2016 and mass production started in September 2017. The China-Russia joint CR929 wide-body passenger aircraft has entered the preliminary design phase, according to COMAC. Shanghai-based China-Russia Commercial Aircraft International Corp. Ltd. (CRAIC), a joint venture of COMAC and Russia's United Aircraft Corp., was set up in May 2017 to jointly develop the CR929. In early May, CRAIC announced that it had begun the joint concept definition phase for the body and tail. The CR929 project is a further demonstration of China's determination to boost its aviation industry following the C919 narrow-body aircraft. It is also viewed as a major move to strengthen China's presence in its surging civil aviation market, which is dominated by U.S.-based Boeing and Europe's Airbus aircraft. Founded on May 2008, COMAC has cultivated China's civil aviation industrial system, leading and generating resources from 200 first-tier suppliers from 15 countries and regions worldwide. More importantly, China's domestic civil aviation industry capacity has been upgraded following the development of the three major models. More than 200,000 experts from 200 companies and universities around the country have contributed to China's independent development of civil aviation. custom-silicon-wristbandswide rubber braceletsblack rubber bracelets meaningglitter silicone wristbandscustom-rubber-bracelets<%2fcenter>
