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Local officials say the reason is several projects have finished around the same time, but before the latest round of sanctions, around three-quarters of China's trade with North Korea traveled through Dandong.
While Trump has recently dialed-back the personal insults against the leader he once called "Little Rocket Man", his State Department did not pull any punches in a new statement condemning decades of "egregious human rights violations" suffered by the North Korean people at the hands of their own government.
Kim Dong-cheol, Kim Sang-deok, and Kim Hak-seong - three USA citizens detained in North Korea for years - have been released from a suspected labor camp and given health treatment and ideological education in Pyongyang, according to the Financial Times.
South Korea's presidential official said high-level inter-Korean talks would be held in mid-May to work on implementing the agreement reached by Kim and Moon. "I think there's a good chance of doing it".
But the United States mission denied having made such a claim. "But we are in there and we are working very hard on that".
The three are believed to be in a North Korean labor camp.
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Last year, North Korea released American Otto Warmbier, a university student who was detained at the Pyongyang airport in January 2016 while on a five-day tour of North Korea. He was jailed after trying to steal a propaganda sign from a hotel in the country.
Randall Brandt, a spokesman for Tony Kim's family, said in an email: "While we are encouraged by overall momentum, the family has no indication of a release and has had no contact with Tony since Ambassador Yun last June".
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China - North Korea's sole diplomatic ally and economic benefactor - has supported a series of United Nations sanctions against the North over its nuclear and missile programmes.
"The inter-Korean summit has brought a favorable opportunity for a political settlement of the Korean Peninsula issue", Wang said in Pyongyang Wednesday, according to statement from the Chinese Foreign Ministry.
"Kim seems satisfied with his deterrent force structure as he said in this New Year's address", said Michael Elleman, an analyst at the International Institute for Strategic Studies.
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