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NATIONAL THURSDAY, MARCH 8, 2018 6 Games tools being exhibited at the fair of education materials of Araihazar upazila yesterday. Photo : Star Mail Massive Boro cultivation programme taken in Jessore region JESSORE : A total of 3, 51,546 hectares of land were brought under Boro cultivation in six districts of the Jessore agriculture region during the current season with fixing the production target of 14,01,922 tonnes of rice, Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) officials here said yesterday, reports BSS. They said farmers cultivated Boro paddy on 1, 50,037 hectares of land with production target 6,02,927 tonnes of rice in Jessore, 82,046 hectares of land in Jhenidah with production target 3,23,927 tonnes, 31,776 hectares of land in Magura with production target 1,26,722 tonnes, 32,690 hectares of land in Kushtia with production target 1,29,635 tonnes, 33,215 hectares of land in Chuadanga with production target 1,32,391 tonnes and 21,781 hectares of land in Meherpur with production target 86,320 tonnes of rice . Now, the farmers are so much busy to nurture their crop for getting desired output, this BSS correspondent found while visiting different places of the districts recently. Deputy Director of Jessore DAE Dr. Sunil Kumar said making Boro cultivation a grand success, necessary measures had been taken to provide fertilizers, insecticides and other agri inputs to the farmers at fair prices. Favorable weather and availability of agricultural inputs including fertilizers had inspired the cultivators to take all-out efforts for farming Boro paddy in this region, he said. Farmers already have completed planting of Boro paddy everywhere in six districts under Jessore region in attaining hundred percent of the target fixed by DAE. To this end, coordinated efforts have been taken by all concerned departments. Pragmatic steps reviving past glory of jute: speakers RANGPUR : Officials and experts at a postrally discussion said the pragmatic steps taken by the present government have started reviving the past glory of jute, boosting its production and demand both at home and abroad. They came up with the observation at the discussion arranged at the conference room of the Deputy Commissioner here on Tuesday afternoon in observance of the National Jute Day- 2018. The district administration in association with the Directorate of Jute under the Ministry of Jute and Textiles organised the rally, followed by discussion, reports BSS. Deputy Commissioner Enamul Habib attended the discussion as the chief guest with Additional Deputy Commissioner (General) Rabiul Islam in the chair. Acting President of district Awami League Mamtaz Uddin Ahmed, Principal Scientific Officer of Rangpur Regional Station of Bangladesh Jute Research Institute Dr Abul Fazal Mollah, Deputy Director of the Department of Agriculture Extension Dr Sarwarul Haque, spoke as special guests. In their speeches, the speakers said jute was the biggest source of export earnings for many decades and Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman realised importance of jute and nationalised all jute mills. Dr Haque said the demand for jute is increasing abroad as the fibre is also being used as composite jute textile, construction materials for earthquake surviving houses and geo-textiles. Dr Mollah said the pragmatic steps and initiatives taken by the present government have started reviving the jute sector. The chief guest lauded the government steps to increase multi-dimensional use and revive past glory of the golden fibre through enhancing its cultivation, production and export of raw jute and jute-made products. "The mandatory use of jute sacs during storage and transportation of paddy, rice, wheat, maize, fertilisers, sugar, green chili, ginger, turmeric, garlic, pulses, coriander, potato, flour and rice leftovers is also increasing local use of the golden fibre," he added. Preparations complete to observe Int'l Women's Day in Rangpur RANGPUR : The authorities concerned have been completed all necessary preparations to observe the International Women's Day -2018 amid huge enthusiasm through colourful programmes today, officials said. The day will be observed with a renewed pledge for enhancing women empowerment by ensuring equal emancipation in socioeconomic and political activities, governance and policy making matters ending gender disparity, repression and violence against them. The district and upazila administrations, District Information Office, District Women Affairs Office, Department of Social Services, Shishu Academy, Mohila Parishad and other organisations have chalked out daylong programmes to observe the day. Many NGOs like RDRS Bangladesh, Begum Rokeya Forum, Eco Social Development Organisation, 'Pollishree', BRAC, 'Karmojibi Nari', 'Amrai Pari Paribarik Nirjatan Protirodh Jyote', Social Equity for Effective Development, sociocultural and professional bodies, women and human rights organisations, educational institutions have also chalked out programmes to observe the day. The observance will begin with colourful rallies to be participated by hundreds of women, girls, adolescents and students, officials, sociocultural and NGO activists to be followed by seminars, advocacy meetings, discussions and cultural functions. The district administration in collaboration with the other government and nongovernment development organisations will organise the main discussion at Town Hall auditorium in the city. Deputy Commissioner Enamul Habib will attend the main discussion as the chief guest with District Women Affairs Officer Kawsar Pervin in the chair. Officials and representatives of different government departments, non-governmental and socio-cultural organisations, professional bodies, women community leaders, human rights activists and civil society members will take part in the discussion. Joypurhat district BNP organized a discussion meeting yesterday marking the Jailing day of Tarique Rahman yesterday. Photo : Masrakul Alam Fair for women entrepreneurs begins today DHAKA : A three-day fair for women entrepreneurs will begin today in the city to promote small and medium enterprise (SME) products of women and to display as well as introduce their goods. Jatiya Sangsad Speaker Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury will inaugurate the fair as the chief guest at Bangladesh Shishu Academy, said a Bangladesh Bank (BB) press release. BB Governor Fazle Kabir will attend the inaugural session as special guest. The central bank is organising the fair, titled "Banker-SME Women Entrepreneur and Product Display-2018", marking the International Women's Day. The main objective of the fair is to popularize the BB's SME loan facility among special beneficiaries by establishing a platform with all stakeholders. Around 60 to 70 successful women entrepreneurs will take part in the fair to exhibit their SME products, including jute goods, agriculture and leather products, electrical and information and technology items. Farmers urged to cultivate more lentils in Barind RAJSHAHI : Agricultural scientists and researchers urged the grassroots farmers to bring more lands under lentil farming in Barind area after the best uses of its existing natural resources to fulfill the gradually increasing demand, reports BSS They mentioned the agricultural research entities concerned innovated and developed high yielding varieties and modern technologies and urged the growers to adopt those to boost the lentil yield. They made this observation while addressing two separate farmers field day meeting at Kakonhat under Godagari and Alimgonj under Paba upazilas in the district yesterday. Pulse Research Centre (PRC), Ishwardi of Bangladesh Agriculture Research Institute (BARI) organized the meetings where more than 2,000 farmers attended. International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and International Centre for Agricultural Research in Dry Areas (ICARDA) financially supported the programmes. Director of PRC Dr Muhammad Hossain, its Principal Scientific Officer Dr Altaf Hossain, Senior Scientific Officer Akter- Uz-Zaman and Senior Scientific Officer of OFRD-BARI Dr Shakhawat Hossain addressed the meetings as focal persons. Referring to the immense prospect of the crops, Dr Muhammad Hossain said that if the yield could be enhanced to the expected level through successful expansion of the modern cultivation method among the growers, country's hard-earned foreign currencies would be saved. The country has to import huge quantity of pulses especially lentil to meet its domestic demand. Since there is a bright prospect of increasing its acreage, lentil could be produced in larger amount with less production cost and the yield will no doubt lessen pressure on import. Around 80,000 hectares of land remain fallow for more than three months after the harvest of transplanted Aman paddy every year. Pulse Research Centre (PRC), Ishwardi of Bangladesh Agriculture Research Institute (BARI) organized the meetings where more than 2,000 farmers attended. International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and International Centre for Agricultural Research in Dry Areas (ICARDA) financially supported the programmes. There has been bright scope of bringing the huge land under the pulse farming in order to best uses of those alongside increasing cropping intensity amidst the current water-stressed condition. PRC has started conducting various programmes including farmers' motivation and training, field demonstration and supplying necessary inputs like seed for promoting the lentil farming through conservation agriculture method. Dhamrai upazila administration organized various programs marking the historical speech of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman of 7th March. Photo :Milon Siddiki Women more affected by kidney diseases, say experts DHAKA : Women are more affected by Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) than men due to negligence and social barriers, experts said. "Some studies revealed that women are more vulnerable to get kidney disease than men; the disease is more likely to develop among women compared to men", Director of the National Institute of Kidney Diseases and Urology (NIKDU) Professor Nurul Huda Lenin told BSS. Referring to a data of 'Global Prevalence of CKD - A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis', he said the rate of kidney disease among women is 14 percent while 12 percent among men, adding the number of women being conducted dialysis is lower than men. CKD is a worldwide public health problem with adverse outcomes of kidney failure and premature death, reports BSS. Prof Lenin said at least three major reasons are responsible for getting CKD among women --- negligence, social barriers and lack of awareness. According to Bangladesh Kidney Foundation, over one crore people have been now suffering from kidney disease in the country. Nearly 1.60 lakh kidney patients, who are in serious condition, have to undergo regular dialysis every week. About 195 million women are affected by CKD in the world and it is currently the 8th leading cause of death among women with around 600,000 people dies of this disease each year. The number of diabetes and high blood pressure patients are rising in the country for various reasons, including bad food habit and uncontrolled lifestyle, said Professor Harun Ur Rashid, President of Bangladesh Kidney Foundation, adding many of them get kidney disease at some stage. The symptoms of Kidney diseases might not be noticeable until the last stage, it is important to know the risk factors and conduct medical test regularly, he suggested. The country, however, would celebrate the World Kidney Day and the International Women's Day 2018 today as these two special Days are going to be observed on the same day, offering the opportunity to reflect on women's health specifically their kidney health. The World Kidney Day-2018 with the theme of 'Kidneys and Women's Health: Include, Value, Empower' promotes affordable and equitable access to health education, healthcare and prevention of kidney diseases for all women and girls in the world. Prof Shahana first woman pro-VC of BSMMU DHAKA : Prof Shahana Akther Rahman, chairman of Pediatrics Department of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU), has been made first ever woman pro-vice chancellor of the varsity. She has been appointed as pro-vice chancellor (education) yesterday for three years by chancellor of the varsity and President Md Abdul Hamid, an official release said. BSMMU sources said Prof Shahana joined her new office yesterday. Prof Shahana, wife of former Bangladesh Bank governor Dr Atiur Rahman, attained her MBBS degree from Dhaka Medical College in 1982. A proud mother of three daughters, Prof Shahana is active in medical studies, service and research from 1991. More than hundred research papers of her have been published in different local and foreign journals and Prof Shahana has supervised more than 30 MD and FCPS research works as thesis guide. She is the architect behind "OSCE and Structured Course Curriculum" which have been newly added to Bangladesh medical studies programme. Prof Shahana launched international standard graduate nursing department at BSMMU.
INTERNATIONAL THURSDAy, MARCH 8, 2018 7 Sri Lanka's security forces stand near a vandalized building in Digana, a suburb of Kandy, Sri Lanka, March 6, 2018. Buddhist mobs swept through the town on Monday, burning at least 11 Muslimowned shops and homes. Sri Lanka's president declared a state of emergency Tuesday amid fears that anti-Muslim attacks in the central hill town could spread. Pradeep Pathiran AP : Photo Sri Lanka blocks social media as anti-Muslim rioting flares MULLEGAMA : Religious violence flared anew in the hills of central Sri Lanka on Wednesday despite a state of emergency, with Buddhist mobs sweeping through towns and villages, burning Muslim homes and businesses and leaving victims barricaded inside mosques, reports UNB. The government ordered popular social media networks blocked in an attempt to stop the violence from spreading, and thousands of police and soldiers spread out across the worst-hit areas. The police also ordered a curfew across much of the region for a third straight day, trying to calm the situation. Hundreds of Muslim residents of Mullegama, a village in the hills of central Sri Lanka, barricaded themselves inside a local mosque after Buddhist mobs attacked their homes Wednesday morning accusing them of stealing the donation box of a nearby temple. At least 20 Muslim homes appeared badly damaged and flames engulfed one twostory home. The Muslims hiding in the mosque, speaking on condition of anonymity because of fear of reprisals, said police prevented them from saving their property and did nothing to stop the attackers. One Sinhala Buddhist man who was part of the attack died in an explosion and another man was injured, according to the men in the mosque. A local Buddhist man said the Muslims were using improvised explosives, which the men in the mosque denied. The police officials said they could not immediately identify what caused the explosion or who was responsible. Mullegama Piyaratana , a Buddhist monk at the temple, said the attacks on Saudi women take the wheel, test-driving a new freedom JIDDAH : Fatima Salem giggles with hesitation when it's her turn to drive through a small parking lot lined with bright orange cones and arrows. Like millions of Saudi women, she plans on applying for a driver's license when the kingdom lifts its ban on women driving in June. But first, she has to learn how to drive, reports UNB. "I'm a little nervous," the 30-year-old master's student said. Francesca Pardini, an Italian former racecar driver, helps calm her nerves, reminding Salem to check the mirrors and buckle up. Once on the road, Pardini reached over to help straighten out the wheel after a left turn, and they both lurched forward when Salem stepped on the brakes before a stop sign. The right to drive, which people in other countries gain as teenagers after a similar ordeal - derisively referred to as driver's ed - has been denied to Saudi women. Dozens who dared to protest and defy the ban over the years were jailed, prosecuted and stigmatized. A stunning royal decree issued last year by King Salman announcing that women would be allowed to drive in 2018 upended one of the most visible forms of discrimination. the Muslim homes took place after some people pelted the temple with rocks late Tuesday. He would not identify who attacked the temple. In the nearby small town of Katugastota, Ikram Mohamed, a Muslim, stood outside the wreckage of the textile shop where he worked, after Sinhalese Buddhist mobs set it on fire. He and the owner had closed the shop Wednesday morning when police announced the curfew. They returned to find it destroyed, and clothing and dressmaker dummies smoking in the ruins. "There are many good Sinhalese people," he said. "This is being done by a few jealous people."Muslims own many of the small businesses in Sri Lanka, a fact that many believe has helped make them targets as Buddhist-Muslim relations have worsened in recent years amid the rise of hard-line Buddhist groups, which accuse Muslims of forcing people to convert and destroying sacred Buddhist sites. Area residents said mobs swept through at least two towns in the central hills Wednesday, attacking two mosques and a string of Muslim-owned shops and buildings. An internet company official, meanwhile, said the government had ordered popular social media networks blocked in areas near the violence, and slowed dramatically across the rest of the country. The official, speaking on condition of anonymity under company policy, said the order was for Facebook, Instagram, Viber and WhatsApp. Some of those networks appeared to be blocked in Colombo, the capital, while others worked sporadically and very slowly. President Maithripala Sirisena declared the state of emergency on Tuesday, though a day later details of the decree remained unclear. While the hills were flooded with soldiers and policemen ordering people off the street, little, if anything, appeared to have changed elsewhere in the country. While government officials have not directly accused Buddhist extremists of being behind the violence, many comments appeared aimed at them. The government will "act sternly against groups that are inciting religious hatred," Cabinet minister Rauff Hakeem said Tuesday after a meeting with the president. The emergency announcement came after Buddhist mobs swept through towns outside Kandy, burning at least 11 Muslim-owned shops and homes. The attacks followed reports that a Buddhist man had been killed by a group of Muslims. Police fired tear gas into the crowds, and later announced a curfew in the town. The U.N. office in Colombo condemned the violence. "The United Nations urges authorities to take immediate action against perpetrators and to ensure that appropriate measures are swiftly taken to restore normalcy in affected areas," it said in a statement Wednesday. Sri Lanka has long been divided between the majority Sinhalese, who are overwhelmingly Buddhist, and minority Tamils who are Hindu, Muslim and Christian. The country remains deeply scarred by its 1983-2009 civil war, when Tamil rebels fought to create an independent homeland. While the rebels were eventually crushed, the Buddhist-Muslim religious divide has taken hold in recent years. Afghan official among 3 killed in suicide bombing KABUL : An Afghan official says a suicide bomber has killed three people including the local head of the Ministry of Haj and Religious Affairs, in eastern Nangarhar province, reports UNB. Attahullah Khogyani, spokesman for the provincial governor, says another 16 people were wounded in the attack Wednesday afternoon in Jalalabad, the provincial capital. The attacker was on foot and apparently targeted Abdul Zahir Haqqani, the local religious affairs official, Khogyani said. Khogyani says: "The attacker who was on foot and probably waiting for his target, when Haqqani's vehicle arrived, suddenly the attacker detonated his suicide vest in front of his vehicle." No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attack, but the Taliban and a rival Islamic State affiliate are active in Nangarhar, where they regularly attack local officials and security forces. Afghan policemen inspect the site of a suicide car bombing in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Aug. 10, 2015. In another car bomb attack Saturday Aug. 22, 2015, at least 12 people were killed, Afghan officials said. Photo : AP Papua New Guinea quake death toll at 55 as aftershock hits WELLINGTON : A powerful earthquake that struck Papua New Guinea last week has left at least 55 people dead and authorities fear the toll could exceed 100, as survivors faced more shaking early Wednesday from the strongest aftershock so far, reports UNB. Southern Highlands Governor William Powi said people were feeling traumatized from the disaster and ongoing aftershocks. The latest large temblor was a magnitude 6.7 quake that struck just after midnight Tuesday. It was the strongest shake since the Feb. 26 deadly magnitude 7.5 quake that destroyed homes, triggered landslides and halted work at four oil and gas fields. The central region where last week's quake struck is remote and undeveloped, and assessments about the scale of the damage and injuries have been slow to filter out. Powi said he didn't know if the latest aftershock had caused more injuries or damage, but he said it had added to the distress people were feeling. "It is beyond the capacity of the provincial government to cope with the magnitude of destruction and devastation," he said. "Our people are traumatized and finding it difficult to cope." Powi said provincial authorities were trying to prioritize the greatest needs by getting people with severe injuries to medical centers and providing water and medicine. He said help from abroad and from local aid agencies was slowly coming in. "It's a mammoth task. Most of the feeder roads are washed away or covered with landslips," he said. "People's livelihoods are devastated, their personal property is gone." Powi said 39 people died in his province after families were crushed by their collapsing homes or buried by landslides during last week's earthquake. He said death reports were still coming in from remote places, and he feared the death toll would rise to over 100. A spokeswoman at the National Disaster Centre said the official death toll is currently estimated at between 55 and 75, although they don't yet have firm numbers. The U.S. Geological Survey said Wednesday's quake was centered 112 kilometers (70 miles) southwest of Porgera at a shallow depth of 10 kilometers (6 miles). Ten aftershocks in the hours since ranged between magnitude 4.7 and 5.2. Anti-Muslim riots flare anew in Sri Lanka despite emergency COLOMBO : Residents say anti-Muslim rioting has flared anew in central Sri Lanka despite a state of emergency, with Buddhist mobs burning mosques and Muslim-owned shops in at least two towns. The police ordered a curfew across much of the region Wednesday for a third day, trying to calm the situation, reports UNB. An area resident who requested anonymity, fearing reprisal attacks, said two mosques and some Muslimowned shops were attacked Wednesday in two towns in the central hills. The extent of the damage could not be verified. Anti-Muslim riots began Monday after a Buddhist Sinhalese man died after reportedly being attacked by a group of Muslim youths. Sri Lanka has long been divided between the majority Sinhalese, who are overwhelmingly Buddhist, and minority Tamils who are Hindu, Muslim and Christian. EU ready to retaliate against Trump’s proposed trade tariffs BRUSSELS : The European Union says it is ready to retaliate against the U.S. over President Donald Trump's proposed tariffs on steel and aluminum, with counter-measures against iconic U.S. products like Harley Davidson motorcycles, Levi's jeans and bourbon, reports UNB. Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmstroem said Wednesday that the EU, the world's biggest trading bloc, rejects Trump's reasoning that the tariffs are backed by the international legal right to protect national security. Should tariffs be introduced, the EU and other partners would take the case to the World Trade Organization, she said. The EU is circulating among member states a list of U.S. goods to target so that it can respond as quickly as possible. "We cannot see how the European Union, friends and allies in NATO, can be a threat to international security in the U.S.," Malmstroem told reporters. "From what we understand, the motivation of the U.S. is an economic safeguard measure in disguise, not a national security measure." Trump has long railed against what he deems unfair trade practices by China and others, and last week declared that his government would levy penalties of 25 percent on imported steel and 10 percent on aluminum imports. The tariffs, he said, would remain for "a long period of time," but it was not clear if certain trading partners would be exempt. Malmstroem said Trump's motives do not appear compatible with WTO rules and that this means the EU can activate safeguards to protect its own markets. She confirmed that the EU's countermeasures would include tariffs on U.S. steel and agricultural products, as well as other products like bourbon, peanut butter, cranberries and orange juice. "This is basically a stupid process, the fact that we have to do this. But we have to do it," EU Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker had said last week. "We will now impose tariffs on motorcycles, Harley Davidson, on blue jeans, Levi's, on bourbon. We can also do stupid." The list of U.S. goods to target is being circulated among EU member states for approval. The EU exported about 5.5 million ton of steel to the U.S. last year. The Commission also has plans in case steel from other producers is dumped on European markets. EU Council President Donald Tusk, who chairs summits of presidents and prime ministers, said the bloc's leaders will discuss the issue at their next meeting on March 22- 23. He rejected Trump's assertion in a tweet that trade wars are good and easy to win. "The truth is quite the opposite: trade wars are bad and easy to lose," said Tusk. He urged politicians on both sides of the Atlantic "to act responsibly." In Berlin, Germany's economy minister warned that "the situation is serious." Economy Minister Brigitte Zypries, whose country is Europe's economic powerhouse, said the EU will "be ready to react appropriately. However, it is our goal to avoid a trade war." Zypries said in a statement she hopes Trump will change his mind. "Trade creates wealth, when it is based on exchange and cooperation," she said. Referring indirectly to the surprise resignation of Trump's top economic adviser Gary Cohn Tuesday, she added that "advocates for this in the U.S. administration are very important. Therefore the current signals from the U.S. make me worried." Malmstroem underlined that the real problem is oversupply of steel and aluminum in the global market, and she urged Washington to work with the Europeans to address the root causes. She recalled that similar U.S. action on steel in 2002 by then president George W. Bush "cost thousands and thousands of U.S. jobs" and said she hoped that Washington has not forgotten this. At that time, the EU compiled a list of items for retaliatory tariffs that included steel products, but also orange juice, apples, sunglasses, knitwear, motor boats and photocopying machines. It represented $2.2 billion in U.S. exports to the EU. Bush withdrew the steel tariffs and the list was never acted upon. European Commissioner for Trade Cecilia Malmstroem speaks during a media conference at EU headquarters in Brussels on Wednesday, March 7, 2018. The European Union will set out its strategy Wednesday on how to counter potential U.S. punitive tariffs on steel and aluminum. Photo : AP Korean president says talks won’t ease pressure on North SEOUL : South Korean President Moon Jae-in on Wednesday downplayed concerns that the resumption of inter-Korean dialogue will be accompanied by an easing of international sanctions and pressure on North Korea over its nuclear program, reports UNB. Moon made the comments in a meeting with political party leaders a day after South Korea announced an agreement with the North to hold a rare summit in April. Senior South Korean officials who met with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Pyongyang on Monday also said the North expressed a willingness to hold talks with the United States on denuclearization and normalizing ties. Conservative opposition leaders expressed concern during Wednesday's meeting at Seoul's presidential palace that North Korea could use the talks as a way to reduce the pressure, and also questioned whether the North in genuinely interested in abandoning its nuclear weapons. "The sanctions and pressure on North Korea aren't maintained by South Korea alone - these are actions based on U.N. Security Council resolutions, and then there are strong unilateral sanctions imposed by the United States," Moon said, added that the pressure on the North could only be reduced by "substantive progress" on denuclearization. "These international efforts (to pressure the North) cannot be loosened by inter- Korean dialogue. We don't aim for that to happen and it's also impossible." Moon's presidential national security director, Chung Eui-yong, who led the South Korean delegation that met with Kim, is to leave for the United States on Thursday to brief U.S. officials on the outcome of his trip to the North. Chung told reporters on Tuesday that he received a message from North Korea intended for the United States, but didn't disclose what it was. Japan has responded cautiously to the South Korean announcement of summit talks, saying Tokyo's policy of keeping maximum pressure on North Korea is unchanged. Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said Wednesday that dialogue for dialogue's sake is meaningless and that the allies "should fully take into consideration lessons from our past dialogues with the North, none of which achieved denuclearization." He said Japan is on the same page as the United States, citing U.S. Vice President Mike Pence as saying Washington's pressure campaign is unchanged, with all options still on the table. China, which is North Korea's only major ally, cheered the exchanges between the Koreas and called for a return to six-nation talks on denuclearization that it previously hosted. Foreign ministry spokesman Geng Shuang told reporters Wednesday that China was "pleased to see the positive outcomes from those exchanges and interactions between the two sides. ... We hope the North and South will earnestly implement their consensuses and proceed with the process of reconciliation and cooperation."
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