Trump pledges to work with South Korea’s new leader
By Reuters
11 May 2017 |
12:16 pm
U.S. President Donald Trump calls newly-elected South Korean leader Moon Jae-in to invite him to Washington and vow cooperation on the North Korean nuclear crisis.
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