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The 2018 Games featured 102 events over 15 disciplines, a record number of events for the Winter Games. This is the first edition in Winter Olympic Games history to feature more than 100 medal events, four of which made their Olympic debut in 2018: "big air" snowboarding, mass start speed skating, mixed doubles curling, and mixed team alpine ...
The September 2018 inter-Korean summit was the third and final inter-Korean summit in the 2018-19 Korean peace process.. On 13 August, the Blue House announced that South Korea's President plans to attend the third inter-Korean summit with leader Kim Jong Un at Pyongyang in September as expected.
Spring Is Coming (Korean: 봄이 온다; RR: Bomi Onda; MR: Pomi Onta) was a concert that occurred in Pyongyang, North Korea, on April 1 and 3, 2018.It included numerous South Korean performers, and was described as an important event in the 2018 thaw in the North Korea–South Korea relations.
In Pyongyang, on September 18, both leaders signed an agreement titled the "Pyongyang Joint Declaration of September 2018". [72] The agreement called for the removal of landmines planted at the Joint Security Area. [73] North Korea agreed to dismantle its nuclear program in the presence of international experts if the U.S. took reciprocal ...
To date, there have been five such meetings so far (2000, 2007, April 2018, May 2018, and September 2018), three of them being in Pyongyang, with another two in Panmunjom. The importance of these summits lies in the lack of formal communication between North and South Korea, which makes discussing political and economic issues difficult.
U.S. Secretary of State (then CIA Director) Mike Pompeo and Kim Jong Un meeting in Pyongyang, North Korea on March 31, 2018. On March 31 and possibly also April 1, then-CIA director Mike Pompeo had secretly met with Kim in Pyongyang [110] to lay the groundwork for the summit, including their discussing possible venues. [111]
The first China–North Korea meeting in 2018 was organized by the invitation from Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party.During the meeting between the two heads of state, Kim Jong Un officially invited Xi Jinping to Pyongyang at a time convenient for him, and Xi accepted the invitation. [6]
At the 2018 Winter Olympics, athletes were tied in three events. In the women's 10 km cross-country skiing , two bronze medals were awarded due to a tie. [ 19 ] In the two-man bobsleigh , two gold medals and no silver medal were awarded due to a tie, [ 20 ] while in the four-man bobsleigh , two silver medals and no bronze medal were awarded due ...