South Korea President Moon Jae-in says his government plans to begin a new railroad project
with North Korea this year.
However, Moon also said economic cooperation with North Korea is linked to that country's
denuclearization.
Moon made the comments during a speech on Wednesday celebrating the liberation of Korea
at the end of World War II.
He said the reconnection of railroads and roads is the start of "prosperity" for the
two Koreas.
He also said work would begin this year.
South Korean President Moon Jae-in delivers a speech during a ceremony marking the 73rd
anniversary of liberation from Japanese colonial rule in 1945, at the National Museum of Korea
in Seoul on August 15, 2018.
South Korean President Moon Jae-in said on August 15 his rare visit to Pyongyang next
month will be a "bold step" towards ending the decades-old war with the nuclear-armed
North.
/ AFP PHOTO / Jung Yeon-je Moon and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un agreed
to work toward increased economic cooperation when they met in April.
That meeting took place in the village of Panmunjom in demilitarized zone (DMZ) of the
inter-Korean border.
At the Panmunjom summit, Kim also agreed to work toward the denuclearization of the Korean
Peninsula.
The South Korean president helped bring about the historic summit in June between Kim and
U.S. President Donald Trump in Singapore.
At that meeting, Kim repeated his commitment to denuclearization.
However, since the summit in June, the U.S. and North Korea have not been able to reach
agreement on the denuclearization issue.
The U.S. insists that North Korea completely disarm its nuclear and missile weapons before
it receives any economic concessions.
North Korea wants economic concessions after each step of the denuclearization process.
Currently, international sanctions put on North Korea for its nuclear and ballistic
missile tests do not permit a major railway project.
The joint Korean railway project to link South and North Korea with high speed train service
is estimated to cost $35 billion.
It would provide North Korean industries an overland rail connection to China, Russia
and even Europe.
The international sanctions stop 90 percent of all trade with North Korea and most international
finance.
President Moon did not explain how he would get past the sanctions to proceed with the
railway project.
This week, U.S. Ambassador to South Korea Harry Harris repeated the Trump administration's
position.
He said denuclearization must come before the sanctions are eased.
"Sanctions will remain in place," said Harris during a speech at the Korea National Diplomatic
Academy in Seoul.
He added that the North must take strong actions toward denuclearization.
The U.S. State Department said on Tuesday that no official meetings are planned between
the U.S. and North Korea, but that informal talks continue.
Moon said that improved relations between the two Koreas will aid progress in denuclearization.
Moon also said that renewed economic ties could generate $149 billion for North Korea
over 30 years.
And joint economic projects, like the Kaesong industrial center which closed in 2016, could
bring thousands of jobs to the North.
Moon is to visit Pyongyang in September to hold another summit with Kim.
The South Korean president also said he supported a peace declaration to officially end the
Korean War.
Fighting stopped in 1953 with an armistice agreement.
South Korean media have said that the U.S., South Korea, China and North Korea may release
a peace statement in September.
Such as announcement could take place at the United Nations General Assembly meeting in
New York City.
North Korea has called for a peace declaration before moving forward with nuclear talks.
The U.S., however, wants denuclearization progress first.
I'm Susan Shand.
Many Android and iPhone owners use Google services on their mobile devices.
Some of these services use GPStechnology to collect information about the places people
go.
One of the most widely used location services is Google Maps.
When someone uses Google Maps, information about times and locations are recorded and
stored.
Google also uses tracking tools with other services.
Weather apps, for example, are designed to identify a user's location to provide local
weather information.
Even some Google internet searches can result in the collection of information about exactly
where a person was when the search was made.
Google says it collects the data to improve localized experiences for its users.
But such practices have also raised privacy concerns.
Privacy activists have called on Google and other major technology companies to make it
easier for users to turn off location services if they do not want to be tracked.
An investigation by the Associated Press, or AP, suggests this process is not as easy
as it might seem.
The investigation found that Google continues to collect location information even on users
who have changed their privacy settings.
The AP says the results of its investigation were confirmed by computer science researchers
at Princeton University in the American state of New Jersey.
Google's influence in the mobile device industry is far-reaching.
About two billion people worldwide use Google-developed Android devices.
In addition, hundreds of millions of iPhone owners use Google for maps or for making searches.
In some ways, Google is clear about asking permission to use location information.
For example, Google Maps will seek approval from a user to give the app access to locations
so it can provide directions.
If a user agrees to let Google collect location information over time, Google Maps will show
this history in a "timeline" that shows the person's daily movements.
Google also has a "Location History" setting, which it explains on its support page.
The company says any user can turn off Location History at any time.
"With Location History off, the places you go are no longer stored," Google states.
The company says when Location History is turned off for a user's account, it is turned
off for all devices linked to that Google account.
But the AP investigation found this does not appear to be true.
It found that Google continued to save location history even if a user had turned off Location
History.
Turning off Location History only stopped Google from creating a timeline of locations
the user had visited.
One of the tests the AP carried out involved Princeton privacy researcher Gunes Acar.
The news agency was able to track his movements and identify visited locations – including
his home – over several days in the New York City area.
Acar was carrying an Android phone with Location History turned off.
Other Princeton researchers confirmed the AP's test findings on multiple mobile devices.
Jonathan Mayer is a Princeton computer scientist and former technologist with the Federal Communications
Commission.
He disagrees with Google's methods for storing location data, which he says can be unclear
for users.
"If you're going to allow users to turn off something called 'Location History,' then
all the places where you maintain location history should be turned off," Mayer said.
"That seems like a pretty straightforward position to have."
In answer to a request for comment from the AP, Google said it uses several location tracking
tools.
"There are a number of different ways that Google may use location to improve people's
experience, including: Location History, Web and App Activity, and through device-level
Location Services," the company said in a statement.
Google says users can stop the saving of all location markers by turning off another setting.
That setting, however, is not clearly identified as being connected to location tracking.
The setting is called "Web and App Activity."
It is activated on new devices.
The tool stores different kinds of information from Google apps and websites to a user's
Google account.
The easiest way to block further location tracking on any device is to go to the website
myactivity.google.com, which permits users to change Google account settings.
On the upper left drop-down list, go to "Activity Controls."
Turn off both "Web & App Activity" and "Location History."
This should prevent exact location markers from being stored to your Google account.
I'm Bryan Lynn.
Refugees carry few material goods with them when they flee war, violence or persecution
in the homelands.
But they do bring skills to their new countries.
An exhibit in the United States shows that sometimes these skills are artistic.
The Sandy Spring Museum in the state of Maryland is currently displaying the work of refugee
artists from Iraq, Ethiopia and Somalia.
Some of the works on exhibit represent the memories of the artists' homelands.
"My hometown is Wollo," said Fetun Getachew, an artist from Ethiopia.
"There is a marketplace once a week.
People meet there at the markets for not only buying or selling (but) just to meet together
for so many purposes."
Her paintings show such gatherings.
Iraqi artist Ahmad Alkarkhi was well known for his work in his country.
Violence there and in Syria forced him to flee to America in 2009.
About his paintings of Iraq since then, he said he wants to show Americans good things
about his country instead of war.
For Alkarkhi, being in a new country brings changes to his art.
"In my country, we don't have a lot of color there, just gray and brown," he said.
Alkarkhi said the clear seasonal changes he has experienced in the U.S. led him to add
a lot of color to his work.
The museum is in Sandy Spring, Maryland, a community of about 6,000 people near Washington,
D.C.
Its website says the center is a living history museum where people can gather and "cultural
artists create experiences for the entire community to enjoy."
Allison Weiss is the museum's executive director.
She says the exhibit shows what refugees can provide to America.
"There's so much talk in the news now about refugees, and how many people we should let
into the country, and what are they contributing.
And I think this exhibit shows that there's individuals behind the word 'refugees' and
they have all sorts of talents that maybe we're not hearing about from the news."
During the day, Alkarkhi is a caretaker at an apartment complex in Riverdale, Maryland.
But at night and on weekends, he paints in the living room of his small apartment.
"Painting for me [is] like music.
Each painting, different music.
I just tell myself, 'let me dance with colors on the canvas."
He said creating art is his way to give back to America for helping him and his family
build a new life in safety.
"America gives refugees a lot of things.
I want to do beautiful painting, and I give it to this country and to the people to enjoy
with my art," he said.
I'm Mario Ritter.
Minnesota State Representative Ilhan Omar became a major party's candidate for the state's
5th District in the United States Congress.
Omar won the Democratic Party's primary election for the area on Tuesday.
She is seeking to become the first refugee from Africa to gain a seat in the U.S. Congress.
The 35-year-old politician spoke at the University of Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey School of Public
Affairs before Tuesday's vote.
"I am a millennial with student debt," she said.
"And a renter," she added, someone who is not ready, or cannot yet afford, to buy a
home.
It was a simple but effective message.
She was born in Somalia and wears a hijab on her head.
However, Omar said that she was still like the many young, progressiveand liberal voters
whose support she needs to get elected.
It was the same message that helped her make history two years ago in her election to the
Minnesota state House of Representatives.
Her campaign says there was a 37-percent increase in the number of voters in that election.
Khalid Mohamed is a 25-year-old Somali American.
He said, "Before Ilhan, I think a lot of us didn't know what type of government we had,
but now that she was elected, a lot of us started paying attention."
He added, "She represented us at the state level and we saw how productive she was."
Mohamed is just one of tens of thousands of Somali Americans who voted for Omar in Tuesday's
primary election.
Omar hopes to follow Keith Ellison's path.
Ellison is the first Muslim American elected to Congress.
He currently represents the same Minneapolis Congressional District that Omar is competing
in.
But, Ellison is leaving Congress to run for the Minnesota Attorney General's office.
Larry Jacobs is a University of Minnesota Professor.
He said, "Around America it might seem odd that one of the whitest states in the country
would be sending its second Muslim to Congress...But not so in Minnesota."
Minnesota is home to the largest number of Somali refugees in the United States.
Jacobs said their votes are only part of Ilhan's success.
He said the Somalia community is not a large voting group.
It even split its votes between Omar and another Somali candidate.
What Omar has been able to do, Jacob's said, has been to build a coalition that includes
politically liberal voters and people who believe the Democratic Party needs to become
more diverse.
Omar is the Democrat's Assistant Minority leader in the Minnesota House of Representatives.
She has opposed the separation of families by officials at the U.S. border.
She also has criticized the so-called "Muslim Ban" of the administration of President Donald
Trump.
Speaking at her primary election victory party, Omar said, "In my last race I talked about
what that win would mean for that eight-year-old girl in that refugee camp."
Like Omar, many people in Minnesota's Somali Muslim American community are refugees.
They hope Omar's election represents a chance to change public opinion about their religion
and situation.
Mohamed believes that Omar's election sends a message of hope to not just to a religious
community, but to all of Africa.
"It sends a message to everyone from Africa... that you might be a refugee...but you have
rights, and you can be whoever you want as long as you put the work in," he said.
Observers say Omar has a good chance of winning in the general election in November.
I'm Ashley Thompson.
The United Nations refugee agency is increasing its efforts in Ecuador to help the government
deal with a large number of people from Venezuela.
The office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) seeks to protect and
assist refugees around the world.
UNHCR officials say more than 500,000 Venezuelans have entered Ecuador through the Colombian
border this year.
That is about 3,000 refugees entering the country each day.
The UNHCR reports that number has increased to more than 4,000 people a day arriving in
the first week of August.
The government of Ecuador declared a state of emergency last week in several areas in
an effort to deal with the growing refugee problem.
William Spindler is a UNHCR spokesman.
He said the agency supports Ecuador's decision, which permits it to use additional resources
to deal with the problem.
He also said that the number of people leaving Venezuela "is one of Latin America's largest
mass population movements in history."
Spindler said the refugees walk for days or even weeks in dangerous conditions before
reaching Ecuador.
He said many are then forced to beg or seek other ways to survive.
He noted that about 20 percent of refugees are in need of special protection and assistance.
He said, "Women and girls represent 40 percent of the new arrivals and face serious risks
of sexual violence."
Spindler added that most Venezuelans entering Ecuador do not end their travels there.
Instead, they continue on to Peru and Chile.
He said the UNHCR is increasing its emergency services.
The agency will provide Ecuador with technical assistance, such as screening and registering
the refugees.
He says agency workers will identify those Venezuelans in need of special protection
and aid.
I'm Jonathan Evans.
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