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VIENTIANE， Aug. 6 (Xinhua) -- Progress on negotiations continued towards a Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) agreement， with accord still anticipated by the end of 2016， Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)'s Deputy-Secretary General for the Economic Community Lim Hong Hin said here Saturday.


The remarks came after economic ministers from ASEAN and their counterparts from dialogue partners met for talks in the Lao capital.


The talks were concluded on Saturday.


Trade negotiators from 16 RCEP countries are set to meet again in Vietnam's Ho Chi Minh City from August 15 to 19， meeting chair Lao Minister of Industry and Commerce Khemmani Pholsena told media at a press conference held at the conclusion of the 48th ASEAN Economic Ministers Meeting in Vientiane.


Not ruling out agreement in time for September's ASEAN Summit and East Asia Summit， which are set to see world leaders converge on the Lao capital， Lim Hong Hin said the upcoming Ho Chi Minh round was one of the six scheduled for 2016 to finalize the free trade agreement which was firstly proposed in 2011.


"It's very difficult to prejudge the outcome， but we have a very clear mandate from the leaders (of respective countries)... that they would like to ask senior officials to finish negotiations by this year，" said the deputy secretary-general.


RCEP could potentially transform the region into one of the world's largest free trade areas that comprises over 3 billion people in the 10 ASEAN countries as well as Australia， China， India， Japan， South Korea and New Zealand.


WASHINGTON http://www.wholesaleairmax95online.com/ , Sept. 26 (Xinhua) -- The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) has not changed its military posture despite heated exchange of rhetoric with the United States, a top American general said on Tuesday.


"While the political space is clearly very charged right now, we haven't seen a change in the posture of North Korean (DPRK) forces and we watch that very closely," Joseph Dunford wholesale air max 95 china , chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told a Senate committee.


"What we haven't seen is military activity that would be reflective of the charged political environment," Dunford added.


Asked about his assessment of DPRK's ballistic missile program, the general said the country will "soon" have the capability to strike U.S. mainland with an intercontinental ballistic missile.


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On Tuesday, at a joint press conference with visiting Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, U.S. President Donald Trump called on nations to further isolate the DPRK in response to its nuclear and missile programs.


"North Korean (DPRK) nuclear weapons and missile development threaten the entire world with unthinkable loss of life. All nations must act now to ensure the regime's complete denuclearization," Trump said.


In recent weeks wholesale air max 95 black , the United States and the DPRK have been engaging in a war of words, which escalated after a tweet message by Trump infuriated Pyongyang.


Trump tweeted over the weekend that DPRK's top leader Kim Jong Un "won't be around much longer," which was interpreted by Pyongyang as a declaration of war. The White House later clarified that Washington has no intention of entering into armed conflict on the peninsula.


The escalating rhetoric came shortly after the row between the United States and the DPRK at the UN General Assembly.


In his first speech at the UN General Assembly on Sept. 19, Trump threatened that the United States would have no choice but to "totally destroy" the DPRK unless Pyongyang refrains from its nuclear tests and missile launches.


In response wholesale air max 95 pink , DPRK's top leader Kim Jong Un vowed to retaliate, saying the threat to "totally destroy" a sovereign state has gone beyond the limit.


China has discouraged the two countries from escalating their war of words and has repeatedly expressed the hope that both U.S. and DPRK statesmen have the wisdom to realize that resorting to the use of force is not an option for resolving the peninsula issue.


"We have heard threats of war too often recently," Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lu Kang said at a regular news briefing on Tuesday.


"There will be no winners should war break out on the Korean Peninsula and it will bring suffering to regional countries," Lu said.




SEOUL wholesale air max 95 red , Sept. 27 (Xinhua) -- South Korean peace activists urged the United States Wednesday to immediately stop any hostile policy on the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) and launch talks with Pyongyang for peace treaty on the Korean Peninsula.


An association of 65 liberal advocacy groups and peace activist groups held a press conference in Gwanghwamun square beside the U.S. embassy in Seoul, issuing a joint statement toward the U.S. government.


The statement said the Trump administration should immediately scrap any hostile policy on the DPRK and launch negotiations on peace treaty on the peninsula.


The Korean Peninsula is technically in a state of war as the 1950-53 Korean War ended in armistice, not peace treaty.


The activists said South Korean people living in the peninsula would not be able to accept the U.S. threat to wage a war in their home country.


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