Yaqeen Hammad is now one of those shrouded and buried children.
“I have a very friendly and trusting relationship,” with the US leader, Kim has said.He has also indicated a willingness to discuss sharing more of the cost of stationing US troops in the country, something Trump has demanded for years.
Lee Sung-yoon, board member of the Committee for Human Rights in North Korea, described the policy differences between the rival camps as “immutable” and referred to earlier comments by the Democratic Party’s Lee, because of which some view him as being soft on China and Russia.“In the past, Lee has said South Korea should not get involved in China’s posture towards Taiwan, and just say thank you to both Beijing and Taiwan and stay out of the conflict. He has said of the trilateral defensive drills among US, Japan and South Korea as ‘a defence disaster’ and an ‘extremely pro-Japanese act’. And more than once he has said that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy incited Russia to invade because he was a political novice who said unfortunate things.”The analyst said Lee has – over the course of the election campaign – tried to walk back some of his statements in a bid to appeal to more moderate voters.
However, “I would venture to guess that people sitting in the councils of power in Washington, DC, or Tokyo or in Kyiv, Ukraine, are not overly jubilant at the prospect of a Lee administration,” he said.When will we know the results?
Koreans overseas have already cast their ballots, and early voting took place on Thursday and Friday. Large numbers of people turned out for the early vote, including the two frontrunners.
According to the National Election Commission, some 44.4 million people in the country of 52 million are eligible to vote. On election day, which is a public holiday, polling stations will open at 6am (21:00 GMT) and close at 8pm (11:00 GMT).Valentina, a pensioner from Russia’s Kaluga region, bought a Lego set for her grandson on the Russian online marketplace Ozon after briefly considering picking one up on a visit to neighbouring Latvia.
"The price is the same and they'll even deliver the item right to your door,” Valentina told Al Jazeera.Valentina bought her Lego set from Griffin Technology, a company registered in Saint Petersburg in 2011.
While primarily a computer wholesaler, Griffin Technology operates more like a general retailer on Ozon, selling everything from electronics to toys and cosmetics, according to customs data provided by Import Genius.Griffin Technology last year received at least 12 shipments of Lego products from a Hong Kong-registered company, Union Computer Supplies Limited.