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South Korean Unification Minister Cho Myoung-gyon, right, and his North Korean counterpart Ri Son Gwon arrive to hold their meeting at the northern side of Panmunjom in the Demilitarized Zone, North Korea, Monday, Aug. 13, 2018. Senior officials from the rival Koreas met Monday to set a date and venue for a third summit between South Korean President Moon Jae-in and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, part of an effort to breathe new life into resolving the nuclear standoff between Washington and Pyongyang. (Korea Pool/Yonhap via AP)

Rival Korea leaders to meet in Pyongyang in September

By YOUKYUNG LEE - Associated Press

In this June 1, 2018, file photo, South Korean Unification Minister Cho Myoung-gyon, center, speaks to the media before leaving for the border village of Panmunjom to attend South and North Korean meeting, at the Office of the South Korea-North Korea Dialogue in Seoul, South Korea. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon, File)

Seoul: Rival Koreas to meet to prepare for leaders’ summit

By Youkyung Lee - Associated Press

FILE - In this April 27, 2018, file photo, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, left, poses with South Korean President Moon Jae-in for a photo inside the Peace House at the border village of Panmunjom in Demilitarized Zone, South Korea. The war-separated rivals will take their reconciliation steps to the Asian Games in Jakarta and Palembang, Indonesia, where they will jointly march in the opening ceremony and field combined teams in basketball, rowing and canoeing. (Korea Summit Press Pool via AP. Pool, File)

Koreas extend conciliatory steps to Asian Games

By KIM TONG-HYUNG - Associated Press

FILE - In this April 6, 2018, file photo, an employee walks past logos of the Samsung Electronics Co. at its office in Seoul, South Korea. Samsung Electronics says it will spend $22 billion over the next three years on artificial intelligence, auto components, and other future businesses. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon, File)

Samsung plans $22 billion for artificial intelligence, autos

By YOUKYUNG LEE - Associated Press

Johann Ebenbichler, BMW's vice president on quality management, speaks during a press conference in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, Aug. 6, 2018. BMW AG's Korean unit apologized over engine fires that prompted recalls and a probe Monday, in its latest efforts to contain the damage as images of the German cars engulfed in flames stoked safety worries. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

BMW apologizes over engine fires caused by hardware problem

By YOUKYUNG LEE - Associated Press

ASEAN foreign ministers pose for a photo ahead of the 51st ASEAN Foreign Ministers Meeting in Singapore, Thursday, Aug. 2, 2018. From left to right are Laos' Saleumxay Kommasith, Malaysia's Saifuddin Abdullah, Myanmar's U Kyaw Tin, Philippines' Alan Cayetano, Vietnam's Pham Binh Minh, Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, Singapore's Vivian Balakrishnan, Thailand's Don Pramudwinai, Brunei's Erywan Yusof, Cambodia's Perak Sokhonn, Indonesia's Retno Marsudi and ASEAN Secretary-General Lim Jock Hoi. (AP Photo/Yong Teck Lim)

China calls draft pact on territorial feud a ‘breakthrough’

By ANNABELLE LIANG and JIM GOMEZ - Associated Press

Vice President Mike Pence and Navy Rear Adm. Jon Kreitz, deputy director of the POW/MIA Accounting Agency, right, watch as military members carry transfer cases from a C-17 at a ceremony marking the arrival of the remains believed to be of American service members who fell in the Korean War at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, Wednesday, Aug. 1, 2018. North Korea handed over the remains last week. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Identification work begins on Korean War remains now in U.S.

By Audrey McAvoy and Kim Yong-ho - Associated Press

Transfer cases are in a hanger at a ceremony marking the arrival of the remains believed to be of U.S. service members who died in the Korean War in Hawaii, on Wednesday. (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

Pentagon: Identifying casualties from Korean War may take years

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

The Honolulu Memorial Korean War Courts of the Missing memorial wall is shown at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu on Monday, July 30, 2018. The names of all U.S. soldiers who did not return from the Korean War are listed on the memorial. Human remains handed over to the U.S. government from North Korea are expected to arrive Wednesday in Honolulu, where scientists will begin the painstaking process of trying to match DNA from the bones to those of American soldiers who didn't return from the Korean War more than a half century ago. (AP Photo/Caleb Jones)

‘Our boys are coming home;’ Pence welcomes Korean War dead

By AUDREY McAVOY and KIM YONG-HO - Associated Press

Vice President Mike Pence and Commander of U.S. Indo-Pacific Command Adm. Phil Davidson watch as military members carry transfer cases from a C-17 at a ceremony marking the arrival of the remains believed to be of American service members who fell in the Korean War at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, Wednesday, Aug. 1, 2018. North Korea handed over the remains last week. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Korean War dead remains arrive in Hawaii

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Honor guards carry the remains of U.S. servicemen killed in the Korean War and collected in North Korea, during a ceremony at the Osan Air Base in Pyeongtaek, South Korea, Wednesday, Aug. 1, 2018. North Korea handed over 55 boxes of the remains last week as part of agreements reached during a historic June summit between its leader Kim Jong Un and U.S. President Donald Trump. (Chung Sung-Jun/Pool Photo via AP)

The Latest: Remains of Korean War dead are back on US soil

Associated Press

South Korean Maj. Gen. Kim Do-gyun leaves for the border village of Panmunjom to attend a joint meeting between North and South Korea to discuss how to ease military confrontations, at the Office of the South Korea-North Korea Dialogue in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, July 31, 2018. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

Rival Koreas’ generals end talks with no agreement

By Hyung-jin Kim - Associated Press

In this June. 12, 2018, file photo, U.S. President Donald Trump meets with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un on Sentosa Island, in Singapore. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

U.S. begins retrieving troops remains from North Korea: Report

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

A man wipes the sweat from his face in the scorching heat at a business district in Tokyo, Monday, July 23, 2018. Searing hot temperatures are forecast for wide swaths of Japan and South Korea in a long-running heat wave. The mercury is expected to reach 39 degrees Celsius (102 degrees Fahrenheit) on Monday in the city of Nagoya in central Japan and reach 37 in Tokyo. Deaths have been reported almost every day. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)

Record high in Japan as heat wave grips the region

By Mari Yamaguchi and Hyung-jin Kim - Associated Press

U. S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, left, shakes hands with South Korean Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha at South Korea's mission, Friday, July 20, 2018 in New York. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

US presses China and Russia to enforce sanctions on NKorea

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

A TV screen shows a blurred photo of North Korean restaurant workers in China, during a news program at the Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Kore, Friday, July 20, 2018. North Korea said that an August reunion of Korean families separated by war may not happen if South Korea doesn't immediately return some of its citizens who arrived in the South in recent years. The signs read: &quot;The two Koreas agreed to hold a reunion of Korean families.&quot; (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

North Korea puts reunion of war-separated families in doubt

By HYUNG-JIN KIM - Associated Press

South Korea call up Tottenham’s Son for Asian Games

Associated Press

FILE - In this Dec. 17, 2016 file photo, protesters shout slogans during a rally against the impeached South Korean President Park Geun-hye in downtown Seoul, South Korea. The letters read &quot;Arrest, Park Geun-hye.&quot; South Korean President Moon Jae-in has ordered an investigation after a lawmaker disclosed a document drafted by a military intelligence unit that showed plans to deploy troops in Seoul amid massive protests last year to oust his conservative predecessor, now in prison on corruption charges. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man, File)

S. Korea probes army plan for troops to control protesters

By HYUNG-JIN KIM and KIM TONG-HYUNG - Associated Press

South Korea's President Moon Jae-in is seen on a video screen as he delivers his speech entitled &quot;ROK and ASEAN: Partners for Achieving Peace and Co-prosperity in East Asia&quot; during the 42nd Singapore Lecture organized by the Institute of South East Asian Studies (ISEAS) in Singapore, Friday, July 13, 2018. (AP Photo/Yong Teck Lim)

Moon presses Trump, Kim for breakthrough in nuclear talks

By ANNABELLE LIANG and KIM TONG-HYUNG - Associated Press

South Korea, India plan to double bilateral trade by 2030

Associated Press