WORLD NEWS April 30, 2020 5 Satellite Images Suggest China Parliament Set to Meet in Sign of Normalization North Korea Leader at Villa BERLIN (Reuters) -- Four people were injured in a stabbing incident in the German city of Hanau diplomatic messages. on Tuesday evening, police said, adding that offi- Kim’s seaside compound in Wonsan, cers had detained two suspects. German magazine on the country’s east coast, is dotted Focus Online cited police as saying a group of five with guest villas and serviced by a pri- to seven men had attacked passers-by with knives. The magazine also said none of those injured was vate beach, basketball court, and pri- in a life-threatening condition. Four people were vate train station, according to experts taken to a clinic in Hanau, near the financial hub and satellite imagery. An airstrip was of Frankfurt in western Germany, with injuries in- bulldozed last year to build a horse cluding stab wounds, said the police in a statement. One of the suspects who was detained was 23 years riding track, while a boathouse near- old, the other 29 years old, added police. A police by shelters Kim’s Princess 95 luxury spokesman said the motive for the attacks was still yacht, valued at around $7 million in unclear. But he added there were no signs that the 2013. incident was connected to the killing of nine people Wonsan holds symbolic power for with foreign roots in February by a gunman. Then, a 43-year old man with racist views shot dead nine the Kim dynasty: It was there Kim Il A security agent takes position as Chinese PM Li Keqiang delivers his people in shisha bars in Hanau before killing him- Sung, who helped found North Korea speech during the opening session of the National People’s Congress self and his mother, an attack that shook Germany. at the end of Japanese colonial rule in North Korean leader Kim Jong Un observes the firing of suspected (NPC) at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, March 5, 2018. *** 1945, first landed with Soviet troops to missiles in this image released by North Korea’s Korean Central News BEIJING (Reuters) -- China announced tice minister to replace Fu Zhenghua, who WASHINGTON (AFP) -- A U.S. destroyer hit by take over the country. Agency (KCNA) on March 22, 2020. on Wednesday that its parliament will has reached the retirement age of 65 for min- dozens of coronavirus cases sailed into San Diego Wonsan is believed by some experts open a key annual session on May 22, isters. for cleaning, making it the second Navy warship SEOUL (Reuters) -- Satellite imag- area. to be Kim Jong Un’s birthplace, partly signaling that Beijing sees the country re- The Chinese People’s Political Consulta- temporarily put out of action by the pandemic. With ery showing recent movements of That followed a report last week by because he spent his early years at the 63 percent of the 300-strong crew tested as of Tues- turning to normal after being reduced to tive Conference (CPPCC), an advisory body day, 64 sailors aboard the USS Kidd were found luxury boats often used by North a U.S.-based North Korea monitor- family’s palace there, although official a near-standstill for months by the CO- to parliament, has proposed starting its an- positive for COVID-19, the Navy said. Two had Korean leader Kim Jong Un and his ing project, 38 North, which reported history has never confirmed where he VID-19 epidemic. nual session a day before the parliamentary been medically evacuated to the U.S. mainland last entourage near Wonsan provide fur- satellite images showed what was be- was born. During the gathering of the National Peo- session opens. week, and 15 others were subsequently transferred ther indications he has been at the lieved to be Kim’s personal train was The Wonsan area has also become ple’s Congress in the capital, delegates will Analysts expect China to roll out additional to another vessel with better medical facilities -- the USS Makin Island -- for monitoring “due to persis- coastal resort, according to experts parked at a station reserved for his use emblematic of Kim’s strategy for ratify major legislation, and the government fiscal stimulus in order to cushion the blow will unveil economic targets, set defense from COVID-19, which has developed in to a tent symptoms,” it said. The first vessel struck by an who monitor the reclusive regime. at the villa in Wonsan. survival based on a combination of spending projections and make personnel worldwide pandemic that some fear will trig- outbreak of the disease, the nuclear aircraft carrier Speculation about Kim’s health and Officials in South Korea and the economic development, tourism, and changes. The ruling Communist Party also ger a severe global recession. USS Theodore Roosevelt, remains at dock in Guam after one month while 4,800 crew are treated and location erupted after his unprecedent- United States say it is plausible Kim nuclear weapons. He is rebuilding typically announces signature policy initia- China’s economy contracted for the first ed absence from April 15 celebrations may be staying there, possibly to avoid the massive ship is sterilized. All of the crew has the city of 360,000 people and wants tives. time on record during the January-March been tested and 969 found positive for the coronavi- to mark the birthday of his late grand- exposure to the new coronavirus, and to turn it into a billion-dollar tourist The session was initially scheduled to start period, when the government imposed severe rus. One sailor died. Overall, the U.S. Department father and North Korea’s founder, Kim have expressed skepticism of media hotspot. on March 5 but was postponed due to CO- travel and transport restriction to curb the of Defense says that more than 6,640 military and Il Sung. reports he had some kind of serious Wonsan has also been the scene VID-19, which has infected nearly 83,000 spread of the epidemic. civilian personnel and family members have tested positive for coronavirus, with 27 deaths. On Tuesday, North Korea-monitor- illness. of some of Kim’s renewed military people and killed more than 4,600 on the Parliament is also expected to discuss the ing website NK PRO reported com- The last time official media in North drills and missile tests, which he re- mainland after emerging late last year in the anti-government protests in Hong Kong, *** central city of Wuhan. amid growing speculation that Beijing take mercial satellite imagery showed boats Korea reported on Kim’s whereabouts sumed amid increasing frustration As the epidemic has subsided, economic steps to strengthen its grip on the city. LIMA (AFP) -- Nine inmates were killed and scores of guards wounded when rioting broke out often used by Kim had made move- was when he presided over a meeting with a lack of progress in denucle- and social life gradually returned to normal, It is unclear how long parliament and its ments in patterns that suggested he or on April 11, but there have been near- arization talks with the United States at a prison in Lima after two inmates died from making it possible for the congress to con- advisory body will meet for this time, and COVID-19, authorities in Peru said. The riot his entourage may be in the Wonsan daily reports of him sending letters and and South Korea. vene, the official Xinhua news agency quoted people familiar with the matter have told broke out Monday at the city’s Castro Castro pris- the standing committee of the NPC, the legis- Reuters that this year’s annual sessions could on. By nightfall, authorities said the situation had lature’s top decision-making body, as saying. be the shortest in decades due to COVID-19 been brought under control, giving an initial toll of Brazil Overtakes China With Coronavirus Cases The committee also appointed Huang concerns. Usually more than 5,000 delegates three dead before gradually revising the figure up- Runqiu as the new minister for ecology and descend on Beijing from all over China for at wards to nine. Aside from the nine killed, 60 prison ples of Brazil. guards, five police officers and two inmates were President Jair Bolsonaro regular- environment, a post vacated when predeces- least 10 days. sor Li Ganjie became deputy Communist Beijing city plans to ease quarantine rules wounded in the unrest, the National Penitentiary ly expresses his impatience with Institute (INPE) said in a statement. The death toll restrictions imposed by the state Party chief for Shandong province earlier this as early as Thursday, two sources familiar from COVID-19 in the Peru’s overcrowded prison governors to slow the disease’s month, Xinhua reported. with the situation told Reuters, ahead of the system has risen to 15, following the deaths of two spread and has pushed hard for Tang Yijun was also named as the new jus- key political meetings. inmates over the weekend, while more than 600 economic activity to restart. inmates are infected. The notoriously overcrowded Asked about the rising death Lurigancho was built to house 2,500 prisoners but is currently believed to have more than 10,000. count, Bolsonaro responded, “And U.S. Panel Blacklists India what? I am sorry about it. What do *** you want me to do?” TRIPOLI (AFP) -- Libya’s UN-recognized gov- “I am Messias,” he said, refer- But Gov’t Not to Follow Lead ernment accused rival military strongman Khalifa ring to his middle name, which Haftar of seeking to stage a new coup after he means Messiah, “but I don’t do claimed to have a “popular mandate” to govern miracles.” the country.