Films starring Taiwanese actors who support Taiwan independence will not be released in the Chinese mainland, the spokesperson for China's Taiwan Affairs Office said at a regular press conference on Wednesday.

KCNA: "Kim Il Sung Praised by Foreign Media: A special write-up was posted on the Russian internet homepage Patrioti Moskva with a portrait of smiling President. It said: Human history knows many famous men but there is no such a great man as President Kim Il Sung."

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KCNA: "I wish the fraternal Chinese people great successes in building socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era under the leadership of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China with you at the core, and wish you good health."

KCNA: "Kim Jong Unsent a message of thanks to Xi Jinpingon Wednesday. In the message Kim Jong Un said: On my way back after my first successful visit to our friendly neighbor the People's Republic of China, I'd like to express my heartfelt gratitude to you."

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KCNA: "Xi Jinping, said that the diligent and resourceful Korean people are making redoubled efforts to build a socialist economic power under the leadership of the Workers' Party of Korea headed by Chairman Kim Jong Un."

KCNA: Xi Jinping: "The traditional Sino-DPRK friendship is the unique one in the world that has been sealed in blood, and it provides the two parties and two peoples with happiness just as a luxuriant tree with deep roots and a never-drying spring, he pointed out."

KCNA: "He noted that President Kim Il Sung visited China over 40 times in his lifetime, forging deep friendly feelings with the Chinese leaders of elder generation including Chairman Mao Zedong and Premier Zhou Enlai."

KCNA: "General Secretary Xi Jinping made a speech at a grand banquet arranged in welcome of the China visit by respected Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un."

KCNA: "It is quite natural that the capital of China was chosen for his maiden foreign trip, he noted, adding it is also a noble obligation of him who has to value the DPRK-China friendship as his own life and carry it forward generation after generation."

KCNA: "He said that he was deeply moved by the sincerity and deep consideration shown by Xi Jinpingso that the successful visit would be made in a short period after gladly accepting the proposal for the visit, and noted that he was very thankful for it."

KCNA: "He expressed his heartfelt gratitude to General Secretary Xi Jinping and his wife Peng Liyuan for devoting their time and according warm and cordial hospitality just as they would do for their own brothers and sisters, though being busy with the party and state affairs."

KCNA: "Kim Jong Un said that he made a visit to the People's Republic of China like lightning with the sole desire to invariably maintain the long-standing historical tradition of great DPRK-China friendshipand to creditablydevelop the relationsgeneration after generation."

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KCNA: "Respected Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un made a speech at the grand banquet hosted by Xi Jinping at the Great Hall of the People."

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KCNA: "The luncheon hall where Kim Jong Un and Ri Sol Ju sat face to face with Xi Jinping and Peng Liyuan was overflowing with a harmonious and intimate atmosphere from its beginning to the end."

KCNA: "Xi Jinping and Peng Liyuan told Kim Jong Un and Ri Sol Ju about tea culture of China, and guided them to the luncheon hall."

KCNA: "Respected Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un and his wife Ri Sol Ju were invited to a luncheon hosted by Xi Jinping and his wife Peng Liyuan at Yangyuanzhai of the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse on March 27."

KCNA: "There was an art performance specially prepared by Chinese artistes to welcome Kim Jong Un's China visit. Kim Jong Un and his wife Ri Sol Ju conveyed a floral basket to the performersand mounted the stage together with Xi Jinping and his wifeto have a souvenir picture"

KCNA: "At the banquet Xi Jinping made a congratulatory speech and Kim Jong Un made a reply speech. The banquet proceeded in a comradely, fraternal and amicable atmosphere."

KCNA: "The viewers were impressed by scenes showing the lifetime of the leaders of the elder generation including President Kim Il Sung, leader Kim Jong Il and Comrades Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai, Deng Xiaoping, Jiang Zemin, Hu Jintao and Xi Zhongxun."

KCNA: "Prior to the banquet, they watched a video on the activities of the leaders of the two parties and two countries who provided and nurtured the roots of the DPRK-China friendship."

KCNA: "Kim Jong Un and his wife Ri Sol Ju entered the banquet hall, guided by Xi Jinping and his wife Peng Liyuan. All the participants in the banquet warmly welcomed the supreme leaders of the two parties and two countries."

KCNA: "Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, president of the People's Republic of China, hosted a grand banquet in welcome of the China visit by Kim Jong Unat the Great Hall of the People."

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KCNA: "Kim Jong Un invited, on behalf of the party and government of the DPRK, Xi Jinping to make an official visit to the DPRK at a convenient time and the invitation was accepted with pleasure."

KCNA: "Xi Jinping warmly welcomed Kim Jong Un for visiting China as his maiden foreign trip. He stressed that it is the strategic option and unshakable will of the Chinese party and government to attache importance to and steadily carry forwardthe Sino-DPRK friendship."

KCNA: "Kim Jong Un said that he was pleased to have the first significant meeting with Xi JinpingHe talked about the need to meet often Chinese comrades including Xi Jinping to further deepen friendship and strengthen the strategic communication and tactical cooperation."

KCNA: "He made the following entry in the visitors' book: We can grasp the mightiness of China, a great neighboring country. More excellent scientific successes will be achieved under the wise leadership of the Communist Party of China. Kim Jong Un on March 27, 2018."

KCNA: "Xi Jinping hosted a grand banquet at the Great Hall of the People, warmly welcoming Kim Jong Un's visit to China. On March 27 Kim Jong Un visited an exhibition house showing the signal successes made by the Chinese Academy of Sciences after the 18th CPC Congress."

KCNA: "There were talks between Kim Jong Un and Xi Jinping. At the end of the talks Xi Jinping and his wife Peng Liyuan presented to Kim Jong Un gifts they prepared with sincerity. Kim Jong Un expressed thanks to them."

KCNA: "The motorcade carrying him and his wife headed for the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse, escorted by 21 motorcycles. A ceremony for welcoming Kim Jong Un's visit to China took place with splendor at the Great Hall of the People."

KCNA: "Kim Jong Un, chairman of the Workers' Party of Korea and chairman of the State Affairs Commission of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, paid an unofficial visit to China from March 25 to 28 at the invitation of Xi Jinping."

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"The Chinese government contacted the White House earlier on Tuesday to brief us on Kim Jong Un's visit to Beijing. The briefing included a personal message from President Xi to President Trump, which has been conveyed to President Trump," says @PressSec.

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@Reuters is the latest news outlet to say sources have told it that DPRK leader Kim Jong Un was in China, having arrived in Beijing by train on Monday and leaving earlier today. Both ROK government and @StateDept today said they have not confirmed Kim was there.

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Department of State:[email protected] provides a readout on Under Secretary Tom Shannon's travel to Tashkent, Uzbekistan, where he led the U.S. delegation to the Tashkent Conference on Afghanistan and held bilateral meetings with @president_uz Mirziyoyev and Foreign Affairs Minister Kamilov.

"We are continuing to move forward in that process," says @PressSec in response to question on progress in arranging summit between @POTUS and Kim Jong Un.

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The 15th meeting of the India-U.S. Counterterrorism Joint Working Group was held today in New Delhi. The Indian and the U.S. delegations achieved important progress on counterterrorism cooperation between the two countries.

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At least six people were killed, four others injured in an explosion at an abandoned factory in east China's Shandong Province on Tuesday, according to local authorities. The injured were sent to the hospital and an investigation into the incident is still underway

Uzbek president Shavkat Mirziyoev called for "external forces" stop financing terrorism in Afghanistan.

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KCNA: "It is important to discard the illusion about foreign forces. It is the only way out to solve the national issue through cooperation with the fellow countrymen, not with foreign forces."

KCNA: "It is impossible to remove distrust and confrontation between the north and the south if one follows and cooperates with the outsiders seeking the inter-Korean confrontation and constant tension on the Korean Peninsula and getting frantic with the anti-DPRK provocations."

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KCNA: "If the relations between the north and the south of Korea are to develop as desired by all the fellow countrymen, national cooperation should be realized before anything else."

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KCNA: "The committee decided to organize political and cultural events praising the revolutionary career and exploits of the President in the run-up to his 106th birth anniversary."

KCNA: "Mikhail Panchenko, secretary general of the International Alliance of Societies for the Study of the Juche Idea and Songun Policy in East European and Central Asian Regions, was elected chairman of the preparatory committee."

KCNA: "An international preparatory committee for celebrating the birth anniversary of President Kim Il Sung (Day of the Sun) was inaugurated on March 18."

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Federica Mogherini also calls on the people of Afghanistan to support the election process

Federica Mogherini says stability in Afghanistan will benefit the entire region

Mogherini says the EU fully supports Afghanistan, but in order for central Asia to be stable, Afghanistan needs stability. She said central Asian countries need to cooperate with Afghanistan

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Afghan president Ghani also points out terrorist groups have no geographic boundaries

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Afghan President Ghani also discusses the issue of connectivity and says Central Asia must be linked directly to South Asia

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KCNA: "The present human rights situation in Japan is very deplorable. It is Japan that runs brothels for the old women seeking abnormal sexual pleasure in the heart of Tokyo."

KCNA: Japan "has no right and justification to talk about the human rights as it is the worst human rights abuser."

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KCNA: "Their objective is to make the globe a Western-style liberal world and subordinate and assimilate all the countriesThe 'globalization' much touted by the imperialists isfor the establishment of an international order [to] put the world under their control."

KCNA: "As each country and nation has its own ideology, system and culture, the world 'integration' is absolutely impossibleHowever, the imperialists force 'globalization' on other countries, asserting that itmakes it possible to create global ideology and culture."

KCNA: "'Globalization' is the imperialists' world domination strategy aimed to achieve the hegemonic ambition with ease through the Western view of value, says Rodong Sinmun in an article Monday."

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