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Some welcome news on the trade front for South Korea.

The nation's exports in August jumped eight-point-seven percent on-year, thanks to strong sales of

semiconductors and petrochemical products.

The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy says outbound shipments reached 51-point-two

billion U.S. dollars last month, marking an all-time high for August.

South Korea's exports in the January-to-August period surged nearly seven percent on-year,

another record high.

Imports jumped nine-point-two percent on-year to 44-point-three billion dollars in August

for a trade surplus of almost seven billion dollars.

It marks the 79th month in a row that South Korea has posted a trade surplus.

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South Korea' s exports jump 8.7% y/y in August to US$ 51.2 bil. - Duration: 1:18.

Some welcome news on the trade front for South Korea.

The nation's exports in August jumped 8-point-7 percent on-year, thanks to strong sales of

semiconductors and petrochemical products.

Kim Mok-yeon reports.

The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy says South Korea's outbound shipments reached

51-point-two billion U.S. dollars last month, marking an all-time high for the month of

August.

Exports in the January-to-August period surged nearly seven percent on-year, another record

high.

The ministry attributed the rising trend to the global economic recovery and robust prices

of major export items, including memory chips and petrochemical goods.

By sector, shipments of petroleum products saw the biggest increase in August, jumping

46 percent on-year, followed by semiconductors and steel products.

By country, exports to China posted the largest jump last month, climbing more than 20 percent

on-year.

Shipments to Vietnam and Japan saw the next biggest increases respectively.

Imports jumped nine-point-two percent on-year to 44-point-three billion dollars in August

for a trade surplus of almost seven billion dollars.

It marks the 79th month in a row that South Korea has posted a trade surplus.

Kim Mok-yeon, Arirang News.

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US cancels $300million aid to Pakistan over 'failure to deal with terrorists' - Duration: 4:33.

</form> The US has cancelled $300 million in aid to Pakistan - claiming the government has not done enough to tackle terrorism

  The decision comes after Donald Trump suspended so-called Coalition Support Funds at the start of the year

 At the time, the US President accused Pakistan of rewarding past assistance with "nothing but lies and deceit"

 The Trump administration says Islamabad is granting safe haven to insurgents who are waging a 17-year-old war in neighboring Afghanistan, a charge Pakistan denies

 But U.S. officials had held out the possibility that Pakistan could win back that support if it changed its behavior

 , in particular, had an opportunity to authorize $300 million in CSF funds through this summer - if he saw concrete Pakistani actions to go after insurgents

 Mattis chose not to, a U.S. official told Reuters.  "Due to a lack of Pakistani decisive actions in support of the South Asia Strategy the remaining $300 (million) was reprogrammed," Pentagon spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Kone Faulkner said

 Faulkner said the Pentagon aimed to spend the $300 million on "other urgent priorities" if approved by Congress

 He said another $500 million in CSF was stripped by Congress from Pakistan earlier this year, to bring the total withheld to $800 million

 The disclosure came ahead of an expected visit by U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and the top U

S. military officer, General Joseph Dunford, to Islamabad. Mattis told reporters on Tuesday that combating militants would be a "primary part of the discussion

"  Experts on the Afghan conflict, America's longest war, argue that militant safe havens in Pakistan have allowed Taliban-linked insurgents in Afghanistan a place to plot deadly strikes and regroup after ground offensives

 The Pentagon's decision showed that the United States, which has sought to change Pakistani behavior, is still increasing pressure on Pakistan's security apparatus

 It also underscored that Islamabad has yet to deliver the kind of change sought by Washington

 "It is a calibrated, incremental ratcheting up of pressure on Pakistan," said Sameer Lalwani, co-director of the South Asia program at the Stimson Center think tank in Washington

  Reuters reported in August that the Trump administration has quietly started cutting scores of Pakistani officers from coveted training and educational programs that have been a hallmark of bilateral military relations for more than a decade

  The Pentagon made similar determinations on CSF in the past but this year's move could get more attention from Islamabad, and its new prime minister, Imran Khan, at a time when its economy is struggling

  Pakistan's foreign exchange reserves have plummeted over the past year and it will soon decide on whether to seek a bailout from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) or friendly nations such as China

 "They are squeezing them when they know that they're vulnerable and it is probably a signal about what to expect should Pakistan come to the IMF for a loan," Lalwani said

 The United States has the largest share of votes at the IMF.  Khan, who once suggested he might order the shooting down of U

S. drones if they entered Pakistani airspace, has opposed the United States' open-ended presence in Afghanistan

 In his victory speech, he said he wanted "mutually beneficial" relations with Washington

 A Pakistani official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said he was unaware of a formal notification of the U

S. decision on assistance but said one was expected by the end of September.  Pakistan has received more than $33 billion in U

S. assistance since 2002, including more than $14 billion in CSF, a U.S. Defense Department program to reimburse allies that have incurred costs in supporting counter-insurgency operations

 Pakistan could again be eligible next year for CSF.

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WHY LITTORAL COMBAT SHIP (LCS) IS AN IMPORTANT ADDITION TO U.S NAVY ? - Duration: 4:42.

The U.S. Navy has received delivery of two Freedom-class Littoral Combat Ships (LCS).

These are USS SiouxCity and USS Wichita.

The two vessels are the 14th and 15th LCSs to join the U.S. Navy and the 6th and 7th

of the Freedom-class vessel.

In this video Defense Updates analyses why Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) is an important

addition to the U.S Navy?

Let's get started.

The littoral combat ship (LCS) is a set of two classes the Independence and Freedom.

Construction of the Freedom-class is spearheaded by Lockheed Martin at Fincantieri Marinette

Marine shipyard in Wisconsin, while that of Independence-class ships is led by Austal

USA in Alabama.

These are relatively small surface vessels and basically designed for operations near shore.

During the late 1990s, the U.S. Navy understood that cruisers and destroyers would be vulnerable

to attacks in shallow coastal waters.

Large warships like cruisers and destroyers are designed for open-ocean warfare and not

for shallow water where these can be targeted by high-speed boats, missile-firing fast-attack

craft, small submarines, sea mines, and land and air-launched anti-ship missiles.

The idea behind the littoral combat ship, as described by former Secretary of the Navy

Gordon R. England, is to "create a small, fast, maneuverable and relatively inexpensive

member of the DD(X) family of ships."

If required these ships will absorb an attack and protect the much more expensive cruiser

or destroyers.

The LCS is envisioned to be a networked, agile, stealthy surface combatant capable of defeating

anti-access and asymmetric threats in coastal waters.

Interestingly, the LCS has a modular design.

The vessels can be configured with different modules for specific roles that include anti-submarine

warfare, mine countermeasures, anti-surface warfare, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance,

homeland defense, maritime intercept, special operations, and logistics.

In the long run, the LCSs are expected to slowly replace slower and specialized ships

such as minesweepers and amphibious assault ships.

Freedom class LCSs have a displacement of 3,400 long tons being 115 m in length.

These have a top speed of 87 km/ h, a range of 6,500 km and endurance of 21 days.

In a standard configuration, Freedom-class LCS's armament consists of an 11-cell Raytheon

RIM-116B SeaRAM missile-defense system, BAE Systems Mk 110 57 mm naval gun, and Mark 50

light-weight torpedoes launched from torpedo tubes.

RIM-116B SeaRAM missile-defense system can launch MK 31 Rolling Airframe Missiles that

have a range of 9 km and has a speed of Mach 2.

The 57-millimeter naval gun is designed for close range combat and has a range of 1.7 km.

Mark 50 torpedo is a U.S. Navy's advanced lightweight torpedo for use against fast,

deep-diving submarines.

It has a range of 15 km and speed of 40 knots.

Freedom class LCS also accommodate one MH-60R/S Seahawk helicopter or MQ-8 Fire Scout unmanned

autonomous helicopter.

In future, LCSs will also be armed with a 24-shot vertical launch system that will be

a lunch AGM-114L Longbow Hellfire missiles.

The missile can carry 9 kg warhead and has an 8 km range.

Furthermore, the Anti Submarine Warfare (ASW) warfare package is expected to become available

by next year and the Mine Detection & Clearance (MCM) package by 2020.

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Progress on inter-Korean relations should be in parallel with denuclearization: U.S. State Dept. - Duration: 0:38.

South Korea will be sending a team of presidential envoys to Pyongyang next Wednesday to discuss

a range of issues, including the upcoming inter-Korean summit.

And we now have Washington's response to that.

A spokesperson at the U.S. State Department says progress on inter-Korean relations must

happen in lockstep with denuclearization,... reaffirming Washington's stance that the mending

of Seoul-Pyongyang ties should not be separate from denuclearization efforts.

The official said diplomatic and economic pressure on North Korea must be maintained

to achieve the final, fully verified denuclearization of the regime.

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U.S. and Canada will keep talking after missing a trade deal deadline - Duration: 3:32.

JUDY WOODRUFF: The United States and Canada fail to reach a new free trade agreement by

a self-imposed deadline today.

Instead, President Trump announced that he will sign a pact with Mexico in 90 days, and

that Canada could still join it.

The new agreement, if reached, would replace NAFTA.

It also was reported today that Mr. Trump said in an off-the-record conversation that

the U.S. would make no concessions in the Canada negotiations.

But he told interviewers afterward that saying it publicly would be so insulting that Canada

would balk at any deal.

The president confirmed the comment during an appearance today in Charlotte, North Carolina.

DONALD TRUMP, President of the United States: They actually printed mine off the record.

They said President Trump said, off the record, and then they go on to this.

I said, this is a first.

These are very dishonorable people.

But I said, in the end, it's OK, because at least Canada knows how I feel.

JUDY WOODRUFF: The U.S.-Canada negotiations are set to resume on Wednesday.

And the Canadian foreign minister said she's confident that they can get a deal.

For more on all this, I'm joined by our White House correspondent, Yamiche Alcindor.

So, Yamiche, this was supposed to be deadline day, self-imposed.

They came up to the brink, but now they're going to keep talking.

Why?

YAMICHE ALCINDOR: They're going to keep talking because essentially that this is really good

economics for both countries.

Canada depends on NAFTA for a lot of their economic growth, so it would be really hard

for Canada to move forward without NAFTA.

And the United States, one of their biggest trading partners is Canada, so they also want

to continue to try to talk and get a deal done.

And then President Trump made a promise to voters.

He campaigned all across the country talking about NAFTA, saying that he was going to get

something better for workers.

So he wants to do that.

So this extension allows them more time to try to do that.

JUDY WOODRUFF: So how are they going to do this?

I mean, there was this deadline, as we said.

How do they make this work?

YAMICHE ALCINDOR: Well, now, essentially, the Trump administration is saying to Congress,

we think that we can at least give you 90 days that we will have an agreement.

They are pushing to get this agreement done before the Mexican government changes over.

There's going to be a new president in November, after November 30.

So they want to try to get this done.

But the U.S. is saying that they're on solid legal ground, that they think that they can

do this with Congress.

But the Canadian foreign minister had a press conference today.

And she wouldn't respond to questions about how President Trump is impacting these talks.

That doesn't look good.

Even though she said that this is positive and that things are going forward on solid

ground, she didn't want to talk about the president of the United States.

JUDY WOODRUFF: And just quickly, Yamiche, speaking of that, I mean, we just quoted with

the president had to say.

I don't want to say what I believe about Canada.

It would be so insulting.

How is that?

Do we know how that's affecting what's going on?

YAMICHE ALCINDOR: Well, it's hard to say, because, again, the Canadian foreign minister

doesn't want to touch anything that President Trump is saying.

That said, you have Bloomberg saying, we didn't publish anything that was off the record.

I talked to a representative from Bloomberg today who had no comment on the president's

specific tweet.

Both parties definitely want something done on NAFTA.

Bernie Sanders on the Democratic side and a lot of Republican senators have said to

voters all across the country that NAFTA is a problem and they want to get something done.

So we will just have to see whether or not they can make this deal happen.

But they told Congress that it's going to be 90 days.

The president said that he would go forward with Mexico.

They have hinted that they would go forward without Canada.

JUDY WOODRUFF: Up to the precipice.

Now it keeps going.

YAMICHE ALCINDOR: Yes.

JUDY WOODRUFF: Yamiche Alcindor, thank you.

YAMICHE ALCINDOR: Thanks.

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U.S., Canada trade talks on NAFTA to resume next week after Trump remark leaks - Duration: 0:45.

A media leak of an off-the-record comment by U.S. President Donald Trump about Canada

has rocked the ongoing NAFTA talks in Washington, but officials say negotiations will resume

next week after the two sides missed the Friday deadline.

A bizarre set of circumstances played into the delay... after "off the record" comments

by President Trump to Bloomberg News were leaked to the Toronto Star.

Trump told Bloomberg he's unwilling to compromise with Canada on revising NAFTA.

President Trump later hit out at Bloomberg on Twitter, but said "at least Canada knows

where I stand."

He had given Canada a Friday deadline to agree to a NAFTA replacement after his administration

reached a preliminary agreement with Mexico this week.