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Bidens pick of envoy to North Korea means request for dialogue: Moon

ABCDEFG SEOUL, May 26 (Yonhap) -- President Moon Jae-in is scheduled to hold a luncheon meeting Wednesday with the heads of South Koreas five major political parties at Cheong Wa Dae, according to his office. Moon, during the meeting, will brief them on the outcome of his summit talks with U.S. President Joe Biden last week and request bipartisan support for follow-up measures. The president has "a lot" to explain to the leaders of the ruling and opposition parties, including summit agreemen...

Seouls ballot is yet to come, but candidates from each major party have been confirmed. The ruling Democratic Partys Park Young-sun is looking to merge with Kim Jin-ai, the candidate from Open Democratic Party. Unifying the candidacies of two rivals from the opposition bloc will be a key factor in how the election will unfold. A former Seoul mayor himself, Oh Se-hun won the primary for the main opposition People Power Party and another major candidate is Ahn Chul-soo, a former Presidential ...

Friends well. most of the protests many of the protestors are actually still under 18 and they still convos and if they couldnt vote and the results could have been like even it could have been a more even bigger victory for the democrats so that sounds like a pretty upbeat reaction how about in the case of your friends and family glacier what are they saying my friends are actually very surprised about. their a little bit more pessimistic they are saying that now we have one district council so...

The mid-term elections of 2010. we start tonight at the fox big board with the balance of power. in the senate, as weve been telling you, republicans need ten seats to take control. could they still get to the number realistically? we take a look at it now. these are the seats up for play. republicans and democrats. now, we told you before if republicans ran the table, and had all of the wins that are possibly within reach, this election season, you would have -- go back here and hit this. a net...

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Open democratic seat has popular republican mayor reid comfortably ahead of the diemic nominee zelle. non-partisan analyst say republicans will pick up more than 3 needed for the house -- 39 needed for the house majority. >> before labor day, we had republicans picking up 35 seats. in the final analysis we increased that number to 55. >> reporter: two other well-respected analysts agree starly cook and stu rothenburg say they could pick up 50 maybe 60 democrat incumbents and knock them off. that...

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Common ground and build on them. otherwise the country im afraid will go more polarized and just be harder and harder for anybody to get things done. >> reporter: new york has 29 congressional district. democrats control 26. two are republican and one is open to. including district 19, g.o.p. looks to pick up as many as seven from democrats. new york first district in the hampton on long island where tim bishop is in a toss-up against randy altschuler. in 13, democraticing freshman michael mcmah...