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Spectacular snow sculpture festival in Japan

Sapporo: Japan's spectacular eight day snow festival opened in Sapporo on Monday. This time the festival is showcasing about 200 snow and ice sculptures.

Spectacular snow sculpture festival in Japan

Sapporo snow festival

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Published : Feb 4, 2019, 1:35 PM IST

Sapporo snow festival

Many tourists showed up on the first day of the festival and took photos in front of the big sculptures featuring Star Wars characters and other popular culture figures.

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World number one female tennis player Naomi Osaka's sculpture was also one among them as Osaka's grandfather hails from Hokkaido where the Sapporo Snow Festival is being held.

The festival is held in three locations in Japan's northernmost island Hokkaido and more than two million people are expected to visit the fest.

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Sapporo snow festival

Many tourists showed up on the first day of the festival and took photos in front of the big sculptures featuring Star Wars characters and other popular culture figures.

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Also Read: Two killed after plane crashes into California house

World number one female tennis player Naomi Osaka's sculpture was also one among them as Osaka's grandfather hails from Hokkaido where the Sapporo Snow Festival is being held.

The festival is held in three locations in Japan's northernmost island Hokkaido and more than two million people are expected to visit the fest.

Also Read: 11 dead, several injured after landslide in Bolivia

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(On date and location of planned meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un)
"I won't tell you yet, but you'll be finding out probably (at the) State of the Union (Address), or shortly before. The meeting is set. He's looking forward to it. I'm looking forward to it. We've made tremendous progress. If you remember, before I became president it looked like we were going to war with North Korea. Now we have a very good relationship. The hostages are back. Ok. The remains (of US soldiers killed in the Korean war) are starting to come back (to the United States)."
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(On comments by US intelligence chiefs that North Korea would not be likely to give up its nuclear weapons)
"That's what the intelligence chief thinks."
(Host: "Why is he wrong?)
Trump: "And I think there's a good possibility of that too. But there's also a very good chance that we will make a deal. I think he's also tired of going through what he's going through. He has a chance to have North Korea be a tremendous economic behemoth. It has a chance to be one of the great economic countries in the world. He can't do that with nuclear weapons and he can't do that on the path they're on now. I like him. I get along with him great. We have a fantastic chemistry. We have had tremendous correspondence that some people have seen and can't even believe it. They think it's historic. And we'll see what happens now. That doesn't mean we're going to make a deal. But certainly I think we have a very good chance of making a deal. And one of the reasons is because North Korea has a chance, being located between Russia, China and South Korea. What the location. I'm in the real estate business. What a location. They have a chance to be an economic power house."
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(On whether US troops will stay in South Korea)
"I mean who knows. Maybe some day. Who knows? But it's very expensive to keep troops there. You do know that. We have 40,000 troops in South Korea. It's very expensive. But I have no plans. I've never even discussed removing them."
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U.S. President Donald Trump told CBS News that he's looking forward to his planned upcoming meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
He did not say when or where this meeting would be.
Trump acknowledged that U.S. intelligence chiefs say it's not likely Kim Jong Un would give up his country's nuclear weapons program.
However, he said, North Korea has a chance to be an "economic powerhouse," and he sees this as a motivating factor.
Trump said there are no plans to remove U.S. troops from South Korea and the idea has not been discussed.
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