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South Korean President Moon Jae-in and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un met Friday in a historic summit, agreeing to work toward a "common goal" of denuclearization. The two leaders also are
paving the way for a meeting between Kim and President Trump. Kim became the first North Korean leader since the 1950-53 Korean War to step into South Korea as he and Moon shook hands,
smiling, in the so-called peace village of Panmunjom on the border. "We are at a starting line today, where a new history of peace, prosperity, and inter-Korean relations is being written,"
Kim said. In the U.S., the parents of Otto Warmbier filed a wrongful death lawsuit accusing North Korea of torturing their son, leading to his death last year.
A jury on Thursday found comedian and iconic TV dad Bill Cosby guilty on three counts of aggravated indecent assault for drugging and molesting a former friend, Andrea Constand, at his
Philadelphia-area home in January 2004. The verdict came on the second day of deliberations by jurors in Cosby's sexual assault retrial. His first trial ended in a mistrial after jurors
deadlocked. Cosby, 80, has maintained his innocence. Judge Steven O'Neill said the actor could remain free on his $1 million bail pending his sentencing, which typically would occur 60 to 90
days after the conviction. Cosby could get up to 10 years in prison for each of the three counts. His lawyers indicated they plan to appeal.
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Harold Maass is a contributing editor at The Week. He has been writing for The Week since the 2001 debut of the U.S. print edition and served as editor of TheWeek.com when it launched in
2008. Harold started his career as a newspaper reporter in South Florida and Haiti. He has previously worked for a variety of news outlets, including The Miami Herald, ABC News and Fox News,
and for several years wrote a daily roundup of financial news for The Week and Yahoo Finance.