North Korea needs a new approach
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Trump nearly sent tweet that could have sparked war with North Korea, Watergate journalist says
9/11/2018, 6:16:03 AMCould a single tweet spark a nuclear war? U.S. President Donald Trump may have narrowly avoided such a scenario had he sent out a missive he drafted that N ✔ All they want to (do) is protect everybody … that we pay for ✔ Tokyo can and does further its position through a nonconfrontational approach with the Trump White House by finding other ways to mitigate economic disparities such as by purchasing more arms, he added
U.S. Identifies Remains of Two Service Members Returned From North Korea
9/11/2018, 5:56:19 AMThe U.S. has identified the remains of two service members among the 55 boxes returned by North Korea this summer, officials from the Defense POW/MIA Accountability Agency said. ✔ Dr. Jennie Jin, the Korean War project leader at the Defense POW/MIA Accountability Agency, examines artifacts at the Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii ✔ Remains from the first 23 boxes have either a light blue tag or a beige one, the latter indicating a strong candidate for DNA testing
Russia holds largest war games since Soviet era
9/11/2018, 5:41:57 AMRussia will begin its largest war games since the Cold War on Tuesday, drilling hundreds of thousands of troops alongside forces from its growing ally China. ✔ Russia will begin its largest war games since the Cold War on Tuesday, drilling hundreds of thousands of troops alongside forces from its growing ally China ✔ It's clear that such efforts can be directed at only one country, and that's United States, because they're so massive, said Vasily Kashin, an expert in Russia-China relations at the Higher School of Economics
Afghan Taliban prepare for new peace talks with U.S.: sources
9/11/2018, 7:25:30 AMThe Taliban are preparing to send a delegation for further talks with U.S. officials about ending the conflict in Afghanistan, two officials involved with the process said on Tuesday, adding that the meeting could address a possible prisoner swap. ✔ PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - The Taliban are preparing to send a delegation for further talks with U.S. officials about ending the conflict in Afghanistan, two officials involved with the process said on Tuesday, adding that the meeting could address a possible prisoner swap ✔ You may know Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanakzai was deputed in the Qatar office on acting charge basis ✔ The top leadership is now planning to appoint someone else in his place, one said ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles
First two U.S. troops from North Korean remains will be identified...
9/11/2018, 5:13:50 AMThe U.S. military is close to identifying the first two American troops from the 55 boxes of human remains from the 1950-53 Korean War that were handed over by North Korea in July, U.S. officials leading the forensic analysis said on Monday. ✔ REUTERS/Phil Stewart The IDs will be made officially in the next couple of days, said John Byrd, the director of scientific analysis at the U.S. Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency ✔ U.S. troops suffered heavy casualties there against Chinese forces ✔ It’s a huge battle, said Jin, who estimated that 1,700 of the missing U.S. forces from the Korean War came from that fight alone ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles
From Siberia to the Mediterranean, Russia to hold largest military drills in its history
9/11/2018, 5:49:07 AMHundreds of thousands of Russian troops will take part in the country's largest ever military drills Tuesday, in a massive show of force featuring Chinese soldiers that has rattled the West. ✔ President Vladimir Putin is expected to attend Vostok-2018 after hosting an economic forum in Russia's far eastern city Vladivostok where his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping is one of the prominent guests ✔ NATO said that Vostok-2018 demonstrates Russia's focus on exercising large-scale conflict ✔ Ukraine and the Baltic states said the true number was far bigger
Koreas to hold military talks ahead of their leaders’ summit
9/11/2018, 4:17:45 AMSEOUL--South Korea said Tuesday that it will hold military talks with North Korea this week to discu ✔ North Korean leader Kim Jong Un recently told vising South Korean officials that he remains committed to a nuclear-free Korean Peninsula and said he still has faith in U.S. President Donald Trump ✔ They also agreed to try to find ways to build up mutual trust and prevent armed clashes between their militaries, according to South Korean officials
Are US 'Intel' Geniuses Ginning Up ANOTHER Syria Gassing Hoax to Distract From Their Legal Jeopardy at Home?
9/11/2018, 6:29:54 AMThe author is a prominent American social critic, blogger, and podcaster, and one of our all-time favorite pessimists. We carry his articles regularly on RI. His writing on Russia-gate has been highly entertaining. ✔ The author is a prominent American social critic, blogger, and podcaster, and one of our all-time favorite pessimists ✔ I’ll believe that when I see it on Glenn Greenwald’s Twitter feed ✔ But the DC Swamp is unnerved by Sessions’ extraordinary absence of presence on the scene
Myanmar's crimes upon crimes
9/11/2018, 6:18:43 AMundefined ✔ Journalists Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo sought only to reveal to the world the horrors endured by Myanmar's Rohingya Muslim minority, who've been driven to exile in Bangladesh by the hundreds of thousands, if they weren't first massacred in what a United Nations investigation last month declared genocide committed by government security forces ✔ The above editorial appeared in the New York Daily News
SKorea's Moon calls for 'bold decisions' ahead of Kim summit
9/11/2018, 4:58:19 AMSEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea's president on Tuesday urged both North Korea and the United States to "make bold decisions" to break a deepening diplomatic impasse over the ✔ SEOUL, South Korea (AP) South Korea's president on Tuesday urged both North Korea and the United States to make bold decisions to break a deepening diplomatic impasse over the North's nuclear ambitions, saying he'll continue to act as mediator ✔ We need to do everything we can to make the most of this moment of opportunity, Biegun said at the start of his meeting with South Korean nuclear envoy Lee Do-hoon
N Korean leader Kim asks Trump for another meeting in letter
9/11/2018, 6:23:13 AMU.S. President Donald Trump received a "very warm, very positive" letter from North Korean leader Kim Jong Un asking for a second meeting and the White House is looking at scheduling one, White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders said on Monday. The two countries have been discussing North Korea's nuclear programmes… ✔ In South Korea, officials nurtured hope that next week's inter-Korean summit could provide renewed momentum to nuclear negotiations, after last month's setback when Trump cancelled a visit to Pyongyang by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo due to a lack of progress
White House working on a second meeting between Trump and Kim Jong Un
9/11/2018, 7:14:25 AMPresident Donald Trump has received a request from North Korean leader Kim Jong Un for a follow-up to their historic June summit, and planning is in motion to make it happen. ✔ Trump recently called off a planned visit by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to North Korea, citing lack of progress toward eliminating its nuclear arsenal ✔ Last month, the UN atomic watchdog said it had 'grave concern' about the continuation and development of North Korea's nuclear program
What is the GRU?
9/11/2018, 4:46:05 AMIt has been linked to the annexation of Crimea and the poisoning of Sergei Skripal, but its power could be waning ✔ When the KGB learnt of an audacious British operation to tap Soviet communications by digging a tunnel into East Berlin, it did not bother to tell the GRU that 25 of its telephone lines had been compromised for over a year ✔ Dig deeper Britain identifies two Russians as suspects in the Skripal poisoning (Sep 6th 2018)
As Russia launches the biggest war games ever with China, the Pentagon will be watching 'very closely'
9/11/2018, 6:29:32 AMRussia launches a week of massive military exercises in the far east of the country this week and the Pentagon will be watching the "war games" very closely, one expert told CNBC. ✔ Because (Russia has) an experienced military that understands expeditionary operations whereas China is a little bit new to that and the culture of China has not demonstrated itself to be overtly aggressive in a military way against important powers like the U.S. So, I think the Pentagon is watching very closely but they're looking at it (Russia and China's military cooperation) as a long, incremental process, Bloomfield, who served as a national security official in three previous administrations, noted
U.S. denounces legitimacy of International Criminal Court
9/11/2018, 4:26:47 AMAmerica's long-running reluctant relationship with the International Criminal Court came to a crashing halt on Monday as decades of U.S. suspicions about the tribunal and its global jurisdiction spilled into open hostility, amid threats of sanctions if it investigates U.S. troops in Afghanistan. National security adviser John Bolton denounced the… ✔ Al-Bashir remains at large, as does Ugandan warlord Joseph Kony, who was among the first rebels charged by the court in 2005 ✔ Others have quit: Burundi and the Philippines, whose departure, announced earlier this year, takes effect next March ✔ This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
US issues fresh warning to airlines about using Iranian airspace
9/11/2018, 4:46:45 AMTensions ramped up between Tehran and Washington after President Donald Trump pulled out of a landmark nuclear deal with Iran in May and reimposed sanctions on the Islamic Republic last month. ✔ Daniel Slim | AFP | Getty Images Passengers waiting to board a Delta airlines plane at La Guardia International Airport in New York ✔ Although the reopening of Iraqi airspace in November last year has provided additional routing options .. ✔ Flight Service Bureau said that could present problems in the event of an unplanned landing in Iran for medical or technical reasons
Bolton: International Criminal Court 'is already dead to us'
9/11/2018, 5:09:27 AMWASHINGTON (AP) — America's long-running reluctant relationship with the International Criminal Court came to a crashing halt on Monday as decades of U.S. suspicions about the tri ✔ WASHINGTON (AP) America's long-running reluctant relationship with the International Criminal Court came to a crashing halt on Monday as decades of U.S. suspicions about the tribunal and its global jurisdiction spilled into open hostility, amid threats of sanctions if it investigates U.S. troops in Afghanistan ✔ Bush took office in 2001, his administration promoted and passed the American Service Members Protection Act, which sought to immunize U.S. troops from potential prosecution by the ICC
African cities surge to top of global growth league
9/11/2018, 5:30:58 AMundefined ✔ In 2007, the village chief sold it to him for the equivalent of about $450 ✔ From 2015 to 2045, McKinsey found, 24m more Africans would be living in cities each year, compared to 11m in India and 9m in China ✔ In the Ministry of Housing and Town Planning, Abdramane Diawara, the director, is well aware of the challenges
The Netherlands withdraws support for Syrian rebels as Assad's forces 'WILL WIN SOON'
9/11/2018, 4:43:40 AMHE NETHERLANDS has withdrawn its support for Syrian militant groups and the White Helmets because President Bashar al-Assad’s troops “will win soon”, it was announced by Dutch ministers to MPs on Friday. ✔ A Dutch man is being prosecuted in Rotterdam for joining Jabhat al-Shamiya in 2015, a group that has received assistance from the government ✔ They also provided €12.5 million (£11million) to the civilian rescue service, the White Helmets, and €14.8 million (£13million) to the Access to Justice and Community Service Programme, which supports local police forces
Russia and China hold the biggest military exercises for decades
9/11/2018, 4:46:04 AMAmerica should beware ✔ Although China has limited appetite for investing in Russia, and considers its actions in Ukraine reckless, it has exploited Russia’s rift with the West to enhance its own influence ✔ In the long run, however, America should be more concerned about China’s economic and political expansion into eastern Europe and the former Soviet space, including Central Asia and even the Baltic states
Analysis | The White House’s new attack on the international system
9/11/2018, 5:13:56 AMJohn Bolton launched a scathing attack on a U.N.-mandated international court. ✔ It was a tidy summation of his worldview, anchored by an ironclad faith in American military power and a deep suspicion of the international bodies that could check it ✔ Bolton also announced the shuttering of the Washington office of the Palestine Liberation Organization, in part because Palestinian leaders had called on the ICC to investigate Israel's expansion of settlements in the West Bank ✔ And there is a strong possibility they will succeed
Who killed Osama Bin Laden and what are the CIA files about him?
9/11/2018, 7:52:53 AMTERROR mastermind Osama Bin Laden was the world’s most wanted man before his death in May 2011. The al-Qaeda leader had been in hiding for years after he plotted the 9/11 attacks — but how di… ✔ In a televised address on the night of the raid, President Obama said: I can report to the American people and the world that the United States has conducted an operation that killed Osama Bin Laden, the leader of al-Qaeda and a terrorist who is responsible for the murder of thousands of innocent men, women and children
How to Teach 9/11 to Students With No Memory of It
9/11/2018, 4:47:02 AMFor students in school today, 9/11 is history. ✔ A lot of teachers in my region have been very hesitant to take a lot of the controversial aspects of it on because many of the kids in their classrooms have parents who are deployed, Stoddard says ✔ 9, 2016: This article has been updated to correct the name of professor Jeremy Stoddard
Why you must travel the Silk Road in your lifetime
9/11/2018, 7:24:18 AMundefined ✔ In the past 12 months, Chinese president Xi Jinping has waxed not so much lyrically as logistically about the Silk Belt and Road Initiative ✔ William Dalrymple’s In Xanadu (1989), written during a break from university, describes the young author retracing Marco Polo’s journey from Jerusalem to meet the fabled Kublai Khan ✔ Lonely Planet’s Central Asia (2014) is a well-researched introduction to the Stans
'A gray cloud of debris rolled violently toward us...'
9/11/2018, 5:35:13 AMJohn Avlon, who worked as Mayor Rudy Giuliani's speechwriter, recounts the horror of the World Trade Center attack -- and the weeks that followed, as he helped craft the eulogies for fallen New York City service members. Overnight, the city was embraced as the nation's symbol of resilience, the indomitable heart of America, he writes. ✔ It was an avalanche in Lower Manhattan, reaching 2.4 on the Richter scale ✔ In fact, our devotion to those ideals has only been strengthened by the selfless heroism we have seen ✔ Much has been taken from us, but much remains; and even in the dark, a great deal of light still shines upon the city of New York
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