Two Koreas open first liaison office since World War II
9/14/2018, 7:22:06 AMLaunch of office comes few days before leaders from both sides meet for a summit in North Korea. ✔ About 15 to 20 South Korean officials will work at the office, sleep at a nearby lodging facility in Kaesong during the weekdays and take turns staffing the office on weekends ✔ The liaison office's opening came before South Korean President Moon Jae-in and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un meet for the third time this year next week to discuss denuclearisation of the peninsula and other issues
Life inside North Korea from women in factories to children at school shown in fascinating photos
9/14/2018, 12:00:45 AMTHESE images are a portal into the real North Korea – the one Kim Jong-un wants to hide from the world. They give a peek behind the smokescreen of loyal citizens worshipping the Supreme Leade… ✔ Reuters 26 A soldier leaves after visiting the natural history museum in Pyongyang REUTERS 26 An employee works at a silk factory during a government organised visit for foreign reporters AFP or licensors 26 Spectators listen to a television news brodcast of a statment by North Korean leader Kim Jong-un Getty Images - Getty 26 A little girl looks on as North Koreans travel on the Pyongyang metro Mindy Tan 26 The brown pile in this image, presumably shot at the main shop in the village, is salt Mindy Tan 26 Portraits of the city's two great leaders are commonplace, especially at town halls Mindy Tan 26 A pair of women eat in a restaurant in Pyongyang, North Korea Mindy Tan 26 Men carrying briefcases walk through the city in North Korea at night He captured families playing at arcades, kids swimming in water parks and women lounging on the beach in what could have been staged scenarios
John Bolton is wrong to attack International Criminal Court
9/14/2018, 4:24:11 AMundefined ✔ In over a decade, the ICC has opened 11 investigations, of which 10 are focused on African states ✔ But that is because so many African states are parties and have initiated proceedings ✔ The problem is that Donald Trump’s America is a little short on righteousness
N Korea denies existence of hacker accused of cyber crime wave
9/14/2018, 4:40:42 AMundefined ✔ The US and North Korea are engaged in tentative preparations for a second high-level summit after an initial meeting between Mr Trump and Mr Kim in June did not result in the denuclearisation of the regime ✔ On Thursday, the US announced further sanctions on two North Korean-controlled IT companies based in Russia and China
In a remote district, starving Yemenis live off leaves
9/14/2018, 6:29:13 AMCAIRO (AP) — In a remote pocket of northern Yemen, many families with starving children have nothing to eat but the leaves of a local vine, boiled into a sour, acidic green paste. ✔ That especially works against the local population in Aslam, where many belong to the Muhammasheen, Arabic for the Marginalized, a community of darker-skinned Yemenis shunned by the rest of society and left to work as garbage collectors, menial laborers or beggars
N. Korea says U.S. ‘smear campaign’ over hacking undercuts Trump-Kim accord
9/14/2018, 6:00:04 AMAt the same time, the two Koreas opened their first ever joint liaison office in the North. ✔ Nevertheless, the fact that the statement was signed by a researcher rather than a Foreign Ministry official does somewhat lessen its impact ✔ We look forward to a day when such harmonious image of life will spread beyond Kaesong across the entire Korean Peninsula
Putin's power play in Asia-Pacific with China
9/14/2018, 6:29:38 AMundefined ✔ China and Russia are also among the states involved in creating alternative fora to the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, including the New Development Bank ✔ Andrew Hammond (andrewkorea@outlook.com) is an associate at LSE IDEAS at the London School of Economics
Pentagon questions presence of Russian warships off Syrian coast
9/14/2018, 3:05:33 AMThe Pentagon is monitoring and questioning the presence of over a dozen Russian Navy warships that are currently deployed in the Eastern Mediterranean, within striking distance of Syria. ✔ The UN's Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs issued a report Wednesday documenting some of the alleged airstrikes against hospitals ✔ Fighting terrorism does not absolve warring parties of their core obligations under international law, Guterres said while also directly appealing to Iran, Russia and Turkey to spare no effort to protect civilians, preserve basic services such as hospitals, ensure full respect for international humanitarian law
Drugged up goats dangled from helicopter as authorities remove them from national park
9/14/2018, 6:00:34 AMAuthorities in Washington have begun using helicopters and trucks to relocate hundreds of non-native mountain goats from Olympic National Park. ✔ Chaideer Mahyuddin, AFP/Getty Images Fullscreen Bavarian herdsmen in traditional dress drive their livestock during the return of the cattle from the summer pastures in the mountains near Oberstdorf, Germany, Thursday, Sept ✔ You may also want to view these photo galleries: Replay Last SlideNext Slide
Rising trade war with U.S. the mere 'last push' for Japan and China to improve ties, but officials still cautious
9/14/2018, 6:13:52 AMPrime Minister Shinzo Abe and Chinese President Xi Jinping have long understood the need to improve bilateral ties for their own national interests. ✔ On Wednesday in Beijing, Hiroaki Nakanishi, the head of Keidanren, Japan’s most powerful business lobby, met with Chinese Premier Li Keqiang at the Great Hall of the People ✔ In March, China scrapped presidential term limits, allowing Xi to rule indefinitely Xi’s power is so stable that now he can advocate policies friendly toward Japan, he said
At summit, South Korea's Moon seeks to play 'chief negotiator'...
9/14/2018, 6:20:10 AMNext week's inter-Korean summit will test whether South Korean President Mo... ✔ U.S. officials say they have already made their own conciliatory gestures, including halting joint military exercises with South Korea ✔ For the United States, there’s too little trust in North Korea to make an end of war announcement just with their promise to declare the facilities, a diplomatic source in Seoul told Reuters on condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the matter ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles
Book reviews: The Only Girl, The Accidental Further Adventures Of The Hundred-Year-old Man
9/14/2018, 3:34:34 AMThe Only Girl: My Life And Times On The Masthead Of Rolling Stone - I AM A big fan of books written by rock journalists. But while men can get away with largely factual anecdotes about blokey magazines and going around America on a tour bus with decrepit rock legends, women seem to be expected to offer something more personal. ✔ They didn’t have enough to do because they didn’t have the cash to do it with ✔ If real names can be attached to property, it becomes very obvious, very fast, which property has been stolen ✔ Let me tell you about the very rich, F Scott Fitzgerald wrote in a 1926 short story
Chinese official: China educating, not mistreating, Muslims
9/14/2018, 4:01:28 AMGENEVA--China is not mistreating Muslims in Xinjiang province but is putting some people through tra ✔ Your per capita CCTV is much higher than that for China's Xinjiang Autonomous Region ✔ like your children go to vocational-training schools to get better skills and better jobs after graduation ✔ You can see that in Afghanistan, in Syria, in Pakistan, in Iraq, and many other countries
Indie rockers Side Effect channel the resilient spirit of Myanmar's youth
9/14/2018, 6:29:40 AMThey once worked in fear of Myanmar’s military government. Now one of the country’s most feted bands are pushing ever harder for expressive freedom ✔ The lead singer of one of Myanmar’s most popular bands has spent his life songwriting in code ✔ In 2011, the band attracted the attention of the international press when $2,800 (£2,135) raised through the US crowdfunding site Indiegogo for the release of their debut album was frozen by the US due to its economic sanctions against Myanmar
Rival Koreas open 1st liaison office for better communication
9/14/2018, 6:35:22 AMSEOUL--The rival Koreas on Friday opened their first liaison office near their tense border to facil ✔ They will deal with an equal number of North Korean officials stationed at the office to discuss various inter-Korean issues, exchange messages from their capitals and facilitate civilian exchange programs, the ministry said in a statement ✔ Moon is to fly to Pyongyang next Tuesday for a three-day trip that he says will focus on facilitating talks between the United States and North Korea and finding ways to ease a military standoff along the Koreas' heavily fortified border
Friday's TV highlights: 'Animals' on HBO
9/14/2018, 3:59:30 AMTV highlights for Fri., Sept. 14, 2018 ✔ (N) 7 a.m. KCBS Today Carrie Underwood performs ✔ Parkland shooting survivors Sawyer Garrity and Andrea Pena; Grae Drake, Rotten Tomatoes; 3OH!3 performs ✔ Customized TV listings are available here: www.latimes.com/tvtimes Click here to download TV listings for the week of Sept
Could Trump meet Kim in New York this month? AP takes a look
9/14/2018, 1:36:05 AMSEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Get ready for Trump-Kim Part Two. In recent weeks it's become clear that Donald Trump wants to meet with Kim Jong Un again, and the North K ✔ SEOUL, South Korea (AP) Get ready for Trump-Kim Part Two ✔ Could that meeting happen, as some in Seoul have pushed for, on the sidelines of a U.N ✔ gathering of world leaders in New York later this month ✔ Here's a look then at whether the always hectic annual U.N
Koreas agree to demilitarize JSA ahead of summit
9/14/2018, 7:03:01 AMundefined ✔ Earlier, the two Koreas agreed to transform the DMZ into a peace zone ✔ Cheong Wa Dae said Friday the upcoming in-person meeting between Moon and Kim will mainly cover issues on how to further reduce military tensions and develop inter-Korean relations on multiple fronts
Opinion | Trump is protecting our country from a sham of an international court
9/14/2018, 12:05:44 AMThe International Criminal Court is a hindrance to democratic change. ✔ When those protections were rejected, Helms introduced the American Servicemembers’ Protection Act to bar U.S. cooperation with the ICC and to punish the court for any efforts to prosecute Americans ✔ Read more: The Post’s View: With all the world’s crises, this is John Bolton’s top concern
Norwegian police finds belongings of WikiLeaks man missing since August
9/14/2018, 4:20:17 AMNorwegian police have found items of missing Julian Assange's associate Arjen Kamphuis at sea in northern Norway more than three weeks after he disappeared. ✔ WikiLeaks was launched by Australian Julian Assange in 2006 as a web-based outlet for would-be leakers ✔ In July 2010, it released more than 90,000 classified US military documents on the war in Afghanistan and before publishing 400,000 more secret US files on the Iraq war ✔ Our new podcast series from the team behind Phoebe's Fall View episodes
Emily Thornberry: ‘Britain has disappeared into the Brexit black hole’
9/14/2018, 4:24:51 AMundefined ✔ © Eva Vermandel The 58-year-old is the bookmakers’ early favourite ✔ The legacy is there, in Emily’s resilience in particular ✔ It is as if we have disappeared into the Brexit black hole ✔ Jim Pickard is the FT’s chief political correspondent; Henry Mance is an FT political correspondent
Trump insists US under 'no pressure' to strike deal with China
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JAN MOIR on how the hit BBC drama is beginning to stretch credulity
9/14/2018, 2:51:19 AMWith its charismatic lead actors and sexy scenes, it is no surprise that Bodyguard has been a hit on BBC1. After all, what’s not to love? Keeley Hawes stars as Julia Montague, a powerful Home Secretary. ✔ It is the unstoppable floodwater seeping under the door of reason ✔ Her passion for her protection officer would have undone her, had the forces of darkness not reached her first ✔ Everybody, including moi, says it every single blessed year ✔ Dragging out the festive season for three months just spoils things for everyone
Analysis | How Trump has sunk the hopes of refugees
9/14/2018, 5:11:43 AMThe White House's steady dismantling of the U.S. refugee resettlement program is coming into focus. ✔ From a purely economic or security perspective, resettlement is not an issue that warrants topping even an immigration skeptic’s priority list, noted a new report from the International Crisis Group ✔ That ebbing of influence may prove to be one of the more stark legacies of the Trump presidency
Elie Seckbach has pioneered a new way to cover boxing with his viral videos
9/14/2018, 3:01:03 AMElie Seckbach operates ESNEWS, a boxing-centric YouTube channel with more than 327,000 subscribers. He has uploaded more than 71,000 videos that have collectively amassed more than 614 million views. ✔ Gennady Golokvin Rematch: Live updates from Las Vegas A couple of hours before the Wednesday news conference for the undercard fighters on the Alvarez-Golovkin card, Seckbach hailed a taxi at the MGM Grand and asked to be driven to the nearby boxing gym in Las Vegas
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