All posts tagged "topstories"

  • Ri Yong-ho, center, the foreign minister of North Korea, at a dinner party for the participants of the summit meeting in Manila on Sunday. He held a round of talks with his counterparts from China, South Korea and Russia. Credit Yonhap, via European Pressphoto Agency
    A Rare Round of Diplomacy From North Korea’s Top Diplomat

    By GARDINER HARRIS https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/07/world/asia/north-korea-asean-tillerson.html   MANILA — A Southeast Asian diplomatic meeting quietly turned into the first real multiparty bargaining session in eight years to tackle North Korea’s nuclear program, as the country’s top diplomat held a rare round...

    • Posted August 8, 2017
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    Our Broken Economy, in One Simple Chart

    By DAVID LEONHARDT https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/08/07/opinion/leonhardt-income-inequality.html   Many Americans can’t remember anything other than an economy with skyrocketing inequality, in which living standards for most Americans are stagnating and the rich are pulling away. It feels inevitable. But it’s not....

    • Posted August 8, 2017
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  • President Trump salutes a soldier on his way to Marine One at the White House this month. Credit Brendan Smialowski/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
    Getting Trump Out of My Brain

    David Brooks  New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/08/opinion/getting-trump-out-of-my-brain.html Last week The Washington Post published transcripts of Donald Trump’s conversations with foreign leaders. A dear friend sent me an email suggesting I read them because they reveal how Trump’s mind...

    • Posted August 8, 2017
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  • Japanese tanks during a 2016 exercise in Gotemba, southwest of Tokyo. Japan’s government said on Tuesday that North Korea may have already acquired nuclear warheads. Credit Eugene Hoshiko/Associated Press
    North Korea’s Alarmed Neighbors Consider Deploying Deadlier Weapons

    By JONATHAN SOBLE and CHOE SANG-HUNAUG.  https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/08/world/asia/north-korea-japan-missile-south.html TOKYO — North Korea’s rapidly advancing nuclear program has prompted politicians in Japan and South Korea to push for the deployment of more powerful weapons, in what could lead to a regional arms...

    • Posted August 8, 2017
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  • The United Nations Security Council unanimously voted on Saturday to impose new sanctions on North Korea. Credit Mary Altaffer/Associated Press
    North Korea Rails Against New Sanctions. Whether They Will Work Is Unclear.

    By JANE PERLEZ and RICK GLADSTONE https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/07/world/asia/north-korea-responds-sanctions-united-states.html   The Trump administration has hailed the latest United Nations sanctions against nuclear-armed North Korea as the most severe yet, and the North’s fury over the penalties suggested they carried some sting. In...

    • Posted August 8, 2017
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  • In this photo taken by the Associated Press on Aug. 6, 2017, Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Ryu Hyun-jin throws a pitch against the New York Mets during a Major League Baseball game at Citi Field in New York. (Yonhap)
    Dodgers’ Ryu Hyun-jin collects 4th win of season vs. Mets

    SEOUL, Aug. 7 (Yonhap) — Ryu Hyun-jin of the Los Angeles Dodgers has collected his fourth win of 2017 after throwing a scoreless start against the New York Mets. Ryu improved to 4-6 after holding the Mets...

    • Posted August 7, 2017
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    N. Korea’s foreign minister claims S. Korea’s offer for talks lacks sincerity

    MANILA, Aug. 7 (Yonhap) — North Korea’s foreign minister dismissed South Korea’s recent offer for talks as “lacking sincerity” during his brief encounter with Seoul’s top diplomat on the sidelines of an Asian security forum in Manila...

    • Posted August 7, 2017
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