All posts tagged "topstories"

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    South Koreans Feel Cheated After U.S. Carrier Miscue

    By CHOE SANG-HUN https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/19/world/asia/aircraft-carrier-south-korea.html?smprod=nytcore-iphone&smid=nytcore-iphone-share SEOUL, South Korea — When news broke less than two weeks ago that the Trump administration was sending the aircraft carrier Carl Vinson to the Korean Peninsula, many South Koreans feared a war...

    • Posted April 20, 2017
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  • Last Saturday, North Korea celebrated its founder’s birth with the annual parade showing off the nation’s military strength. Credit Wong Maye-E/Associated Press
    The North Korea-Trump Nightmare

    Nicholas Kristof New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/20/opinion/the-north-korea-trump-nightmare.html?smprod=nytcore-iphone&smid=nytcore-iphone-share President Trump is scary in many ways, but perhaps the most frightening nightmare is of him blundering into a new Korean war. It would begin because the present approach of leaning on...

    • Posted April 20, 2017
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  • The aircraft carrier Carl Vinson. It’s not easy to misplace a flotilla of warships, but it wasn’t headed last week where the president said. Credit Z.A. Landers/U.S. Navy, via Reuters
    Paging the Trump Armada

    Gail Collins  New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/20/opinion/paging-the-trump-armada.html?smprod=nytcore-iphone&smid=nytcore-iphone-share Let’s consider the case of the wrong-way warships. Last week, North Korea was planning a big celebration in honor of its founder’s birthday. For North Koreans, holiday fun is short on...

    • Posted April 20, 2017
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    Challenge accepted: All-American ‘Korean’ group seeks glory in K-pop land

    SEOUL, April 17 (Yonhap) — Over the past few years, South Korean pop music, or K-pop, as a whole has grown into a legitimate cultural force to be reckoned with. And while the scene has moved and...

    • Posted April 19, 2017
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    Singer Jung Joon-young, T-ara’s Jiyeon deny dating rumor

    SEOUL, April 19 (Yonhap) — South Korean singer and TV celebrity Jung Joon-young and Jiyeon, a member of girl group T-ara, on Wednesday denied a news report that the two were going out. “After confirming with Jiyeon,...

    • Posted April 19, 2017
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    South Korea’s Moment of Truth

    By THE EDITORIAL BOARD New York Times The impeachment, ouster and now indictmentof South Korea’s president after months of protests, and the presidential race this has spawned, are about as much political drama as any nation could wish for. Yet all...

    • Posted April 19, 2017
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    Criticism of Beijing’s North Korea Policy Comes From Unlikely Place: China

    By CHRIS BUCKLEY New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/18/world/asia/china-north-korea-war.html?smprod=nytcore-iphone&smid=nytcore-iphone-share   BEIJING — When China’s best-known historian of the Korean War, Shen Zhihua, recently laid out his views on North Korea, astonishment rippled through the audience. China, he said with a bluntness that is rare...

    • Posted April 19, 2017
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