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4 days ago | 
myemail.constantcontact.com | Jon Herskovitz |Song Sang-ho |Park Boram |Choe Sang-Hun
Quotes of the Day:"The attack upon Korea makes it plain beyond all doubt that communism has passed beyond the use of subversion to conquer independent nations and will now use armed invasion and war"– President Harry S. Truman"From the onset of the crisis, Truman's concerns were of a global nature. At meeting after meeting he prodded his subordinates to assess where the next Soviet moves might be.
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1 week ago | 
nytimes.com | Choe Sang-Hun
North Korea has long claimed that it defeated the Covid-19 pandemic without vaccines, losing only 74 lives in what it called “a miracle unprecedented in the world’s public health history.” But a report released on Tuesday said the government lied and left many of its people to die without proper health care or access to outside help.
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2 weeks ago | 
nytimes.com | Choe Sang-Hun
South Korea on Wednesday switched off loudspeakers that had been broadcasting K-pop songs, news and other propaganda into North Korea for the past year - one of the first concrete steps taken by the newly elected leader, Lee Jae-myung , to improve inter-Korean ties.
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2 weeks ago | 
myemail.constantcontact.com | Choe Sang-Hun |Kim Eun-jung |Lee Minji |Kim Seung-yeon
Quotes of the Day: "Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless." – Eric Hoffer "Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases." – John Adams "The sole and basic source of our strength is the solidarity of workers, peasants and the intelligentsia, the solidarity of the nation, the solidarity of people who seek to live in dignity,...
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3 weeks ago | 
flipboard.com | Choe Sang-Hun |Jiawei Wang
NowSeoul, South Korea CNN — North Korea says it has successfully refloated a new destroyer that capsized upon launch last month, with state media reporting the damaged vessel will be moved to a dry dock in a different shipyard for repairs. “After restoring the balance of the destroyer early in June, the …
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3 weeks ago | 
nytimes.com | Choe Sang-Hun |Jiawei Wang
Satellite images show the unconventional strategy engineers used to get the 5,000-ton vessel afloat. North Korea's plan to modernize its Navy had an embarrassing setback late last month, when a new warship capsized during its launch. To get the vessel floating again, engineers toiling under the do-or-die mantra of their leader, Kim Jong-un, turned to an old-fashioned solution.
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3 weeks ago | 
telegraphindia.com | Choe Sang-Hun
In his nationally televised inauguration speech at the rotunda lobby hall of the National Assembly, Lee reaffirmed diplomatic cooperation with the Trump administration, with whom he must work with to negotiate over tariffs and maintain its security alliance, and pledged to solidify trilateral cooperation with the US and Japan Choe Sang-Hun Published 05.06.25, 10:44 AM South Korean President Lee Jae-myung speaks during a press conference in Seoul on Wednesday Reuters Within hours of being...
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3 weeks ago | 
nytimes.com | Choe Sang-Hun
Lee Jae-myung será uno de los presidentes más poderosos de Corea del Sur en décadas, pero asume el cargo en un ambiente político peligroso. Si hay una característica que define a Lee Jae-myung, el nuevo presidente de Corea del Sur, es que es un sobreviviente. Ha sobrevivido a cargos penales, a un apuñalamiento casi mortal y a la ley marcial promulgada por su enemigo más acérrimo, el expresidente Yoon Suk Yeol. Ahora se enfrenta a la que puede ser su prueba más dura.
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3 weeks ago | 
nytimes.com | Choe Sang-Hun
Lee Jae-myung's inauguration speech was a sign of the diplomatic maneuvering he will need to pull off to navigate relations with China and the United States. Within hours of being elected South Korea's president, Lee Jae-myung began work on Wednesday by calling for dialogue with its arch enemy, North Korea, to bring peace to the Korean Peninsula, while stressing South Korea's commitment to its security alliance with the United States.
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3 weeks ago | 
english.aawsat.com | Steve Inskeep |Hazem Saghieh |Nadim Koteich |Choe Sang-Hun
The story of Chinese Americans really gets going with one of the great early episodes of globalization. The discovery of gold in California in 1848, brought tens of thousands of fortune seekers from around the world, including some from China. What happened next is the sort of history that many schools, states and the Trump administration have lately deemed dangerous and divisive. Chinese people and their descendants helped to build the country while also enduring generations of abuse.
