Monthly Archives: April 2016
North Korean Children Spurn Candy Bags From Kim Jong Un
North Korean Children Spurn Candy Bags From Kim Jong Un The state-issued confections are being secretly sold at marked-down prices. By Elizabeth Shim | April 29, 2016 at 3:08 PM http://www.upi.com/Top_News/ World-News/2016/04/29/North- Korean-children-spurn-candy- bags-from-Kim-Jong-Un/ 7511461953218/?utm_medium= email&utm_source=flipboard Kim Jong Un visiting a North Korean cookie factory in November 2014. Kim issued a gift bag of sweets to commemorate an […]
New USFK Chief Takes Command With Pledge To Be ‘Ready To Fight Today’
With his current title as the chief USFK commander, he also serves as the commander of the United Nations Command and the Republic of Korea-U.S. Combined Forces Command. … South Korean Defense Minister Han Min-koo said he is delighted to have the new commander “who is most fit to effectively manage the challenges and the […]
5 Foreign Policy Pointers For The Next President
stripes.com Read Later 5 Foreign Policy Pointers For The Next President by James Jay Carafano 2 min read original When it comes to voting in elections, Americans weigh domestic and foreign affairs differently. On domestic issues, they side with candidates who share their views. On foreign policy, they pick candidates they trust and then expect those […]
Don’t Kill the Pentagon’s Quadrennial Defense Review-Fix It
Excerpts: By the time the 2006 QDR was produced, the George W. Bush administration had developed an approach for what it was calling the “long war” with transnational extremism, so that report did at least encapsulate the core ideas of the new strategy. The reports that followed, however, mostly reverted back to pasting together […]
No, Russia Is Not In Decline – At Least Not Any More And Not Yet
Financial times No, Russia Is Not In Decline – At Least Not Any More And Not Yet Simon Saradzhyan, Belfer Center, Harvard | Apr 28 2016 14:51Share A survey of recent writings on Russia by western scholars reveals a widely-held view that the largest of the 15 post-Soviet republics has continued to decline in the 21st […]
U.S. Aircraft Carrier Denied Entry To Hong Kong, American Consulate Official Says
http://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy-defence/article/1940083/us-aircraft-carrier-denied-entry-hong-kong-american?utm_source=edm&utm_medium=edm&utm_content=20160429&utm_campaign=breaking_news U.S. Aircraft Carrier Denied Entry To Hong Kong, American Consulate Official Says Refusal comes after US defence chief Ash Carter visited the USS Stennis in South China Sea PUBLISHED : Friday, 29 April, 2016, 8:17pm UPDATED : Friday, 29 April, 2016, 8:52pm Minnie Chan minnie.chan@scmp.com 24 Apr 2016 Beijing denied a US aircraft […]
How Jihad John Managed To Evade Security Forces As He Made His Way To Syria To Join ISIS
How Jihad John Managed To Evade Security Forces As He Made His Way To Syria To Join ISIS www.fortunascorner.com James Dunn writes in the April 27, 2016 edition of London’s Daily Mail Online, that “an ISIS militant who claims to have traveled to Syria from Britain with killer Jihad John has […]
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