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Third American Arrested In North Korea
North Korea detained a third American citizen over the weekend as tensions con- tinue to rise between the two nations.
Tony Kim, a Korean- American academic who also goes by Kim Sang-duk, was arrested on Saturday as he and his wife were about to leave the country from Py- ongyang International Air- port. Kim was in North Korea for approximately a month, doing relief work and teaching accounting at the Pyongyang
Korean-American Tony Kim has been arrested.
University of Science and Technology.
Otto Warmbier, a 22- year-old student, was arrested in the beginning of 2016 and
sentenced to 15 years of hard labor, and Kim Dong Chul, a 62-year-old missionary, was detained last October and sen- tenced to 10 years hard labor.
”We understand that this detention is related to an in- vestigation into matters that are not connected in any way with the work of PUST," the statement says. "We cannot comment on anything that Mr. Kim may be alleged to have done that is not related to his teaching work and not on the PUST campus.”
Pres. Trump Has Not Taken ANY Foreign Trips In 100 Days In Office; Compared To Obama’s 9
Donald Trump Won’t Fire Sean Spicer Because He Gets Good Ratings
The 45th and 44th presidents of the U.S. walk during the January 2017 inauguration. The night and day factor.
As President Donald Trump's first 100 days in of- fice come to a close this week, he has not once been where V. P. Pence or Secretary of State Rex Tillerson have gone — on foreign trips repre- senting the United States, preferring instead to visit the states that helped propel him to the presidency and of course spending many week- ends in Florida at Mar-a- Lago.
Trump's first announced foreign trip will be in May to Brussels for a NATO meeting.
His decision not to travel abroad reflects a combination of an election that focused on a return to "America First," and on the homebody ways of a 70-year-old who spends a lot of time golfing at clubs he owns. But it also marks a new era in American relations with its allies and enemies alike, and the emergence of a world with a smaller Ameri- can presence, or at least one where if you want to meet the president of the United States, you're coming to him
— not the other way around, according to BuzzFeed.com.
At the same point in April in his first term, former Presi- dent Barack Obama had visited 9 countries including the UK, France, Germany, Turkey, Iraq and Mexico. For- mer President George W. Bush had visited Mexico and Canada, as well as 23 states compared to Trump's 7.
"Part of it is that he's so deeply unpopular overseas, which is the exact opposite of Pres. Obama,” a source close to the administration said of the stay-at-home POTUS. "Does it really serve him to go over and face mas- sive protests? After he ran on America First it can be chal- lenging to go to the rest of the world."
A Trump administration official disputed that his America First approach has played into his lack of travel, noting that comparing him to past presidents doesn't work precisely because he came to Washington to shake up tra- ditional approaches.
Donald Trump isn’t going to let go of Sean Spicer, the White House press secretary, despite the fact that Spicer has made multiple public mis- takes.
The reason? Television rat- ings.
“I’m not firing Sean Spicer,” the Washington Post reported Trump as say- ing during a White House lunch in March. “That guy gets great ratings. Everyone tunes in.”
That much is true: Spicer has attracted about 4.3 mil- lion viewers, outstripping even soap operas like “The Bold and the Beautiful” and ABC’s “General Hospital.”
White House Press Sec. Sean Spicer has made multiple public mistakes.
However, the comments made by the president seem to have been made before April 11, when Spicer stunned the nation with the horrible gaffe of saying that “someone as despicable as Hitler ... didn’t even sink to using chemical weapons” in comparing Assad in Syria to Hitler to
justify the missile strikes against the war-torn nation.
The Washington Post re- ported that Trump’s obses- sion with ratings has spilled over into his policymaking, with lawmakers and foreign visitors alike scheduling tele- vision appointments as a way to appeal to Trump.
Trump’s argument ap- pears to be that TV networks have limited time to fill, so if they’re focusing on a story, it’s important.
“He is very attuned to the fact that cable networks have 24 hours a day that they need to fill — and if you’re interest- ing, you are gold,” Newt Gin- grich said.
Feds Planning To Arrest WikiLeaks Founder, Julian Assange
U. S. authorities have pre- pared charges to seek the ar- rest of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
The Justice Department in- vestigation of Assange and WikiLeaks dates to at least 2010, when the site first gained wide attention for posting thousands of files stolen by the former U. S. Army intelligence analyst now known as Chelsea Man- ning.
Prosecutors have struggled with whether the First Amendment precluded the
WikiLeaks founder Julian As- sange has apparently lost his shield of the First Amendment and will be arrested.
prosecution of Assange, but now believe they have found a way to move forward.
During President Barack Obama's administration, At- torney General Eric Holder and officials at the Justice De- partment determined it would be difficult to bring charges against Assange because WikiLeaks wasn't alone in publishing documents stolen by Manning.
Several newspapers, includ- ing The New York Times, did as well. The investigation con- tinued, but any possible charges were put on hold, ac- cording to U. S. officials in- volved in the process then.
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