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[Exclusive] Korean military set to ban iPhones over 'security' concerns
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Korean, Romanian leaders discuss defense tech, nuclear energy
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[Graphic News] 77% of young Koreans still financially dependent
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S. Korea calls on Japan to confront history amid Yasukuni Shrine visit
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Yoon’s jailed mother-in-law excluded from latest parole list
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Hybe and Min Hee-jin, CEO of Hybe sublabel Ador, lock horns
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North Korea fires several short-range ballistic missiles into sea: JCS
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[Pressure points] Leggings in public: Fashion statement or social faux pas?
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Samsung, SK hynix investors dump shares on Nvidia crash
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Yoo Jae-suk, Yoo Yeon-seok team up in 'Whenever Possible'
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[Laurence Kotlikoff] U.S. squabbles over peanuts to tame elderly
The time to disagree agreeably is over for health care policy in America.U.S. President Barack Obama and Congress last week approved a measly budget cut of $39 billion and no tax increases. That leaves us with a massive deficit equal to 9 percent of gross domestic product and a debt-to-GDP ratio that will exceed 90 percent within six years.Our politicians touted this deal as the biggest compromise
April 13, 2011
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America’s Arab world comeback
AMMAN ― Without much fanfare, the past few months have seen no anti-American demonstrations and no burning of American flags across the Arab world. Arabs seem increasingly willing to accept ― and even applaud ― the Obama administration’s policy toward the region.Of course, Arabs are still unhappy with the United States’ continued bias toward Israel. Its inability to end the 44-year military occupa
April 13, 2011
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[Michael Smerconish] Birthers’ conspiracy plot: Plants are legion
Every time I hear Donald Trump talk about President Obama’s birth certificate, I think of O.J. Simpson.The conspiracy theory invented by Simpson’s defenders was every bit as loopy as the fantasies concerning Obama. Remember the O.J. defense ruse?Years before the murder, conspirators would have had to incite Simpson to commit domestic abuse, laying a foundation for a future motive.Several weeks bef
April 13, 2011
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[Peter Lovenheim] Social experiment: Know thy neighbor
When I was growing up in upstate New York in the late 1950s and ‘60s, people didn’t exercise in public the way they do now. You didn’t see adults jogging, biking or power-walking on the street.Except one. Nearly every day, a middle-age woman of slight build walked rapidly through our suburban neighborhood, usually with her head down. No one knew her name, so we called her the Walker. She usually w
April 13, 2011
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[Shahid Javed Burki] India-Pakistan diplomatic test match
LAHORE ― In 2005, during a visit to Islamabad, I met Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf and told him of a conversation I had had with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh of India. The Indian leader, whom I have known for years, had said that he wanted better relations with Pakistan as one his legacies.Musharraf’s response was interesting. He said he had the same aspiration, but that it would need effo
April 13, 2011
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Let’s call Mexico’s drug cartels what they are
U.S. Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, gets it. When drug cartel thugs order mass kidnappings, explode bombs, murder scores of public officials, behead victims or hang them from overpasses, and post signs in border-area cities warning of more violence if they don’t get their way, that’s not mere drug trafficking. That’s terrorism.Finally, someone in Washington is taking action in response to the unpre
April 12, 2011
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Empower the FCC to protect Internet access
Even the Federal Communications Commission’s timid assertion of rights and protections for consumers on the Internet continues to inspire the wrath of Republicans.The U.S. House of Representatives cleared the way for a resolution disapproving of the FCC’s net-neutrality guidelines adopted in December. Debate and a vote on the resolution, a formal device used by Congress to block actions taken by f
April 12, 2011
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[Jonathan Alter] Shutdown dance just a warm-up?
The root canal Americans experienced over the averted government shutdown may seem painless compared with the operation that’s coming: debate over raising the debt ceiling followed by House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan’s plan to overhaul the government.The political fates of President Barack Obama and most of Congress depend on the outcome. While the stakes for the 2011 budget skirmish has
April 12, 2011
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[David Ignatius] The paradoxical power of the weak
CAIRO ― The weak have a new power in the modern media age: Their suffering is visible to millions of well-intentioned people around the world who are likely to support humanitarian intervention to rescue them from their plight. But there’s a dangerous corollary to this new power of the weak: It can lead disorganized groups to start fights with established authorities that they can’t finish ― unles
April 12, 2011
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[Lindsey M. Burke] Value of scholarships in U.S. school system
Imagine being a low-income parent in the District of Columbia. As a parent living below the federal poverty line in one of the country’s most expensive cities, the options available for your child’s education are limited.There are the D.C. Public Schools, which rank 51st in the nation on measures of academic achievement, but first in terms of school violence. And there are D.C. Public Charter Scho
April 12, 2011
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[Albert Hunt] Ryan’s ‘courageous’ budget cuts need reality test
Paul Ryan is John McCain, circa 2000, or Barack Obama in the last presidential election or Bob Strauss and Jim Baker for their entire careers: the darling of the Washington commentariat.The chairman of the House Budget Committee, who released a budget last week that calls for dramatic spending cutbacks to politically sensitive programs such as Medicare, has been called a “rebel with a cause” by th
April 12, 2011
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[Kim Seong-kon] What to do with so many jobless Ph.D.s
There were times when academic doctors were so rare in Korea that it was an honor to be called Dr. Kim or Dr. Park. When Rhee Syngman, a Princeton Ph.D., was elected the first president of South Korea in 1948, the Korean people found their political leader’s academic title so fascinating that they preferred to call him Dr. Rhee instead of President Rhee. Indeed, there were days when if a person re
April 12, 2011
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Excessive self-restraint may hinder recovery
It will soon be one month since the Great East Japan Earthquake struck the nation on March 11. The prevailing atmosphere in Japan is one of serious and sombre jishuku (self-restraint).Various artistic activities, sports events and even traditional festivals have been canceled or postponed.A great many people died in the earthquake and subsequent tsunami. An even larger number are still missing, an
April 11, 2011
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[Gregory Rodriguez] Obama: Black and more so
It could have been a historic teaching moment. Instead, President Obama, the most famous mixed-race person in the world, checked off only one race ― black ― last year on his census form. And in so doing, he missed an opportunity to articulate a more nuanced racial vision for the increasingly diverse country he heads.The president also bucked a trend. Last month, the Census Bureau announced that th
April 11, 2011
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[Joseph E. Stiglitz] Ignoring lessons from Japan’s disaster
DUBAI ― The consequences of the Japanese earthquake ― especially the ongoing crisis at the Fukushima nuclear power plant ― resonate grimly for observers of the American financial crash that precipitated the Great Recession. Both events provide stark lessons about risks, and about how badly markets and societies can manage them.Of course, in one sense, there is no comparison between the tragedy of
April 11, 2011
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[Jameel Jaffer] National security: When secrecy is a weapon
In a recent interview with Newsweek magazine, former CIA lawyer John Rizzo spoke with surprising candor about the CIA’s “targeted killing” program. He discussed the scope of the program (about 30 people are on the “hit list” at any given time), the process by which the CIA selects its targets (Rizzo was “the one who signed off”) and the methods the CIA uses to eliminate them (“The Predator is the
April 11, 2011
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[Meghan Daum] Let’s all get off the term ‘on steroids’
Not so long ago, the way to convey that something was extreme was to simply call it extreme (“X” for short.) There were extreme sports (think bungee jumping), extreme tourism (think traveling in order to bungee jump) and, of course, the “Extreme Makeover” television franchise, which took self-improvement and home improvement to new levels by throwing in hefty doses of plastic surgery and new const
April 11, 2011
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[Jacques Attali] Bangladeshi government’s shameful treatment of Yunus
PARIS ― Rarely does a man in the mold of Muhammad Yunus come along who has devoted his life to the least fortunate among us.Instead of living the peaceful and comfortable life he could have had, he chose to engage in a crusade against poverty through the use of micocredit that has succeeded far beyond any expectations.Yet, as happens so often in history, no man seems to be a prophet in his own cou
April 11, 2011
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Hope amid the obstacles in Haiti government
The victory of Michel “Sweet Micky” Martelly in Sunday’s runoff election for the Haitian presidency brought his supporters into the streets to celebrate what many called a complete change from the last 25 years of rule. At this point, however, that’s more wishful thinking than reality.Many obstacles stand in the way of President-elect Martelly’s supporters realizing the positive change that they s
April 10, 2011
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[Joseph S. Nye Jr.] A shift in perceptions of power
Last year, when China broke off military-to-military talks after the Obama administration’s long-expected sale of defensive arms to Taiwan, a high American official asked his Chinese counterpart why China reacted so strongly to something it had accepted in the past. The answer: “Because we were weak then and now we are strong.”On a recent visit to Beijing, I asked a Chinese expert what was behind
April 10, 2011