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Sections SEARCH Skip to content Skip to site index Politics Subscribe Log In Subscribe Log In Advertisement Supported by ByMichael D. Shear May 27, 2018 WASHINGTON — Technical and diplomatic experts from the United States have crossed into North Korea to meet with their counterparts, American officials said on Sunday, as part of an intense behind-the-scenes effort to resurrect the possibility of a summit meeting between the two countries’ leaders. Led by Sung Kim, a veteran diplomat with years of experience negotiating with North Korea, the team is seeking detailed commitments from Kim Jong-un, the North Korean leader, about his regime’s willingness to abandon its nuclear weapons program. News of the delegation was first reported by The Washington Post. In Singapore, White House officials said, Joe Hagin, a deputy White House chief of staff, is leading a separate delegation to work out the logistics of a meeting … [Read more...] about U.S. Officials Enter North Korea to Lay Groundwork for Summit Meeting

Sections SEARCH Skip to content Skip to site index Middle East Subscribe Log In Log In Today’s Paper Advertisement Supported by ByThomas Gibbons-Neff and John Ismay Oct. 22, 2018 WASHINGTON — The death of an Army soldier after a blast in southern Afghanistan this month was the result of a series of oversights by a military unit that frequently used a small strip of desert as a patrol route and observation post, prompting Taliban militants to bury explosives nearby, military officials familiar with the matter said. The death of the soldier, Specialist James A. Slape, casts an unwelcome spotlight on the United States’ prolonged presence in Afghanistan. Despite the Pentagon’s claims that American troops are mostly relegated to advising and assisting their Afghan counterparts, they still undertake some of the same types of missions common at the height of the conflict, when more than 100,000 Western troops … [Read more...] about Series of Lapses Led to Army Soldier’s Death in Afghanistan

Sections SEARCH Skip to content Skip to site index Politics Subscribe Log In Log In Today’s Paper Politics | How 18 Democratic Candidates Responded to a Climate Policy Survey Advertisement Supported by ByThe New York Times April 18, 2019 The New York Times asked all 18 declared Democratic presidential candidates for their views on a number of policy options related to climate change. [Read the article here.] The candidates unanimously supported recommitting to the Paris Agreement, restoring President Barack Obama’s environmental regulations and increasing funding for clean-energy research. But their responses diverged on five other potential policies: increasing the United States’ emissions reduction targets under the Paris Agreement; setting a national renewable energy standard; putting a price on carbon; enacting new regulations beyond Mr. Obama’s; and expanding the use of nuclear … [Read more...] about How 18 Democratic Candidates Responded to a Climate Policy Survey

Sections SEARCH Skip to content Skip to site index Politics Subscribe Log In Log In Today’s Paper Politics | Trump in Asia: ‘We’re the Hottest Show in Town’ Advertisement Supported by White House Memo ByPeter Baker July 1, 2019 SEOUL, South Korea — At one point during his eventful swing through Asia, President Trump took time out to slam Jimmy Carter. Responding to criticism from the former president, Mr. Trump hurled his usual insults. Then he unleashed this cutting barb: Mr. Carter, he said dismissively, was “the forgotten president.” Whatever else may be said about Mr. Trump, that is one thing he seems absolutely determined not to be. The man who emblazoned his surname on buildings, golf courses, airplanes and even bathrobes, cuff links, steaks, neckties and men’s fragrances appears intent on inscribing “Trump” in large, bright letters in the … [Read more...] about Trump in Asia: ‘We’re the Hottest Show in Town’

Sections SEARCH Skip to content Skip to site index Middle East Log In Log In Today’s Paper Middle East | U.S. Poised to Send 150 Troops to Patrol Northeastern Syria Advertisement Supported by ByEric Schmitt Sept. 12, 2019, 2:51 p.m. ET WASHINGTON — The Pentagon is preparing to send about 150 troops to northeastern Syria to conduct ground patrols with Turkish forces, reversing at least temporarily a withdrawal from Syria that President Trump ordered last December. The new troop deployment, which has not been previously reported, is part of an expanding series of military and diplomatic steps the United States has taken in recent weeks to defuse escalating tensions with Turkey, a NATO ally, over American support for Syrian Kurdish fighters. Those fighters led the ground war against the Islamic State, a shared enemy, but Turkey considers them terrorists. The United States currently has just under 1,000 … [Read more...] about U.S. Poised to Send 150 Troops to Patrol Northeastern Syria