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[Newsmaker] Trump asserts all agree he has ‘complete power’ to pardon
President Donald Trump said Saturday that he has ``complete power‘’ to issue pardons, an assertion that comes amid investigations into Russian interference in last year‘s presidential election. It was one of many topics that appeared to occupy the president’s mind as the day broke. On a day when most people are ready to forget about the issues that nagged them during the week, Trump revved up. In an early morning flurry of 10 tweets, he commented about pardons, former presidential rival Hillary
World News July 23, 2017
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Justice minister vows no pause in prosecution reform
Justice Minister Park Sang-ki said Wednesday he will not give up until he fulfills the duty of revamping the prosecution which is long blamed for being swayed by politics. "No matter how deep you dig a well, it's nothing other than a failure unless you find water in the spring. I ask all of you to join and take the lead in completing the task toward reform to the end," he said in an inauguration speech.Park was officially appointed by President Moon Jae-in on Tuesday. The former university profe
Politics July 19, 2017
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[Timothy L. O’Brien] Trump’s son is acting just like his dad
Chris Stewart, a Republican congressman from Utah, told CNN today that Donald Trump Jr., deserves “credit” for releasing -- on Twitter, of course -- a fascinating batch of compromising emails about how he helped his father’s campaign during last year’s election. That’s one way to look at it.Another way is that the president’s eldest son just stepped in something stinky. And, given that he’s a chip off the old block, he may not have the wit or the awareness to realize that he may have caused hims
Viewpoints July 13, 2017
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Russian fugitive gets life sentence for killing Korean woman
A Russian man who fled to his home country in 2015 after killing a South Korean woman near Seoul has been sentenced to life imprisonment by a Russian court, the Ministry of Justice said Wednesday.The unidentified Russian national, 37, was referred to trial after being arrested in June 2016 by Russian police at the request of South Korean police and Interpol, said the ministry.The man was convicted of strangling a 30-year-old South Korean woman to death inside an apartment elevator in Bucheon on
Social Affairs July 12, 2017
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[Trudy Rubin] US student’s death should shine light on North Korea’s rights abuses
Anyone with human feelings is outraged by North Korea’s murder of Otto Warmbier.The term “murder” is justified, although we don’t know exactly how this bright, adventurous student was brutalized after his arrest on a tourist visit to North Korea. No other word describes the crime of sentencing Otto to 15 years of hard labor for allegedly stealing a propaganda poster, then holding him for more than a year while he lay in a coma — and cutting off any diplomatic access to him.Yet note that, unlike
Viewpoints June 26, 2017
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'Fight For My Way' leads early-week TV drama race
"Fight For My Way," KBS 2TV's coming-of-age romantic series, led the Monday-Tuesday late night drama race, while two smaller rivals shows duked it out hard for second place, according to data Wednesday.Episode 10 of "Fight For My way" aired on Tuesday recorded 11.2 percent viewership nationwide, according to Nielsen Korea.(KBS)Starring Park Seo-joon and Kim Ji-won, the show centers around a group of four young adults, who say they have "third-rate lives"due to their mundane and mediocre lives, b
Television June 21, 2017
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Cheong Wa Dae launches nomination committee amid apparent impasse
The presidential office Cheong Wa Dae was set to launch a nomination committee headed by its chief of staff Tuesday, a move prompted by an apparent political impasse caused by disputes over earlier nominees.The new nomination committee was to hold its first meeting at 4 p.m., chaired by presidential chief of staff Im Jong-seok, a Cheong Wa Dae official said.The committee is expected to discuss possible candidates for the new justice minister. (Yonhap)President Moon Jae-in has appointed six new C
Politics June 20, 2017
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Sex crimes more than doubled over past decade
The number of reported sex crimes in 2015 has more than doubled over the past decade, according to a new governmental report, triggering calls for enhanced measures to prevent them. While other felonies -- arson, robbery and murder -- saw a decline during the period, sex crimes soared by 117.6 percent from 14,277 in 2006 to 31,063 in 2015, according to the 2016 White Paper on Crime published by Institute of Justice. The total number of offenses increased by 10.5 percent from 1,829,211 in 2006
Social Affairs June 13, 2017
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[Jan-Werner Mueller] Theresa May’s other citizens of nowhere
British Prime Minister Theresa May has, of her own volition, stripped her Conservative Party of its governing parliamentary majority by calling an early election. If she stays on as prime minister, she will also strip British citizens of the political and economic rights conferred by membership in the European Union. But May’s habit of stripping away people’s rights and powers is not new: For years, she has been normalizing the practice of stripping certain Britons of their citizenship altogethe
Viewpoints June 12, 2017
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Comey boosted case for obstruction charges against Trump: experts
WASHINGTON (AFP) -- Former FBI director James Comey‘s scathing testimony has boosted the case for obstruction of justice charges against President Donald Trump, legal experts say.But more evidence is needed to prove that the president attempted to stymie the investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election, which has several Trump campaign aides in its crosshairs.With stronger evidence, Trump could face the same sort of criminal allegations that forced president Richard Nixon to resign i
World News June 12, 2017
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[Newsmaker] Comey says Trump pressured him on Russia probe
Fired FBI Director James Comey said Wednesday that Donald Trump urged him to drop a probe into former national security adviser Michael Flynn, prompting fresh allegations that the US president tried to obstruct justice. In a bombshell revelation on the eve of his hotly anticipated appearance on Capitol Hill, Comey said Trump had raised the sensitive FBI probe into Russia‘s alleged meddling in the US election in multiple discussions, leaving him deeply uneasy over whether the president was attemp
World News June 8, 2017
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[Newsmaker] Comey: Trump pressured on Russia probe
Fired FBI Director James Comey will testify under oath Thursday that President Donald Trump repeatedly pressed him for his "loyalty'' and directly pushed him to "lift the cloud'' of investigation shadowing his White House by declaring publicly the president was not the target of the probe into his campaign's Russia ties. In this combination photo, President Donald Trump, left, appears in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on May 10, and FBI Director James Comey appears at a news c
World June 8, 2017
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Public sentiment clashes with law over verdicts on two homicide cases
Different verdicts on two murders have created a public uproar in South Korea since last week, with many raising doubts over whether the sentences on the accused were fair enough to get justice for the victims and their families. While the two cases may look similar, legal experts here said the perpetrator's intent to kill was what led to the contrasting ruling, which is never to be condoned in a law-abiding society. A murder suspect (center) accused of killing his girlfriend and burying the bo
Social Affairs June 7, 2017
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[Mac Margolis] Mexico’s most dangerous profession
In most countries, panic buttons are devices used by elderly folk who may need emergency care, or parents who want to keep tabs on wandering children and pets. But in Mexico, they’re part of the survival toolkit for journalists covering the drug war, corruption and other man-made miseries, enabling them to send a silent distress signal to authorities. Such is the state of news gathering in Latin America's second largest nation, which has overtaken Colombia -- now emerging from half a century of
Viewpoints May 29, 2017
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[Philippine Daily Inquirer] Martial law untruths
A nation’s thoughts turn to Marawi City, even as fears about the possible consequences of the declaration of martial law rise in the hearts of many. These fears are not, as some Mindanao-based supporters of President Duterte claim, shared only by people from Luzon. One of the first to issue a statement against the president’s declaration was a group based in Davao City. The first legal challenge against the declaration might come from a group of Muslim lawyers. For the exact same reason that Min
Viewpoints May 28, 2017
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Cold cases unfrozen
A defining cold case that left a bloody stain in South Korean history is the Hwaseong murders -- a series of rapes and murders that happened in the late 1980s, when the country did not even have a lab capable of DNA analysis. “The Hwaseong killings is the most devastating cold case South Korea has failed to solve,” said Kwon Il-yong, considered South Korea’s first criminal profiler. “I wish I was a part of its investigative process, so I could have solved it.” Police authorities investigating t
Social Affairs May 26, 2017
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[Robert Park] Viable and principled alternative to war
In an April 27 interview, US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson made plain that a denuclearized Korean Peninsula was the Trump administration’s only goal. Tillerson also clarified that Trump isn’t interested in human rights, nor the anguished yearning of millions of Koreans for a reunified Peninsula. He declared, “We have been very clear as to what our objectives are. And equally clear what our objectives are not. And we do not seek regime change, we do not seek a collapse of the regime, we do no
Viewpoints May 15, 2017
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[Trudy Rubin] Trump is playing into Putin’s hands
The irony was too rich. President Trump meets with the Russian foreign minister the day after he fires the man who’s heading the investigation into his campaign’s possible collusion with Russia on election meddling. You needn’t be clairvoyant to imagine what Sergei Lavrov must be thinking: “The Kremlin doesn’t need to waste time trying to undermine Americans’ faith in their institutions. Trump is doing that fine on his own.” Trump’s decision to ax FBI Director James Comey will fray Americans’ fa
Viewpoints May 15, 2017
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[Election 2017] Gay rights neglected on Korea campaign trail
With only two weeks to go before the May 9 presidential election, candidates are busy wooing voters of various ages, backgrounds and religions. But there is one particular group that they are not competing to win over -- sexual minorities.While homosexuality is not a crime in South Korea, LGBT people -- lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender -- live largely on the fringes of society as the majority of Koreans remain either indifferent to or intolerant of homosexuality.Knowing this, most candidat
Social Affairs April 26, 2017
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Presidential debate turns nasty as candidates focus on political assaults
South Korea's presidential campaign turned nasty Sunday as candidates focused on attacking rivals during their third TV debate over alleged wrongdoings, from kowtowing to North Korea to assisting in an attempted rape and fanning malicious rumors.The five candidates met in a joint debate hosted by the National Election Commission to discuss issues related to foreign policy, national security and political reforms. But they spent much of the two-hour discussion at the KBS broadcasting station on p
Politics April 23, 2017
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