Mike Pompeo's visit to North Korea was cancelled last minute, raising a lot of questions on
the state of Washington's relations with the regime.
The top diplomat shared his view on the developments.
Pyongyang will need to show some visible follow-through on agreements made during the Singapore summit.
Lee Ji-won tells us more.
The U.S. stands ready to engage when it is clear that North Korea is prepared to deliver
on the commitments it made at the June 12th Singapore summit to completely denuclearize.
This is U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's take on the current situation, following the
cancellation of his fourth trip to Pyongyang.
It was shared by the department's spokesperson Heather Nauert at a briefing on Tuesday.
Pompeo's statement went on to say that the world is united behind the need for North
Korea to fulfill that commitment and that members of the UN Security Council have voted
to call upon North Korea to abandon all nuclear weapons.
He said the final, fully verified denuclearization of Pyongyang is the world's goal and the world
is looking forward to North Korea's compliance with the resolutions for a brighter future
for its people.
This comes after a Washington Post report claimed that Trump canceled Pompeo's trip
due to a belligerent letter from a senior North Korean official, which convinced the
President that the planned visit would not be successful.
And on Tuesday, CNN reported that the letter stated Pyongyang felt talks couldn't move
forward because "the U.S. is still not ready to meet North Korea's expectations in terms
of taking a step forward to sign a peace treaty."
Pyongyang has been urging Washington to declare the end of the Korean War.
CNN cited three sources with direct knowledge on the issue who said that if a compromise
cannot be reached, Pyongyang could resume "nuclear and missile activities",... hinting
of the possibility that denuclearization talks are "at stake and may fall apart".
Meanwhile, U.S. Ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley said it's a possibility that North Korea
may be changing its mind on denuclearization at a conference on Tuesday.
But she made the remarks to stress that regardless, the U.S. will not change its mind on sanctions
and how it looks at the North's nuclear threats.
She warned there's always more it can do in terms of sanctions, but Washington will continue
to try and do that along with its diplomatic efforts.
Lee Ji-won, Arirang News.
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U.S. doing well with North Korea diplomatically: Trump - Duration: 0:30.
U.S. President Donald Trump says the United States is (quote) "doing well" in its diplomatic
efforts with North Korea, despite word talks between the two sides might be breaking down.
His remark comes a matter of days after he called off Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's
scheduled fourth visit to Pyongyang.
Reuters also reported Wednesday that President Trump highlighted the role of China,... explaining
that Beijing has made Washington's efforts to denuclearize the North more difficult.
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S. Korea says resumption of joint military exercises with U.S. - Duration: 2:12.
The combined military drills between South Korea and the U.S. were halted in June as
a gesture of good faith to North Korea after it agreed to abandon its nuclear weapons.
Well now, with little progress made on that front,... the U.S. has opened the door to
restarting the exercises Pyongyang dreads.
However, Seoul claims to have heard nothing of the possible resumption,... adding it's
a subject that needs to be discussed between the allies.
Park Hee-jun reports.
South Korea's presidential office says the issue of suspending joint military exercises
with the United States requires further discussion between the two countries.
This comes after U.S. Secretary of Defense James Mattis said at a news conference at
the Pentagon on Tuesday, local time,... that the U.S. has no future plans to call off any
drills with South Korea.
"We have no plans at this time to suspend any more exercises.
We will work very closely, as I said, with the Secretary of State, and what he needs
done we will certainly do to reinforce that effort.
But at this time there is no discussion about further suspensions."
Earlier in June after the Kim-Trump summit in Singapore,... Mattis announced that the
U.S. had "suspended" the exercises "indefinitely."
As a result,... the annual Ulchi Freedom Guardian exercise was cancelled in August.
Just hours after Mattis made his latest remarks,...
Blue House Spokesperson Kim Eui-kyeom told reporters that South Korea and U.S. had not
discussed the matter.
Although the earlier decision only applied to this year's exercises,... he said that
any changes in the agreement will be negotiated in step with the progress made in denuclearization
talks between Pyongyang and Washington.
South Korea's foreign ministry says it sees the comments as an extension of Washington's
previous agreement with Seoul to suspend the joint exercises, and that no new agreement
has been made.
It added that it will continue to work closely with the U.S. for the denuclearization of
the Korean Peninsula.
Seoul's defense ministry also says that it had heard nothing of Mattis' announcement,...
and that the issue has not yet been discussed by the two sides.
Park Hee-jun, Arirang News.
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S. Korea says resumption of joint military exercises with U.S. - Duration: 2:03.
Seoul-Washington combined drills have been halted back in June as a gesture of good faith
to North Korea.
Well now, the U.S. opened the door to restarting the exercise the regime dreads.
However, the South Korean government claims to have heard nothing of the resumption,...
adding it's a subject that need to be discussed.
Park Hee-jun has our top story.
South Korea's presidential office says the issue of suspending joint military exercises
with the United States requires further discussion between the two countries.
This comes after U.S. Secretary of Defense James Mattis said at a news conference at
the Pentagon on Tuesday, local time,... that the U.S. has no future plans to call off any
drills with South Korea.
(English) - Reuters 3055 "We have no plans at this time to suspend
any more exercises.
We will work very closely, as I said, with the Secretary of State, and what he needs
done we will certainly do to reinforce that effort.
But at this time there is no discussion about further suspensions."
Earlier in June after the Kim-Trump summit in Singapore,... Mattis announced that the
U.S. had "suspended" the exercises "indefinitely."
As a result,... the annual Ulchi Freedom Guardian exercise was cancelled in August.
Just hours after Mattis made his latest remarks,...
Blue House Spokesperson Kim Eui-kyeom told reporters that South Korea and U.S. had not
discussed the matter.
Although the earlier decision only applied to this year's exercises,... he said that
any changes in the agreement will be negotiated in step with the progress made in denuclearization
talks between Pyongyang and Washington.
South Korea's foreign ministry says it sees the comments as an extension of Washington's
previous agreement with Seoul to suspend the joint exercises, and that no new agreement
has been made.
It added that it will continue to work closely with the U.S. for the denuclearization of
the Korean Peninsula.
Seoul's defense ministry also says that it had heard nothing of Mattis' announcement,...
and that the issue has not yet been discussed by the two sides.
Park Hee-jun, Arirang News.
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Trey Gowdy Told The Deep State Their Time Is Up - Duration: 10:51.
Trey Gowdy Told The Deep State Their Time Is Up
Republicans are racing against the clock.
Deep State agents are purposely stalling the investigation into the FBI's conduct during
2016 in the hopes that the Democrats will win the midterms.
So Trey Gowdy stood in front of the camera and issued a warning to the Deep State that
their time was up.
Republican investigators continue to unravel the Deep State's cover-up about the FBI
using the fake news Russia dossier to investigate Donald Trump.
The FBI said they had dropped Steele as a confidential human source because he hadn't
told the truth about his dealings with the press.
But the latest bombshell is the revelation that ex-British spy Christopher Steele continued
to communicate with the FBI using DOJ official Bruce Ohr as a backchannel, whose wife Nellie
had worked with Fusion GPS on the dossier.
Republicans have been working to obtain the texts and emails between Steele and Ohr, but
the Deep State actors within the DOJ are slow-walking their requests.
Now Congressional Republicans have reached their breaking point.
House Oversight Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy appeared on Fox News and dropped the hammer
on the Deep State.
"Think about Chris Steele who has just been dismissed from the FBI because he cannot follow
their rules and regulations and his communication with someone in the Department of Justice…[who]
is not involved in this investigation…so of course we want to talk Bruce Ohr and Nellie
Ohr – who oh, by the way, was working for Fusion GPS, the firm that hired Christopher
Steele to dig up dirt on Donald Trump," Gowdy stated.
Gowdy then described how Deep State actors in the Department of Justice had refused to
make employees available for interviews.
Gowdy explained that a list of potential witnesses was sent to the DOJ and that, "So far that
has fallen on deaf ears."
"Chairman Goodlatte is a patient man, but we have run out of patience," Gowdy concluded.
This is a massive scandal.
And the so-called "mainstream" media is working to cover it up.
The FBI has yet to provide real answers about their relationship with Steele and how the
Bureau used the dossier in the Russia investigation.
Critics believe the FBI and DOJ ignoring Congresses requests for witness testimony and documents
is not a good-faith move.
Trump supporters contend it's because both agencies are terrified of the public reaction
once their conduct is made public.
Even RINO Republicans like Lindsey Graham are getting fed up.
Graham reacted to the bombshell developments about Bruce Ohr by blasting the FBI's Russia
investigation as corrupt.
"When it came to the Trump campaign, it was corrupt, it was biased and I think unethical,"
Graham declared.
Do you agree that the FBI's investigations into Donald Trump and Russian collusion are
corrupt?
Let us know your thoughts in the comment section.
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How Does the U.S. Asylum Process Work? - Duration: 7:26.
- You've no doubt seen all the news about the thousands
of Central American families fleeing violent conditions
and making the long, dangerous journey to the U.S.
only to be caught by border patrol agents,
detained, and separated from their children.
- 2300 kids have already been separated from their parents
and they are staying in various places around the U.S.
- How can you separate illegal alien children from
their parents when the parents sent them here alone?
- We've been trying to figure out what our government
is doing with the babies and the kids
once they take them away.
- No matter where you stand on immigration,
it's a pretty rough situation to watch unfold.
One that's forced a lot of Americans to do some
serious soul searching about how far we should go
to safeguard our borders, and who should let in,
or keep out.
All this border drama has drawn serious attention
to a really small part of America's immigration system
that until recently, has largely slipped under the radar:
the process of seeking asylum.
That's when migrants arrive to the U.S. and ask
to be allowed to stay here permanently
because they fear being persecuted if they are sent
back home, in other words, punished because of who they are
or what they believe.
Even though the numbers of illegal border crossing arrests
are the lowest they've been since the 1970s,
the number of undocumented immigrants fleeing
Central America and requesting asylum in the U.S.
has gone way up in the last decade,
though there was also a big wave of asylum requests
from that region back in the 1980s and '90s
when civil wars plagued the region.
The Trump Administration and other folks
who wanna crack down on immigration say this spike
in asylum requests is clear evidence that immigrants
are gaming the system rather than going through
standard application process.
They say it's a loophole that has led to a big rise
in fraudulent claims, allowed more criminals
to enter the country and created a massive backlog
of court cases.
But a lot of immigration advocates say the increase
is due to the humanitarian crisis in Central American
countries, where violent crime has spiked out of control.
So how does the U.S. asylum process actually work?
And who is it intended to help?
To understand it, you gotta go way back to 1951.
That's when the members of the newly formed United Nations,
which included the U.S.,
drafted an agreement
that officially defined a refugee as someone fleeing
his or her homeland because of a strong fear of being
persecuted based on one of five categories:
race, religion, nationality, political opinion,
or membership in a particular social group.
This was only about five years after
the end of World War II.
The bloody conflict had forced millions of people
throughout war-torn Europe to flee their homelands,
creating a major global refugee crisis.
Just years earlier, a number of countries
including the U.S. had turned away boats
of Jewish refugees fleeing the Holocaust,
sending them back to Europe, where many ended up
being killed in Nazi concentration camps.
Building on the UN agreement, Congress passed
the U.S. Refugee Act in 1980,
which distinguished asylum seekers from refugees,
squarely on the basis of where they filed their application.
Both classes have to prove they have a well-founded
fear of persecution in their homelands,
which means the legit fear of being physically attacked,
tortured, detained, or killed.
But unlike refugees who go through the resettlement
screening process before coming to the U.S.,
asylum seekers are either entering at the border
or already inside the U.S. with a temporary visa,
and are asking to stay permanently.
Asylum advocates argue that this is an essential
option for people, like many in Central America,
who claim they need to leave their homes immediately
and don't have the option to go through the refugee
or visa application process.
And although the president determines the total number
of refugees the U.S. admits each year,
the number of people granted asylum is left open-ended.
So yeah, anyone can just show up and apply for asylum,
and if you end up getting it, it's a pretty big deal.
It means you can live and work legally in the U.S.
and apply for a green card after a year,
and eventually, apply for citizenship.
But don't forget, seeking asylum is a super risky path
to take.
That's because after making the long, dangerous journey
to get here, the odds of getting in are pretty darn small.
You're way more likely to be sent right back home.
An asylum seeker who arrives at the border can request
a credible fear screening at the official point of entry.
That's an interview with an immigration agent
who decides if the applicant really faces
a legit risk of being persecuted or tortured
if they're sent back home, as opposed to just, say,
seeking better economic opportunities.
They decide if that person gets a hearing
with an immigration judge, who will ultimately decide
if they are granted asylum or not.
The number of credible fear claims has skyrocketed
in the last decade, up by about 1500%.
Passing the credible fear screening is definitely
no guarantee of success.
It's just the first step in a long, difficult process,
and only a very small number of applicants
are actually granted asylum.
In 2016, for instance, there were more than 92,000
credible fear claims, but fewer than 21,000 people
were actually granted asylum.
And although that might sound like a lot,
people granted asylum make up only about 2% of the
roughly one million immigrants that legally
enter the U.S. every year.
Also, keep in mind that there are less than 400
immigration judges across the country,
scrambling to deal with a crazy high backlog
of more than 300,000 pending asylum cases.
So even if you make it past your credible fear screening
and get a court date, you might have to wait months,
or even years until you have a final decision.
And then there's the luck of the draw factor.
Whether or not someone gets asylum often comes down
to factors like what country you're from,
whether you have a lawyer,
and which judge you end up getting.
One recent investigation by Reuters reviewed nearly
identical asylum cases around the country,
and found that immigration judges in liberal coastal
regions like New York and the Bay Area
were much more likely to grant asylum
than judges in more conservative parts of the country,
particularly in the South.
To complicate things even more, what the government
considers legitimate persecution is also up for debate.
Until now, gang violence and domestic abuse
fell under the catch-all fifth category that the UN
came up with, membership in a particular social group.
But Attorney General Jeff Sessions recently announced
that those two factors should no longer be considered
qualifications for asylum.
He basically said that the U.S. can't take in everyone
who's having a hard time.
America has to draw the line somewhere,
and asylum should really be reserved for people
facing political, or religious persecution,
like it was originally intended.
This new policy would most negatively impact asylum seekers
from parts of El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras,
an area known as The Northern Triangle,
which has some of the highest murder rates in the world,
equivalent to all-out war zones.
Gang violence there has shot way up in recent years,
and local governments have largely failed
to protect their citizens from violence,
forced gang recruitment, and extortion.
That, on top of some of the highest poverty rates
in the Western Hemisphere, make these pretty tough places
to live.
Asylum advocates insist this rule change takes away
a vital lifeline for people in really desperate situations.
They still face the real possibility of serious harm
or death if they return home.
So what do you think?
What are valid reasons for granting asylum?
Which asylum seekers should be let in,
and who should be turned away?
Let us know in the comments below,
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