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Bjmo Obama Reschedules Visit to Copenhagen Climate Change Summit
North Korearsquo detention of another American citizen, Tony Kim, is adding to the tensions between the U.S. and the reclusive regime. North Korea threatens nuclear war ahead of Trump meet stanley cups ing with U.N. Security CouncilAccording to Nikki Haley, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, North Korearsquo intention is to use Kim as a bargaining chip. stanley cups North Korea detains American trying to leave coun stanley quencher try 02:42 What wersquo;re dealing with is a leader who is flailing right now, and I think what hersquo trying to do is show his citizens that he has muscle, whether itrsquo through his rhetoric or whether itrsquo through his actions, thatrsquo what hersquo trying to do, Haley said Monday on CBS This Morning. Kim, whose Korean name is Kim Sang-duk, was taken into custody Saturday at Pyongyang International Airport as he was trying to leave the country. Haley said the administration is trying to gather more information about Kim and that we always want to get every citizen out alive and healthy and make sure that theyrsquo;re being treated properly. Haley said the North Korean regime wants a bilateral conversation with the U.S., but wersquo;re not going to do it. Until they s Jnzh Pentagon hasn t yet issued instructions for suspending military exercises with South Korea
The B copo stanley ush administration is going on the offensive to counter charges it could have done more to head off the Sept. 11 attacks, calling Democrats irresponsible for criticizing the president at wartime while pushing for limits on any congressional investigations.Vice President Dick Cheney led the charge, saying Thursday that suggestions by some Democrats that the attacks could have been prevented were thoroughly irresponsible and totally unwort stanley water jug hy of national leaders in a time of war. Speaking Thursday night at the New York state Conservative Party s annual dinner, he warned Democrats to not seek political advantage by making incendiary suggestions ... that the White House had advance information that would have prevented the tragic attacks of 9-11. The White House has acknowledged that a month before the Sept. 11 attacks, President Bush was told by U.S. intelligence that Osama bin Laden s al Qaeda terrorist network might hijack American airplanes. That prompted the administration to issue a private warning to federal agencies.But the White House insists the information was too general to take more specific action I don t think anybody could have predicted that these people would take an airplane and slam it into the World Trade Center, take another one and slam it into the Pentagon, Bush s national security adviser, Condoleezza Rice, said.The public was not informed of the threats, which administrat stanley cup ion officials called vague an |
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