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Drew WilsonMay 2, 2018

Northwest Florida U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz was one of 18 Republican members of Congress to sign on to a letter nominating President Donald Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize as recognition for recent progress in the ongoing peace talks with North Korea. “We, the undersigned members of the United States Congress, respectfully nominate Donald J. […]

A.G. GancarskiApril 18, 2018

Indications are positive that North Korea and South Korea may officially end hostilities that started in 1950. There may be a path to a peace deal. And CIA Chief Mike Pompeo met with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. In Jacksonville Wednesday for a U.S. Senate campaign event, a reporter asked Gov. Rick Scott about the potential cessation of conflict. “Oh, […]

Associated PressAugust 13, 2017

A nuclear showdown. The world’s most unpredictable foe. A world on edge. What will the new president do? Be Trump. Faced with perhaps his gravest international crisis yet, President Donald Trump this week responded precisely as his some of supporters hoped and his critics long feared. The mix of plain-spoken bluster, spontaneity and norm-breaking risk […]

Associated PressAugust 11, 2017

Beyond the bluster, the Trump administration has been quietly engaged in back channel diplomacy with North Korea for several months, addressing Americans imprisoned in the communist country and deteriorating relations between the longtime foes, The Associated Press has learned. It had been known the two sides had discussions to secure the June release of an […]

Mitch PerryJuly 31, 2017

With diplomacy a seemingly lost cause for addressing North Korea’s nuclear weapons program, Charlie Crist says it’s time to put our trust in the military to protect the country from a possible attack from Kim Jong Un‘s regime. “The time for talk is over,” U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley said Sunday in dismissing a question about […]

Blake DowlingJuly 8, 2017

The “Leon Consulate of Florida” was overthrown this week, thanks to the chumps at the Moroccan Islamic Union-Mail. I suppose they meant Leon County, since this hacking wing of ISIS hasn’t quite mastered English. What they refer to is the Leon County (North Florida) website; it was indeed hacked for a couple of minutes, replaced […]

Associated PressMay 3, 2017

Washington policymakers have a time-tested method for rolling out new ideas: float a trial balloon. Spread rumors of a policy change or selectively leak it to the press, then see how it plays and proceed only if it looks doable. President Donald Trump has flipped that script. Big and startling ideas fly out of his […]

Mitch PerryApril 28, 2017

According to North Korea’s deputy U.N. ambassador, the standoff over his country’s nuclear program will end only when the U.S. withdraws its “hostile policy” toward the northeast Asian nation. In an interview with The Associated Press Friday, Kim In Ryong says his government will not attend “any type of talks which would discuss its nuclear abandonment.” That includes the […]

Associated PressFebruary 13, 2017

Teachers from elementary school through college are telling students how to distinguish between factual and fictional news — and why they should care that there’s a difference. As Facebook works with The Associated Press, FactCheck.org and other organizations to curb the spread of fake and misleading news on its influential network, teachers say classroom instruction […]

Mary Jo MeloneMay 26, 2016

Like Donald Trump’s narcissism, the misogyny driving the vitriol aimed at Hillary Clinton is bottomless. The best that can be said of the legions of her critics is that some, women among them, don’t know history. Worse yet, few who are puzzled by the vitriol directed at Clinton bother to see her through the lens […]

Tag: Kim Jong-Un

Matt Gaetz signs letter nominating Donald Trump for Nobel Prize

Rick Scott ‘optimistic’ about peace talks between North, South Korea

Donald Trump answers call of crisis with familiar bluster, spontaneity and norm-breaking risk that defined his political rise

Beyond bluster, U.S., N. Korea in regular contact

Charlie Crist says missile defense might be necessary to stop a North Korean missile

Blake Dowling: Wise Kim meets Leon County

No trial balloons: Donald Trump flips script with startling ideas

Bill Nelson: If China can’t deter North Korea’s nuclear plans, it could mean war

The new civics course in schools: How to avoid fake news

Mary Jo Melone: Hillary Clinton, without apology