I don’t think you have to be female to think something is wrong at this university:
Students at Seoul Women’s University rallied outside Nowon Police Station, Tuesday, protesting a defamation lawsuit filed by a professor accused of sexual misconduct. The demonstration was organized by the university’s feminist group, “Rhinoceros Horn.”
Around 500 participants, including students, alumni and professors, demanded that police dismiss the case against students who had posted statements criticizing the professor.
The protest stems from allegations that a German language and literature professor, identified as “A,” sexually harassed and assaulted students. After receiving a report in July 2022, the university conducted an investigation and imposed a three-month pay reduction as punishment.
Students learned of the incident over a year later in September 2023 and criticized the university’s handling of the case. They posted statements urging the separation of the perpetrator from campus and stronger protection for victims.
You can read more at the link, but if this professor sexually assaulted students he of course should have been fired, but why weren’t the police involved?
Three researchers died of suffocation during vehicle testing at a Hyundai Motor Co. plant in the southeastern city of Ulsan on Tuesday, officials said.
The three — two Hyundai researchers and the other affiliated with a subcontractor — were found collapsed at a test chamber of the plant where they were conducting a car performance test at around 3 p.m. in the day.
They were taken to nearby hospitals but were pronounced dead, according to company officials and authorities.
The victims were presumed to have been suffocated due to toxic gas in the enclosed space, and a police investigation is under way to find the exact cause of the accident, they added.
On flying anti-Pyongyang leaflets Choi Seong-ryong (L), head of a group representing families of individuals abducted by North Korea, and Park Sang-hak, a North Korean defector and leader of Fighters for Free North Korea, outline their plan to launch balloons carrying anti-North Korea leaflets toward the North at the Sokcho Maritime Police Station in Sokcho, 213 kilometers east of Seoul, on Nov. 19, 2024. (Yonhap)
This is called recognizing reality, North Korea is not going to give up their nuclear weapons:
Donald Trump in his second term as president is likely to accept North Korea as a nuclear weapons state and ask for more defense spending by America’s Asian partners, a Japanese foreign policy expert told reporters Thursday.
Those close to Trump see no hope of denuclearizing North Korea during his second term, according to Meikai University professor Tetsuo Kotani, a senior fellow at The Japan Institute of International Affairs.
“According to President-elect Trump, he’s going to recognize that (nuclear weapons power) status for North Korea so that he can bring North Korea to the negotiation for nuclear arms control,” Kotani, an expert in international relations, said in translated remarks during an online conference at the Foreign Press Center Japan.
The timeframe to denuclearize North Korea has already passed. It was possible in the 1998-2010 time period, but instead of insisting for denuclearization before giving financial incentives, the South Korean government instead gave billions to North Korea. The Kim regime did not use this money to improve their economy or the lives of their people as the Korean left thought they would, instead the money was used to expand their nuclear weapons program.
The Kim regime rightly strategized that a larger nuclear threat would give them greater bargaining power to get more funding from South Korea, bring the regime international prestige, and most importantly better security for the regime. Why would they give this up? This is why the best deal the U.S. can hope for now is to get them to scrap their ICBM program and put a limit on their nuclear weapons in return for sanctions relief.
This makes me wonder how people without legal immigration status were able to access Camp Humphreys every day to go to work?:
Ten people at retail businesses at this base were cited or deported earlier this month on suspicion of working illegally in South Korea, according to a South Korea immigration investigator Friday.
Army Criminal Investigation Division agents and South Korean investigators apprehended the 10 during a sting operation Nov. 5, an investigator in the Suwon Immigration Office told Stars and Stripes by phone. The group, including people from Turkey and the Philippines, were allegedly working for a restaurant and jewelry store at Humphreys without work visas, according to the investigator with the Justice Ministry branch in Suwon city.
This should lead to fresher produce for customers:
Produce at U.S. bases in South Korea was temporarily in short supply as the Defense Commissary Agency began replacing U.S. imports of certain fruits and vegetables with their locally grown counterparts.
Commissaries plan this month to start stocking “the highest quality” local fruits and vegetables that are “consistent with what is available in commercial grocery stores,” U.S. Army Garrison Daegu announced in a Facebook post Oct. 29.
These include apples, potatoes, yams, sweet potatoes, radishes, pumpkins, kale, leeks, green onions, tomatoes, pomegranates, persimmons, citrus and grapes from the United States, along with squash from Mexico, DeCA spokesman Keith Desbois said by email Friday.
North Korea may end up sending as many as 100,000 troops to help the Russian war effort, which could be transformative. THERE IS NO WAY THIS COULD HAPPEN WITHOUT CHINA'S APPROVAL. https://t.co/q2hefgyDIX
Yoon holds summit with Chinese president President Yoon Suk Yeol (3rd from L) holds a summit meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping (3rd from R) at a hotel in Lima, Peru, on Nov. 15, 2024, on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit. (Yonhap)
This is laughable if the Unification Ministry has any expectation that the Kim regime will ever pay back these loans. Giving money to North Korea is like giving money to a methhead, you know what they are going to use the money for and should not expect to get it back:
The unification ministry said Monday it is reviewing measures to reclaim loans granted to North Korea for building inter-Korean roads and train tracks after the North blew them up in October.
The unification ministry unveiled the tentative measures as part of its policy plan for the second half of President Yoon Suk Yeol’s administration, which is now at the midpoint of his five-year term.
On Oct. 15, North Korea demolished parts of the roads and train tracks connected to South Korea — the Gyeongui Line in the western border region and the Donghae Line along the east coast — in its latest display of escalating hostility toward the South.
The unification ministry said a review is under way, in collaboration with other related ministries, to seek the collection of loans to North Korea amid concerns the country may refuse to repay them following its detonation of inter-Korean roads and train tracks.
From 2002-2008, South Korea provided in-kind loans worth US$132.9 million to North Korea to construct roads and train tracks along the two inter-Korean lines.
