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6A THE DAILY ASTORIAN • FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2016 WORLD IN BRIEF Associated Press Lost cause? North Korea nuke threat awaits next president FBI: New Clinton emails prompt further investigation WASHINGTON — If North Korea has been a foreign pol- icy headache for Barack Obama’s presidency, it threatens to be a migraine for his successor. The next president will likely con- tend with an adversary able to strike the continental U.S. with a nuclear weapon. Whoever wins the White House in the Nov. 8 election is expected to conduct a review of North Korea policy. It’s too early to predict what that portends, but the North will grab more atten- tion of the next president than it did for Obama, who adopted strategic patience: ramping up sanctions in a so-far fruitless effort to force the North to negotiate on denuclearization. With surprising candor this week, National Intelligence direc- tor James Clapper said that persuading North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons is probably a “lost cause.” That appeared to challenge to a key tenet of U.S. policy shared by U.S. allies and adversaries alike that agree on the goal of the denuclearization of the divided Korean Peninsula, however distant it may be. But Clapper was also channeling what many experts are thinking. Leader Kim Jong Un appears to see nuclear weapons as a guarantee of his own survival. Six-nation aid-for-disarmament talks have not convened since Obama took office in 2009, during which time the North’s capabilities have leapt ahead. “Without a shift in U.S. strategy toward North Korea, the next U.S. president will likely be sitting in the Oval Office when the regime finally acquires the ability to strike the continental United States with a nuclear weapon,” said a recent Council on Foreign Relations report. WASHINGTON — The FBI informed Congress on Friday it is investigating whether there is classified information in new emails that have emerged in its probe of Hillary Clinton’s private server. The FBI said in July its investigation was finished. The disclosure raises the possibility of the FBI reopening the criminal investigation involving the Democratic presidential nominee just days before the election, although it is not clear if that will happen. Clinton’s campaign didn’t immediately respond to request for comment. In a letter sent to congressional leaders, FBI Director James Comey says that new emails have come to light recently that have prompted investigators to take another look at the sensitive gov- ernment information that flowed through the private email sever Clinton used while serving as secretary of state. It was not clear from Comey’s letter where the new emails came from or who sent or received them. Rep. Bob Goodlatte, the Republican chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, said the FBI’s decision reinforces the com- mittee’s view that the more that is learned about the server, “the clearer it becomes that she and her associates committed wrong- doing and jeopardized national security.” Police evict oil pipeline protesters from private land in North Dakota CANNON BALL, N.D. — A monthslong protest over the Dakota Access oil pipeline reached its most chaotic pitch yet when hundreds of law enforcement officers moved in to force activists off private property. Thursday’s nearly six-hour operation dramatically escalated the dispute over Native American rights and the project’s environmental impact, with officers in riot gear firing bean bags and pepper spray. Donnell Hushka, a spokeswoman for the Morton County Sher- iff’s Department, said 141 people were arrested. No serious inju- ries were reported, though one man was hurt in the leg and received treatment from a medic. Among those arrested was a woman who pulled out a .38-cali- ber pistol and fired three times at officers, narrowly missing a sher- iff’s deputy, according to State Emergency Services spokeswoman Cecily Fong. Officers did not return fire, she said. Morton County Sheriff Kyle Kirchmeier said that the camp had been cleared by nightfall. Though officials earlier said they planned to turn the site over to private security, Kirchmeier said police would stay. Activists split as Clinton makes push for black millennials PHILADELPHIA — Six months into Hillary Clinton’s pres- idential campaign, she met with a group of Black Lives Matter activists in Washington to make her case and seek their support. DeRay Mckesson left disappointed, feeling Clinton lacked a grasp of the issues he had spent the previous year protesting in cit- ies like Ferguson, Missouri, and Baltimore, including police brutal- ity and income inequality. He came out of the October 2015 meet- ing unwilling to support her publicly. On Wednesday, though, The Washington Post published an op-ed by Mckesson announcing his plans to vote for her after meeting again with her last week in Cleveland. He said he heard a candidate well-versed in the things that matter to him. “There was no platform the first time,” the 31-year-old Mck- esson said in a telephone interview. “There is a platform now. I reflected on the things I’ve heard her say, commit to and seen in writing, and that’s how I came to my decision.” A growing number of black millennials who were initially skeptical of Clinton — questioning her commitment to end mass Mike McCleary/The Bismarck Tribune An unidentified Dakota Access Pipeline protester is arrested inside the Front Line Camp as law enforcement removed pro- testers from the property Thursday in Morton County, N.D. incarceration, confront racial bias in policing and repudiate her husband’s tough policies on welfare and crime during the 1990s — now support her. Syrian rebels launch Aleppo offensive to break siege BEIRUT — Fierce fighting broke out around the northern Syr- ian city of Aleppo Friday as rebels announced a large-scale offen- sive to break the government’s nearly two-month siege of opposi- tion-held areas. A reporter inside the city on the pro-government Lebanon-based Al-Mayadeen TV channel reported attacks on “all sides” of the city, “from the furthest points north to furthest south.” Sounds of heavy gunfire, mortar fire, and explosions were heard in the background of his broadcast. Dark smoke was seen rising above the city on the overcast morning. Presumed govern- ment or Russian jets were also heard flying overhead. Rebel factions in and around Aleppo have been preparing to launch a counteroffensive to try and break the government’s suf- focating siege off Aleppo’s eastern-held neighborhoods for several weeks. The area has been subjected to a ferocious campaign of aerial attacks by Russian and Syrian government warplanes, and hun- dreds of people have been killed in recent weeks according to opposition activists and trapped residents. Countries OK world’s largest marine reserve in Antarctica WELLINGTON, New Zealand — The countries that decide the fate of Antarctica’s waters reached an historic agreement on Friday to create the world’s largest marine protected area in the ocean next to the frozen continent. The agreement comes after years of diplomatic wrangling and high-level talks between the U.S. and Russia, which has rejected the idea in the past. Proponents of the reserve say it sets a precedent for multiple countries working together to protect a large swath of ocean, which falls outside any single nation’s jurisdiction. The agreement covers an area about twice the size of Texas in the Ross Sea. The deal was clinched after 24 countries and the European Union met in Hobart, Australia, this week. Decisions on Antarctic fishing require a consensus among the 25 members, a hurdle which has confounded past efforts. 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