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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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