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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2017
WORLD IN BRIEF
Associated Press
Search for Mexico quake survivors
enters day 4, some success
Kim fi res off insults at Trump
and hints at weapons test
MEXICO CITY — Survivors are still being pulled from
rubble in Mexico City as rescue operations stretch into a
fourth day Friday, spurring hope among desperate relatives
gathered at the sites of buildings collapsed by a magnitude 7.1
earthquake.
Mexico’s federal police said several people were lifted out of
the debris of two buildings Thursday. Rescuers removed or broke
through slabs until they found cracks that allowed workers to wig-
gle through to reach the victims, then lift them to safety. The city
government said 60 people in all had been rescued since the quake
hit at midday Tuesday.
Still, with the hours passing, fewer of the living
were being found, and the offi cial death toll rose to 273
in Mexico City and several nearby states, with 137 in the
capital.
The time was nearing when rescuers would be replaced by bull-
dozers to clear rubble, but offi cials went to great pains to say it was
still a rescue operation.
SEOUL, South Korea — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un
has lobbed a string of insults at President Donald Trump, calling
him a “mentally deranged U.S. dotard” and hinting at a frighten-
ing new weapon test.
The fact that it’s the fi rst time for a North Korean leader to issue
such a direct statement has raised the international nuclear stand-
off to a new level.
Kim says in his Friday statement that Trump will “pay dearly”
for his recent threat to destroy North Korea. Kim calls Trump “a
rogue and a gangster fond of playing with fi re.”
Kim’s foreign minister later said North Korea may test a hydro-
gen bomb in the Pacifi c Ocean to fulfi ll Kim’s vow to take the
“highest-level” action against the United States.
Trump piles on new economic
sanctions against North Korea
Mexico shocked by news: Girl
trapped in rubble didn’t exist
NEW YORK — President Donald Trump has added economic
action to his fi ery military threats against North Korea, authoriz-
ing stiffer new sanctions in response to the Koreans’ nuclear weap-
ons advances.
Trump’s latest steps to punish foreign companies that deal with
the North was the latest salvo in a U.S.-led campaign to isolate
and impoverish the government of Kim Jong Un until it halts the
missile and nuclear tests. Trump announced the measures Thurs-
day as he met leaders from South Korea and Japan, the nations
most immediately imperiled by North Korea’s threats of a mili-
tary strike.
“North Korea’s nuclear weapons and missile development is a
grave threat to peace and security in our world and it is unaccept-
able that others fi nancially support this criminal, rogue regime,”
Trump said as he joined Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and
South Korean President Moon Jae-in for lunch. “Tolerance for this
disgraceful practice must end now.”
Hours later, Kim branded Trump as “deranged” and warned
that he will “pay dearly” for his threat to “totally destroy” the
North if it attacks. The rare statement from the North Korean leader
responded to Trump’s combative speech days earlier where he not
only issued the warning of potential obliteration for the isolated
nation, but also mocked the North’s young autocrat as a “Rocket
Man” on a “suicide mission.”
Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, center, visits a fruit
farm in Kwail County, South Hwanghae Province, North
Korea. Kim, in an extraordinary and direct rebuke, called
President Donald Trump ‘deranged.’
without electricity. The storm knocked out the entire grid across the
U.S. territory of 3.4 million, leaving many without power.
The loss of power left residents hunting for gas canisters for
cooking, collecting rainwater or steeling themselves mentally for
the hardships to come in the tropical heat. Some contemplated
leaving the island.
“You cannot live here without power,” said Hector Llanos, a
78-year-old retired New York police offi cer who planned to leave
Saturday for the U.S. mainland to live there temporarily.
Like many Puerto Ricans, Llanos does not have a generator or
gas stove. “The only thing I have is a fl ashlight,” he said, shaking
his head. “This is never going to return to normal.”
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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — The eye of Hurricane Maria was
nearing the Turks and Caicos early Friday as Puerto Rico sought to
recover from the storm’s devastation.
Two days after Maria ravaged Puerto Rico, fl ooding towns,
crushing homes and killing at least two people, millions on the
island faced the dispiriting prospect of weeks and perhaps months
MEXICO CITY — Hour after excruciating hour,
Mexicans were transfi xed by dramatic efforts to reach a young
girl thought buried in the rubble of a school destroyed by a mag-
nitude 7.1 earthquake. She reportedly wiggled her fi ngers, told
rescuers her name and said there were others trapped near her.
Rescue workers called for tubes, pipes and other tools to reach
her.
News media, offi cials and volunteer rescuers all repeated
the story of “Frida Sofi a” with a sense of urgency that made it a
national drama, drawing attention away from other rescue efforts
across the quake-stricken city and leaving people in Mexico and
abroad glued to their television sets.
But she never existed, Mexican navy offi cials now say.
“We want to emphasize that we have no knowledge about the
report that emerged with the name of a girl,” navy Assistant Sec-
retary Angel Enrique Sarmiento said Thursday. “We never had
any knowledge about that report, and we do not believe — we are
sure — it was not a reality.”
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