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NATION East Oregonian Page 2A Wednesday, January 3, 2018 Trump boasts of bigger ‘button’ than North Korea WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump boasted Tuesday that he has a bigger and more powerful “nuclear button” than North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. The president’s Tuesday evening tweet came in response to Kim’s New Year’s address, in which he repeated fiery nuclear threats against the United States. He said he has a “nuclear button” on his office desk and warned that “the whole territory of the U.S. is within the range of our nuclear strike.” Trump mocked that assertion, writing, “Will someone from his depleted and food starved regime please inform him that I too have a Nuclear Button, but it is a much bigger & more powerful one than his, and my Button works!” Earlier Tuesday, Trump sounded open to the possibility of an inter-Korean dialogue after Kim made a rare overture toward South Korea in a New Year’s address. But Trump’s ambassador to the United Nations insisted talks would not be meaningful unless the North was getting rid of its nuclear weapons. In a morning tweet, Trump said the U.S.-led campaign of sanctions and other pressure were beginning to have a “big impact” on North Korea. He referred to the recent, dramatic escape of at least two North Korean soldiers across the heavily militarized border into South Korea. He also alluded to Kim’s comments Monday that he was willing to send a delegation to the Winter Olympics, which will be hosted by South Korea next month. “Soldiers are dangerously fleeing to South Korea. Rocket man now wants to talk to South Korea for first time. Perhaps that is good news, perhaps not - we will see!” Trump said, using his derisive moniker for the young North Korean leader. In response to Kim’s overture, South Korea on Tuesday offered high-level talks on Jan. 9 at the shared border village of Panmunjom to discuss Olympic cooperation and how to improve overall ties. North Korea did not immediately react to the South’s proposal. If there are talks, they would be the first formal dialogue between the Koreas since December 2015. Relations have plunged BRIEFLY First African-American woman named to Oregon Supreme Court SALEM (AP) — An African-American has been appointed, for the first time, to the Oregon Supreme Court. Gov. Kate Brown on Tuesday announced the appointment of Adrienne C. Nelson, a trial judge in Multnomah County, to the high court. In an interview with Portland Monthly magazine, Nelson said when she moved to Oregon in 1994, people were honest about the fact that there’s not a lot of diversity in the state. Nelson said the conversation of race is so uncomfortable that people decide not to deal with it. Then she added: “We all have to get comfortable with the uncomfortable.” Nelson fills a vacancy created by the retirement of Justice Jack L. Landau. The appointment is effective immediately. KRT via AP Video In this image made from video released by KRT on Jan. 1, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un speaks in his annual address in undisclosed location, North Korea. Kim said the United States should be aware that his coun- try’s nuclear forces are now a reality, not a threat. as the North has accelerated its nuclear and ballistic missile development that now poses a direct threat to America, South Korea’s crucial ally. The U.S. administration, however, voiced suspicions that Kim was seeking to drive a wedge between Seoul and Washington. Pyongyang could view a closer relationship with Seoul has a way for reducing its growing international isolation and relief from sanctions that are starting to bite the North’s meager economy. “We won’t take any of the talks seriously if they don’t do something to ban all nuclear weapons in North Korea,” U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley told reporters at the United Nations. “We consider this to be a very reckless regime. We don’t think we need a Band-Aid, and we don’t think we need to smile and take a picture.” While Trump ratcheted up the tension Tuesday night, he doesn’t actually have a physical nuclear button. The process for launching a nuclear strike is secret and complex, and involves the use of a nuclear “football,” which is carried by a rotating group of military officers everywhere the president goes and is equipped with communication tools and a book with prepared war plans. If the president were to order a strike, Giant Idaho Christmas star snatched from top of Boise’s tree BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Police are investigating after a giant star at the top of Boise’s official Christmas tree vanished on New Year’s Day. Downtown Boise Association Executive Director Lynn Hightower said the association reported the theft to police Tuesday morning after a video surfaced. She said the star will cost $500 to replace. “Hopefully whoever took it will find it in themselves to return it,” she said in an email. KTVB-TV reports that Darrin Walton was staying in a nearby hotel and shot video at 3 a.m. on Monday apparently capturing the crime after he noticed movement on the tree. Lighted branches on the 30-foot tree are seen swaying as someone climbs to the tree’s top. Then the white light of the star goes dark as the person apparently detaches it and climbs back down the tree with it. Boise police say the star is about 3 feet across and that nothing else is missing from the area. he would identify himself to military officials at the Pentagon with codes unique to him. Those codes are recorded on a card known as the “biscuit” that is carried by the president at all times. He would then transmit the launch order to the Pentagon and Strategic Command. North Korea has been punished with unprecedented sanctions at the U.N. over its weapons programs, and Haley warned Tuesday of more measures if the North conducts another missile test. In Washington, State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert did not express opposition Tuesday to South Korea holding talks with North Korea, but voiced deep skepticism about Kim’s intentions, saying he may be “trying to drive a wedge of some sort” between the U.S. and its ally, which hosts 28,000 American forces. South Korea’s liberal President Moon Jae-in has supported Trump’s pressure campaign against North Korea, but he’s less confrontational than the U.S. president and favors dialogue to ease the North’s nuclear threats. Moon has long said he sees the Olympics as a chance to improve inter-Korean ties. White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders said the U.S. would continue to put “maximum pressure” on North Korea to give up its nukes. She added that South Korea shares that goal. Bodies of woman and man found in Southern Oregon home MEDFORD (AP) — Officers discovered the bodies of a 50-year-old woman and a 51-year-old man inside a southern Oregon home Tuesday in what authorities believe was a murder-suicide. Medford police Lt. Justin Ivens said officers responded to the home Tuesday to check on Charmaine Crunk after she failed to make it to work as a tax preparer. He said arriving officers looked through a window and saw one person down. Officers had to force their way into the home and found Crunk’s body and the body of Eric Hilsenberg inside, Ivens said. He said both appeared to have died from gunshot wounds. Detectives believe Hilsenberg killed Crunk and then himself. The official cause and manner of the deaths will be released after autopsies are completed. Detectives believe both lived at the residence and that they had been involved in a 12-year relationship that had ended in March. Neighbors identified the pair as an unmarried couple who lived in the home for several years and had guns. IMMIGRATION: Closing enforcement ‘loopholes’ also a priority Nielsen said closing enforcement “loopholes” was also a priority. She mentioned refusals by some local police to honor requests from federal authorities to detain people in the country illegally; special legal protections for unaccompa- nied children who enter the country illegally and are not from Mexico or Canada; and Continued from 1A “This is not going to get us the whole wall we need but it’s a start.” Trump has met stiff Demo- cratic opposition to the wall, a central campaign pledge. Barriers currently cover 654 miles, or about one-third of the border, much of it built during George W. Bush’s presidency. criteria for passing an initial screening on asylum claims. Nielsen said she believed any permanent protection for DACA recipients should be limited to the hundreds of thousands who qualified during the three years it was in effect, not anyone who would meet the criteria if it were still in place. Pathway to citizenship aside, she said 211 S.E. Byers Ave., Pendleton 541-276-2211 333 E. 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