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Dr. Mark P. Barry ☯︎ @drmarkpbarry.bsky.social · 5h

ROK restarts excavations of war remains in DMZ amid push to engage North Korea | NK News www.nknews.org/2025/10/rok-...

ROK restarts excavations of war remains in DMZ amid push to engage North Korea | NK News

South Korea resumed the excavation of Korean War remains inside the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) for the first time in three years on Wednesday, framing the effort as both a humanitarian mission and a ste...

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Dr. Mark P. Barry ☯︎ @drmarkpbarry.bsky.social · 9h

Could an opposition candidate become prime minister? - The Japan Times www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10...

Could an opposition candidate become prime minister?

With the CDP, DPP and Nippon Ishin no Kai still far apart when it comes to their key policies and political objectives, it's unclear if they can field a unified candidate.

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Dr. Mark P. Barry ☯︎ @drmarkpbarry.bsky.social · 10h

"...Another camp of conservatives has clung to anti-Chinese sentiment, if only because Yoon Suk-yeol’s failed attempt to end democracy has left South Korea’s right wing without any political vision other than cheap racism."

Dr. Mark P. Barry ☯︎ @drmarkpbarry.bsky.social · 10h

TBR Weekly Update: Week 2, October 2025; Preparations for the APEC summit continue, as Seoul reconsiders its relationship with Beijing. www.blueroofpolitics.com/post/tbr-wee...

TBR Weekly Update: Week 2, October 2025

Preparations for the APEC summit continue, as Seoul reconsiders its relationship with Beijing.

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Dr. Mark P. Barry ☯︎ @drmarkpbarry.bsky.social · 11h

The Fourth Chair: Vietnam's Pyongyang Showing - 38 North: Informed Analysis of North Korea www.38north.org/2025/10/the-...

The Fourth Chair: Vietnam's Pyongyang Showing - 38 North: Informed Analysis of North Korea

After spending years watching North Korea’s parades, usually half awake at odd hours, counting ...

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Dr. Mark P. Barry ☯︎ @drmarkpbarry.bsky.social · 11h

Thomas Friedman | Mr. Trump, on the Middle East, Please Move Fast and Break Things - The New York Times www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/o...

Opinion | Mr. Trump, on the Middle East, Please Move Fast and Break Things

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Carol Giacomo @carolgiacomo.bsky.social · 11h

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In Anti-Catholic Crusade, Trump's ICE Targets Holy Mass in Chicago

Worshippers fled in fear as immigration agents appeared outside St. Jerome’s — part of Trump’s new campaign against Catholic parishes nationwide.

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Dr. Mark P. Barry ☯︎ @drmarkpbarry.bsky.social · 11h

After the Sharm El Sheikh summit with Trump and 20+ other world leaders, Kim Jong Un must realize Trump's stock is at a new high and he would be foolish not to accommodate a meeting with him while the U.S. President is in Korea. They don't need a deal, they just need to talk and agree to meet again.

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Hans Schattle @hansschattle.bsky.social · 20h

These comments from South Korea's unification minister suggest the two Koreas are working behind the scenes on a plan for North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to visit the DMZ border during the upcoming APEC summit, and now they're waiting to see if Donald Trump will agree to meet him there once again.

N. Korea's Kim, Trump could meet on occasion of APEC summit in S. Korea: unification minister | Yonhap News Agency

SEOUL, Oct. 14 (Yonhap) -- North Korean leader Kim Jong-un could meet with U.S. President ...

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Dr. Mark P. Barry ☯︎ @drmarkpbarry.bsky.social · 12h

Two years. Two years passed since the last moment I saw Avinatan, the love of my life. Two years since the moment terrorists kidnapped us, put me on a motorcycle, and tore me away from Avinatan before the eyes of the entire world. by @ArgamaniNoa (Noa Argamani) twitter-thread.com/t/1978101330...