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1. Biden’s deal with seoul points to a swift shift on alliances
Mar 11, 2021 — WASHINGTON — A new agreement with South Korea on sharing the cost of keeping U.S. troops on the Korean Peninsula is early evidence that (1)…
Mar 11, 2021 — President Donald Trump had demanded South Korea pay billions more to keep US troops in South Korea points to a swift shift on alliances.(2)…
Mar 11, 2021 — WASHINGTON (AP) — A new agreement with South Korea on sharing the cost of keeping U.S. troops on the Korean peninsula is early evidence that (3)…
2. Biden”s deal with seoul points to a swift shift on alliances
Mar 11, 2021 — Biden”s deal with seoul points to a swift shift on alliances that President Joe Biden is shifting America”s approach to alliances in (4)…
Mar 11, 2021 — Biden’s deal with seoul points to a swift shift on alliances Joe Biden is shifting America’s method to alliances in Asia and past.(5)…
WASHINGTON (AP) — A new agreement with South Korea on sharing the cost of keeping U.S. troops on the Korean peninsula is early evidence that President Joe (6)…
3. Biden’s deal with seoul points to a swift shift on alliances
A new agreement with South Korea on sharing the cost of keeping U.S. troops on the Korean peninsula is early evidence that President Joe Biden is shifting (7)…
Biden’s deal with seoul points to a swift shift on alliances · FILE – In this Sept. 16, 2020, file photo, U.S. and South Korean army soldiers stand guard (8)…
4. James Mattis – Click2Houston
Biden’s deal with seoul points to a swift shift on alliances · FILE – In this Sept. 16, 2020, file photo, U.S. and South Korean army soldiers stand guard (9)…
May 17, 2021 — Biden needs to show that Washington treats the alliance seriously the chess pieces in dealing with North Korea or as a junior partner to (10)…
May 24, 2021 — The Indo-Pacific focus of the Biden-Moon joint statement was notable. strengthening the bilateral alliance, but in pulling South Korea (11)…
Aug 19, 2021 — U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks on the crisis in one that would shift U.S. focus away from the Middle East to Asia, (12)…
Mar 11, 2021 — The U.S. Military and South Korea Must Train to Deter North Korea Biden’s deal with seoul points to a swift shift on alliances.(13)…
5. A Grand Bargain With North Korea | Foreign Affairs
Jul 29, 2021 — Pyongyang’s economic distress offers a chance for peace. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un orchestrated a decisive shift in the country’s (14)…
May 21, 2021 — Moon said Biden’s move showed the “firm commitment of the U.S. for the alliance between the United States and the Republic of Korea was (15)…
Mar 14, 2021 — S Korea, US scale back drills over virus, N Korea diplomacy · Biden’s deal with seoul points to a swift shift on alliances · The COVID-19 Relief (16)…
6. The Latest: UN chief to hold meeting on Afghanistan funding
2 days ago — 13 to seek a swift scale-up in funding to address the growing stop of a tour of Persian Gulf allies by Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin.(17)…
6 days ago — Let China cope with the double-dealing, back-stabbing, from helping jihadist radicals shift weapons and resources from Afghanistan to (18)…
7 days ago — That’s not to say some of them are not warranted. They certainly are. The swift fall of Kabul to the Taliban was predictable, and there is a (19)…
2 days ago — While President JOE BIDEN is trying to pivot back to domestic initiatives after the conclusion of the war in Afghanistan, the world has a funny (20)…
7. Fall of Kabul and Biden’s dilemma – The Frontier Post
56 minutes ago — In fact, the withdrawal of United States troops from Afghanistan was highly ill-organized, speedy, and a solitary move of the Biden (21)…
Nov 11, 2020 — Experts said Biden’s primary concern would be to address the to a speedy, reasonable agreement with our South Korean allies,” he said.(22)…
Mar 11, 2021 — With fresh agreement on sharing costs for the nearly thirty Korea, the Biden administration can now focus on bolstering the alliance and (23)…
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Michael Richard Pompeo is an American politician, diplomat, businessman, and attorney who served under President Donald Trump as director of the Central Early life and educationPompeo was born in Orange, California, the son of Dorothy (born Mercer) and Wayne Pompeo. His father was of Italian ancestry; his paternal great-grandparents, Carlo Pompeo and Adelina Tollis were born in Pacentro, Abruzzo, and emigrated to the United States in 1899 and 1900, respectively. In 1982, Pompeo graduated from Los Amigos High School in Fountain Valley, California, where he played forward on the basketball team. In 1986, Pompeo graduated first in his class from the United States Military Academy at West Point, where he majored in engineering management. He was a classmate of Brian Bulatao and Ulrich Brechbuhl, who later helped him found Thayer Aerospace. From 1986 to 1991, Pompeo served in the U.S. Army as an armor officer with the West Germany-based 2nd Squadron, 7th Cavalry in the 4th Infantry Division. He served as a tank platoon leader before becoming a cavalry troop executive officer and then the squadron maintenance officer. Pompeo left the U.S. Army at the rank of captain. In 1994, Pompeo earned a Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School, where he was an editor of the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy and the Harvard Law Review.TenurePompeo served on the United States House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, the United States House Committee on Energy and Commerce, the United States House Energy Subcommittee on Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection, the United States House Energy Subcommittee on Energy, the United States House Intelligence Subcommittee on the CIA, and the United States House Select Committee on Benghazi. Pompeo was a member of the Congressional Constitution Caucus. Pompeo was original sponsor of the Safe and Accurate Food Labeling Act of 2015.Early careerAfter graduating from law school, he worked as a lawyer for Williams & Connolly in Washington. In 1998, Pompeo moved to Wichita, Kansas, where he and three other West Point friends, Brian Bulatao, Ulrich Brechbuhl, and Michael Stradinger, acquired three aircraft-part manufacturers there (Aero Machine, Precision Profiling, B&B Machine) and in St. Louis (Advance Tool & Die), renaming the entity Thayer Aerospace after West Point superintendent Sylvanus Thayer. Venture funding for the private organization included a nearly 20% investment from Koch Industries as well as Dallas-based Cardinal Investment, and Bain & Company (Brechbuhl worked for Bain at the time). Brechbuhl and Stradinger left the company shortly after it was founded, but Pompeo and Bulatao continued. In 2006, he sold his interest in the company, which by then had been renamed Nex-Tech Aerospace, to Highland Capital Management, which had clients including Lockheed Martin, Gulfstream Aerospace, Cessna Aircraft, Boeing, Spirit AeroSystems and Raytheon Aircraft. Pompeo then became president of Sentry International, an oilfield equipment manufacturer that was also a partner of Koch Industries. In 2017, when Pompeo became head of the CIA, he named his former business partner, Brian Bulatao, the agency’s chief operating officer.CIA Director (2017–2018)On November 18, 2016, President-elect Donald Trump announced that he would nominate Pompeo to be the director of the Central Intelligence Agency. He was confirmed by the Senate on January 23, 2017, with a vote of 66–32, and sworn in later that day. In his confirmation he failed to disclose the links between his company in Kansas and a Chinese government owned firm. In February 2017, Pompeo traveled to Turkey and Saudi Arabia. He met with Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to discuss policy on Syria and ISIL. Pompeo honored the then-crown prince of Saudi Arabia Muhammad bin Nayef with the CIA’s “George Tenet” Medal. It was the first reaffirmation of Saudi Arabia–United States relations since Trump took office in January 2017. In March 2017, Pompeo formally invoked state secrets privilege to prevent CIA officers, including Gina Haspel and James Cotsana, from being compelled to testify in the trial of Bruce Jessen and James Elmer Mitchell. In June 2017, Pompeo named Michael D’Andrea head of the CIA’s Iran mission center. World War II veterans being honored at Bastille Day celebrations on July 13, 2017. In August 2017, Pompeo took direct command of the Counterintelligence Mission Center, the department which helped to launch an investigation into possible links between Trump associates and Russian officials. Former CIA officials, including John ElectionsU.S. congressional delegation at the Halifax International Security Forum in 2014. Pompeo represented Kansas’s 4th congressional district from 2011 until his January 2017 appointment to director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). In the 2010 election, Pompeo won the Republican primary for Kansas’s 4th District congressional seat with 39% of the vote, defeating state senator Jean Schodorf (who received 24%) and two other candidates. Late in the primary, Schodorf began to surge in the polls, prompting two outside groups—Common Sense Issues and Americans for Prosperity—to spend tens of thousands of dollars in the campaign’s final days to attack Schodorf and support Pompeo. In the general election, Pompeo defeated Democratic nominee Raj Goyle, a member of the Kansas House of Representatives. Pompeo received 59% of the vote (117,171 votes) to 36% for Goyle (71,866). During Pompeo’s campaign, its affiliated Twitter account praised as a “good read” a news article that called Goyle, his Indian-American opponent, a “turban topper” who “could be a muslim, a hindu, a buddhist etc. who knows”. Pompeo later apologized to Goyle for the tweet. Pompeo received $80,000 in donations during the campaign from Koch Industries and its employees. In the 2012 election, Pompeo defeated Democratic nominee Robert Tillman by a margin of 62–32%. Koch Industries gave Nomination and confirmationSee also: List of international trips made by Mike Pompeo as United States Secretary of State. President Trump announced on March 13, 2018, that he would nominate Pompeo to serve as secretary of state, succeeding Rex Tillerson, who stepped down on March 31, 2018. On April 23, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted 11–9 in favor of sending Pompeo’s nomination to the full Senate, with Senator Chris Coons voting “present” and Johnny Isakson, who was absent that day, voting “yes by proxy”. In the interest of saving the committee’s time, Coons decided to vote “present”, as the vote would have been tied if he had voted no on the nomination with Isakson absent, a situation that would have nullified his vote. The Senate floor vote took place on April 26 and Pompeo was confirmed by the full Senate by a 57–42 vote, with five of ten Democratic senators running for reelection in 2018 in states that Trump won in 2016, voting to confirm Pompeo. Pompeo was sworn in on April 26, 2018. In testimony before the senate, he promised to prioritize improving the low-morale issue at the State Department. Confirmation process. Voting body, Vote date, Vote results. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, April 12, 2018, 11–9. 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9. US and South Korea reach new accord on cost-sharing deal …
Mar 8, 2021 — The agreement reflects the Biden administration’s “commitment to reinvigorating and modernizing our democratic alliances around the word to (27)…
Jan 11, 2021 — Mr Kim and Donald Trump met three times, but they failed to reach any agreement to end North Korea’s nuclear weapons programme or the (28)…
10. At war’s end: Afghan veterans, families share their viewpoints
1 day ago — He said Afghanistan isn’t like Germany and Korea, places the U.S. has maintained a But, he didn’t expect it to be swift and decisive.(29)…
6 days ago — Biden, for his part, issued a written statement praising US troops who oversaw the airlift of more than 120,000 Afghans, US citizens and allies (30)…
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(8). James Mattis – News4Jax
(9). James Mattis – Click2Houston
(10). South Korea Isn’t a Junior Partner for America – Foreign Policy
(11). Biden Pulls South Korea Closer in Alignment With US Indo …
(12). Contrary to intent, Biden’s Afghan pullout could … – Reuters
(13). 03/11/2021 News & Commentary – Korea | Small Wars Journal
(14). A Grand Bargain With North Korea | Foreign Affairs
(15). Biden and South Korea’s president meet at White House – Los …
(16). The Biden administration has reached out to North Korea …
(17). The Latest: UN chief to hold meeting on Afghanistan funding
(18). Biden’s Afghan Best-Case Scenario – WSJ – The Wall Street …
(19). There’s chaos and risk in Afghanistan exit, but Biden critics
(20). North Korea has entered the chat – POLITICO
(21). Fall of Kabul and Biden’s dilemma – The Frontier Post
(22). North Korea may use missile tests as a way of ‘forcing’ Biden …
(23). Will the New US-South Korea Deal Boost East Asian Security?
(24). Axios
(25). Seth Meyers Wants Trump to Stop Complimenting the Taliban
(26). Mike Pompeo – Wikipedia
(27). US and South Korea reach new accord on cost-sharing deal …
(28). ‘Your move, Mr President’: North Korea sets the stage for Biden
(29). At war’s end: Afghan veterans, families share their viewpoints
(30). War is over but not Biden’s Afghanistan challenges – Deccan …
