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Presidential office reshuffle made a month after general elections
President Park Geun-hye appointed Lee Won-jong, chairman of the Presidential Committee on Regional Development, as her new Chief Presidential Secretary. She also named Ahn Jong-beom, senior presidential secretary for economic affairs, as the new chief secretary for policy coordination and lawmaker Kang Seok-hoon of the ruling Saenuri Party as her new senior presidential secretary for economic affairs.
http://english.donga.com/List/3/01/26/534162/1

>>88820
damage controling exhibitionist

>>89125
Hyun Gi-hwan,former Executive senior presidential secretary of President of South Korea Park Geun Hye, was arrested by South Korea police today.

English source has not issued yet

dis what happen today yall


Nobel Laureate Malala Yousafzai Hustles Hard To Become Millionaire in 4 Years

Body parts wash ashore next to Rio Olympic venue

India: Militants to plant beef in temple to start Ramadan riots

Turkey’s Apology Tour a Hit in Israel. Next Stop: Moscow


damn thats real

>>54508
That site is utter trash.

>>54829
lets fight come on, bitch i aint scared


here's what happend today

https://media.giphy.com/media/l41Ygc5awaA0Y0a8E/giphy.gif

>>89167
Moreover, the company added that it plans to give a full detail of its results and backdrops to the press as soon as the negotiations are completed later. Hyundai Merchant had signed a memorandum of understanding to join the 2M alliance in July.

Meanwhile, HMM formed a consortium with TiL, a subsidiary of MSC’s terminal business, to join a bid to acquire the Total Terminals International (TTI)’s Long Beach terminal. The partnership of MSC and HMM will help the TTI Long Beach terminal to be normalized early and strengthen its competitiveness. With mutual cooperation, it will be able to provide customers with efficient logistics and terminal services, said HMM.

>Hyundai Merchant Denies Alliance Hopes Are Dead
http://www.wsj.com/articles/hyundai-merchant-denies-alliance-hopes-are-dead-1480585053

>South Korea:Hyundai Merchant Marine
>Wall Street Journal
>2M Alliance

Who is a liar?

>TeamIndus boasts a 100-person engineering team, and describes itself as a group of young colts and older “jedi masters”—retired scientists from India’s space agency, the Indian Space Research Organization. The team is backed by a who’s-who of Indian business leaders, including Infosys co-founder Nandan Nilekani, Rana Tata of the Tata Group, and Sachin Bansal and Binny Bansal of Flipkart.

>“[India is] ready to take to the global stage in demonstrating a capability for building deep technology and competing with the best in the world,” Nilekani says. “I invested in TeamIndus because they’re the face of New India, and I believe they will inspire the next generation of innovators and achievers.”

>The Google Lunar XPrize was announced in 2007 following the success of the Ansari X Prize, which offered $10 million to the first non-governmental organization to launch a reusable manned spacecraft twice in two weeks. The Ansari prize was won by the company Scaled Composites, with a vehicle that would be come the basis for Virgin Galactic’s still unrealized space tourism hopes.

more coverage:
http://www.smh.com.au/world/cia-chief-john-brennan-warns-donald-trump-against-tearing-up-iran-nuclear-deal-20161130-gt1a14.html
>Washington: The Pakistani government has released an unusual readout of a phone call on Monday between Pakistani Prime Minister, Nawaz Sharif, and the US President-elect, Donald Trump.

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/trump-has-bizarre-conversation-pakistani-leader
>Trump has ‘bizarre’ conversation with Pakistani leader

http://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-pakistan-prime-minister-terrific-527036
>U.S. president-elect Donald Trump offered to help solve Pakistan's problems and praised Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif as a "terrific guy" in the first call between the two men, the Pakistani leader's office said.

>>88947
related, from pakistan:
http://www.dawn.com/news/1299837/pakistan-open-to-trumps-role-in-mediation-on-kashmir-fo

update:

>Pakistan plays up, then plays down prime minister’s chummy call with Trump
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/pakistan-touts-then-plays-down-leaders-chummy-call-with-trump/2016/12/01/59ee8fda-b771-11e6-939c-91749443c5e5_story.html

What is up with the baby faces, why is MIT programming some kind of schizophrenic computer.

>>88364
Those are some fucked up babies. Does anyone have the full size image?

>>88372
the baby face scenario : computer analyse the baby picture and further predict them to cry or smile, hence the future

>>87793
>"Washington's hope for North Korea's denuclearization is an outdated illusion," Rodong Sinmun, a North Korean newspaper, reportedly said.

Trump said during his campaign he was open to speaking with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un directly. The business mogul also made remarks about North Korea’s nuclear program and described Kim as a “maniac.” He also suggested that China could "make that guy disappear."

“We can’t play games with him,” Trump said in January while visiting Iowa. “Because he really does have missiles. And he really does have nukes.”

However, Trump emphasized in his victory speech Nov. 9 he was willing to work with any country open to working with the U.S.

>N. Korea-China trade on steady rise despite sanctions

SHANGHAI, Nov. 25 (Yonhap) -- Trade between North Korea and China increased for the third straight month in a row last month, inviting doubts over whether China is effectively taking part in the international community's economic sanctions' on its traditional ally, Chinese trade data showed Friday.

According to monthly data released by China's General Administration of Customs, the two communist countries traded goods worth US$525.24 million in October, up 21.1 percent from $433.73 million a year ago.

In the figure, China exported $286.86 million worth of goods to the North, up 16.1 percent on-year, and imported $238.38 million worth from the North, up 27.6 percent from a year before, the data said.

The monthly increase marked the third in a row since August, when the bilateral trade marked a 29.9 percent rise on-year in sharp comparison with a 9.1 percent drop in April following the U.N. Resolution 2270 adopted in March against the North's nuclear test in January. The figure also posted an 8.1 percent decline in May and a 15.7 percent decrease in July, except for a 9.4 percent hike in June.

In particular, China's exports of construction materials and vehicles have been noticeably on the rise, which apparently has something to do with ongoing bilateral infrastructure construction projects in their border areas.

http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/northkorea/2016/11/25/0401000000AEN20161125006900315.html

>China's October coal imports from North Korea up on month after falling in September


China's coal imports from North Korea rose in October after falling more than a quarter in September from the previous month amid a push from the United States to punish North Korea for its recent nuclear test.

Coal imports from North Korea climbed 1.22 percent in October to 1.82 million tonnes compared with September, data from China's General Administration of Customs showed on Friday.

North Korea conducted its fifth nuclear test on Sept. 9, and said it had mastered the ability to mount a warhead on a ballistic missile.
China expressed anger with North Korea for the test, its largest to date. China's coal imports from North Korea fell to 1.798 million tonnes that month from 2.465 million tonnes in August.

Earlier in the year, China said it would comply with U.N. sanctions and ban coal imports from North Korea following Pyongyang's fourth nuclear test in January, although Beijing has made exemptions based on "livelihood purposes".

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang told a daily news briefing after the figures were released that it was not the statistics people should be paying attention to, but whether the coal trade was legal.

"China has consistently fully and conscientiously carried out the U.N. Security Council's resolutions on sanctions on North Korea," Geng said.

Products like coal with a civilian purpose that do not benefit the nuclear and missile programs do not fall under the sanctions mandate and Chinese imports accord with those rules, he added.

"We uphold that the U.N. sanctions on North Korea should not have a negative impact upon livelihoods in North Korea or humanitarian needs," Geng said.
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-economy-northkorea-coal-idUSKBN13K138

>>89109
When will Choi’s daughter return?
http://m.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20161201000727

As an independent counsel is set to take over the investigation into the spiraling scandal involving President Park Geun-hye and her confidante Choi Soon sil, eyes are on when Choi’s daughter Chung Yoo-ra will return to Korea.

Chung, a 19-year-old dressage rider, is involved in the scandal, but has not been brought in for questioning yet.

Chung is said to be in Germany, on leave of absence from Ewha Womans University. Her mother, who stayed there with Chung, returned to Korea last month and is now under arrest.

The Ministry of Education confirmed through a special inspection that she was illegally accepted into the university and was given overly generous marks without attending classes or turning in assignments at Ewha, due to her mother’s status.

Choi, who holds no government post, is suspected of meddling in state affairs, extorting donations from conglomerates and getting her daughter accepted into the prestigious university through her ties to the embattled president. It is also suspected that Samsung Group, a corporate sponsor of Chung, received business favors from the government in return for generous support of Chung.

“As we are investigating the Ewha case, Chung Yoo-ra will be questioned at some point,” said an official from the prosecution, without specifying an exact date.

A special committee for the parliamentary inquiry summoned Choi and Chung as witnesses for questioning at the second hearing to be held on Dec. 7 at the National Assembly in Seoul.

>>89110
But it remains to be seen whether she will accept the call, as her lawyer Lee Kyung-jae, who is also representing Choi, said Wednesday that Chung would only return to Korea when the prosecution formally calls her in for questioning.

The prosecution has brought in several ranking officials from the university, including the university’s former President Choi Kyung-hee and admissions chief Namgung Kon, on charges of obstructing business. It raided the school on Nov. 22.

Meanwhile, the Ministry of Education said Thursday it would suspend financial support for Ewha Womans University for its irregularities surrounding the admissions process.

The ministry has provided select universities with state budget funds to help improve their university admission systems.

Ewha, which won the project for three straight years dating to 2014, received about 700 million won ($598,000) this year. The money will be withdrawn and the school will be excluded from the financial aid next year.

Ewha Womans University had already won eight of nine state-funded projects, which critics say could be a result of the school giving special favors to Chung. But the Education Ministry’s inspection could not confirm the links.

>>88975
if they find people who dont pay taxes on bitcoin, which is stupid af in both situations, no body is usign that shit anymore.

>>88095
>Liberals getting this defensive.
lol

>>88096
It's good to ignore and mock the will of the majority in a democratic election.

>>88096
>Trumptards getting this retarded
kek

That is not that big of a suprise. The peoples salaries are going down by the month. Paying all this stuff is not really easy. A lot off people there need to pay rent in euro. So with the hryvnia going down it's no way to manage.

>This will not be the first time in the debate between handheld controllers and the PC's keyboard and mouse that they have been directly tested in the real world of FPS competition. Back in 2014, an Xbox One-based Titanfall team decided to use their trusty controllers to take on some keyboard-and-mouse PC players in a high-level tournament. That attempt led to a vociferous debate over the use of aim assist to help correct for the imprecision of a controller's analog stick. Some see that game-provided assistance as a necessary tool to balance out the disadvantages of the analog stick, while others see it as an unfair advantage for controller users that cripples mouse-based players. For what it's worth, Gears of War 4 lead multiplayer designer Ryan Clevin told IGN in August that his team "definitely work[s] from the controller out... We do play [with] mouse and keyboard, but the core of the game is around a controller.”

>This isn't even the first time Microsoft has considered the question of pitting PC and console players against each other in an FPS. In 2010, Voodoo PC President Rahul Sood publicly discussed rumors that Microsoft had internally tested a bridge between Xbox and PC players. The result, according to Sood, was that "the console players got destroyed every time. So much so that it would be embarrassing to the Xbox team in general had Microsoft launched this initiative."

>In a response to that report, Microsoft Senior Director of PC and Mobile Gaming Kevin Unangst told PC World that Sood's comments were "not an accurate generalization" about Microsoft's efforts. "Game design choices can balance or tip the scales, much in the same way that a PC game can be built to use a gamepad or keyboard and mouse, and can implement either or both well or poorly," he said. "It's the developer's job to find the right balance."
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>>88993
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too bad this game is a real shitter. a rushed fake ass gears game pushed by microsoft. triple FFF. biggest money grab ever

>neverpostagain

Fuck this game, Its only available in the Microsoft store.

>>87271
“We have had more than our share of outrageous male politicians,” said Kim Yun-jeong, 22, who had a placard that said “Park Geun-hye, OUT!” at a recent demonstration in Seoul, the capital. “But I feel men now saying, behind our back and with a smirk on their faces: ‘See! This is what we get when we have a woman president for a change.’”

Ms. Park’s troubles stem from her decades of ties to Choi Soon-sil, a daughter of Choi Tae-min, the founder of a fringe religious sect who befriended Ms. Park in the 1970s. Ms. Choi was indicted Sunday on charges of using her influence with Ms. Park to extort millions from businesses. Prosecutors said Ms. Park was an accomplice of Ms. Choi, but she is protected by the Constitution from criminal indictment.

Ms. Park has agreed to submit to an inquiry. But on Tuesday, her lawyer, Yoo Yeong-ha, tried to use Ms. Park’s gender as a shield, saying that she was “a woman before being president” and that her “privacy as a woman” should be protected from prosecutors who sought to question her.

>>87272
Women’s groups were having none of it.

“They are not investigating her privacy as a woman but her acts of destroying constitutional order as president,” a group of women’s advocacy organizations said in a joint statement. (Mr. Yoo declined to elaborate on what Ms. Park’s privacy had to do with the investigation.)

South Korea’s women have been just as loud as its men in denouncing Ms. Park. Recent polls have found her to be deeply unpopular among both men and women.

And in the huge protests that have filled central Seoul over the past four weekends, women have often led peaceful marches — an unusual sight in South Korea, where anti-government demonstrations often feature men clashing with riot police officers.

During a Nov. 12 rally that attracted one million people by some estimates, a student from the Sacred Heart Girls’ High School in Seoul, Ms. Park’s alma mater, took the podium. “You have become an object of shame for us,” the student said of Ms. Park, prompting wild cheers from the crowd. “We can no longer tolerate you representing our nation.”

Although Ms. Park is often called South Korea’s first female president, that label fails to capture the complicated ways in which people here regard her presidency.

Ms. Park has never been considered a champion of women’s rights, either as the president or as a legislator before that. According to Kim Young-soon, a leader at the Korean Women’s Associations United, gender inequality has actually worsened under Ms. Park, with sex crimes on the rise and a growing wealth gap taking a harder toll on women.
Her presidential campaign was aimed at securing the support of older conservatives who still revered her father, the military dictator Park Chung-hee, for leading the country out of poverty in the 1960s and ’70s. Many saw in Ms. Park a modern version of her charismatic father.

>>87273
South Koreans like to say that they see Ms. Park not as a female president but as Park Chung-hee’s daughter. That places her in a peculiar and precarious position in South Korea, where patriarchy rules the political and corporate worlds.

A widely shared Twitter post last year summed up the challenges Ms. Park has faced in the shadow of her father’s legacy and with the cultural misgivings over female leaders: “When President Park Geun-hye does well, she wears the clothes of Park Chung-hee. But when she does badly, she becomes a woman.”

So far, Ms. Park’s gender has not been an outright issue in the scandal, but it has colored the outrage. Older conservative men who have turned against Ms. Park since the scandal often disdainfully refer to her as an “unfilial daughter.”

Online, men have attacked Ms. Park and Ms. Choi by invoking an old Korean diatribe against assertive women: “If a hen crows, the household collapses.” (When a man used that phrase at a recent protest, it set off both cheers and boos from the crowd.)

In the local news media, photographs have emerged that show urinals painted with images of Ms. Park and Ms. Choi. People have derided Ms. Choi, who has no background in government or policy making, as an “ajumma,” or homemaker, “from Gangnam,” a Seoul district often associated with affluence and moral weakness.

“President Park is taken as evidence that women are not qualified for politics,” a feminist group said last week, protesting what it called gender prejudices tainting the campaign against Ms. Park.

>>82069
Pictured: The 95th Samsung washing machine to spontaneously burst into flames while operating ... and Australian firefighters say they STILL explode after company tries to fix them
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3090514/Pictured-60th-Samsung-washing-machine-spontaneously-burst-flames-operating-Australian-firefighters-say-explode-company-tries-fix-them.html

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/05/21/05/28EC6DAD00000578-0-image-m-2_1432182111513.jpg

Chinese consumers offended by Samsung bowing to apologise for Note 7 fiasco
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/chinese-consumers-offended-by-samsung-bowing-apologise-note-7-fiasco-1589369

>>82069
lol silly koreans

>>89018
You are just the worst at influencing with your writing. It's whiny and unappealing. You're wrong, not because pedos shouldn't be murdered, but because you lather your anger in fear-mongering conservatism.
>tl;dr All your threads are shit.

That being said: quote more articles.
Don't just throw out your own view, do that in a reply. Get a few sources and use some quotes in your post, THEN I can consider giving a shit.
Noob.