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John Delury

@JohnDelury

5 years

Note to Self: Twitter is the Monkey Mind 以难化之人心如猨猴故以若干种法制御其心乃可调伏。

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John Delury

@JohnDelury

5 years

Good morning, world. Here in South Korea, we are waking up to the news that 29,100,000 citizens voted in yesterday's National Assembly election. Over 66% of electorate. Highest turnout since 1992. 'Democracy or public health' is a false choice.

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John Delury

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2 years

That stare

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John Delury

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4 years

As an American living in Korea, my mind is trying to make sense of the fact that I get a little worried when we have 40 new cases reported here, while the US has 40,000 new cases a day, and yet people have to be convinced to wear masks.

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3 years

It's a mistake to look to Beijing or count on China to broker/mediate peace talks. Thanks to @edwardwhitenz @FT for inclding my 2 cents

Ukraine says China is ready to act as a peacemaker

Kyiv believes Beijing wants to stop the war with Russia but critics warn of a ‘smokescreen’

www.ft.com

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4 years

North Korea's Night Parade of Tears

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John Delury

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4 years

@Transition46 I'm already bored by these statements. THIS IS SO EXCITING! It's so refreshing to be bored again.

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John Delury

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7 years

Roughly as easy for China to "solve this problem" as for US to bring peace to Middle East and make Israel give up its nuclear weapons

Elise Hu

@elisewho

7 years

Today in Trump policy on North Korea is a statement from the president:

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John Delury

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8 years

There's a wondrous sense of civic solidarity when 95% of the people disapprove of their president and peaceably occupy their capital

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John Delury

@JohnDelury

7 years

@realDonaldTrump What is your question, Mr. President? Is it: how to stop Kim Jong Un? If so, then talking is essential to you figuring out an answer.

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John Delury

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9 months

alarming analysis from an analyst and a scientist who are generally not alarmist

Is Kim Jong Un Preparing for War? - 38 North: Informed Analysis of North Korea

The situation on the Korean Peninsula is more dangerous than it has been at any time since ...

www.38north.org

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John Delury

@JohnDelury

5 years

The known U.S. death toll is now 19. When it was 19 in South Korea they'd already tested 100,000 people.

James Hamblin

@jameshamblin

5 years

The known U.S. death toll is now 19. When it was 19 in China they'd already begun building two new hospitals and 20 quarantine facilities in one city.

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John Delury

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6 years

2018: The Year of Making Deng's Southern Tour Look Like A Weekend on Martha's Vineyard

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John Delury

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4 years

Informed first-hand observation and insights of Capitol mob... by an American Revolutionary historian no less. cc @AEBowenPhD @jbf1755 @GilmoreGlenda h/t @WonkVJ

Terry Bouton

@TerryBoutonHist

4 years

My wife and I attended the “Stop the Steal” Trump Insurrection on Wednesday (as observers, NOT participants) and there are FIVE big take-aways from what we witnessed and heard outside the Capitol that I'd like to share. (We took all the pictures below). 1/22

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John Delury

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6 years

Somebody out there noticed KJUs uncanny ability to create cover art for imaginary Pink Floyd albums

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John Delury

@JohnDelury

7 years

Threatening trade war against South Korea while threatening real war against North Korea doesn't seem like such a hot idea.

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John Delury

@JohnDelury

4 years

President Biden has now specifically raised the cases of Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor. So, if Xi is serious about a reset in Sino-US relations, one gesture in that direction would be to release the two men on humanitarian grounds.

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John Delury

@JohnDelury

4 years

It’s that easy. I want to take this moment to celebrate all the journalists who kept their feet on the brakes throughout this “story.” Unfortunately they get no credit, and the ones who had their feet on the gas accept no blame.

Martyn Williams

@martyn_williams

4 years

JUST IN: Photos of Kim Jong Un opening a fertilizer factory in Sunchon on May 1, according to KCNA.

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John Delury

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6 years

Moon Jae-in with KJU on northern side of Panmunjom/ DMZ, in surprise summit held a few hours ago

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John Delury

@JohnDelury

6 years

Also he has to kill his evil uncle.

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John Delury

@JohnDelury

5 years

THIS IS INSANE. A woman DIED at a nursing home in @SacCountyCA & only 3 other people have been tested; families not getting any info; elders are told to 'self-monitor', not even having temperatures taken.

Stuart Leavenworth 💥

@sleavenworth

5 years

Two days after coronavirus killed a patient at a Northern California assisted living home, some families of loved ones there are alarmed about their welfare and angry about a lack of info from the facility or local officials. Via @anitachabria

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John Delury

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4 years

My Fellow Americans, Imagine a country where the President writes the @TIME profile of the CDC Director. And praises HER for leading the national response to the pandemic. And quotes Camus.

Jung Eun-kyeong: The 100 Most Influential People of 2020

Find out why Jung Eun-kyeong is on this year’s list

time.com

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John Delury

@JohnDelury

8 years

Kissinger reassuring Zhou Enlai nothing to fear from CIA: "they are mostly from Yale"

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John Delury

@JohnDelury

3 years

I don't get how this presidential election here in South Korea works. It seems like whichever of the candidates receives the most votes wins. Why don't they have an Electoral College? It makes no sense.

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John Delury

@JohnDelury

4 years

how it started: how it's going:

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John Delury

@JohnDelury

7 years

@realDonaldTrump If you've been told that for 25 years all we've done is talk to North Korea & pay them money, then you might need a second 'policy review'.

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John Delury

@JohnDelury

6 years

Thomas Jefferson with the photobomb of the week

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John Delury

@JohnDelury

3 years

Spence was not just a historian, he was an artist, and his books will be read forever because they are works of art. That does not mean he made things up-- his artistry was bounded by things as they really happened, just as a sculptor can only carve the block before her.

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John Delury

@JohnDelury

3 years

To all the haters who say nothing good ever comes out of efforts at inter-Korean reconciliation and it's all just talk, I say to you:

Yonhap News Agency

@YonhapNews

3 years

Actors Hyun Bin, Son Ye-jin to tie the knot

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John Delury

@JohnDelury

7 years

Time to breathe some life into this new chapter of inter-Korean reconciliation. Get @BTS_twt & #moranbong on stage together for Peace Olympics concert.

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John Delury

@JohnDelury

2 years

This book is a revelation

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John Delury

@JohnDelury

6 years

We have grown so accustomed (with good reason) to thinking about North Korea in terms of threat, that it takes some unthinking to see the possibilities. Here’s what I see:

Opinion | Kim Jong-un Has a Dream. The U.S. Should Help Him Realize It. (Published 2018)

North Korea’s leader wants to be a great economic reformer. Encouraging him is the best way forward on denuclearization.

www.nytimes.com

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John Delury

@JohnDelury

8 years

Deputy Secretary of State, UnderSec for Arms Control, Asst Sec for East Asia also might not hurt

Brian Klaas

@brianklaas

8 years

Maybe I'm crazy but I sort of think it would probably be helpful for Trump to nominate someone to be ambassador to South Korea pretty soon.

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John Delury

@JohnDelury

4 years

my bet is he's in North Korea.

NK NEWS

@nknewsorg

4 years

Where in the world is Kim Jong Un? – NKNews Podcast Ep.126 #NorthKorea

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John Delury

@JohnDelury

6 years

Another extraordinary image that captures the #interkoreansummit Two key South Korean officials who worked very hard to make it happen, & who have lived division in remarkable ways, one wiping away tears & the other beaming with joy

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John Delury

@JohnDelury

2 years

A fortnight til publication day-- why wait when you can pre-order now?

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John Delury

@JohnDelury

5 years

Flashback: Seoul three years ago, impeaching the president

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@JohnDelury

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Tears of pain & healing in Gwangju, even the sign language interpreter cannot stop them from falling

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John Delury

@JohnDelury

5 years

The South Korea Model, in 5 simple steps: 1. Test 2. Trace 3. Inform 4. Treat 5. VOTE

Opinion | How Democracy Won the World’s First Coronavirus Election (Published 2020)

South Korea has been a model of testing and tracing during the epidemic. Now it is for voting, too.

www.nytimes.com

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John Delury

@JohnDelury

6 years

PUTTING SOMETHING IN ALL CAPS DOESN’T MAKE IT TRUE. Inventory was never going to work as early step. Insisting on it was recipe for quagmire, not progress.

Ken Dilanian

@KenDilanianNBC

6 years

This is STUNNING U.S. drops demand for full accounting of N. Korea nuclear program ahead of talks via @CKUBENBC AND @CAROLELEE

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John Delury

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3 years

Honored and humbled to teach at a university that refuses to forget in a country that won the freedom to remember.

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John Delury

@JohnDelury

3 years

Since I tweeted this [24 hrs ago], China's foreign minister doubled-down on all these positions. W/ euphemisms like "Ukraine situation" where "conflict erupted," Wang Yi promised Sino-Russian "strategic partnership" will advance no matter how bad things get (不管國際風雲如何險惡)

John Delury

@JohnDelury

3 years

Beijing has not walked back an inch from this Xi-Putin statement, does not even refer to Russia's actions as an invasion, will not exercise its duty at the UNSC/UNGA to acknowledge the Article 2 violation, echoes Putin's gaslighting blame-shifting onto NATO, & rejects sanctions.

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John Delury

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7 years

Extremely important announcement by North Korea, Kim Jong Un is de-escalating, putting Guam plan on ice [for now]

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@JohnDelury

3 years

Zhao Ziyang, relaxing at home

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John Delury

@JohnDelury

5 years

Test & trace like crazy. Inform the public like mad. Inspire rational, responsible behavior through transparency, innovativeness, inclusiveness.

Helen Branswell 🇨🇦

@HelenBranswell

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South Korea's success at battling back #Covid19 is extraordinary. Only 76 cases on March 14. Look at this curve. Amazing. Don't focus on the blue line. Look at the green bars.

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John Delury

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6 years

Now we have BBC Dad @Robert_E_Kelly being asked on @bbc to comment on @dennisrodman crying over on @CNN . Postmodernity works fast, wow. (To his credit Bob ignores it and makes substantive point)

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John Delury

@JohnDelury

7 years

When missile test fatigue hits @Joshua_Pollack that's when you know you are overdoing it

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John Delury

@JohnDelury

7 years

Is 7am too early for a glass of Bordeaux? Even if you live within North Korean artillery range?

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John Delury

@JohnDelury

3 years

Beijing has not walked back an inch from this Xi-Putin statement, does not even refer to Russia's actions as an invasion, will not exercise its duty at the UNSC/UNGA to acknowledge the Article 2 violation, echoes Putin's gaslighting blame-shifting onto NATO, & rejects sanctions.

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John Delury

@JohnDelury

5 years

Kids in Hong Kong are giving the world a civics lesson. It’s inspiring & humiliating (in the invigorating Confucian sense) to see how they are bending the arc in their small corner of the universe. 加油香港🇭🇰

For Hong Kong’s Youth, Protests Are ‘a Matter of Life and Death’ (Published 2019)

Young people are at the forefront of protests that have thrown the city into a political crisis. As they see it, they are battling for their future.

www.nytimes.com

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John Delury

@JohnDelury

7 years

If you can’t get your own citizens to give up assault rifles, how are you gonna convince your enemy to give up nuclear weapons?

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John Delury

@JohnDelury

8 years

Tips from Seoul on How to Stop a President: 1. Keep your protests peaceable so families can join, they are a lot bigger & more fun

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John Delury

@JohnDelury

3 years

irony of CCP history is 100 years ago they were the people they are suppressing now in Hong Kong. Party founders like Chen Duxiu, Zhou Enlai, Li Dazhao were the Joshua Wongs, Agnes Chows, Nathan Laws of their time. Exiled, imprisoned, undefeated.

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John Delury

@JohnDelury

5 years

Twitter nearly killed Kim Jong Un today. His condition seems to have stabilized, but who knows what tomorrow will bring. Meanwhile I am monitoring the view from out my window, and the northern border looks secure.

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John Delury

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6 years

To any of the 130 foreign journalists in Pyongyang right now... if the Parade has already started, blink twice.

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John Delury

@JohnDelury

7 years

So let me get this straight. The Trump administration can’t find a qualified candidate to serve as Ambassador to South Korea who doesn’t think starting a war with North Korea is a stupid idea? And it’s taken them a year to figure that out?

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John Delury

@JohnDelury

4 years

you guys really don't know how to pick your fights, do you?

Global Times

@globaltimesnews

4 years

Kimchi, also called paocai in China, is a pickled and fermented dish not exclusively owned by certain countries and regions, a spokesperson for the Chinese Foreign Ministry said, calling on friendly and unbiased exchanges on food.

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John Delury

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3 years

In analyzing Northeast Asia the baseline is: no one likes anyone else, and you take it from there.

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John Delury

@JohnDelury

4 years

Definitely culture. Look how obedient Koreans are to state authority! Always doing what they are told! Confucian submissiveness!

Laura Bicker

@BBCLBicker

4 years

I get asked a lot if South Korea’s suppression of the pandemic has a lot to do with culture. There are several things to note. First authorities here acted quickly. A test was ready to mass produce within 2 weeks. Track & trace was vigorous. They can now trace 1000 people an hour

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John Delury

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4 years

I'm watching 'For Peace' 为了和平, the 20-part CCTV documentary on China's role in Korean War, so you don't have to. Episode 1 done... only 19 hours to go! #lipsandteeth

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John Delury

@JohnDelury

5 years

Kim Jong Un's health condition is deteriorating rapidly, from Daily NK to Reuters to CNN to my entire Twitter feed.

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John Delury

@JohnDelury

7 years

Probably the best op-ed I've read about Korea this year. Or at least the most true and human thing.

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John Delury

@JohnDelury

5 years

South Korea has become an agoraphobe's paradise

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John Delury

@JohnDelury

5 years

A few more factors here in South Korea: - Relentless contact tracing - Systematic info sharing w public [to point Americans would freak about privacy violations] - Religious mask wearing - Single-payer public universal health insurance

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John Delury

@JohnDelury

5 years

Watching the Flight of the Valkyries w @BBCLBicker at the DMZ

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John Delury

@JohnDelury

4 years

I get it, I get it, we are all China hawks now. But cmon people this is ridiculous. Pulling out the Peace Corps & Fulbrights, chasing away students & media, next banning Party members? Not gaining any leverage, just undercutting influence. Doing authoritarianism's work for it.

Edward Wong

@ewong

4 years

NEW: Trump officials are weighing a sweeping travel ban on 92 million members of the Chinese Communist Party & their families. It would be the most provocative action by US since trade war. But will Trump agree to it, since he admires Xi? w/ @paulmozur .

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John Delury

@JohnDelury

5 years

Jim I respectfully disagree. Kim is legitimating peaceful relations w the US, and writing a new narrative of the US as non-threatening. Opens up all kinds of good possibilities. North Korean media needs to be read in their context, not ours.

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John Delury

@JohnDelury

5 years

YES. The South Korean experience affirms this. Actually, social distancing here is less extreme than what I'm seeing unfold in US. That's b/c due to extensive testing, tracing, informing, we all have a better sense of where the peril is.

Nate Silver

@NateSilver538

5 years

The better testing/tracking you have, the less social distancing you need to achieve equivalent health outcomes. You can focus social distancing efforts more precisely at people who are sick or at immediate risk of being sick and others can get back to normal life a bit more.

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John Delury

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7 years

If North Korea were suicidal it would have died a long time ago. If KJU were crazy he wouldn't be in power this long. A brutal logic of survival drives the North Korean system and has sustained it against incredible odds. You have to tease out the possibilities in that logic.

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John Delury

@JohnDelury

5 years

Hot take: "Here in the freedom-loving, individualistic West, we just can't apply what might work to fight the virus in South Korean, with its deep-rooted culture of trusting authority."

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John Delury

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7 years

Seoul one year ago. And yet you seriously think KJU wants to coercively reunify w this, & that’s what the nukes are about? The North could not absorb the South with all the nukes in the world. Focus on the real problems. Find practical, peaceful solutions. 힘내세요

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John Delury

@JohnDelury

7 years

Ouch.

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John Delury

@JohnDelury

5 years

I pray to Saint Patrick to drive the snakes out of America.

Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

5 years

It is my great honor to declare Sunday, March 15th as a National Day of Prayer. We are a Country that, throughout our history, has looked to God for protection and strength in times like these....

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John Delury

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6 years

This is for @DavidNakamura

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John Delury

@JohnDelury

4 years

Ruling party got trounced in bellweather elections for mayors of Seoul and Busan but no one outside Korea noticed because Kim Jong Un did not stage a missile test on voting day “in a direct challenge to the Biden administration”

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John Delury

@JohnDelury

7 years

Grand strategy in the West is based on chess. “The Chinese” strategize in terms of weiqi. But from today onward, the geopolitical fate of the Korean Peninsula will be played out according to the cold logic & inscrutable rules of curling. 영미야!

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John Delury

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3 years

You wanna beat China & win the 21st century? Cut US defense spending. Dramatically.

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John Delury

@JohnDelury

4 years

shouldn't an Asia Tsar be called a 'Khan'?

Demetri

@Dimi

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SCOOP @JoeBiden considers appointing a White House #Asia Tsar ...

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John Delury

@JohnDelury

2 years

Sorry no room at the commanding heights of capitalist democracy for women

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John Delury

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3 years

The detention of the Two Michaels did 1,000 days of damage to China's image in Canada and among China/ North Korea experts around the world. Can we simply say 'hostage diplomacy worked'?

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John Delury

@JohnDelury

8 years

Not to be alarmist, but when I asked what Beijing will do if Trump persists w Two China Policy, the answer was war

Sheila A. Smith

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8 years

Taiwan says China air force conducts long-range drills via @Reuters

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John Delury

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3 years

Thinking of friends in Taiwan and Vietnam, two model societies in dealing w/ covid both now experiencing unnerving outbreaks. We know you will bend the curve back toward 0! 🇹🇼🇻🇳 화이팅

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John Delury

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7 years

Almost gives you the creepy feeling that NORTH KOREANS ARE NORMAL HUMAN BEINGS

China Xinhua News

@XHNews

7 years

Members of North Korea's Samjiyon orchestra wave to South Koreans when arriving in Gangneung Arts Center ahead of performance celebrating #PyeongChang2018 Winter Olympics

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John Delury

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7 years

To friends in the 4th Estate: pls do NOT ask for a comment from the President on latest NK missile launch. Thanks, The World

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John Delury

@JohnDelury

2 years

You know who else is probably happy waking up to the reports of Biden and Xi trying to figure out how the US and China can learn to get along? Asia.

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John Delury

@JohnDelury

5 years

Hot off the press. Just in time for the twelfth missile test of the year. Peace doesn’t make itself.

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John Delury

@JohnDelury

7 years

White House frustrated. Country relieved.

Mark Landler

@MarkLandler

7 years

NEW: White House frustrated that Pentagon is slow-walking military options for Trump to deal with North Korea. W/ @helenecooper

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John Delury

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4 years

Not only does Biden NOT need Xi’s help w/ Kim, but even more, a NK strategy predicated on cooperation w Beijing is doomed from the get-go.

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John Delury

@JohnDelury

3 years

We can launch them from a plane. We can launch them from a train. We can launch them from a sub. We can launch them in a tub. We can launch them here and there. We can launch them anywhere!

Shreyas Reddy

@shreyas_k_reddy

3 years

Here are some individual pics (of slightly higher quality) rather than the compressed collage in the above tweet.

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John Delury

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4 years

Pressure continues to build on social media for Kim Jong Un to be dead. The North Korean leader has not yet responded publicly.

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John Delury

@JohnDelury

6 years

Already? Trump is still answering questions.

Van Jackson

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John Delury

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3 years

Moon Jae-in shepherds the 🇰🇷🇺🇸 alliance through 3 years of US President Donald Trump's open scorn & extortion. But in the alternate universe of @postopinions Trump didn't exist & Moon is blamed for a foreign policy of 'distancing from the US'🤪

Washington Post Opinions

@PostOpinions

3 years

South Korea makes a welcome turn toward the U.S. — just when it is really needed, the Editorial Board writes.

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John Delury

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6 years

Trump has not mentioned and no one has asked about the 'end of war' declaration.

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6 years

I know we all have North Korea op-ed fatigue but this one is very good & very much worth reading.

Opinion | Ending the Dead End in North Korea (Published 2018)

We should set aside for a minute our demand that it disarm before any other negotiation.

www.nytimes.com

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John Delury

@JohnDelury

4 years

The wave of arrests in Hong Kong nearing Shanghai 1927 proportions. Bloodless but no less blind. Rounding up voices of hope and voices of dissent, the young and the old. Using the lazy allegation of every autocracy: inciting subversion, endangering national security.

Fion Li

@fion_li

4 years

#HongKong police just arrested Agnes Chow: Now TV

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John Delury

@JohnDelury

6 years

Original statement by North Korean state media outlet KCNA, might as well read it yourself. - note attribution matters. This is relatively low level, KCNA itself. Not attr to KJU (who has a lot riding on this diplomacy). Or to KPA (the military, who esp don’t like exercises)

Martyn Williams

@martyn_williams

6 years

The official English report from KCNA is out:

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John Delury

@JohnDelury

3 years

That is a bit weird. Unrelated I guess but seems like more than usual little earthquakes up there of late, fwiw.

Josh Smith

@joshjonsmith

3 years

South Koreas National Security Council condemns North Korea missile test, but rather unusually also says it is closely monitoring its nuclear facilities including Pungyeri test site

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John Delury

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9 months

This is a masterpiece. A must read for anyone with the faintest interest in China, also America's relationship with China, and the whole question of empire in the contemporary world.

Edward Wong

@ewong

9 months

Barnes & Noble has a 25% off sale through tomorrow for book pre-orders for members. This is a chance to get my new book, At the Edge of Empire. It's an epic work of memoir and reportage spanning 80 years, from my father in Mao's army to China's rise today:

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@JohnDelury

4 years

imagine if thousands of nuclear weapons were at the sole discretion of a 74-year-old former-reality TV star taking steroids to stave off a life-threatening illness weeks from likelihood of losing all his power.

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John Delury

@JohnDelury

3 years

If you don't believe me, here's what Xi said in Feb 4 joint statement w/ Putin about the New Era of International Relations [going great so far]. Sound like an honest broker?

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