http://dagblog.com/link/all-aboard-mystery-train-24830 Comments for "All Aboard The Mystery Train" en http://dagblog.com/comment/250757#comment-250757 <a id="comment-250757"></a> <p><em>In reply to <a href="http://dagblog.com/link/all-aboard-mystery-train-24830">All Aboard The Mystery Train</a></em></p> <div class="field field-name-comment-body field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>The mystery widens big time. Smack dab in the middle of NYTimes home page, with interactive satellite graphic:</p> <p><strong><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/03/27/world/asia/north-korea-nuclear.html">North Korea Is Firing Up a Reactor. That May Upset Trump-Kim Talks.</a></strong></p> <p><em>As President Trump plans to meet Kim Jong-un, satellite evidence suggests that North Korea is expanding the complex that makes fuel for its nuclear weapons.</em></p> <p>By K.K. REBECCA LAI, WILLIAM J. BROAD and DAVID E. SANGER.</p> <p><u>With the rest of their  coverage under that:</u></p> <p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/27/us/politics/trump-south-korea-trade-deal.html">Trump Secures Trade Deal With South Korea</a></p> <p>By MICHAEL D. SHEAR and ALAN RAPPEPORT 13 minutes ago</p> <p><em>The pact with South Korea is President Trump’s first major trade deal. It may have been driven by looming talks with the North.</em></p> <p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/27/world/asia/kim-jong-un-china-north-korea.html">Kim Jong-un Secretly Met Xi Jinping, China Says</a></p> <p>By STEVEN LEE MYERS and JANE PERLEZ 54 minutes ago</p> <p><em>The meeting in Beijing, Mr. Kim’s first with another head of state, added a new layer of complexity to the global diplomacy around North Korea’s nuclear program.</em></p> <p>RELATED COVERAGE</p> <ul><li> <p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/27/world/asia/kim-jong-un-train-beijing.html">Bulletproof, Slow and Full of Wine: Kim Jong-un’s Train</a></p> </li> </ul></div></div></div> Wed, 28 Mar 2018 02:13:42 +0000 artappraiser comment 250757 at http://dagblog.com http://dagblog.com/comment/250753#comment-250753 <a id="comment-250753"></a> <p><em>In reply to <a href="http://dagblog.com/link/all-aboard-mystery-train-24830">All Aboard The Mystery Train</a></em></p> <div class="field field-name-comment-body field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Wow.</p> <p>This is what Xinhua has at the top of the English website now:</p> <p><a href="http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-03/28/c_137070598.htm" target="_blank">Xi Jinping, Kim Jong Un hold talks in Beijing</a></p> <ul><li><a href="http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-03/28/c_137069982.htm" target="_blank">Chinese premier meets U.S. congress delegation</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-03/27/c_137069649.htm" target="_blank">Xinhua Headlines: Truth behind China-U.S. trade "imbalances"</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-03/28/c_137069977.htm" target="_blank">Commentary: West's coordinated actions against Russia over spy poisoning worth pondering</a></li> </ul><p>The "worth pondering" piece is very suggestive in context,  to highlight something like that. It first posits that Trump's whole MAGA shtick tore the mask off America's imperial hubris which had always been there but hiding, but then that old allies decided to get together again over the poisoning.</p> </div></div></div> Wed, 28 Mar 2018 01:25:26 +0000 artappraiser comment 250753 at http://dagblog.com