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UPDATE: President Donald Trump took 20 steps into North Korea on Sunday, becoming the first sitting US president to visit that country. Trump shook hands with North Korean Chairman Kim Jong-un as he stepped over the stone curb separating North and South Korea. The DMZ session included a 50-minute private meeting in a…

Bong Joon-Ho’s multi-genre comedy-thriller Parasite takes aim at a number of themes occurring in our world, from class struggle to global warming. But criticizing North Korea isn’t one of the movie’s dominant motifs according to the director. Parasite follows a struggling family who worm themselves into the good…

UPDATED with Donald Trump response: President Donald Trump tried to tweet his way out of the corner into which he painted himself when he said he does not hold Kim Jong Un responsible for Otto Warmbier’s death, taking the North Korean ruler at his word that he did not know what was happening to the college student. If…

Robert Mueller's probe of Russian meddling in the presidential election will block us from "peace and legislation," President Donald Trump threatened in his State of the Union address. "Another 300,000 jobs" were added to the U.S. economy last month," Trump crowed, calling it "almost double the number expected," as…

UPDATED throughout with more details: Nearly four years after it jolted Hollywood and threw a wrench into international relations, the Sony hack is once again taking center stage. The Department of Justice today unsealed a criminal complaint against a North Korean computer programmer who conducted sophisticated cyber…

Though North Korea still has the all of warheads and missile systems it had before Donald Trump sat down with dictator Kim Jong Un in Singapore on Tuesday, POTUS this morning tweet-boasted “There is no longer a Nuclear Threat from North Korea.” “A long trip, but everybody can now feel much safer than the day I took…

For the 12th time since Saturday, President Donald Trump tweeted this morning at length about Robert Mueller’s investigation, or as he now calls it, the “Rigged Witch Hunt,” before apologizing to his base that he would have to take a break from that topic to turn his attention to the upcoming North Korea…

The 71st Annual Cannes Film Festival is in full swing and I just spend 11 straight hours in theatre seats catching it all. Christopher Nolan sat for a two hour “Rendez-Vous” , or what used to be called a master class Saturday afternoon at the Bunuel theatre which was , to put it mildly, a mob scene. You would think…

Donald Trump said he believes North Korean leader Kim Jong-un wants to bring "his country into the real world" after overseeing the release of three American detainees Thursday. Trump and his wife Melania were at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland to greet Kim Dong Chul, Kim Hak-song and Kim Sang Duk, who were released as…

President Donald Trump tweeted this morning the three remaining American citizens held captive in North Korea have been freed and are flying back to the United States with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. The release is being billed a a goodwill gesture by North Korea in advance of ruler Kim Jong Un’s meeting with…

Little Rocket Man, meet the leader of the reality world. In the latest surreal moment for the Donald Trump administration, the President has been invited by North Korean leader Kim Jong-un to meet with him in Pyongyang — and a South Korean official said POTUS says he will go there “by May.” National Security Advisor…

A social media backlash has started over the glamorizing of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s sister, who became the first member of the north’s ruling family to visit the south in 65 years during the Winter Olympics. CNN bore the brunt of the attacks. The news network published a story claiming Kim Yo Jong was…