WASHINGTON ? The Obama administration will allow Yemen’s outgoing president to come to the U.S. temporarily for medical treatment, a move aimed at easing the political transition in Yemen, a key counterterrorism partner. A senior administration official said Ali Abdullah Saleh would travel to New York this week, and probably stay in the U.S. until [...]
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From brainwashed North Korean assassin to espouser of freedom in South Korea
A man hired by the North Korean government to kill the South Korean president is now a democracy-loving grandfather and church pastor in South Korea.? ? A local, slice-of-life story from a Monitor correspondent. Skip to next paragraph In the dark days of the winter of 1968, he was part of a commando squad that [...]
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