The korean war armistice was signed in july 27, welcome back to washington journal. The korean war armistice was signed in 1967, and hereto reflect on that event is a director of International Affairs at the George Washington university. Professor, welcome to the program. Thank you for having me. Lets start with how the korean war began. When did it start and what were the events that led up to it . First, the terms of the events that led up to it, if you want to understand the origins of the korean war you have to also look at korea between the period of 1910 to 1945 when it was under japanese colonialists. The reason you have to work at that period is because japanese colonialism really created varied deep social and political divisions between koreans. There are many koreans who suffered in a lot of different ways under japanese colonialism. But there were also some koreans who benefited in different ways. So when world war ii ends in 1945, korea is very deeply divided as a society.
Series known as the peters rushton seminars, a series that i am john obrien from the department of english and im happy to kick things off. Todays lecture is part of an English Department lecture series known as the peters rushton seminars, series that goes back to 1950. It is a series that is including speakers, such as brooks, randall jerrell, wh and shamus heaney. Today, we are happy to help fred kaplan over the return to speak on his designer Thomas Jefferson. Fred kaplan is a distinguished professor of Queens College and the Graduate Center of the city of university of new york. A scholar in 19th century literature has become best nose is one of the most distinguished biographers of our era. He has published biographies of thomas carlyle, mark twain, henry james, charles dickens, john quincy adams, abraham lincoln, gore vidal and Thomas Jefferson. In his masterly pen, offers a biography of Thomas Jefferson by giving an english professors kind of attention to jeffersons written wor
Section 702 of the foreign Intelligence Surveillance act. Yesterday in the house, 19 republicans join the democrats in blocking speaker johnson from holding a floor vote on the legislation. We would like to get your thoughts on the debate. , kratz, democrats, 202 7488000. 202 7488001 for republicans. Democrats, 202 7488000. Independents, 202 7488002. You can join us in the text, include your first name, city and state at 202 7488003. Go to facebook. Com cspan and put your reaction there, or in a post on x at cspanwj. We will get your thoughts in a minute. Lets begin with the wall street journal reporting the surveillance vote failed in its setback speaker johnson. That is their headline this morning. Lindsay wise reports how speaker johnsons tenuous ramp on the gavel was dealt a blow wednesday after holdup republicans, a done by former president trump, denied passage on controversial spying law. Heres what the former president wrote on his to social website. It was illegally used again
Comments live. Then Alex Rouhandeh talks about news of the day on capitol hill, including the delay by House Republicans and bringing articles of impeachment against Homeland Security secretary Alejandra Mayorkas to the senate. And then jared bass with the center for American Progress and Christian Cooper of the foundation for research on equal opportunity to talk about President Bidens revised student loan forgiveness plan. Also, lisa curtis, Program Director for the indo pacific on the japanese Prime Ministers u. S. Visit, and the Security Alliance between the two countries in the face of threats from china. Washington journal starts now. Host good morning. Wednesday, april 10. Yesterday, the Arizona Supreme Court imposed a near total ban on abortion, citing an 1864 law that forbids the procedure except his ailing mothers life. It also punishes providers with six years of prison time. The first halfhour, we will get your reaction to the arizona ruling. Publicans, 202 7488001. Republi
it is a priority of the administration. do you believe right now there is a crisis at the border? the answer is no. i think there is a challenge at the border that we re managing. is there a crisis at the border? at this point is this a crisis at the border? we don t have to put new labels on what we ve already conveyed is challenging. is there a challenge at the border? let s go. dana: a couple thoughts there from a communications perspective if i could. definitely think the white house is feeling the heat about the president not being as visible or taking questions. they had him go out yesterday. he is at a hardware store looking around but not answering questions. one of the questions is about the border. they pull it out. today at 12:30 p.m. when jen psaki briefs the press she will bring with her somebody that deals with border security issues because they know they need to have a better answer. if i were jen psaki i would agree i would bring someone else