This time around, Mr. Kim was mum on such issues, despite mounting uncertainty over the future of nuclear talks as the Trump administration comes to an end.
Mr. Kim did make headlines by acknowledging that his five-year economic development plan for North Korea has largely failed, according to reports by the regime’s official Korean Central News Agency. “Almost all sectors fell a long way short,” he said.
A central part of the Trump administration’s strategy over the past four years had been an effort to convince Mr. Kim that the U.S. and other world powers would ease sanctions on Pyongyang if only the Kim regime would fully renounce its nuclear ambitions.
Treasury department’s senior leaders were targeted by hacking
The Treasury Department ranks among the most highly protected corners of the government because of its responsibility for market-moving economic decisions, communications with the Federal Reserve and economic sanctions against adversaries. December 22, 2020 9:09:20 am
FILE - Gen. Paul Nakasone testifies during a hearing with the House Armed Services Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, March 4, 2020. (T.J. Kirkpatrick/The New York Times)
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The Russian hackers who penetrated United States government agencies broke into the email system used by the Treasury Department’s most senior leadership, a Democratic member of the Senate Finance Committee said Monday, the first detail of how deeply Moscow burrowed into the Trump administration’s networks.
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U.S.-Armenia-Azerbaijan Joint Statement (26 October 2020)
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Armenian Foreign Minister Zohrab Mnatsakanyan and Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov met with Deputy Secretary of State Stephen E. Biegun on October 24, 2020 and reaffirmed their countries’ commitment to implement and abide by the humanitarian ceasefire agreed in Moscow on October 10, which were reaffirmed in the statement issued from Paris on October 17, in accordance with the October 1, 2020 joint statement of United States President Donald J. Trump, French President Emmanuel Macron, and Russian President Vladimir Putin. The humanitarian ceasefire will take effect at 08:00 a.m. local time (12:00 a.m. EDT) on October 26, 2020. The United States facilitated intensive negotiations among the Foreign Ministers and the Minsk Group Co-Chairs to move Armenia and Azerbaijan closer to a peaceful resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
The below is attributable to Principal Deputy Spokesperson Cale Brown:
Today, Deputy Secretary of State Stephen E. Biegun participated in a virtual discussion hosted by the German Marshall Fund with Belarusian presidential candidate and leader of the opposition, Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya. They discussed the ongoing political crisis in Belarus, and Deputy Secretary Biegun reaffirmed strong U.S. support for the Belarusian people’s resounding calls for their voice to be heard in determining their country’s fate. The Deputy Secretary underscored U.S. calls for dialogue between the Coordination Council and Belarusian authorities to resolve the crisis, truly free and fair elections under international observation, and the unconditional release of all political prisoners and those unjustly detained.