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Daily Brief: Trump Shows Openness to Negotiate With North Korea

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Council on Foreign Relations Newsletter If you are unable to see the message below, click here to view. November 7, 2017 Daily News Brief   TOP OF THE AGENDA Trump Shows Openness to Negotiate With North Korea While in Seoul on Tuesday, U.S. President Donald J. Trump expressed a willingness (AP) to negotiate with Pyongyang, saying North Korea should "come to the table" and "make a deal." Speaking alongside South Korean President Moon Jae-in during a five-country Asia tour, Trump praised South Korea's purchase of U.S. weapons, and the two leaders announced they reached an agreement to increase the number and range of U.S. missiles (DW) in South Korea. U.S. aircraft carriers are expected to carry out a military drill off the Korean peninsula in the coming days, and Trump will address South Korea's national assembly (Korea Times) on Wednesday, the first such speech by a U.S. president since 1993. ANALYSIS "If the United States is serious about reducing the prospects for war and nuclear missile proliferation, as well as strengthening its alliance with South Korea, the Trump administration cannot hand South Korea a blank check," Zachary Keck and Henry Sokolski write for Foreign Affairs. "The United States and South Korea will need to have a serious conversation on whether and how they are prepared to modify their alliance in the case of unification, in order to gain China's support for a unified Korean Peninsula led by the South Korean government," writes CFR's Patricia M. Kim. "For all the talk of dysfunction and policy incoherence in Washington under President Donald J. Trump, his administration has started to get some things right, especially when it comes to Asia policy," Dhruva Jaishankar writes for the Brookings Institution. PACIFIC RIM Trump Urges Japan to Buy U.S. Arms President Trump called on Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Monday to buy "massive" amounts of arms from the United States (WSJ) during a visit to Tokyo, saying such a deal would create "a lot" of U.S. jobs and enhance Japan's security. Abe said Japan "will be buying more." CFR's Sheila A. Smith discusses Abe's push for defense reforms with Hitoshi Tanaka of the Japan Research Institute. SOUTH AND CENTRAL ASIA Islamic State Claims Kabul TV Station Attack The self-proclaimed Islamic State has claimed an attack in which gunmen stormed the private TV station Shamshad (RFE/RL), killing at least one person. The station resumed programming shortly after the assault, in which an employee said the attackers wore police uniforms (Al Jazeera). BANGLADESH: Police in Dhaka have arrested a militant accused of killing American blogger Avijit Roy (Reuters) in 2015. Roy was critical of religious extremism in his writing. MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA Trump Endorses Saudi Prince Amid Crackdown President Trump wrote on Twitter on Monday that he has "great confidence" in Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (Reuters) and that some of the officials and royals arrested in a major purge had been "milking" their country for years. Saudi Arabia's attorney general said the arrest orders were "merely the start" of an anticorruption drive (BBC). CFR's Elliott Abrams writes in the New York Times that the Saudi crown prince is a modernizer who believes absolute monarchy is the path forward. EGYPT: President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi for the first time publicly voiced opposition to amending the constitution (DW) to allow him to serve three terms. Sisi said it does not suit him to "stay one more day against the will of the Egyptians." CFR's Steven A. Cook writes in Salon that Egypt has descended into corruption. SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA Liberia's Top Court Suspends Presidential Runoff The Supreme Court suspended a runoff slated for Tuesday (BBC) amid allegations of irregularities by the third-place candidate in an October 10 general election. It is not yet clear when the poll will be rescheduled. ZIMBABWE: President Robert Mugabe, in power since 1980, has dismissed his vice president (VOA), paving the way for his wife Grace Mugabe to succeed him. EUROPE EU States Expected to Sign Defense Pact A majority of EU member states are expected in the coming days to sign on to a landmark joint defense deal (FT) pushed by Germany and France to create a permanent cooperation structure, which would include pooling military logistics and weapons development. President Trump has called on NATO allies in Europe to contribute more to the continent's security. ITALY: Italian police are investigating the deaths of more than two dozen teenage migrant women (WaPo) from Nigeria whose bodies were found in the Mediterranean on Sunday.  AMERICAS Nicaraguans Lose U.S. Protected Status The Trump administration has ended the temporary protected status that allowed some 2,500 Nicaraguans to live and work in the United States (VOA) following a 1998 hurricane, while it has extended the status for fifty-seven thousand Hondurans for six months. More than two hundred thousand Haitians and Salvadorans await similar announcements (Miami Herald). MEXICO: The deputy foreign minister has denounced the planned execution of a Mexican national (Reuters) in the U.S. state of Texas. He said the death row inmate was not given the opportunity to meet consular officials, violating an international treaty on consular relations. UNITED STATES Leak Reveals Apple Relocated Untaxed Profits A leak of corporate records from a Bermuda-based law firm shows the U.S. tech giant Apple moved its profits to the island of Jersey (NYT), which generally does not tax corporate income, after its use of Irish subsidiaries to avoid taxes became the target of investigations. The Air Force has admitted it failed to report to federal authorities (WaPo) a 2014 domestic violence conviction against the gunman who killed twenty-six people at a church in Texas on Sunday, a procedure that would have prevented him from purchasing firearms.           Council on Foreign Relations — 58 East 68th Street — New York, NY 10065 CFR does not share email addresses with third parties. Forward This Email | Subscribe to CFR Newsletters | Unsubscribe - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -  

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Date: November 07, 2017 at 11:05PM