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In South Korea, don't say anything stupid, Mr. President

Donald Trump seems eager to be a willing dupe for the Machiavelli of Moscow, says David Horsey.

Was Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's expression of regret and condolence at Pearl Harbor sufficient?

It looked like it would be a quiet Sunday aboard the USS Aylwin for Robert Van Druff. The young Navy fire controlman second class was reading the funny pages in a Honolulu newspaper. The Farragut-class destroyer Aylwin lay moored at sleepy Naval Station Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The date was Dec. 7, 1941.

President Barack Obama will visit a memorial to the victims of the U.S. atomic bomb attack on Hiroshima during World War II, the White House said Tuesday.

Matsuyama and Takako Chiba, 73, both survivors of the bombing in Hiroshima, visited Baltimore and Rockville as part of a trip to the U.S. with the Hiroshima-Nagasaki Commemoration Committee Thursday. Yukie Ikebe and the Heartful Chorus sang "Amazing Grace" and Japanese songs during a commemoration celebration.

Gov. Larry Hogan took a ride Thursday on Japan's high-speed magnetic levitation train and expressed enthusiastic interest in a technology that has been touted as a way to travel between Baltimore and Washington in 15 minutes. He announced Maryland would seek a $28 million grant to study the possibility of a Baltimore-Washington maglev line.

The uncertainty surrounding America's intentions in Syria threatens growth, and President Barack Obama's weakness on the international stage emboldens our competitors.