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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.