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The prospect of Ronald Plasterk leading the Dutch Cabinet as the next prime minister was becoming less and less likely amid increasing pressure related to a scandal involving the former interior minister. Plasterk's candidacy to become prime minister is "no longer tenable," sources close to the new PVV, VVD, NSC and BBB political coalition told broadcaster NOS. At best, the scandal casts a dark shadow on Plasterk's management of the patent process involving a new cancer treatment. At worst, Plasterk could potentially face claims of scientific fraud that led to him enriching himself. Aside from more recent reporting about the row between Plasterk and NSC leader Pieter Omtzigt, the science research scandal already surfaced weeks ago in an article written by NRC. Since then, the newspaper has written several follow-up pieces that call into question Plasterk's decisions regarding the patent. The current phase is "the highest alarm level," sources told NOS. Plasterk, a microbiologist and politician, reportedly earned millions of euros on a patent for which he claimed sole credit. The patient application filed in the Untied States could soon be granted, but it could highlight mistakes made during the procedure. This could refer the patent worthless, which could then trigger lawsuits filed against Plasterk by various stakeholders, patent expert Koos Rasser told NRC. The research is connected to Plasterk's time leading the Amsterdam Medical Center (AMC), the teaching hospital of the University of Amsterdam. This was before the hospital was rebranded as the Amsterdam University Medical Center in a partnership with the Vrije Universiteit. Plasterk grew wealthier from the patents associated with the therapy, but neither the hospital nor the researcher involved, oncology professor Kees Punt, benefitted from the arrangement.
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He was Wilders' first choice, so it can't be that bad that he's no longer in the running.
I have vague recollections of Plasterk working in the same lab building where I worked in Leiden around 1984, at least I think it was him.
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161 – Marcus Aurelius and L. Commodus (who changes his name to Lucius Verus) become joint emperors of Rome on the death of Antoninus Pius. 1138 – Konrad III von Hohenstaufen was elected king of Germany at Coblenz in the presence of the papal legate Theodwin. 1277 – The University of Paris issues the last in a series of condemnations of various philosophical and theological theses. 1573 – A peace treaty is signed between the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Venice, ending the Ottoman–Venetian War and leaving Cyprus in Ottoman hands. 1799 – Napoleon Bonaparte captures Jaffa in Palestine and his troops proceed to kill more than 2,000 Albanian captives. 1814 – Emperor Napoleon I of France wins the Battle of Craonne. 1827 – Brazilian marines unsuccessfully attack the temporary naval base of Carmen de Patagones, Argentina. 1827 – Shrigley abduction: Ellen Turner is abducted by Edward Gibbon Wakefield, a future politician in colonial New Zealand. 1850 – Senator Daniel Webster gives his "Seventh of March" speech endorsing the Compromise of 1850 in order to prevent a possible civil war. 1862 – American Civil War: Union forces engage Confederate troops at the Battle of Pea Ridge in northwestern Arkansas. 1876 – Alexander Graham Bell is granted a patent for an invention he calls the "telephone". 1900 – The German liner SS Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse becomes the first ship to send wireless signals to shore. 1902 – Second Boer War: Boers, led by Koos de la Rey, inflict the biggest defeat upon the British since the beginning of the war, at Tweebosch. 1914 – Prince William of Wied arrives in Albania to begin his reign as King. 1931 – The Parliament House of Finland is officially inaugurated in Helsinki, Finland. 1941 – Günther Prien and the crew of German submarine U-47, one of the most successful U-boats of World War II, disappear without a trace. 1945 – World War II: American troops seize the Ludendorff Bridge over the Rhine river at Remagen. 1950 – Cold War: The Soviet Union issues a statement denying that Klaus Fuchs served as a Soviet spy. 1951 – Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 307 crashes in Lynnhurst, Minneapolis, killing 15 people. 1951 – Korean War: Operation Ripper: United Nations troops led by General Matthew Ridgway begin an assault against Chinese forces. 1951 – Iranian prime minister Ali Razmara is assassinated by Khalil Tahmasebi, a member of the Islamic fundamentalist Fada'iyan-e Islam, inside a mosque in Tehran. 1965 – Bloody Sunday: A group of 600 civil rights marchers is brutally attacked by state and local police in Selma, Alabama. 1965 – Aeroflot Flight 542 crashes in the Yermakovsky District, killing all 31 aboard. 1967 – The Majelis Permusyawaratan Rakyat Sementara (MPRS), Indonesia's provisional parliament, revoked Sukarno's mandate as President of Indonesia. 1968 – Vietnam War: The United States and South Vietnamese military begin Operation Truong Cong Dinh to root out Viet Cong forces from the area surrounding Mỹ Tho. 1971 – Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, political leader of then East Pakistan (present day-Bangladesh), delivers his historic 7th March speech in the Racecourse Field (Now Suhrawardy Udyan) in Dhaka. 1986 – Challenger Disaster: Divers from the USS Preserver locate the crew cabin of Challenger on the ocean floor. 1987 – Lieyu massacre: Taiwanese military massacre of 19 unarmed Vietnamese refugees at Donggang, Lieyu, Kinmen. 1989 – Iran and the United Kingdom break diplomatic relations after a fight over Salman Rushdie and his controversial novel, The Satanic Verses. 1993 – The tugboat Thomas Hebert sank off the coast of New Jersey, USA. 2006 – The terrorist organisation Lashkar-e-Taiba coordinates a series of bombings in Varanasi, India. 2007 – Reform of the House of Lords: The British House of Commons votes to make the upper chamber, the House of Lords, 100% elected. 2007 – Garuda Indonesia Flight 200 crashes at Adisutjipto International Airport in the Special Region of Yogyakarta, Indonesia, killing 21 people.
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Sanna Marin, Prime Minister of Finland, to Speak at NYU’s 2023 Commencement
Salman Rushdie, Booker Prize-Winning Author and Distinguished Writer in Residence at NYU, to Receive Presidential Medal; Dennis Walcott, Esteemed Public Servant and President of the Queens Public Library, to Receive the Rudin Award; and Andre J.L. Koo, NYU Trustee and Chair of the Chailease Group, to Receive the Gallatin Medal at Pre-Commencement Events NYU President Andrew Hamilton and Board of…
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બ્રહ્માનંદની પ્રાપ્તિ થયા પછી આનંદને માટે વેદોની આવશ્યકતા રહેતી નથી.
- ભગવદ્ ગીતા (અધ્યાય 2, શ્લોક 46)
અત્યારે નાણાકીય વર્ષ 2023-24 માટે સામાન્ય અંદાજ પત્ર (General Budget - Financial Bill) સંસદમાં બહાર પાડવામાં આવ્યું. તેમાં શિક્ષણ મંત્રાલયને અત્યાર સુધીમાં સૌથી વધુ ₹ 1,12,899.47 કરોડ રૂપિયા ફાળવવામાં આવ્યા. બીજું કે 740 એકલવ્ય શાળામાં 38,800 શિક્ષકોની ભરતી કરવામાં આવશે. PMKVY 4.0 (Prime Minister Kaushalya Vikas Yojana 4.0) નો વ્યાપ વધારવામાં આવ્યો. 30 Skill India International Center સ્થાપિત કરાશે વગેરે વગેરે. બીજું કે ગુજરાત રાજ્યમાં નવા શૈક્ષણિક વર્ષથી 400 જ્ઞાન સેતુ Day Schools શરૂ કરવાનું આયોજન છે. નવી શિક્ષણનીતિના પણ ગુણગાન કરવામાં આવ્યા છે. પરંતુ આ બધાની વચ્ચે ખાનગી સ્વ-નિર્ભર શાળાઓ અને કોલેજોમાં કામ કરતા શિક્ષકગણની સમસ્યાઓ અને વેદનાઓને સામાન્ય અંદાજ પત્રમાં કે નવી શિક્ષણનીતિમાં વાચા આપવામાં આવી નથી. ખાનગી શિક્ષકોને એટલું ઓછું વેતન આપવામાં આવે છે કે તેમના કરતાં મજૂરી કરતાં પંચમહાલના મામાઓ પણ વધુ કમાય છે. ખાનગી શિક્ષકો મજાકનું પાત્ર બની ગયા છે અને તેમની દયનીય સ્થિતિ પર અટ્ટહાસ્ય કરવામાં આવી રહ્યું છે. અભણ કે અર્ધ શિક્ષિત MLA અને MP પગાર અને ભ્રષ્ટાચાર થકી દ���શની તિજોરીને લૂંટી ધનના ઢગલામાં આળોટે છે અને ટૂંકાગાળામાં પેન્શનના હકદાર પણ બની જાય છે. સરકારી શિક્ષકગણને સારો પગાર આપવામાં આવે છે પરંતુ ખાનગી શિક્ષકગણની દયનીય સ્થિતિ છે. ખાનગી માલિકોને શિક્ષણની ગુણવત્તામાં રસ નથી કે પછી સેવાભાવના કે દેશભક્તિમાં રસ નથી પરંતુ અધધ નફાકારકતા અભિમુખ તેમની વૃત્તિ રહી છે. જે લાંબા ગાળે દેશના અર્થતંત્ર માટે અત્યંત ગંભીર રીતે હાનિકારક છે. જેની અસર અત્યારે વર્તાવા પણ માંડી છે. સમગ્ર દેશમાં શિક્ષણનું સ્તર ઘણું જ કથળી ગયું છે. શિક્ષણ એ કોઈ પણ દેશના અર્થતંત્રના કરોડરજ્જુ સમાન છે. આથી જો દેશમાં ખાનગી શિક્ષકો પ્રતિ લક્ષ્ય આપવામાં આવશે તો જ સાચા અર્થમાં માનવધન સાથે દેશનું પણ ઉત્થાન થશે. ખાનગી ખેલાડીઓ અર્થતંત્રના ખાનગીકરણની સ્વતંત્રતા પચાવી શક્યા નથી અને દેશને લૂંટવામાં નિરંકુશ છાકટા બન્યા છે જેમાં ગરીબ અને મધ્યમ વર્ગ પિસાઈ રહ્યો છે. દેશમાં ખાનગીકરણની નીતિઓ ઘાતક અને નિષ્ફળ રહી છે. શિક્ષણ અને આરોગ્ય ક્ષેત્રનું ખાનગીકરણ અને તેનું વ્યાપારીકરણ અત્યંત હાનિકારક છે. શિક્ષણ અને આરોગ્ય સેવાઓ નિઃશુલ્ક હોવી જોઇએ. ખાનગી કોર્પોરેટ ખેલાડીઓ જેવા કે Reliance industries, Birla group, NIRMA group વગેરે શિક્ષણ ક્ષેત્રમાં જંપલાવી ગુણવત્તાનાં નામે દેશની ભોળી પ્રજાને લૂંટી રહ્યાં છે. તેઓ ધારે તો સમગ્ર દેશમાં નિઃશુલ્ક શિક્ષણની વ્યવસ્થા કરી શકે છે. સંરક્ષણ, આરોગ્ય સેવાઓ અને શિક્ષણ ક્ષેત્રે કામ કરતાં કર્મચારીઓનું વેતન અન્ય ક્ષેત્ર કરતાં ઉચ્ચતમ પ્રકારનું હોવું જોઈએ.
સરકારે દેશમાં NEET, JEE, CAT, CMAT, CLAT વગેરે જેવી સ્પર્ધાત્મક પ્રવેશ પરીક્ષાઓ રદ કરી પ્રતિબંધ મુકવો જોઈએ. જે ગરીબ મધ્યમ વર્ગને ઉચ્ચ શિક્ષણથી વંચિત રાખે છે. અને Coaching Classes પર પણ પ્રતિબંધ મુકવો જોઈએ. Computer Studies વિષય 1 થી 12 ધોરણ અને સ્નાતક અને અનુસ્નાતક સ્તરે દરેક પ્રવાહમાં ફરજિયાત કરી તેના ગુણ ટકાવારીમાં ગણવામાં આવે. દેશમાં સ્વદેશી Laptop Computer બનાવવામાં આવે અને વિદ્યાર્થીઓને નિઃશુલ્ક આપવામાં આવે. ધારાસભ્યો અને સાંસદોનું માનદ્ વેતન ખાનગી સ્કૂલોના શિક્ષકો કરતાં ઓછું રાખવામાં આવે.
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Action And Russia Ukraine Vladimir Putin Nuclear
As the war in Ukraine continues, all eyes are on Russia’s subsequent steps and the country’s ultimate aim behind the invasion. Liberty, democracy, human dignity — these are the forces far more highly effective than concern about russia ukraine vladimir putin nuclear and oppression.
They can't be extinguished by tyrants like Putin and his armies. They can't be erased by folks — from people’s hearts and hopes by any amount of violence about putin russia ukraine conflict and intimidation.
"It depends on many reasons and, sadly, does not rely upon the desire of Ukraine. We create stress as hard as we will politically, but the essential factor about putin russia ukraine news is that our pressure is well-reasoned."
The Prime Minister is subsequently encouraging allies to deploy their deliberate support for 2023 as quickly as attainable to have most influence.
Kherson Oblast Administration Advisor Serhiy Khlan acknowledged on January 18 that Russian occupation authorities gave residents in occupied Ivanivka Hromada, Kherson Oblast, a three-day deadline to submit documentation to reregister houses and land underneath Russian regulation.
He said Medvedev's remarks have been in full accordance with Russia's nuclear doctrine which permits for a nuclear strike after "aggression towards the Russian Federation with typical weapons when the very existence of the state is threatened."
Funding for FRONTLINE is offered via the assist of PBS viewers and by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Additional funding is provided by the Abrams Foundation; the John D. And Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation; Park Foundation; the Heising-Simons Foundation; and the FRONTLINE Journalism Fund with main assist from Jon and Jo Ann Hagler on behalf of the Jon L. Hagler Foundation, and extra help from Koo and Patricia Yuen.
South Africa Criticized For Hosting Russian Warships Amid Ukraine Warfare
But these are also the end result of deliberate efforts by these forces which have always sought to undermine our unity. The formula they apply has been recognized from time immemorial – divide and rule. Hence the attempts to play on the ”national question“ and sow discord among folks, the overarching aim being to divide after which to pit the components of a single people towards one another.
With his bombs now falling on Ukraine, Putin has forced them to hear, and he's daring them to respond. We provide evaluation, training, and assets to those working for peace all over the world. Receive updates on publications and events from RUSI straight into your inbox.
How Russias New Commander In Ukraine May Change The War
Longer term, with Putin and the Duma threatening to confiscate any remaining assets of firms that have quickly fled Russia, few overseas investors will return anytime quickly. It is sadly reminiscent of what occurred to the Russian financial system when the Bolsheviks seized power in 1917. Yet a few of Ukraine’s key companions proceed to withstand supplying Kyiv with the weapons it needs to deliver the knockout punch.
Geolocated footage published on January 18 indicates that Russian forces have made marginal advances south of Ploshchanka . Luhansk Oblast Head Serhiy Haidai acknowledged on January 18 that Russian forces attempted to counterattack close to Kreminna however that Russian forces are unlikely to launch a counteroffensive within the space within the near future. Haidai also stated that Russian forces are transferring tools to the opposite facet of the Krasna River, which flows through Kreminna, in preparation for defensive operations and that Russian forces are continuing to maneuver reserves to the Svatove-Kreminna line. Geolocated footage published on January 17 shows Russian forces shifting reserves and military gear near Severodonetsk . The Ukrainian General Staff reported that Ukrainian forces repelled a Russian assault near Bilohorivka . Putin continues efforts to reinvigorate Russia’s defense industrial base to support a protracted warfare in Ukraine.Putin visited staff on the Obukhov State Plant—part of the Almaz-Antey Russian state-owned protection industrial company—on January 18.
What Are Moscow’s Calculations Vis-à-vis Europe And The United States?
Hundreds of billions of dollars had been dedicated to modernizing the armed forces under Mr. Putin, but corruption scandals ensnared thousands of officers. One army contractor described frantically hanging enormous patriotic banners to hide the decrepit circumstances at a significant Russian tank base, hoping to idiot a delegation of prime brass. The guests were even prevented from going inside to use the toilet, he mentioned, lest they uncover the ruse. Russian invasion plans, obtained by The New York Times, show that the army expected to sprint hundreds of miles across Ukraine and triumph inside days. Officers were informed to pack their dress uniforms and medals in anticipation of army parades in the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv.
When the top of the C.I.A. traveled to Moscow final year to warn towards invading Ukraine, he discovered a supremely confident Kremlin, with Mr. Putin’s nationwide security adviser boasting that Russia’s cutting-edge armed forces had been robust sufficient to stand up even to the Americans. Of the 60 members of his platoon close to the jap Ukrainian town of Pavlivka that day in late October, about forty have been killed, said Mikhail, talking by phone from a military hospital exterior Moscow. One of the issues we saw in the first couple days of the war was tanks breaking down. We kept seeing autos break down for maintenance points as a outcome of they didn’t have enough fuel, and all these different kinds of mistakes. And that’s basically because they weren’t told they were going to war.
Putin Meets Russian Security Council To Discuss Progress On Ukraine Struggle
“He was in a neck brace,” she told me. “He was covered with dirt—they must have dragged him. When we met on Sunday, at one of those cozy and delicious Moscow restaurants, Yudin nonetheless had a swollen eye and a noticeable scrape on his left temple. Occasionally in Moscow, you may see a clump of police officers in riot gear and a prisoner bus parked on the side of the highway, its engine off—which implies that the folks inside are getting very cold because the bus slowly fills up. In the middle of town, police buses have been parked for days, apparently on reserve in case of a bigger operation. OVDInfo, a corporation that tracks political persecution, has documented about sixty-four hundred detentions since Thursday, in additional than a hundred cities.
Andrey Medvedev, an orphan who joined the Russian military and served time in jail before becoming a member of the mercenary group in July 2022, said he had slipped away after witnessing the killing of captured deserters. He added that Poland was keen to provide tanks if other allies followed swimsuit. It is the primary case in Italy of a Russian with belongings frozen in the nation who has managed to dodge EU sanctions. The move will “recognise the transcontinental menace that Wagner poses, including through its ongoing pattern of serious felony activity”, Reuters cited a senior US official as saying.
Helicopter Crash Kills Ukrainian Minister In Blow To Wartime Leadership
There shall be little that we can do to cease Putin in his tracks, nonetheless. As President Biden said Thursday, “America stands up for freedom,” however Putin is hell bent on standing up for authoritarianism. Make no mistake, this can be a struggle on Ukraine’s democracy and has nothing to do with Russian fears of it one day joining NATO. For Putin, the example of a free, impartial Ukraine on Russia’s border is simply too inspiring a mannequin for his personal people who would possibly ultimately demand something similar at house, and that might mean his ouster. So for him, Ukrainian independence and democracy is an existential threat to his personalistic autocracy. I imagine that Putin’s goal in Ukraine is to deliver about the collapse of the present democratic regime in that country and substitute it with a puppet government sympathetic to Moscow.
The International Criminal Court opened an investigation into crimes towards humanity in Ukraine since 2013, in addition to warfare crimes in the 2022 invasion.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Thursday pleaded with leaders of the European Union to pursue new sanctions towards Russia's nuclear business and energy carriers.
Moscow responded with strikes by artillery, a number of rocket launchers, missiles, tanks and mortars at residential buildings and civilian infrastructure, worsening injury to the power grid.
This is particularly true for an atomized country in which a propaganda machine has supplanted most media.
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky stated Moscow desires to make use of the Orthodox Christmas vacation as “cover” to resupply and cease Ukrainian advances in the eastern Donbas region.
The NATO air drive is a lot more powerful than the Russian that NATO would quickly prevail and Russia wouldn't have any chance of profitable the war under these circumstances.
Chancellor Scholz with Singaporean ministers ahead of his speech on Monday. "This could appear very hole to nations that have been under Russian pressure for much of the Cold War period," Kissinger told the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, through video link. "Putin might announce a second mobilization wave to broaden his army within the coming days — presumably as early as January 18," analysts on the Institute for the Study of War said Tuesday. Russian President Vladimir Putin could probably be ready to announce another round of mobilization as Russia appears to beef up its armed forces in Ukraine. Twenty-two victims are in hospital, together with 10 children, Klymenko said.
Ukraine War: This Battle Is Just Further Proof That Putin's Russia Is Now A Rogue Energy
Mr. Tinkov, the previous tycoon who founded considered one of Russia’s largest banks, posted on Instagram in April that the warfare was “crazy” and excoriated Mr. Putin in an interview with The Times, thinking he’d set the stage for extra of Russia’s highly effective to comply with go properly with. Intercepted telephone calls from Russian soldiers within the region confirmed their bitterness as they had been coming underneath fire — with much of their anger directed at their commanders. “Wagner nearly at all times fights alone,” he mentioned in an Oct. 14 post on the web page of his catering firm on VK, a Russian social media site.
When he launched airstrikeson Syria in 2015, Putin made the case that Russia was aiding the fight towards terrorists, corresponding to ISIS. But the army intervention started as Russia was struggling beneath Western financial and diplomatic sanctions — a result of its annexation of Crimea and actions in japanese Ukraine. Expertstold FRONTLINEPutin saw Syria as a chance to re-assert Russian influence in the Middle East. Pressuring Ukraine would additionally damage the Euro-Atlantic architecture that has roughly kept the peace on the continent for the previous seven-plus a long time.
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A reporter for Novaya Gazeta, an opposition newspaper in Russia, said that the Russian military leadership paid troopers to resign their commissions and battle in Ukraine within the early summer time of 2014, and then began ordering soldiers into Ukraine. Russian opposition MP Lev Shlosberg made related statements, although he said combatants from his nation are "common Russian troops", disguised as units of the DPR and LPR. On 24 August 2014, Amvrosiivka was occupied by Russian paratroopers, supported by 250 armoured automobiles and artillery pieces. The identical day, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko referred to the operation as Ukraine's "Patriotic War of 2014" and a warfare against exterior aggression. On 25 August, a column of Russian army autos was reported to have crossed into Ukraine close to Novoazovsk on the Azov beach. It appeared headed towards Ukrainian-held Mariupol, in an area that had not seen pro-Russian presence for weeks.
To Putin, even if Russia had failed to stop NATO enlargement, it would yet sow doubt about the alliance’s reliability, undermining faith in America’s support for different states on Russia’s borders, NATO members or not.
The newest deadly Russian strike on a civilian target in the almost 11-month wa r triggered outrage.
With oil revenues fueling Putin’s aggression in opposition to Ukraine, the connection between Russia and OPEC, and particularly with Saudi Arabia because the dominant actor in the cartel, has come into sharper focus.
Putin was visiting his native Saint Petersburg to mark the eightieth anniversary of Soviet forces breaking the siege of Leningrad as the city was recognized at the time.
Russia had not educated its infantry, air and artillery forces to work in concert, move shortly after which do all of it again from a new location, officials stated.
Even the US president Joe Biden’s assertion that Putin should be offered an “off ramp” is a recognition of the desire to solve the Ukraine crisis on these terms. Given the place a lot of the fighting and dying is happening it's simple to suppose that the current European security crisis is primarily about Ukraine. This tendency is strengthened by the fact that Russia and the west are eager to keep the warfare restricted to Ukrainian territory. It remains uncertain whether or when Russia could attain its decreased goal of taking the south and east. Kyiv’s forces have pushed Russian forces back from Kharkiv and are making ready counteroffensives within the south near Kherson. In Luhansk Oblast , Ukraine made Russia pay mightily for each inch of territory, helping to purchase time for crucial western artillery to arrive.
Putin Says No Need For Nuclear Weapons As Russias War On Ukraine Drags On Nationwide
The document states that the Russian president makes the decision to make use of nuclear weapons. The devastation caused by a nuclear weapon may undermine Putin at house although. He offered this conflict to his population on the basis of shared history with Ukraine, creating a possible backlash were he to supervise, by the use of nuclear force, the destruction of cities or the mass killing of Ukrainians, who he has described as "one people" with Russians. Tactical or non-strategic nuclear weapons are meant for more restricted strikes or use on the battlefield over a shorter vary while strategic nuclear weapons typically have greater explosive yields and are supposed to be used against targets farther from the front strains.
Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley have periodically talked with their Russian counterparts and should now communicate to Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and to the Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces Valery Gerasimov.
Putin’s technique allows him to duck the explosive political fallout of extra affluent families in Moscow and St Petersburg having to send youngsters with no navy experience to battle on the entrance strains.
However, each analysts played down the danger of an imminent Russian nuclear strike.
The prospect of worldwide nuclear warfare has been a line that neither facet is keen to cross. Amid Russia’s serious battlefield reverses, India and China—both of which have bristled underneath the constraints of the American-led world order—stepped up their warnings that by no means should Putin resort to the nuclear option. The political backlash Russia would face if it deployed its nuclear arms in opposition to Ukraine can also be important. Just final month, India’s Narendra Modi publicly scolded Russia; China has already expressed its concern; and Russia’s other supporters—including Serbia and North Korea—have tried to distance themselves from Moscow’s current actions. All that is already happening now—before Russia had been to cross the nonetheless theoretical nuclear threshold.
Putin Says Ukraine Battle Is Taking Longer Than Expected
MOSCOW -An ally of President Vladimir Putin warned NATO on Thursday that a defeat of Russia in Ukraine could set off a nuclear warfare, whereas the top of the Russian Orthodox Church mentioned the world would finish if the West tried to destroy Russia. U.S. provision of more destructive weapons or actionable intelligence may help Ukraine carry the battle to Russia itself. Again, the danger is escalation of the warfare, as Russia could interpret this as direct U.S. participation in the warfare. But successfully deterring Putin may also require sustaining NATO unity. One of the best weapons in opposition to Russia’s invasion, apart from the Ukrainian individuals, has confirmed to be the alliance’s unity and continued assist for Ukraine in the face of unprovoked aggression.
We don’t know what the probability of nuclear warfare is at any explicit moment.
An professional tells Popular Mechanics he believes the united states authorities and others would detect if Russian forces have been making ready for nuclear action.
It should also be borne in thoughts that the significant synergistic “weight” of anybody peril may differ from daily or even from hour to hour.
But letting their nuclear apprehensions overshadow all the other pursuits at stake in Ukraine makes little sense. Indeed, the one thing extra terrifying than Russian nuclear use may be letting such fears drive and derail Western and Ukrainian strategy. Fear, nonetheless, shouldn't drive the Western response to Russia’s nuclear bluster.
Russia-ukraine Struggle: Vladimir Putins Ultimate Objective
But if he begins to appear to be a loser, then he now not seems infallible. Although elites are invested in him and his system, there may ultimately come some extent where people start saying, “maybe someone else, Vladimir Vladimirovich, maybe someone else would possibly deal with the system better.” It might begin with the hardliners making an attempt to push themselves ahead. For India, this has been a nightmare, frankly, and they’ve been trying to straddle the fence and determine a stability.
And she sees him attempting to get the West to accede to his goals by utilizing messengers like billionaire Elon Musk to propose preparations that may finish the conflict on his phrases.
The Bidens highlighted the work of Denys Monastyrsky, Ukraine's Minister of Internal Affairs, who was killed in the crash along with a quantity of other Ukrainian officers.
The United Nations General Assembly handed a resolution condemning the invasion and demanding a full withdrawal of Russian forces.
Macron, particularly, has repeatedly tried to cause with Putin by way of quite a few phone calls—but with none success.
With the direct involvement of the occupying forces, the Central Rada was overthrown and Hetman Pavlo Skoropadskyi was delivered to power, proclaiming instead of the UPR the Ukrainian State, which was basically underneath German protectorate.
I suppose they're very, very conscious that they’ve obtained to leave a security valve open as a end result of in any other case there could be extra protests, and more violence in response to the mobilization.
And she sees him making an attempt to get the West to accede to his goals by using messengers like billionaire Elon Musk to suggest preparations that might end the conflict on his terms. LARA SELIGMAN and PAUL MCLEARY U.S. prepping main navy package deal for Ukraine "Friday's announcement is anticipated to incorporate Stryker autos, but not tanks". "Inside the multinational logistics cell coordinating army aid for Ukraine". "US sends more military aid to Ukraine that features ammunition, mines and satellite antennas". "Top American basic says US and allies need to help Ukraine build a complete missile defence system".
Putin Says He Is Ready To "negotiate With Everybody Involved" Relating To Ukraine
Russian attacks on energy stations have left tens of millions without electrical energy, and Zelenskiy said Moscow would purpose to make the previous couple of days of 2022 dark and difficult. The missiles hit an industrial area of the town, and there weren’t any casualties, according to the Ukrainian governor of Donetsk, Pavlo Kyrylenko.
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Kyrylenko said that town of Avdiivka was additionally attacked on Sunday with six rounds of shelling, and a girl was wounded there. During a televised address with senior military officials, the Russian president mentioned he continued to see Ukraine as a "brotherly nation".
The offensive continued pushing east and by 2 October, Ukrainian Armed Forces had liberated another key city within the Second Battle of Lyman.
And this is happening in a rustic, as I even have already famous, that may be very advanced when it comes to its territorial, nationwide and linguistic composition, and its history of formation.
Their aim was to not only punish Russia and disrupt President Vladimir Putin’s struggle machine, however there was hope that the resulting financial hardship might persuade odd Russians to insurgent, or prompt a putsch by Kremlin insiders or oligarchs.
In return, Russia, the United Kingdom , and the United States agreed within the Budapest Memorandum to uphold the territorial integrity of Ukraine.
The US government has designated the Russian non-public navy contractor often identified as the Wagner Group as a “transnational criminal group,” giving the infamous mercenary outfit the same standing as worldwide drug cartels and human trafficking organisations beneath US regulation.
A third Russian attack group from Crimea moved northwest and captured bridges over the Dnieper. On 2 March, Russian troops won a battle at Kherson; this was the primary main city to fall to Russian forces within the invasion. On 2 March, Ukrainian forces initiated a counter-offensive on Horlivka, controlled by the DPR since 2014.
How Rich Is Putin And Can Ukraine Sanctions Damage Him? LA Instances
Back in October last year, the Pandora Papers leaks revealed that Zelensky founded a network of offshore corporations back in 2012, two of which had been used to buy expensive properties in London. One of the president's advisers defended this, claiming the offshore corporations have been created to "defend" Zelensky's funds from then-president Viktor Yanukovych, who was overthrown in the course of the Ukrainian Revolution in 2014. Venezuela's money supply has fallen beneath $1 billion (£768m) according toBloomberg, although Credit Suisse has predicted the nation's economic system will grow by 20% before the top of this 12 months. The nation possesses 161.2 tonnes of gold but hasn't been able to promote it because the Bank of England, which holds round a third of its gold reserves, refused Venezuela access amid US sanctions in opposition to the South American country. While it's true that Vladimir Putin has not come close to launching any anti-Semitic holocausts in latest many years, in accordance with many, he reveals indicators of expansionist fanaticism and an obsession to attain whole Russian domination. Born in Leningrad in 1952, the Kremlin leader's reclusive character was fashioned during his childhood, when he needed to develop up in a surrogate family that he had been despatched to by his organic parents.
Putin also has good relations with Malaysia and its then Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, in addition to with Bangladesh, signing a nuclear power deal with Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
In August 2008, Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili tried to restore control over the breakaway South Ossetia.
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan served as mayor of Istanbul and Turkey's prime minister earlier than being elected as the country's president in 2014.
Forty years later, having simply concluded the 2022 NATO Summit in Madrid, we will look back and see many familiar themes in Sir Clive’s phrases – but in addition discover some key differences between then and now.
As per the report by Business Insider, financier Bill Browder believes that Putin “has accumulated $200 billion of ill-gotten features."
Yeah, the relationship between Wagner and the Defense Ministry has been interesting for years.
Now Russia has mobilized, and the Wagner Group is throwing convicts into the struggle. Previously she labored within the London Bureau, overlaying worldwide stories. “If these dangerous actors catch wind early sufficient, they may grab the money and run. That’s the means it works,” stated Schanzer, who is now a senior vp for analysis at the nonprofit Foundation for Defense of Democracies. In 2015, his firm, Polyus, was delisted from the London Stock Exchange during the fallout from Russia’s invasion of Crimea, so Kerimov took measures to insulate his controlling stake within the Russian gold big, by transferring it to his then-20 year-old son, Said. When a reporter from the Swiss media outlet Tamedia, a reporting partner on this project, approached the tattoo artist at his studio, he referred all questions to Studhalter.
Prime Information Tales
Today’s sanctions show that nothing and nobody is off the desk, including Putin’s inner circle.” A assertion on UK Government web site mentioned on Wednesday. The monetary impacts may just be beginning, according to Russian specialists. Usmanov, who was sanctioned by the EU on Monday and might be on an upcoming U.S. list, according to reports, has seen his wealth only fall by $1.7 billion, to $19.5 billion, in accordance with Bloomberg. Russia's richest man on the record, Vladimir Potanin, who has not been sanctioned, has seen a loss of lower than a quarter of his wealth, down to $25 billion.
Vladimir Putin's net price may secretly make him the world's richest man with a £1bn home where the bathroom brushes price £650.
In each those operations, they didn’t assume that a lot resistance.
This bargain allowed the oligarchs to hold up most of their powers, in exchange for his or her explicit support for—and alignment with—Putin's government.
By turns personal — Kerimov rarely gives interviews — and flamboyant, he has been referred to as a “Russian Gatsby” for internet hosting multi-million-dollar events at his large villas on the French Riviera, together with one soiree that reportedly featured a performance by Beyoncé.
In 1995, he managed the legislative election marketing campaign for that celebration, and from 1995 through June 1997, he was the leader of its Saint Petersburg department.
Former intelligence officer and politician Vladimir Putin presided over Russia from 1999 to 2008 and once more from 2012 to the current. According to a quantity of sources, Putin bought an opulent home in 2017, a number of kilometers from Russia's western border, with gold-plated tiles in the swimming pool. However, the Kremlin has always denied that Putin is the proprietor of the property. It accommodates a marble swimming pool with Greek deity sculptures as decorations. Lyudmila, Putin's ex-wife, is in command of accounts value $260,000.
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Would You Fuck Your Clone- The King: Eternal Monarch Edition
Someone had to do it
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They make each other laugh (scarily may I add) and both know they can't mess with each other nor can the other mess with them. They are the evil antagonist duo I didnt know I needed. I love this dynamic.
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Prime Minister Koo had so much potential of a character .... :(
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The King: Eternal Monarch. Episode Thirteen
I kinda shipped Prime Minister Goo and her Secretary/assistant person and since he’s the only one who was loyal to her murderess self when she was exposed....I feel justified in that shipping.
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"Under the Queen's Umbrella" Episode 12: The crown prince and the queen dowager
One of the things I'd been looking forward to in this drama was another confrontation between Grand Prince Seongnam and his grandmother. We saw from the very beginning how little regard the queen dowager had for the four grand princes. The first time we saw Seongnam and his grandmother face off was in Episode 1 when the queen dowager punished the four princes for "ganging up" on their half-brother Uiseong. Grandma ordered them to kneel and Seongnam, defiance written all over his face, took his sweet time obeying her, even after Grams shouted "Now!"
I got my wish in Episode 12 and Grand Prince Seongnam — I'm sorry, the crown prince — did not disappoint. On his first day in his new role, this ballsy boy greeted his grandmother and immediately reminded her that he's no longer the scared and powerless young boy spending his first nights at the palace.
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3 times Lee Gon shoots down Koo Seo Ryeong's royal ambitions
Koo Seo Ryeong is not a stupid woman. And yet she can't seem to get the hint that the king of Corea has no interest in her whatsoever beyond how she serves the kingdom's interests as its prime minister. Sure, we saw the king play along with her photo op game, but that was BJTE era -- Before Jeong Tae Eul. After finding, meeting and falling in love with Jeong Tae Eul, Gon has no qualms whatsoever in setting the record straight with the prime minister in the bluntest royal speech possible.
Here are the three times Lee Gon firmly shoots down Koo Seo Ryeong's royal ambitions.
WHEN SHE SHOWS UP UNEXPECTEDLY IN FRONT OF THE KU BUILDING
In episode 6, the prime minister's aide delivers urgent information: The royal helicopter was granted permission to land atop the KU Building. Koo is surprised; the king is in Seoul at this late hour? The aide informs her this is something men usually do when their girlfriends miss the last train or bus back to Busan, they pick them up. But since the king has no girlfriend, that couldn't possibly be the reason for his late-night visit. And so Koo hightails it to the KU Building, where she of course finds Lee Gon with a stranger -- a woman, a young and very pretty woman.
Koo Seo Ryeong: "I'm seeing you at an unexpected hour in an unexpected place with an unexpected person, Your Majesty."
Lee Gon: "You're right. And you've put me in an awkward situation. This is a very personal occasion."
I love Gon's response here. He draws a clear line with him and Tae Eul on one side and the prime minister on the other. This is a "very personal occasion," not state business. The message here is Koo has no part in it.
Even the way part of this scene is shot illustrates this divide. These shots actually show up at the end of episode 5, where we get a shorter version of the beginning of this meeting. Right after Gon says "And you've put me in an awkward situation," we get these two quick shots. See how Gon and Tae Eul are grouped together in one and the prime minister on the other?
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Me everytime PM Koo appears on the screen
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161 – Marcus Aurelius and L. Commodus (who changes his name to Lucius Verus) become joint emperors of Rome on the death of Antoninus Pius. 1138 – Konrad III von Hohenstaufen was elected king of Germany at Coblenz in the presence of the papal legate Theodwin. 1277 – The University of Paris issues the last in a series of condemnations of various philosophical and theological theses. 1573 – A peace treaty is signed between the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Venice, ending the Ottoman–Venetian War and leaving Cyprus in Ottoman hands. 1799 – Napoleon Bonaparte captures Jaffa in Palestine and his troops proceed to kill more than 2,000 Albanian captives. 1814 – Emperor Napoleon I of France wins the Battle of Craonne. 1827 – Brazilian marines unsuccessfully attack the temporary naval base of Carmen de Patagones, Argentina. 1827 – Shrigley abduction: Ellen Turner is abducted by Edward Gibbon Wakefield, a future politician in colonial New Zealand. 1850 – Senator Daniel Webster gives his "Seventh of March" speech endorsing the Compromise of 1850 in order to prevent a possible civil war. 1862 – American Civil War: Union forces engage Confederate troops at the Pea Ridge in northwestern Arkansas. 1876 – Alexander Graham Bell is granted a patent for an invention he calls the "telephone". 1900 – The German liner SS Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse becomes the first ship to send wireless signals to shore. 1902 – Second Boer War: Boers, led by Koos de la Rey, inflict the biggest defeat upon the British since the beginning of the war, at Tweebosch. 1914 – Prince William of Wied arrives in Albania to begin his reign as King. 1931 – The Parliament House of Finland is officially inaugurated in Helsinki, Finland. 1941 – Günther Prien and the crew of German submarine U-47, one of the most successful U-boats of World War II, disappear without a trace. 1945 – World War II: American troops seize the Ludendorff Bridge over the Rhine river at Remagen. 1950 – Cold War: The Soviet Union issues a statement denying that Klaus Fuchs served as a Soviet spy. 1951 – Korean War: Operation Ripper: United Nations troops led by General Matthew Ridgway begin an assault against Chinese forces. 1951 – Iranian prime minister Ali Razmara is assassinated by Khalil Tahmasebi, a member of the Islamic fundamentalist Fada'iyan-e Islam, inside a mosque in Tehran. 1965 – Bloody Sunday: A group of 600 civil rights marchers is brutally attacked by state and local police in Selma, Alabama. 1967 – The Majelis Permusyawaratan Rakyat Sementara (MPRS), Indonesia's provisional parliament, revoked Sukarno's mandate as President of Indonesia. 1968 – Vietnam War: The United States and South Vietnamese military begin Operation Truong Cong Dinh to root out Viet Cong forces from the area surrounding Mỹ Tho. 1971 – Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, political leader of then East Pakistan (present day-Bangladesh), delivers his historic 7th March speech in the Racecourse Field (Now Suhrawardy Udyan) in Dhaka. 1986 – Challenger Disaster: Divers from the USS Preserver locate the crew cabin of Challenger on the ocean floor. 1987 – Lieyu massacre: Taiwanese military massacre of 19 unarmed Vietnamese refugees at Donggang, Lieyu, Kinmen. 1989 – Iran and the United Kingdom break diplomatic relations after a fight over Salman Rushdie and his controversial novel, The Satanic Verses. 1993 – The tugboat Thomas Hebert sank off the coast of New Jersey, USA. 2006 – The terrorist organisation Lashkar-e-Taiba coordinates a series of bombings in Varanasi, India. 2007 – Reform of the House of Lords: The British House of Commons votes to make the upper chamber, the House of Lords, 100% elected. 2007 – Garuda Indonesia Flight 200 crashes at Adisutjipto International Airport in the Special Region of Yogyakarta, Indonesia, killing 21 people. 2009 – The Real Irish Republican Army kills two British soldiers and injures two other soldiers and two civilians at Massereene Barracks, the first British military deaths in Northern Ireland since the end of The Troubles. 2021 – At least 105 die and 600 are injured in the 2021 Bata explosions in Bata, Equatorial Guinea.
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Mini Interviews with the TKEM Cast - Kankoku TV Drama vol. 97 (Aug 2020)
Woo Do-hwan - In the Role of Jo Yeong/Jo Eun-seop
I grew up watching Writer Kim’s works, so it was a real honor to be able to appear in this work. Moreover, with one person playing two roles, I felt I could show various personas at once, so I had no reason to hesitate on making an appearance. Generally speaking, Jo Yeong is a person who tackles everything in a very serious manner, but that is different from how I am. Yeong’s facial expressions don’t change much so in those cases, I felt it was difficult to perform. This time when I saw Writer Kim’s script, I felt that it knew each actor’s strengths and I could tell that whatever they had to say would demonstrate their appeal. That’s why from the actor’s perspective, I was surprised and grateful every time.
Kim Kyung-nam - In the Role of Kang Shin-jae
Shin-jae is a supporting role who is unfriendly, clumsy with words, and anxious with strangers, but he has a warm heart. In fact, there are points where I resemble him (laugh). I also am not very talkative, and am a man of few words. Over the long filming period, there were places where I became more and more like Shin-jae. Also, in the action scenes, instead of slick action, I aimed for muddy, rough and tumble action. This is because even though Shin-jae is a police officer, he’s not so much a martial art prodigy as he is someone who got used to fighting from a young age. All my fellow actors’ moods fit perfectly together. Even though I am private, several times we met up and I opened up with them.
Jung Eun-chae - In the Role of Koo Seo-ryeong
I was really surprised and happy when I first got the offer, because up until now, I have never played such a strong and straight-forward character as Seo-ryeong. The relationship between Prime Minister Seo-ryeong and the emperor played by Lee Min-ho is also deeply interesting. Their romance is more one-sided on Seo-ryeong’s part rather than a reciprocated love, however, those feelings are very complicated. I definitely hope you notice that transformation when her scheming ambitions and lack of personal feelings blend together. One of the filming locations was my hometown Busan; it leaves a strong impression. While there, I felt dressed to the nines, I was deeply moved.
Kim Go-eun - In the Role of Jeong Tae-eul
Following after the drama “Goblin”, I feel honored to receive a second offer from Writer Kim Eun-sook. This time I play a detective, so I watched a lot of different documentaries in order to deepen my understanding of being a detective. There are quite a few dramas coming out where one person plays two roles, however, in this work, many characters will play dual roles. I, myself, became extremely motivated after I received the chance to play dual roles. When filming the scene where Tae-eul first meets Lee Gon, the moment that my senior Lee Min-ho rode in on a white horse, I thought Gwanghwamun Plaza was the absolute perfect place for this (laugh). Anyway, it’s awesome.
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My commentary:
1) Check out “Home Alone” ep 410 to see Kim Kyung Nam be silent, lol
2) I don’t understand why Jung Eun-chae says she’s never played a straight-forward role before. Did she forget she was a tough detective fighting demons in “The Guest”?
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Seo-ryeong and Tae-eul, allies
She sees her shoes before she sees the rest of her.
Correction: she sees her feet, before she sees the rest of her- the tension of the high arch radiating up to the calves revealed by the thigh high slit of her indigo skirt, as she climbs the stairs ahead of Tae-eul. It's a quick, confident gait: the stilettoes not wavering a centimeter. Tae-eul, slowing down, feels her back tense in sympathetic reaction.
She pauses at the door, hand raised to knock, when she realizes that she's not alone, and turns.
Tae-eul has already realized who it is, so she's able reply with composure.
"Madam Prime Minister, what a surprise."
The stairs give Koo Seo-Ryeong even more of an advantage; she looms, larger than life, than reality itself on Tae-eul's doorstep, her expression guarded.
"Detective Jeong," says Koo Seo-Ryeong coolly. "I'm glad to find you at home."
A pause, an upward curl of lip.
"Your real home."
"I'm sorry it's not fit to greet Your Excellency," Tae-eul says, mildly, as she reaches the landing. Koo Seo Ryeong doesn't step back, so she has to awkwardly move in the small space between the door and the giraffe behind her to unlock her door. Perhaps it was something in the water in Corea, she reflects, but they really did seem to produce people who couldn't resist being unnecessarily dramatic.
Koo Seo-Ryeong waits until the lights are switched on before she ducks her head to step over the threshold. She looks around, taking everything in- there's not much, Tae-eul admits, but it still feels like exposing her underbelly to a predator. But Jeong Tae-eul isn't a fool; she knows which battles to pick.
As does Prime Minister Koo, she thinks, watching her face as her gaze lights on the wall with the photographs. Without a word, she makes her way to it; saunters, really, like a giant, sleek cat strolling the savannah. The tension from the stairs is gone, replaced by indolence; which one is the act, Jeong Tae-eul wouldn't place bets on.
"Would you like something to drink?" Tae-eul says, after a minute.
"Hmm?"
Koo Seo-Ryeong tilts her head, showing off her lovely profile, her porcelain-cheek finely contoured, the elegant line of her neck. Her hair is coiled in a loose bun settled at her nape, a delicate white- jade hairpin holding it in place. She looks like the queen she intends to be.
"No."
"Suit yourself," Tae-eul says, shrugging, as she walks to the counter and turns the coffee maker on. "Personally, I find that caffeine helps speed up my brain."
Koo Seo-Ryeong turns toward her then, a half-smile playing on her cherry red lips.
"What's the hurry," she drawls. "Do you have somewhere to be?"
A pause, then a long, fair hand lifted to cover her mouth, showing off perfectly manicured nails in that same blood-red as her shoes. "Oh, that's right, you must be waiting for His Majesty."
Oh for the love of—
"What do you need my help for?"
"Did I say that I needed your help?"
Tae-eul rolls her eyes, as the coffee-maker hisses behind her.
"Your Excellency," she says, trying to use her best traffic-cop-explaining-rules-to-eighty year old ahjumma-in-a sedan-voice, "I can't imagine anything less than an emergency has brought you to my door. So, let's get to it."
"Where's your mother?" Koo Seo-Ryeong asks.
Tae-eul blinks at her.
"Dead," she says, after a minute. "I was five, it was cancer, there was nothing we could do."
She thinks rapidly, trying to remember the factoids of Koo Seo-ryeong's life that she'd devoured during her brief time in Corea.
"Where's yours?" she asks, but she thinks she knows the answer.
"Lee Lim's got her," says Koo Seo-Ryeong, casually, as though reporting the weather, "Somewhere here, in this world."
"Are you sure?" Tae-eul asks, after a moment. "It's my understanding that he usually—that he doesn't leave any loose ends," she amends, at the last minute, because there's something in the rigid nonchalance of Koo Seo-Ryeong's face that tells her she's not ready to hear the words "dead" and "your mother" in the same sentence.
"Somewhere in this world," Koo Seo-Ryeong repeats, "I'm sure."
"And you want me to help you find her," Tae-eul prods.
Seo-Ryeong shrugs. "You're a detective aren't you- and you and that little hound dog that follows you around- you've been investigating Lee Lim for a while now, so—"
Tae-eul sends up a prayer of thanks that hyungnim isn't around to hear this.
"Why should I, though?" Tae-eul asks.
It's not that she hasn't already made up her mind- taking down the bad guy is the job description, hello, and that's the golden rule even if the person who benefits from the work is a snake—but Koo Seo-Ryeong is a mystery she'd never thought she'd get a chance to solve, and here she was, delivered to her doorstep.
Plus, this was work.
Koo Seo-Ryeong looks bored.
"Do I have to explain the advantages of taking down a common enemy? Are you really the child you look like?"
Tae-eul takes a sip of coffee to hide her grin- but not fast enough, because Koo Seo-Ryeong's expression changes into a storm cloud.
"I see," she says.
Then the expression smoothens out, like a magic wand has been waved.
It was fascinating.
Tae-eul wonders if she'd ever thought of a career as an actor, and then reflects that Koo Seo-Ryeong's makjang style was probably more suited to her current career.
"If those are the games you like," the Prime Minister of Corea is drawling, "I can guarantee that His Majesty is going to bore you to death in two weeks."
"I'll take my chances," says Tae-eul placidly, hopping onto the kitchen counter, and swinging her legs. "Alright, eonni- I can call you that, right? Since we'll be working together and all? Tell me everything you know."
"You may not call me eonni," says Her Excellency, from her throne at the center of Master Jeong's 2 x 4, "And I will tell you what you need to know."
"See," says Tae-eul, slurping her coffee loudly and enjoying the barely hidden wince from the woman opposite her, "That kind of thing isn't going to work. All or nothing, Your Excellency."
"The things that you don't know, and I do, could fill the library of Sungkyunkwan," declares Koo Seo-Ryeong.
A pause.
"I will answer any questions pertinent to the situation."
"Cool, cool," says Tae-eul, "I can live with that. What's your favourite dish, Your Excellency?"
A glare.
"Why is that relevant?"
"It’s relevant to our dinner plans. I can't think when I'm hungry."
A (glorious) sneer.
"Pathetic," says the woman who possibly secretly smoked two packs a day to remain that svelte and run a country.
Tae-eul shrugs, pulling her phone out. "Alright, fried beef dumplings it is, then. I take it you won't mind it spicy?"
They're poring over the files that Koo Seo-Ryeong had brought- intelligence reports, and her own notes from her meetings with Lee Lim, comparing them with the information that Tae-eul has so far on her side, when the doorbell rings.
"Oh yum, food," says Tae-eul springing up and scooting to the door.
It's Jo Yeong, looking like Doom, as usual.
"Oh, not food," she says, disappointed, and steps aside to let him make his dramatic entrance.
Seriously, Coreans.
But hyungnim's right behind him- or would be, if he wasn't leaning against the railing with a put-upon look on his face.
Behind her, she can hear the exchange of artillery fire as Captain Jo Yeong meets the bane of his life in Master Jeong's living room.
She closes the door behind her.
"So, what, you and that crazy woman are allies now?" Kang Sin-jae asks, as he thrusts a bag at her, from which the delicious smell of fried dumplings wafts up.
"Nope," she says, rooting around in the brown paper bag, because she knows a fried food aficionado when she sees one, and if she doesn't get to her share now, it was unlikely that Koo Seo-Ryeong would be considerate enough to leave her any. Besides, for a woman like Koo Seo-Ryeong, ally would rank higher that blood-brother or soulmate for other mortals, and Tae-eul hadn't earned it. Not yet. There was time, she thinks, for that.
"Nah," she says, again, over half a mouthful of crunchy goodness. "just two people working together. Shall we go in before there are bodies to bury?"
"What, again?" mutters hyungnim, but he opens the door for her, and follows her in.
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Sad that Koo's counterpart died just like that. I wanted to know her more. She seemed like she was a genuinely nice person and a total opposite of the Prime Minister. And given the chance I probably wouldve shipped her with Yeong
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