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China’s exports to North Korea more than tripled in 2022

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China’s overall exports to North Korea more than tripled in 2022 from a year earlier as freight train operations between the two countries resumed following a suspension to limit the spread of COVID-19.

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SEOUL, Jan 25 (Reuters) - Authorities in the North Korean capital Pyongyang have ordered a five-day lockdown due to rising cases of an unspecified respiratory illness, the Russian embassy and Seoul-based NK News reported on Wednesday, citing a government notice.

The notice, shared by the embassy on its Facebook page, said that a "a special anti-epidemic period has been established" and it called on foreign delegations to keep employees inside. The order also called for individuals to measure their temperatures four times a day and report the results to a hospital by phone.

The notice made no mention of COVID-19 though cited an "increase in winter cases of recurrent flu and other respiratory diseases".

The lockdowns were first reported by South Korea's NK News, which monitors secretive North Korea.

On Tuesday, the website reported that Pyongyang residents appeared to be stocking up on goods in anticipation of stricter measures. It was unclear if other areas of the country had imposed new lockdowns.

North Korea acknowledged its first COVID-19 outbreak last year, but by August had declared victory over the virus.

It never confirmed how many people caught COVID, apparently because it lacks the means to conduct widespread testing.

Instead, Pyongyang reported daily numbers of patients with fever, a tally that rose to some 4.77 million, out of a population of about 25 million. But it has not reported such cases since July 29.

State media have continued to report on anti-pandemic measures to battle respiratory diseases, including the flu, but have yet to report on the lockdown order.

On Tuesday, state news agency KCNA said the city of Kaesong, near the border with South Korea, had intensified public communication campaigns "so that all the working people observe anti-epidemic regulations voluntarily in their work and life".

Reporting by Josh Smith; editing by Raju Gopalakrishnan

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North Korea locks down capital city over 'respiratory illness'

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SEOUL, Jan 25 (Reuters) - Authorities in the North Korean capital Pyongyang have ordered a five-day lockdown due to rising cases of an unspecified respiratory illness, the Russian embassy and Seoul-based NK News reported on Wednesday, citing a government notice.

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I thought it was interesting especially with the first article how difficult it is to find the authors. I see the locator says they are from Bejing however I can't find them on social media which is interesting to me. Additionally the second article I chose because it is related to the first. This is because the first article mentions that North Korea has "defeated" Covid-19 yet the influx of medical supplies ordered by the country is very noticeable. That in conjunction with this "respiratory illness" raises the question whether or not North Korea is still struggling with Covid 19.

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Online access within North Korea is exceedingly rare and limited to sites that comprise the domestic intranet, says OpenNet Initiative. Content is chosen, and user activity monitored, by the authorities.

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Online access within North Korea is exceedingly rare and limited to sites that comprise the domestic intranet, says OpenNet Initiative. Content is chosen, and user activity monitored, by the authorities.

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North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in Pyongyang on December 31, 2022, in a photo released by the official KCNA agency. STR / AFP

The two Koreas have made nuclear issues a priority in their list of New Year's resolutions. Seoul maintained on Tuesday, January 3, that South Korea and the United States were discussing possible joint exercises involving US nuclear resources against the growing threat from Pyongyang. Until now, the use of nuclear weapons on the peninsula has been solely an American issue.

The issue was first raised on January 2 by South Korean President Yoon Seok-youl in an interview with the conservative daily Chosun. But when questioned later on the subject, his American counterpart Joe Biden denied that such discussions had taken place.

On Tuesday, a White House National Security Council spokesperson reiterated that while the US and South Korea were preparing "effective, coordinated response to a range of scenarios, including nuclear use by North Korea," those preparations would not include joint nuclear exercises.

But the impasse between Seoul and Washington should not mask the main issue: Seoul is hardening its position toward Pyongyang and responding to nuclear with nuclear. As Chosun published Mr. Yoon's interview, the South Korean Defense Ministry issued a warning to Pyongyang: "Any attempt by North Korea to use its nuclear weapons will result in the demise of the Kim Jong-un regime."

The forceful declarations came after a speech by North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, reported by the official KCNA news agency, calling for an "exponential increase" in his country's nuclear arsenal. Speaking during the plenary session of the ruling Workers' Party that ended on December 31, 2022, he justified his choice by explaining that South Korea had become the North's "indisputable enemy" under President Yoon, who took office in May 2022.

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Mr. Kim is making the development of his country's arsenal the "main focus" of his nuclear policy for 2023. The effort is meant to focus on short-range missiles that can be used against South Korea, as well as the development of a new intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) capable of reaching the United States. As an example of this determination, the North fired missiles on December 31, 2022, and January 1, which Mr. Kim said could be equipped with nuclear warheads and reach the entire South Korean territory.

The verbal escalation between the two Koreas is in line with 2022, which was marked by a strong increase in tension on the peninsula. The period of relative appeasement initiated in 2018 by South Korean President Moon Jae-in (2017-2022) and marked by the 2018 and 2019 summits between Kim Jong-un and US President Donald Trump (2017-2021), seems to be definitively closed.
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North and South Korea start the year in a tense game of confrontation

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The two Koreas have made nuclear issues a priority in their list of New Year's resolutions. Seoul maintained on Tuesday, January 3, that South Korea and the United States were discussing possible joint exercises involving US nuclear resources against the growing threat from Pyongyang.

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After reading these two articles written by two different international news sources one thing that became very apparent to me was the amount of real information available about North Korea. The first article by bbc stated how regulated the news that travels through North Korea is in addition to the lengths people go to in order to get real news out to the world. Relating that to the second article, it makes me wonder how much more information we would have on major stories such as this if people were allowed to share what was going on from their perspective.

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SEOUL, South Korea -- North Korea has scheduled a major political conference to discuss the "urgent task" of improving its agricultural sector, a possible sign of worsening food insecurity as the country's economic isolation deepens amid a defiant nuclear weapons push.

North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency said Monday that members of the ruling Workers' Party's Politburo met on Saturday and agreed to hold a larger plenary meeting of the party's Central Committee in late February to review strategies on agriculture and set new goals. It said the Politburo members acknowledged a "a turning point is needed to dynamically promote the radical change in agricultural development."

"It is a very important and urgent task to establish the correct strategy for the development of agriculture and take relevant measures for the immediate farming ... to promote the overall development of socialist construction," the KCNA said.

The Politburo meeting came amid indications that the country was preparing to stage a massive military parade in Pyongyang, possibly this week, to glorify the rule of leader Kim Jong Un and his growing collection of nuclear-capable weapons, which he has aggressively pushed to expand despite limited resources and economic decay.

Although not unprecedented, it's uncommon for North Korea to hold two different party plenaries in a span of two months. It's also rare for North Korea to call a plenary meeting over a single agenda, this time agriculture, South Korean Unification Ministry spokesperson Koo Byoungsam said in a briefing.

"The government will closely watch North Korea's food situation and internal trends," said Koo. He said South Korea estimates that North Korean food production fell by about 4% in 2022 to 4.5 million tons.

Following the collapse of nuclear negotiations with the United States in 2019, Kim declared to strengthen his nuclear weapons and missile program against "gangster-like" U.S. sanctions and pressure and urged his nation to stay resilient in the struggle for economic self-reliance.

But the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic unleashed further shock on North Korea's already broken economy, by forcing the nation to shield its poor healthcare system with strict border controls that choked off trade with China, its main ally and economic lifeline. The country was also hit with devastating typhoons and floods in 2020 that decimated crops.

In a study published on the North Korea-focused 38 North website last month, analyst Lucas Rengifo-Keller said food insecurity in North Korea is likely at its worst since the country's 1990s famine that killed hundreds of thousands of people.

It's difficult to establish an accurate assessment of North Korea's humanitarian needs considering the closed nature of its regime and the poor quality of the limited statistics it discloses. But North Korea's grain balance estimates issued by U.N. agencies and outside governments as well as possibly sharp increases in rice and corn prices observed by NGOs and media indicate that "country's food supply has probably failed to satisfy minimum human needs," Rengifo-Keller wrote.

Russia's war on Ukraine likely worsened the situation by driving up global prices of food, energy and fertilizer, on which North Korea's agricultural production is heavily dependent.

"Put simply, North Korea teeters on the brink of famine," Rengifo-Keller said.

The Workers' Party's Central Committee also held a plenary meeting in December, when Kim doubled down on his nuclear ambitions by calling an "exponential increase" of nuclear warheads, mass production of battlefield tactical nukes targeting rival South Korea and the development of more powerful long-range missiles designed to reach the U.S. mainland. Party members also during the meeting identified key economic projects for 2023, highlighted by agricultural and construction activities.

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North Korea party meeting set to discuss 'urgent' food issue

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SEOUL, South Korea -- North Korea has scheduled a major political conference to discuss the "urgent task" of improving its agricultural sector, a possible sign of worsening food insecurity as the country's economic isolation deepens amid a defiant nuclear weapons push.

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North Korea's spike in missile testing and development of its nuclear program has prompted South Korea to re-evaluate its defense capabilities, including the potential development of a nuclear arsenal.

Speaking from a defense policy briefing Wednesday, South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol said Seoul would need to seek changes to its defensive posture if Pyongyang continued its overtly aggressive and illegal nuclear weapons development.

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"It's possible that the problem gets worse, and our country will introduce tactical nuclear weapons or build them on our own," Yoon said according to reports this week. "If that's the case, we can have our own nuclear weapons pretty quickly, given our scientific and technological capabilities."

The development of nuclear capabilities in South Korea would show a drastic shift in geopolitics, as the U.N. continues to encourage nuclear disarmament among the nine nations known to have nuclear weapons.

China, France, Russia, United Kingdom and the United States are officially recognized under the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons to possess nuclear arms, though they are not supposed to expand or maintain nuclear weapons in perpetuity.

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India, Pakistan and North Korea have all openly acknowledged or have tested their nuclear capabilities.

Israel has neither acknowledged nor tested nuclear weapons, though it is widely believed to possess nuclear capabilities.

South Korea, Japan and the U.S. have expanded their defensive partnerships in the wake of not only North Korea's aggressive posture in the region, but China's as well.

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Yoon said he has been in talks with the U.S. to once again consider stationing U.S.-nuclear arms in the southern peninsula, which would reverse steps taken over 30 years ago when the U.S. removed all nuclear capabilities from South Korea in 1991.

"We've seen a miscalculation leading to serious wars many times in history," Yoon told the Associated Press this week. "Discussions are under way over the so-called joint planning and joint execution, and I think it's right for South Korea and the United States to cooperate because both of us are exposed to the North Korean nuclear threat."

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South Korea considers nuclear development for first time in face of growing North Korea security threat

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North Korea's spike in missile testing and development of its nuclear program has prompted South Korea to re-evaluate its defense capabilities, including the potential development of a nuclear arsenal. Speaking from a defense policy briefing Wednesday, South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol said Seoul would need to seek changes to its defensive posture if Pyongyang continued its overtly aggressive and illegal nuclear weapons development.

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After reviewing these two articles it was apparent that the tone and styles of them were very different. The two US media outlets analyzed were Fox news (right) and ABC news (left). Right away one thing I noticed was the tone used in each article. Although the nature of each article is very different, Fox news used more of an aggressive urgent tone throughout the article whereas ABC was more informative. Additionally, when reading Fox's article it was clear that they made a point to tie in their points of emphasis to other countries and how they would be impacted when ABS focused only on North Korea.

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North Korea parade shows off missiles and Kim Jong Un's potential successor

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Kim Jong Un's daughter will be featured on new stamps commemorating North Korea's most recent ICBM launch.

The girl will appear in half of the 10 prints issued by the Pyongyang-based Korea Stamp Corporation, according to the corporation's website.
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North Korea to issue new stamps featuring Kim Jong Un’s daughter | NK News

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North Korea is set to release new stamps commemorating the country’s most recent intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) launch, prominently featuring Kim Jong Un’s daughter in the latest evidence of her rising profile since first appearing at the launch.  The girl, likely named Kim Ju Ae, appears in half of the 10 stamps to be issued […]

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Kim Jong Un's daughter will be featured on new stamps commemorating North Korea's most recent ICBM launch.

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Kim Jong Un's daughter will be featured on new stamps commemorating North Korea's most recent ICBM launch.

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North Korea is set to release new stamps commemorating the country’s most recent intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) launch, prominently featuring Kim Jong Un’s daughter in the latest evidence of her rising profile since first appearing at the launch.  The girl, likely named Kim Ju Ae, appears in half of the 10 stamps to be issued […]

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Kim Jong Un's daughter will be featured on new stamps commemorating North Korea's most recent ICBM launch.

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Kim Jong Un's daughter will be featured on new stamps commemorating North Korea's most recent ICBM launch.

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Kim Jong Un's daughter will be featured on new stamps commemorating North Korea's most recent ICBM launch.

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Social media has taken notice to the current leader of North Korea, Kim Jong Un, exposing his daughter to the media for the first time. Both YouTube and Twitter have taken hold of this story in different ways, however. YouTube acting as a platform for other news outlets, mainly expressed stories about Un's daughter being the potential successor for himself. Twitter also took hold on the story of North Korea's most recent ICBM launch. To commemorate the event, Un has decided to release stamps with images of his daughter on it throughout the country.

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WASHINGTON (AP) - One year ago, President Joe Biden was bracing for the worst as Russia massed troops in preparation to invade Ukraine.

As many in the West and even in Ukraine doubted Russian President Vladimir Putin's intentions, the White House was adamant: War was coming and Kyiv was woefully outgunned.

In Washington, Biden's aides prepared contingency plans and even drafts of what the president would say should Ukraine's capital quickly fall to Russian forces - a scenario deemed likely by most U.S. officials. Ukraine's president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, was offered help getting out of his country if he wanted it.

Yet as Russia's invasion reaches the one-year mark, the city stands and Ukraine has beaten even its own expectations, buoyed by a U.S.-led alliance that has agreed to equip Ukrainian forces with tanks, advanced air defense systems, and more, while keeping the Kyiv government afloat with tens of billions of dollars in direct assistance.

For Biden, Ukraine was an unexpected crisis, but one that fits squarely into his larger foreign policy outlook that the United States and like-minded allies are in the midst of a generational conflict to demonstrate that liberal democracies such as the U.S. can out-deliver autocracies.

In the estimation of the White House, the war transformed what had been Biden's rhetorical warnings - a staple of his 2020 campaign speeches - into an urgent call to action.

Now, as Biden prepares to travel to Poland to mark the anniversary of the war, he faces a legacy-defining moment.

"President Biden's task is to make the case for sustained free world support for Ukraine," said Daniel Fried, a U.S. ambassador to Poland during the Clinton administration and now a distinguished fellow at the Atlantic Council. "This is an important trip. And really, Biden can define the role of the free world in turning back tyranny."

Biden administration officials are quick to direct primary credit for Ukraine's staying power to the courage of its armed forces, with a supporting role to the Russian military's ineptitude. But they also believe that without their early warnings and the massive support they orchestrated, Ukraine would have been all but wiped off the map by now.

Sustaining Ukraine's fight, while keeping the war from escalating into a potentially catastrophic wider conflict with NATO, will go down as one of Biden's enduring foreign policy accomplishments, they argue.

In Poland, Biden is set to meet with allies to reassure them of the U.S. commitment to the region and to helping Ukraine "as long as it takes." It's a pledge that is met with skepticism both at home and abroad as the invasion enters its second year, and as Putin shows no signs of retreating from an invasion that has left more than 100,000 of his own forces killed or wounded, along with tens of thousands of Ukrainian service members and civilians - and millions of refugees.

Biden's job now is, in part, to persuade Americans - and a worldwide audience - that it's more important than ever to stay in the fight, while cautioning that an endgame is unlikely to come quickly.

His visit to Poland is an opportunity to make the case to "countries that repudiate archaic notions of imperial conquest and wars of aggression about the need to continue to support Ukraine and oppose Russia," said John Sullivan, who stepped down as the U.S. ambassador to Moscow in September. "We always preach, we are seeking to protect a rules-based international order. It's completely done if Russia gets away with this."

The U.S. resolve to stand up to Russia is also being tested by domestic concerns and economic uncertainty.

Forty-eight percent of the U.S. public say they favor the U.S. providing weapons to Ukraine, with 29% opposed and 22% saying they're neither in favor nor opposed, according to a poll published this past week by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. It's evidence of slipping support since May 2022, less than three months into the war, when 60% of U.S. adults said they were in favor of sending Ukraine weapons.

Further, Americans are about evenly divided on sending government funds directly to Ukraine, with 37% in favor and 38% opposed, with 23% saying neither, according to the AP-NORC poll.

This month, 11 House Republicans introduced what they called the "Ukraine fatigue" resolution urging Biden to end military and financial aid to Ukraine, while pushing Ukraine and Russia to come to a peace agreement. Meanwhile, the more traditionalist national security wing of the GOP, including just-announced 2024 presidential candidate Nikki Haley, a former U.N. envoy, has critiqued the pace of U.S. assistance, pressing for the quicker transfer of more advanced weaponry.

"Don't look at Twitter, look at people in power," Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell told the Munich Security Conference on Friday. "We are committed to helping Ukraine."

But Sen. Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska, said he wants the president and his administration to impress on allies the need to share the burden as Americans grow weary of current levels of U.S. spending to assist Ukraine and Baltic allies.

Sullivan said he hears from Alaskans, "Hey, senator, why are we spending all this? And how come the Europeans aren't?"

The U.S. has provided more economic and military aid than any country since the start of the war, but European nations and other allies have collectively committed tens of billions of dollars to back Ukraine and have taken in millions of refugees fleeing the conflict.

From the beginning of his administration, Biden has argued the world is at a crucial moment pitting autocracies against democracies.

The argument was originally framed with China in mind as America's greatest economic and military adversary, and with Biden looking to reorient U.S. foreign policy toward the Pacific. The pivot toward Asia is an effort that each of his recent predecessors tried and failed to complete as war and foreign policy crises elsewhere shifted their attention.

With that goal, Biden sought to quickly end the U.S. military's presence in Afghanistan seven months into his term. The end to America's longest war was darkened by a chaotic withdrawal as 13 U.S. troops and 169 Afghan civilians looking to flee the country were killed by a bombing near Kabul's international airport carried out by the Islamic State group's Afghanistan affiliate.

U.S. officials say the decision to withdraw from Afghanistan has given the administration the bandwidth and resources to focus on assisting Ukraine in the first land war in Europe since World War II while putting increased focus on countering China's assertive actions in the Indo-Pacific.

While the war in Ukraine caused large price increases in energy and food markets -- exacerbating rampant and persistent inflation - Biden aides saw domestic benefits to the president. The war, they argued, allowed Biden to showcase his ability to work across the aisle to maintain funding for Ukraine and showcase his leadership on the global stage.

However the months ahead unfold, it's almost certain to be messy.

While Biden last year had to walk back a public call for regime change in Russia that he had delivered off the cuff from Poland just weeks after the war began, U.S. officials increasingly see internal discontent and domestic pressures on Putin as key to ending the conflict.

"So how does it end?" Undersecretary of State Victoria Nuland said at an event this past week in Washington to mark the coming anniversary. "It ends with a safe, viable Ukraine. It ends with Putin limping back off the battlefield. I hope it ends eventually with a Russian citizenry, who also says, 'That was a bad deal for us and we want a better future.'"

When Biden hosted Zelenskyy in Washington in December, the U.S. president encouraged him to pursue a "just peace" - a framing that the Ukrainian leader chafed against.

"For me as a president, 'just peace' is no compromises," Zelenskyy said. He said the war would end once Ukraine's sovereignty, freedom and territorial integrity were restored, and Russia had paid back Ukraine for all the damage inflicted by its forces.

"There can't be any 'just peace' in the war that was imposed on us," he added.

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AP Congressional Correspondent Lisa Mascaro contributed to this report.

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Biden's test: Sustaining unity as Ukraine war enters Year 2

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WASHINGTON (AP) - One year ago, President Joe Biden was bracing for the worst as Russia massed troops in preparation to invade Ukraine. As many in the West and even in Ukraine doubted Russian President Vladimir Putin's intentions, the White House was adamant: War was coming and Kyiv was woefully outgunned.

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When I first started looking into how local news outlets portray and spread global issues, I first referred back to my town newspaper I remember getting at my house. After digging I realized that the newspaper for a town of 1000 people might be harder to find on an online platform than I first thought. Therefore, I turned to a larger newspaper provider for the general area called PennLive. This news resource had a particular focus on central Pennsylvania issues and sports as expected however it did expand to issues occurring throughout the United States such as the article shared about the Ohio manufacturing plant explosion. Moreover, I also looked at the local news resource for New London, CT since I have called this place home for the past 3.5 years. This news source also focused heavily on statewide news however, shared some major international stories in which America shares involvement. In summary, PennLive focuses the majority of their energy on news pertinent to Central PA whereas the Day expands beyond stateliness sharing global news as well.