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Afrin: Turkish troops 'positioned' to enter center of Kurdish-held Syrian city

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Turkey, a NATO ally, launched an operation targeting Kurdish groups -- some of them backed by the United States -- in Afrin province in January to clear the border area of militias it considers to be terrorist organizations.

"Right now, Afrin city center is surrounded. God willing, we are in a position to enter Afrin center any moment," Erdogan said.

"We are definitely not there to occupy. We will God willing clear the territory from the ones who wants to occupy and hand it back to its real owners. This is what we want to do."

'Deep wound'

Bnafsh Jmmo, whose family lives in Turinda, near Afrin, told CNN that three of her children died in an airstrike on Thursday morning.

Jmmo said her sons Husain, 15, and Firhad, 10, along with her daughter Hala, 14, were killed as they ate breakfast.

"My future has been destroyed after my loss of my children," she told CNN. "This deep wound will not be healed as long as I live because I lost my children and that means I've lost myself.

"We are simple people, we did not do anything, is that not wrong?"

Erdogan's announcement comes after Turkish state news agency Anadolu reported Friday that the country's troops "liberated" the Hallubi Kabir village in Afrin's northeast and took control of a dam which provides water to the Azaz and Afrin regions.

Turkey also claimed to have taken control of the town of Jandaris town on Wednesday, but the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said Friday that the fighting was still ongoing.

The SDF said in a statement that Turkey was exposing the Kurds to "systematic annihilation" in Afrin with different types of weapons and airstrikes and that its forces would continue to defend the region.

Four branches of the SDF, which had been fighting ISIS in Syria, were transferred from east of the Euphrates Rivers to the Kurdish enclave of Afrin, SDF spokesman Mustafa Bali told CNN in a statement earlier this week.

The redeployed SDF forces joined pro-Syrian government fighters who entered Afrin last month as part of a deal between the regime and Kurdish forces.

Turkey's deputy prime minister warned at the time of "disastrous consequences" should Syrian government forces intervene in Afrin.

CNN's Samantha Beech contributed to this story.

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Erdogan: Turkish troops 'positioned' to enter Afrin city center

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Toddler locks mom out of her iPhone for 47 years

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A two-year old in China has locked his mom out of her iPhone for 47 years, according to news reports.

Citing the website Kankanews.com, the South China Morning Post reports that the toddler in Shanghai locked his mother's iPhone for 25 million minutes after he repeatedly entered the wrong passcode on the device.
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Each time the wrong passcode was entered, the phone was locked for additional periods of time, according to the report.

The mother had given her child the phone to watch educational videos. It's not clear which type of iPhone has been locked.
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The woman, who was identified only by her family name of Lu, was reportedly given the option of a factory reset on the phone, which would erase all its data, or waiting for the phone to unlock.

She has waited for two months in the hope that the problem would rectify itself, the report said, but to no avail.
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"I couldn't really wait for 47 years and tell my grandchild it was your father's mistake," the unfortunate iPhone user is quoted as saying.

China is a key market for Apple. The tech giant's revenue for Greater China, which includes Hong Kong and Taiwan, was $17.96 billion during its recent fiscal first-quarter results, an 11 percent hike on the prior year's quarter. Greater China accounted for 20.3 percent of Apple's total first-quarter revenue.
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The locked phone is just the latest bizarre iPhone story to come out of China.

Earlier this year, a video surfaced that showed an iPhone battery bursting into flames after a man bit into it in an electronics store in China.

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A two-year old in China has locked his mom out of her iPhone for 47 years, according to news reports. Citing the website Kankanews.com, the South China Morning Post reports that the toddler in Shanghai locked his mother's iPhone for 25 million minutes after he repeatedly entered the wrong passcode on the device.

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Students at a British university 30 miles away from London have been recorded chanting racist remarks in the halls. The school replied by saying "this kind of vile behavior will not be tolerated"

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Two licensed nursing assistants are accused of having sexual relations with patients from an Iowa psychiatric facility.

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Two licensed nursing assistants are accused of having sexual relations with patients from an Iowa psychiatric facility.

An investigation began when the Prairie View Management Facility in Fayette reported two patients had absconded Feb. 21.

Four days later, deputies with the Fayette Sheriff's Office learned the missing patients were seen with two nursing assistants from the facility, the Des Moines Register reported.

Authorities soon determined Megan Penney, 26, of Clermont and Paige Johanningmeier, 23, of Elgin, "had developed a relationship with the two patients and once they had left the facility it became sexual," the sheriff's office said.

The patients were at Prairie View under court order due to mental illness, the Register reported.

Penney and Johnningmeier were arrested Tuesday on a felony sex exploitation charge related to their position as counselors.

Each woman posted $2,000 bond and were released on the day they were booked.

Deputies took one of the patients back to Prairie View; they took the other to a hospital.

A woman who answered the phone at Prairie View told Fox News Friday that staff cooperated with investigators. She said the facility had no further comment and she declined to identify herself.

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Iowa nursing assistants, ages 23 and 26, accused of sex with psychiatric facility patients

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Two licensed nursing assistants are accused of having sexual relations with patients from an Iowa psychiatric facility. An investigation began when the Prairie View Management Facility in Fayette reported two patients had absconded Feb. 21. Four days later, deputies with the Fayette Sheriff's Office learned the missing patients were seen with two nursing assistants from the facility, the Des Moines Register reported.

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The school resource officer in Parkland Florida allegedly lied about believing the shots were coming from outside after radio calls released have him telling deputies "there are possible shots fired inside the 12-1300 buildings" and to keep everyone away from the buildings.

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The former school resource deputy who stayed outside a Florida high school during a mass shooting appeared to know the shots were coming from inside the building, despite stating he thought they were outside.

The Broward County Sheriff's Department released internal radio dispatches from the Feb. 14 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland that revealed former Deputy Scot Peterson saying the gunfire was coming from "inside," the Miami Herald reported.

"Do not approach the 12 or 1300 building, stay at least 500 feet away," Peterson was heard saying over the radio.

Peterson previously stated he believed the gunshots were coming from outside the school, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel reported.

"Be advised we have possible, could be firecrackers, I think we have shots fired, possible shots fired," Peterson told dispatchers.
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Investigators said later he took up a position near the building and remained there for several minutes. His subsequent transmissions focus on getting nearby streets and the school shut down and keeping deputies away from the building.

Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel has said Peterson should have charged into the building and killed Cruz. Peterson, who has denied wrongdoing, retired rather than accept a suspension and investigation.

The sheriff's office calls on deputies to "engage an active shooter and eliminate the threat."

When it became known that Peterson had not entered the school during the shooting, President Trump slammed him as a "coward."

"When it came time to get in there and do something, he didn't have the courage, or something happened," Trump said of Peterson. "He certainly did a poor job. That's the case where somebody was outside, they are trained, they didn't react properly under pressure or they were a coward."

Jeff Bell, Broward County Sheriff's Office president, said the audio confirms Peterson never went inside the school.

"It certainly backs up that he never went into the school," Bell said of Peterson. "At one point, he says to keep back 500 feet. Why would he say that?"

The sheriff's office also released a timeline Thursday of the incident and excerpts of 911 calls that were placed that day.
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Several of the calls were transfers from other 911 operators, including one from a parent who said her son said he "heard noises and pops and he thinks there's a shooting going on at the school."

An emotional woman also called in saying she was talking with her son who "said 'Shots! Shots! Shots! Mom! God.'"

Dispatchers spoke with a woman whose daughter told her that shots were fired nearby and she was hiding behind a desk. As information trickled in, the girl, who was texting her father, said that police had arrived.

The alleged gunman, Nikolas Cruz, was formally charged Wednesday with 17 counts each of premeditated murder and attempted murder. The Broward County grand jury announced the 34-count indictment for Cruz, who police said opened fire inside the high school in Parkland. The attempted murder charges were for the 17 other people injured in the mass shooting.
Fox News' Elizabeth Zwirz and Shira Bush contributed to this report.

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Bankrupt retailer Toys "R" Us may shut all its US stores as soon as next week, according to several reports.

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Bankrupt retailer Toys "R" Us may shut all its US stores as soon as next week, according to several reports.

That's terrible news for the two biggest publicly traded toy companies. Investors are clearly preparing for the worst. Shares of Hasbro fell 3.5% Friday morning while Mattel plunged 7%.

Smaller toy company Jakks Pacific fell nearly 5% too. Canada's Spin Master, which owns the popular line of Hatchimals toys, was down about 3% as well on the Toronto Stock Exchange.

And everything isn't awesome for privately held European toy giant Lego either. The plastic bricks maker reported its first sales drop in thirteen years earlier this week. So these are clearly tough times for the toy makers.

A spokesperson for Toys "R" Us declined to comment on the liquidation chatter.

Toys "R" Us recently went into administration in the UK, paving the path for stores there to shut their doors. And the potential closing of Toys "R" Us in America would be a particularly huge blow to Hasbro and Mattel.

According to recent regulatory filings from both companies, Toys "R" Us accounted for nearly 10% of the companies' overall sales.

Toys "R" Us is the last megastore dedicated to toys. Without it, toymakers will struggle to promote anything but their most popular items.

The death of a top customer is the last thing that Mattel and Hasbro need right now.

Related: 5,300 UK jobs at risk as Toys "R" Us and another big British retailer collapse

Mattel's overall sales during the fourth quarter (i.e, Christmas) fell 12% from a year ago, led by big drops for the Fisher-Price, American Girl and Lego competitor Mega Bloks brands.

Hasbro reported a decline in sales during the fourth quarter, despite the fact that the Nerf and My Little Pony owner now holds nearly all of the lucrative licenses tied to movies from Disney and its many other studios -- Pixar, Marvel and Lucasfilm.

Hasbro said that Star Wars product sales actually fell in the fourth quarter, as did sales of Disney Frozen toys.

The softness in the toy industry is partly due to the rise of video games and other high-tech toys that kids are increasingly playing with instead of action figures, dolls and board games.

But the shifting tide in retail isn't helping either. The dominance of Amazon has put pressure on many consumer products companies as Amazon has made a relentless push to lower prices.

Walmart is the largest customer for Mattel and Hasbro, accounting for about 20% of total sales for each toy maker. Both toy companies get nearly 10% of their revenue from Target too.

Related: The Hasbro-Mattel merger just don't die

So what's next for Mattel and Hasbro? Investors are still hoping that Mattel's new CEO Margo Georgiadis, formerly an executive at Google , will be able to turn around the company with a greater focus on interactive toys.

Time may be running out for both companies though, which is why there have been frequent rumors that Hasbro may buy Mattel.

Investors have dreamed about a possible merger between the two companies since November, following a story in the Wall Street Journal that said Hasbro was going to make a bid. Reuters later reported that Mattel turned Hasbro's offer down.

Takeover chatter resurfaced in late January. A spokesperson for Mattel told CNNMoney at the time that the company had no comment on the new speculation. Hasbro did not get back to CNNMoney.

But as long as both companies continue to struggle, expect merger rumors to keep swirling.

CNNMoney (New York) First published March 9, 2018: 12:21 PM ET

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The toy store chain could make the announcement as soon as Monday. If Toys 'R' Us shuts down in the US, it's the last thing that struggling toy makers Hasbro and Mattel need. Toys 'R' Us accounts for nearly 10% of their sales.

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Students from Brit University stood outside a classmates door and chanted racist slurs..

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The Seattle Seahawks have informed CB Richard Sherman that they will release him Friday making him a Free agent for the upcoming Off - Season.

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The Seattle Seahawks reportedly informed cornerback Richard Sherman they will release him Friday, making him a free agent, according to ESPN's Adam Schefter.

Sherman seemingly responded to the move:

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"Cause ppl talking to me like I'm slowin' down. Opinions over statistics, of course" https://t.co/nonbj7rQDA
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The release comes amid a period of transition for the Seahawks.

Schefter reported they already traded defensive end Michael Bennett and a seventh-round pick to the Philadelphia Eagles in return for a fifth-round draft pick and wide receiver Marcus Johnson. Shortly thereafter, NFL Network's Ian Rapoport reported Seattle had met with Sherman and was going to look at the team's trade scenarios.

Despite his track record, the fact the Seahawks were unable to find a feasible trade for Sherman isn't surprising.

For one, Sherman counted for $13.2 million against the salary cap in 2018. That number likely scared away some potential suitors. According to Over the Cap, the Seahawks will save $11 million by cutting Sherman, with $2.2 million in dead money counting against the cap.

Sherman is also coming off a 2017 season in which he suffered a ruptured Achilles tendon. Serious Achilles injuries can be notoriously difficult to recover from and can cause effects that linger well beyond when a player returns to the field.

Arian Foster reached a Pro Bowl with the Houston Texans in 2014 before he tore his Achilles four games into the 2015 season. After playing four games for the Miami Dolphins in 2016, he decided to retire.

As much as Sherman has meant to the Seahawks emotionally, and for as much as he did to help the franchise win its only Super Bowl, parting ways with Sherman was the most logical decision for Seattle.

Judging by their desire to cut costs this offseason, it seems unlikely the Seahawks will replace Sherman with a marquee free agent such as Malcolm Butler or Trumaine Johnson. Instead, Seattle could turn to an internal candidate such as Justin Coleman, who is a restricted free agent. The draft will be another option, though the Seahawks don't have a pick in the second or third rounds.

Sherman, meanwhile, becomes the most distinguished cornerback on the free-agent market-albeit one who carries big risk.

Darrelle Revis is a perfect example of how quickly things can fall apart for previously elite corners. Revis was an All-Pro in 2014 and a Pro Bowler in 2015. The Jets cut Revis after the 2016 season, and he played just five games for the Kansas City Chiefs in 2017.

Sherman turns 30 on March 30, so he's already on the wrong side of the aging curve. Throw in the Achilles injury, and it's fair to wonder whether he can still be a Pro Bowl-caliber cornerback.

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Richard Sherman Reportedly Will Be Released by Seahawks, Enters Free Agency

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A New York man killed his wife and children, and faces 44 years in prison. The man has had a past of psychiatric and substance abuse problems, but there weren't any indications leading police to believe he was intoxicated at the time.

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A New York man who killed a mother and her 4-year-old daughter last summer will spend 44 years to life in prison.

The Post-Star says Bryan M. Redden apologized and asked for forgiveness Thursday in Warren County Court.

Crystal Riley and her daughter, Lilly Frasier, were stabbed and strangled in their Glens Falls home.

In court, Riley's mother, MaryEllen Monroe, described them as beautiful, kind, selfless and loving.

The defense said Redden had a history of psychiatric problems and substance abuse.

However, the prosecution said the evidence did not seem to show that Redden was highly intoxicated.

Redden washed his hands, took off blood-stained clothes and ransacked the home. Then he drove Riley's car around, ate Chinese food and called an acquaintance to ask if she wanted to have sex.

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Porn star, Stomy Daniels is filing a law suit against president Donald Trump. Trump paid 130,000 dollars of his own money in attempt to keep stormy quite. All of this could have been avoided if he a. did not sleep with a porn star or b. sign a hush agreement that was available to him that would have kept this interaction quite, most anyone who has relations with a porn star signs this in order not to ruin their personal life.

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Daniels, whose legal name is Stephanie Clifford, filed suit against Trump on Tuesday, alleging that he never signed a hush agreement regarding an alleged sexual encounter between the two and therefore the agreement is void.

White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said Wednesday that "arbitration was won in the President's favor" regarding the case. The statement is an admission that the nondisclosure agreement exists and that it directly involves Trump. It was the first time the White House had admitted the President was involved in any way with Clifford.

Trump's personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, said last month that he paid $130,000 of his own money to Clifford right before the 2016 election in exchange for her silence about the matter. But both Cohen and the White House have denied any sexual encounter between the President and Clifford.

"The cover-up is that you have attorney (Michael) Cohen claiming that Donald Trump never knew anything about this. You have the White House claiming Donald Trump never knew anything about this. That is going to be shown to be patently false," Michael Avenatti, the attorney for Daniels, said in an interview Friday on CNN's "New Day."

Avenatti said he has further "substantial evidence and facts that were not included in the complaint" to back up his claims, though he said he was "not going to lay all of our cards out on the table" Friday.

"When that evidence and those facts come to light, the American people are going to conclude that attorney Cohen and the White House have not shot straight with them on this," he alleged.

Avenatti said that Daniels would "absolutely" pay back the $130,000 payment if she's "ultimately ordered to do that to speak openly and honestly" or if Trump and Cohen want to "admit that (Trump) know about the deal and didn't sign it."

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Daniels, whose legal name is Stephanie Clifford, filed suit against Trump on Tuesday, alleging that he never signed a hush agreement regarding an alleged sexual encounter between the two and therefore the agreement is void. White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said Wednesday that "arbitration was won in the President's favor" regarding the case.

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This talking robotic head will join astronauts on the ISS

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CIMON will assist astronauts and answer questions like a "Space Alexa."

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According to many top sources around the world, Reese Harms has been named the hottest man in the universe.

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A passenger fell off of a Norwegian cruise ship and then was rescued and taken to the hospital.

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MELBOURNE, Fla. - A passenger fell overboard from the Norwegian Epic cruise ship Tuesday night near the Bahamas, and crew members boarded rescue boats and saved her in the darkness.

Kareen Kennedy, a Lake Mary insurance claims adjuster, was eating dinner at roughly 9 p.m. in the fifth-deck Taste main dining room when an announcement came over the intercom three times: "Code Oscar portside."

"My server looked out my window, and just the way he looked out ... I was about to order dessert, and I said, 'What happened?' He said, 'Someone jumped off the ship,'" Kennedy said.

She returned to her 14th-deck portside cabin balcony in time to watch two rescue boats descend from the cruise ship, then patrol the waves using searchlights. Soon afterward, the captain announced that the passenger, an unidentified woman, had been rescued, eliciting cheers.

Kennedy recorded the captain's announcement using her iPhone:

"They found the person in the water, and she was picked up and she's now in the hospital. So everything is good there," the captain said.

"Just to let you know that we will soon be on our way up to Port Canaveral. We have to retrieve our tender boat that did the rescue operation, and then we will be on our way shortly," he said.

The rescued passenger was evaluated at the Epic's onboard medical facility in stable condition, Norwegian Cruise Line officials said in a statement.
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After the ship reached Port Canaveral on Wednesday morning, Brevard County Fire Rescue personnel transported the patient to a local hospital, Fire Chief Mark Schollmeyer said.

"I really was impressed. My first thought was, 'What are they going to do?' because we were moving at top speed when this happened. We were moving at a pretty quick speed because we were trying to make up time to get back," Kennedy said.

"They got in the water quickly. It was only an hour's delay from the time they announced it and stopped to when we started going back to Port Canaveral," she said.

Epic's Port Canaveral four-day Bahamas cruises include stops at Nassau and Great Stirrup Cay. Kennedy said the ship left Saturday, but was unable to stop at either destination Sunday or Monday because of unusually high seas.

Instead, Kennedy said the Epic reached Nassau Tuesday morning, then left in late afternoon to return to Port Canaveral.
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"We are thankful that our team reacted quickly and was able to rescue the guest," the Norwegian Cruise Line statement read.

"Our thoughts and prayers are with the guest and their family, as they embark on the recovery process and our CARE team is providing support and assistance during this time."

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Kim is growing is nuclear arsenal

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President Trump has agreed to a meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in what is a surprising development in the relationship between the two rivals.

"Kim Jong Un talked about denuclearization with the South Korean Representatives, not just a freeze," Trump said on social media after the White House confirmed the upcoming visit. "Also, no missile testing by North Korea during this period of time. Great progress being made but sanctions will remain until an agreement is reached. Meeting being planned!"

Kim reportedly extended the invitation for the meeting which is expected to take place by May. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said Trump "himself" made the decision to accept the offer.

This dramatic turn of events comes after Trump and Kim engaged in a war of words throughout the first year of Trump's presidency. Kim called Trump a " dotard;" Trump called the North Korean leader "short and fat."

Since Kim took over North Korea in 2011, it has rapidly expanded and tested its missile arsenal with weapons capable of striking the U.S. mainland. His end goal, he has reportedly said, is to "establish the equilibrium of real force with the U.S. and make the U.S. rulers dare not talk about military options" for the North.

However, Kim has "pledged that North Korea will refrain from any further nuclear missile tests" and is "committed to denuclearization" now, according to South Korean National Security Adviser Chung Eui-yong.

Read on for a brief look at how North Korea's nuclear weapons program has grown throughout the regimes in the past century.

Kim Il Sung, leader from 1948-1994

Kim Il Sung can be credited with founding North Korea and propelling the nation's nuclear program forward - but he did not live to see his country conduct its first nuclear test.

It was under the first Kim that North Korea began to build up its nuclear reactors. And it was under his leadership that the nation began the Korean War - surely a catalyst that led the leader to believe his nation needed nuclear weapons, Dr. Sung-Yoon Lee, the Kim Koo-Korea Foundation Professor of Korean Studies at the Fletcher School at Tufts University, told Fox News in an interview.
TRUMP'S COMMENTS ON NORTH KOREA, FROM 'FIRE AND FURY' TO BLAMING CHINA
"The seeds of nuclear aspirations were sown in the Korean War," Lee said.

The Korean War pitted North Korea and its ally China - two nations that did not have nuclear capabilities at the time - against a nuclear-armed U.S., making it "clear to the first Kim that nuclear weapons are very powerful, a powerful deterrent," Lee said.

Kim Jong Il, leader from 1994-2011

When the second leader of the Kim dynasty died in 2011, Kim Jong Il was remembered as the "dictator who turned North Korea into a nuclear state," in his New York Times obituary.

And it's Kim Jong Il that really "gets the credit of taking the country down the nuclear path," Lee said.

In the beginning of his reign - he was North Korea's supreme leader from 1994 to 2011 - North Korea denied that it had a nuclear weapons program.
TIMELINE OF NORTH KOREAN MISSILE LAUNCHES IN 2017
However, in 2003, Pyongyang announced that North Korea was withdrawing from the 1968 Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, which barred the nation from making nuclear weapons.

By 2005, North Korea confirmed that it had its own nuclear weapons. It tested its first nuclear device in 2006.

Kim Jong Un, leader from 2011-present

Kim Jong Un is credited with accelerating North Korea's push for nuclear weapons, and under the Obama administration, many of the world's attitudes toward the East Asian nation's nuclear capabilities became less blasé than in the past, Lee said.

And Kim Jong Un recently crossed a major threshold for his country this summer - the ability to credibly threaten the U.S. with an intercontinental ballistic missile.

In 2017, North Korea successfully tested its longest-ever flight of a ballistic missile. The intermediate-range weapon traveled 3,700 miles and passed over Japan before it landed in the Pacific. The country also tested its most powerful nuclear test to date this year.

Defense Secretary Jim Mattis condemned the test and said it caused "millions of Japanese" to "duck and cover." Mattis also said the U.S. and Japan are ready for potential future missile threats.

After the missile test, Kim Jong Un said North Korea is nearing "equilibrium" with the U.S. in terms of its military force.

The increasingly frequent and aggressive tests have added to outside fears that North Korea is closer than ever to building a military arsenal that could viably target the mainland of the U.S. or its allies in Asia.

Trump called Kim Jong Un " Rocket Man " in his speech to the U.N. and said the dictator is on a "suicide mission for himself and for his regime."

"The United States has great strength and patience," Trump said. "But if it is forced to defend itself or its allies, we will have no choice but to totally destroy North Korea."

Kaitlyn Schallhorn is a Reporter for Fox News. Follow her on Twitter @K_Schallhorn.

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President Trump has agreed to a meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in what is a surprising development in the relationship between the two rivals. "Kim Jong Un talked about denuclearization with the South Korean Representatives, not just a freeze," Trump said on social media after the White House confirmed the upcoming visit.

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A Florida teacher has been suspended after his school district concluded he repeatedly used the N-word in class, and told his 7th and 8th graders not to date African-Americans "because they are not worth it," among other violations.

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A Florida teacher has been suspended after his school district concluded he repeatedly used the N-word in class, and told his 7th and 8th graders not to date African-Americans "because they are not worth it," among other violations.

David Swinyar, who says he is white in his personnel file, teaches math at Kernan Middle School in Jacksonville. The school has 1,148 students - 22.6 percent of whom are African-American.

Just after lunch on October 6, 2017, a student told a school board investigator that their teacher, Swinyar, and students were discussing relationships.

"If your boyfriend says bad things to you and/or treats you wrong, that means he's acting like a n--," Swinyar said according to student testimony in a school district investigative report. "You all should not be dating all these different African-American boys because they are not worth it."

A separate incident

In what appears to be a separate incident covered in the investigative report, students said Swinyar made other racist remarks in August 2017.

According to the report, Swinyar used the N-word during an argument with a student.

"If my daughter was dating someone who used the 'f' word, I wouldn't have any respect for that n--," a student recalled Swinyar saying, according to an investigative report. Another student then confronted Swinyar about using the racial slur; he denied using it.

The school counselor, quoting a student, reported that Swinyar said, "If [Swinyar's daughter] was dating someone and that 'n' said the 'f' word, I would beat him up."

After he was confronted by a student, other students said Swinyar said, "I would never say that, but if I did, I am sorry."

A 10-day suspension

Swinyar reportedly said he attended an African-American church, and students said he made fun of the preacher's preaching style. The district also concluded in the report that Swinyar made inappropriate comments to students, such as calling some of them "dumb."

CNN reached out to Swinyar for comment, but has not yet received a response.

Florida's teacher union, the Florida Education Association, declined to comment on the situation Thursday.

"One of the FEA's core values is to 'value and respect the diversity among all individuals,'" said FEA communications director Sharon Nesvig, when asked for the organization's general policy on racist language in the classroom. "So, clearly FEA is opposed to using racial slurs and derogatory language inside or outside the classroom."

Swinyar received a 10-day unpaid suspension for the behaviors documented in the district's investigation. CNN affiliate WFOX-WJAX reports Swinyar will also get a letter of reprimand and a mandatory referral to the Employee Assistance Program.

After this story was published, CNN was sent a letter Duval County Schools Superintendent Patricia Willis sent to the school board members on Thursday afternoon. That letter further outlined what the district plans to do with Swinyar.

"Following the employee's suspension without pay, he will be reassigned to an appropriate district position with no contact with students for the remainder of the year," said Willis. "As an annual contract employee, Mr. Swinyar's employment contract with the district expires June 30, 2018. In May, recommendations for contract renewals for all annual employees will be considered."

Records indicate Swinyar has taught in the Duval County school board system since 2012.

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Some general practitioners and medical specialists in Quebec have signed a petition saying they don't want the hundreds of millions in raises they got after negotiations with the provincial government last month. So far more than 700 physicians, general practitioners, specialists, residents and medical students have signed the petition, which has been up since February 25.

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Some general practitioners and medical specialists in Quebec have signed a petition saying they don't want the hundreds of millions in raises they got after negotiations with the provincial government last month.

Instead, they say the money should be redistributed -- to fund more nurses and other health care professions, and to make care more affordable for their patients.

"These increases are all the more shocking because our nurses, clerks and other professionals face very difficult working conditions, while our patients live with the lack of access to required services because of the drastic cuts in recent years," reads the petition from the group Médecins Québécois pour la Régime Public (or MQRP).

"The only thing that seems to be immune to the cuts is our (salaries)."

So far more than 700 physicians, general practitioners, specialists, residents and medical students have signed the petition, which has been up since February 25.

'LEAVE THE MONEY ON THE TABLE'

The deal reached last month with the government would give Quebec's 10,000 doctors a 1.4% pay hike, taking their total annual salaries from $4.7 billion to 5.4 billion, according to CNN partner CBC.

A physician in Canada is paid, on average, $260,000 by the health ministry.

Quebec's health minister said it's OK with him if the doctors don't want the money.

"If they feel they are overpaid, they can leave the money on the table. I guarantee you I can make good use of it," Gaetan Barrette told CBC.

Part of what's driving this is the desperate situation Quebec's nurses say they find themselves in. They complain of being overworked and underpaid.

One nurse, Emilie Ricard, took to social media with her complaints back in January, after she said Barrette was quoted as saying that "health system reform is a success."

Ricard said she was exhausted after working a shift where she had to take care of more than 70 patients by herself.

"I am broken by my profession," Ricard writes in her post, which has a picture of her with tears in her eyes and giving a sarcastic thumbs up. "I am ashamed of the poverty of the care that I provide as far as possible. My Health system is sick and dying."

Barrette told CBC he's committed to improving the working conditions for nurses.

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Some general practitioners and medical specialists in Quebec have signed a petition saying they don't want the hundreds of millions in raises they got after negotiations with the provincial government last month. Instead, they say the money should be redistributed -- to fund more nurses and other health care professions, and to make care more affordable for their patients.