👉 The investment is here in America; immigration policy needs to catch up. Read my take on the Hyundai plant raid on Substack: koreaeconomicinstitute.substack.com/p/korean-inves…
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Arius Derr
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Solutions include:
✔ Stronger oversight by prime contractors to ensure immigration compliance
✔ A South Korea-specific high-skill visa channel to match investment timelines
✔ Administrative fixes to modernize visa categories and training pathways
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The Hyundai plant raid in Georgia exposes a contradiction. The Trump administration wants to restore U.S. manufacturing through foreign investment and technology, but immigration rules choke off the skilled labor needed to get these investments off the ground. Short 🧵
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Rep. Andy Kim won the seat vacated by Robert Menendez. He will become the first Korean American senator.
nyti.ms/48AL1V2
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56th US-ROK Security Consultative Meeting joint statement: “complete denuclearization” nowhere to be seen; instead, “dissuade and delay” NK nuclear development. A small step in the right direction (realism). defense.gov/News/Releases/…
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“AUKUS, U.N. Command, and weapons trade provide platforms for middle power cooperation and alignment between South Korea and Australia while defanging accusations…these platforms are exclusionary.” @AriusDerr & Hannah Cho @WarOnTheRocks warontherocks.com/2024/10/how-au…
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We argue that South Korea will be a key partner for AUKUS Pillar 2 and is exactly the sort of state Australia needs buy-in from to maximize AUKUS’ appeal and effectiveness in the Indo-Pacific. Thanks to @NicholasDanfort for the fantastic edits.
War on the Rocks@WarOnTheRocks
“Expanding ties between Australia and South Korea is an opportunity to bring skeptics on board with the AUKUS deal,” write @AriusDerr and Hannah Cho ow.ly/1cIy30sHosF
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A big thanks to @matisaksk for inviting me on his show to talk about all things Russia, Ukraine and North Korea!
Andrej Matisak@matisaksk
Can #NorthKorea afford to send a large number of soldiers to #Ukraine's battlefield to help #Russia? Listen to another episode of my #podcast #TheGlobalAgora. I talked to @AriusDerr from @nknewsorg. podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/andre… #Putinswar
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As @ColinZwirko reported, the @JamesMartinCNS OSINT team concluded last night that this facility was most likely the presumed uranium enrichment plant at Kangson. I spent the morning quadruple-checking. I think they're right.
nknews.org/pro/north-kore…
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"A great virtue of America’s security network is that Washington can summon global responses to pressing challenges. The flip side is that regionalizing US foreign policy could, ironically, undercut America’s ability to out-compete Beijing." bloomberg.com/opinion/featur…
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@JackkHayes Center spelled "re"? Are you sure you're in the right county?
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I will die on this hill. Living abroad for 10+ years, I'm fully on board with the metric system for weight and distance. Temperature? No way.
Derek Thompson@DKThomp
Sorry, world, this is not up for debate. Fahrenheit is just better for daily temperature. Both Celsius and Fahrenheit acknowledge the utility of measuring across 0-100 scales—Celsius just does it for water. But that’s useless for daily temperature, bc the air never boils.
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North Korea has accepted the reality that unification with South Korea while Kim Jong Un remains in power is impossible. This does not mean war is any more likely than before. My latest for @east_asia_forum eastasiaforum.org/2024/03/11/dan…
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Kim Jong Un may say he's "sorry," but truly fixing the economy requires just a modicum of political reform, which is anathema to the regime. So maybe "sorry but not sorry enough" hits closer to the mark. Graphic below shows how they bang their head on the same wall over and over.
NK NEWS@nknewsorg
ICYMI: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said he was “ashamed and sorry” for neglecting economic development outside the capital during his time in power, promising to reverse the trend by building factories in every county over the next 10 years. nknews.org/2024/02/kim-jo…
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The best part of the American spirit is represented in guys like Anthony Bourdain, who not only loved other cultures but ran towards them and enjoyed breaking bread with other people.
Acyn@Acyn
Trump: People who don't speak languages. We have languages coming in to our country, nobody that speaks those languages. They're truly foreign languages. Nobody speaks them
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