Kristen Talman

hallöchen 🫰🏼asking q’s editing @nknewsorg prev: @ft @morningbrew @al-monitor @sabew 📍DC / DE / TR

[Kristen Talman @MsKristenTalman]

Mein Leipzig lob ich mir…❤️

[Socialism Pictures @PicturesSoc]

Leipzig at night, GDR, 1956

[Kristen Talman @MsKristenTalman]

"While the articles are published as personal commentaries, not government positions, the viewpoint often closely corroborates Pyongyang’s policy framework — Kim’s latest piece on denuclearization laid out the legal reasoning behind North Korea’s justification."

[Kristen Talman @MsKristenTalman]

Kim Ji Yong, the chief editor of the Tokyo-based outlet Choson Sinbo(Chongryon shop), known for op-eds unpacking Pyongyang's policy line went silent on North Korea for nearly two years.

In recent weeks, he's popped back up. https://t.co/HflsMb5Mtk

[Kristen Talman @MsKristenTalman]

"Until Kim went quiet, many South Korean outlets routinely picked up his commentaries and treated them as if they were official statements from the North Korean government."

[Kristen Talman @MsKristenTalman]

Good Anton Sokolin find in Belarussian state television.

[NK NEWS @nknewsorg]

Belarusian foreign chief vacations in North Korea, works out visa-free deal https://t.co/vgDv73S7RV

[Kristen Talman @MsKristenTalman]

Aw! Moldova’s freshly minted Prime Minister swam the 38th Bosphorus Intercontinental Swimming Race on Sunday ⬇️

[Vasile Tofan @Vasile_Tofan]

In January, I promised my son we would swim across the Bosphorus together. Neither of us knew then that I would become 🇲🇩Prime Minister a few months later. But some promises are meant to be kept.

The 6.5 km race took us from Asia to Europe - symbolically, in the same direction Moldova is heading.

He was faster than me, and few things make a parent happier than seeing their child overtake them.

Back to Chișinău re-energized. A lot of work awaits us at home.

[Kristen Talman @MsKristenTalman]

Yellow and blue balloons hung across the street from the Russian Embassy in Washington, D.C., Aug 23.

[Tony Diver @Tony_Diver]

Exclusive:

Iran shut down a British power plant for four days in an unprecedented cyber attack, @Telegraph can reveal tonight.

It is thought to be the first time that hackers affiliated to the Iranian regime have succeeded in closing down such a facility in the UK, and believed to be the most successful cyber attack of its kind.

The incident took place at the same time as a series of attacks on US water infrastructure that affected 12 states last month.

The British attack was on a small electricity producer and had no adverse effect on national power generation or supply.

But it demonstrates the power of Iranian hackers to infiltrate and shut down national infrastructure.

In response, the Government has briefed energy CEOs on how to keep their facilities safe.

Story w/@RozinaSabur and @mattotele

https://t.co/AFfuH3Ih4t

[Financial Times @FT]

Israel’s Syria strike may have been bid to provoke Turkey conflict, US envoy says https://t.co/bJuwrIi7gB

[Kristen Talman @MsKristenTalman]

Pirates hijack cargo ship carrying Turkish weapons off Somalia’s coast, official says https://t.co/p6ayMs8fGW

[Shelly Kittleson @shellykittleson]

"A single New York Times article on a disaster generated an additional $500,000 in official aid. That’s just one of the findings on the critical role a free press plays in saving lives, according to a new UN report released on Tuesday.
(...) A free press is critical to saving lives, mitigating the impacts of humanitarian disasters and strengthening other disaster preparedness and risk reduction"

#journalism

https://t.co/slF7NseFWQ

[Heidi Pett @heidipett]

The IAEA confirms it visited and literally dusted off nuclear materials at Site 99 in Syria. The plan is to put the material under strenuous but as @rafaelmgrossi stressed ‘normal’ safeguarding and inspection mechanisms all countries are subject to, rather than remove it from Syria as initially reported by @axios last week. Foreign Minister Assad Al Shaibani said Syria reserves the right to use the material in peaceful ways

[Kristen Talman @MsKristenTalman]

View from my @nknewsorg desk in Seoul over the past two weeks. Now back in Washington.

[Kristen Talman @MsKristenTalman]

.@nknewsorg Trump says Kim Jong Un responded ‘positively’ to downsized military drill talk + read out from cabinet meeting in Seoul https://t.co/WeR3IEfGfP

[Hiba Nasr @HibaNasr]

‼️ Jared Kushner met with a Hamas delegation in the city of Al-Alamein in the presence of officials from Egypt, Qatar, and Turkey, as per @AsharqBusiness sources .

[Kristen Talman @MsKristenTalman]

Politically quite remarkable that Georgian private companies are now filling a supply gap in Abkhazia left by Russia

[Reuters @Reuters]

Turkey, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia defence pact technically same as NATO's Article 5, Turkish minister says https://t.co/DKF1gJLy2K https://t.co/DKF1gJLy2K

[Timour Azhari @timourazhari]

BREAKING - Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan sign Makkah Joint Defence Agreement

- Aims to strengthen collective deterrence against any act of aggression
- Stipulates any armed attack against any one of the States shall be regarded as an attack against them all.

— Pakistan MOFA

[Kristen Talman @MsKristenTalman]

Surprise, surprise, centrism looks like it’s….not the future for the Democrats. Van Hollen, Warren, Sanders, AOC all backed El-Sayed.

[AP Race Calls @AP_RaceCalls]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Abdul El-Sayed wins Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate in Michigan. #APRaceCall at 9:54 a.m. EDT. https://t.co/TS3eIpQI5W

[Face The Nation @FaceTheNation]

Unlike Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq, where reporters embedded with U.S. troops documented the conflict from the ground, the war with Iran has largely been seen through government-produced videos, presidential social media posts and limited official briefings, leaving Americans with fewer independent accounts of what their government is doing in their name, @margbrennan notes.

[Kristen Talman @MsKristenTalman]

@kenmoriyasu Great lede sentence. You pulled me right in!