What is the migrant caravan and why is it dominating the US midterm elections?
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Illegal Invaders Just Got Massive Gift To Help Them Get To US – Who Paid For This?! - Duration: 2:39.This is quite disturbing.
Thankfully we have a President who will protect the border.
Remember this when voting this election.
From The Gateway Pundit:
FOX News reporter Griff Jenkins is traveling with one of the illegal immigrant caravans
on its way to the US.
Caravan Organizers are seen loading illegal immigrants on buses to take them to their
next stop on their way to the United States.
There are currently FOUR DIFFERENT CARAVANS working their way to the southern US border
through Central America and Mexico.
Meanwhile, as we previously reported, these so-called "migrants" are not actually
"refugees" as the left likes to call them since they are refusing multiple residential
settlement options.
So what's their real motive here?
Denver 7 News is now reporting that members of the soon to be illegal alien caravan have
rejected an offer from Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto to settle in Mexico.
The thousands of illegal aliens within the group have instead decided to continue their
trip towards the United States which is very interesting since Peña Nieto's offer would
actually put the migrants into two Mexican states.
Where they would be offered temporary work permits, medical care, shelter, and even schooling.
But not welfare!
Here is more via The AP:
"Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto has announced what he called the "You are at
home" plan, offering shelter, medical attention, schooling and jobs to Central Americans in
Chiapas and Oaxaca states if migrants apply, calling it a first step toward permanent refugee
status.
Authorities said more than 1,700 had already applied for refugee status.
But a standoff unfolded as federal police officers blocked the highway, saying there
was an operation underway to stop the caravan.
Thousands of migrants waited to advance, vowing to continue their long trek toward the U.S.
border.
At a meeting brokered by Mexico's National Human Rights Commission, police said they
would reopen the highway and only wanted an opportunity for federal authorities to explain
the proposal to migrants who had rejected it the previous evening.
Migrants countered that the middle of a highway was no place to negotiate and said they wanted
to at least arrive safely to Mexico City to discuss the topic with authorities and Mexican
lawmakers
They agreed to relay information back to their respective sides and said they would reconvene.
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U.S. Diplomatic Couriers: Before the Jet Age - Duration: 36:48.[MUSIC PLAYING]
NARRATOR: In 1918, the Diplomatic Courier Service
was established to support the work of American diplomats
by ensuring that classified messages and materials were
delivered safely and securely to U.S. embassies and consulates
around the world.
Over the 100-year history of the Courier Service,
this core mission has not changed
and remains critical to the national security of the United
States.
Before the onset of the Jet Age, this small group of couriers
traveled tens of thousands of miles per year,
often spending months on the road.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
MR. JAMES VERREOS: The Department was using the Diplomatic Courier
Service, I think, because it had some kind of sex appeal
as a job to entice people to make
at least an inquiry about working at the Department.
An article appeared in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch
that a recruiting team from the Department of State
would be coming to St. Louis in about 10 days.
And the article discussed the different aspects
of the Foreign Service, diplomatic life,
seeing all of the wonders of the world.
And I'll have to admit that that was the bait
and I bit the bait.
And so on a cold November afternoon,
I went down to the Jefferson Hotel,
where the State Department people were.
I had an interview,
was even more interested after the interview,
and they gave me about a 8- to 10-,
12-page application and explained how you apply
for a job in the U.S. Government, which was -
I don't know how it is today, but it was very complex then.
I sent the application in and continued on in my studies
at the law school.
And then one fine thing -
that was in November of 1951,
and I think it was in the spring of 1952,
I get a telephone call from the Department of State.
And they said, "Mr. Verreos, we would like to
offer you an appointment as a diplomatic courier.
Would you be interested?"
And I said, "When?"
And that's how I got into the Department of State.
I figured it was a very happy relief from law school.
MR. VINCENT CELLA: During the occupation of Germany -
that was during the Korean War, actually -
I was stationed in Germany, in the Nuremberg area,
with the Army Counter Intelligence Corps.
One day, we drove up to the Czech border
and we saw some people from our embassy in Prague coming out.
And one of the fellows I was traveling with that day
said, "Boy, that would be interesting, wouldn't it?
To be something like a diplomatic courier?"
And here we already had a pretty good job
being in the Counter Intelligence Corps,
but that really sounded good.
And I just kept thinking of that.
But one day it came up again in my thoughts
and I decided to write in to the State Department
and see if I could qualify for that job.
MS. ROSEMARY "RHODY" DUNN: working for the Armed Forces
in Madison, Wisconsin.
And one of the ladies there had returned
to tell us all that she had been to Washington
and that she had an assignment in Haiti
and it was the Foreign Service.
And so I thought, well, I think I should investigate this.
And I did.
And I had sent a letter to the director of Foreign Service
personnel.
And in no time, I got a Government Transportation
Request to come by train to Washington.
I think they needed help. [LAUGHS]
MR. PHILIP OLIVARES: I got out of the service -
I was an aircraft mechanic in the Marine Corps -
and went to Seton Hall College for a couple of years.
And somehow got into my mind I'd like to go to France.
I saw something in LIFE Magazine,
a bunch of guys sitting around enjoying themselves,
a bunch of GIs.
And I thought, jeez, that sounds pretty good.
I was studying journalism.
I switched to French.
Then I got the VA to approve my going to Paris.
I went to a summer school in La Rochelle and Montpellier
and then I studied at the Sorbonne for a year.
Then, somehow, I got -
one of my friends put me onto a job in the embassy.
They called me over and they said they needed somebody
to work in the pouch room.
And right above the pouch room it
was the courier office at that time.
And the next thing you know, I'm in the Courier Service.
MR. DONOVAN KLINE: I learned about diplomatic couriers
my last year in college at Kent State University in Ohio.
I saw a little booklet, which had all of the State Department
positions listed therein.
The most interesting one was diplomatic courier,
as far as I was concerned.
Because all I could think about back
then was, before I settled down and got married and all that,
I wanted to get to Europe.
One morning, in the Cleveland Plain Dealer,
I read that the State Department recruiter was in town.
I took off work and I went up town, applied for the job,
and they hired me after an interview there.
MR. KENNETH COOPER: I think I've always had
a desire to travel, go to faraway places
with strange sounding names.
And this just sounded like an exciting job to me.
I was working for General Motors Acceptance Corporation
as a field representative.
It involved sometimes taking -
repossessing people's automobiles
that they couldn't pay for.
And it was work that I thoroughly disliked.
I used to come up to Kansas City for weekends.
And on driving out of town to get back to my territory,
I read the morning paper while having a cup of coffee
on the way and saw that there was a State Department
recruiting team in Kansas City.
So I immediately turned around, went
down to downtown Kansas City - the Hotel Muehlebach--
and met the team.
They were recruiting mostly secretaries and code clerks,
for which I was totally unqualified.
Just as I was leaving, one of the people
said, "You know, you might be a good diplomatic courier."
And I said, "What's that?"
And they explained to me roughly what a diplomatic courier does.
And I said, "That's the job for me."
MR. ERNEST HOHMAN: I was serving in the U.S. military in Frankfurt,
Germany at the 4th Infantry Division headquarters
and a group of us went out to one of the German gasthauses -
restaurants.
As often happens in Germany, you share a table with
somebody else.
And the person that we shared a table with
turned out to be a U.S. diplomatic courier.
I had never heard of a diplomatic courier before.
This fellow talked about himself.
He was very garrulous and told us about his job and so forth
and it sounded intriguing.
When I left the military, there was an article
in the Reader's Digest about the Diplomatic Courier Service,
and it was about Frank Irwin,
and he was on a diplomatic courier trip.
I believe he was coming on a Yugoslavian airlines flight
and it crashed in Vienna.
And it showed his devotion to the job.
In spite of injuries and so on, he held on
to the diplomatic pouch.
So I thought I'd make an application
at the State Department for this particular job.
It sounded, as I said, fascinating,
and I liked the idea of travel.
The qualifications at that time were that you had to be a male,
you had to be age -
25 to 31 years of age, you had to be unmarried,
you had to pass a physical examination, you -
they also had preferred that you had completed your military
obligation and that you had a writing skill -
a typewriting skill -
of 25 to 35 words a minute, and so on.
And I passed the physical examination,
but then they sent me to Hollywood
to see a psychiatrist.
And this was the tail end of the McCarthy era,
and I was to be psychologically analyzed.
The turn of events was really surprising to me
because it went about my sexual orientation
and what I thought about homosexuals.
They feared this was an area of compromise,
because we knew that the Soviets were using this here
as a means of blackballing individuals,
and also in terms of getting information from individuals.
Among ourselves in groups, we were
opposed to the so-called witch hunts that
were taking place with McCarthy and felt it was improper.
MR. OLIVARES: I think most of us felt, generally,
that he was a bit of a nut.
The man was - was just going too darn far.
MR. COOPER: I got word that there was a State Department
chap who wanted to talk to me.
And we had a nice chat about this, that, one thing
and another.
And almost as a parting shot, he said, "By the way,
what do you think of Senator McCarthy?"
[SIGHS]
Well, I told him what I thought of Senator McCarthy,
and in no uncertain terms.
And I thought, well, that's the end of my State Department
career.
But about three or four weeks later
that I got a message to report for duty at the State
Department.
So that's how it all began. [LAUGHS]
MR. HOHMAN: I applied and was accepted, came to Washington.
I remember my parents taking me to the airport in Los Angeles.
And it was a TWA red-eye flight going to Washington.
And across the aisle from me was Senator Kennedy,
the representative from Massachusetts.
I told him I was getting a job with the U.S. State Department
and he said, "Good luck."
He said, "I wish you well."
And that was my first experience of meeting Jack Kennedy.
MR. VERREOS: Washington, for me, was a brand new world.
General Eisenhower was now President Eisenhower
and was opening his administration.
Coming from the hinterlands, from St. Louis,
I was very much impressed by the monuments -
the Washington Monument, the Lincoln Memorial, the Jefferson
Memorial.
Frankly, to tell you the truth, they
made me feel proud to be an American.
And I've never really lost that.
MR. OLIVARES: Being in the capital
of the most powerful country on earth at the time,
to be part of all that was quite exciting, I thought.
Incidentally, at the time, I remember
they used to tell me that the British considered Washington
as a hardship post.
Overseas we had hardship posts for various places,
where it was difficult because of the climate
or political situation.
But the British considered our country -
we thought it was all on top of everything - to be a hardship.
But I think it was because the hot and humid climate
in Washington, which everybody there took for granted,
of course.
MR. HOHMAN: I had made arrangements
to stay at the YMCA, which was close by to the State
Department.
And the State Department office,
the courier office, were these temporary buildings
along the Mall, which had been erected during the First World
War and were going to be demolished.
But then came the Second World War.
They were not demolished.
Again, they were ready to demolish them.
And they said, no, we need them for the Korean War,
This was before or in the process of building
the new State, the Truman Building.
And I remember around 5 o'clock, when all these buildings
suddenly sort of came alive. People spilled out
of the buildings and going to the buses and trains and so on.
I said, jeez, I'm going to be part of this lifestyle, too.
It was fascinating.
And I really appreciated the beauty of the place.
This was a springtime.
It was in April and things were in flower.
It was an exciting time.
So we had an orientation.
And as it turned out, part of my orientation with the Diplomatic
Courier Service was with Frank Irwin.
And he's the very one I had read about.
So he really was my hero.
MR. KLINE: I checked in at the Department,
started the paperwork, got a bunch of shots.
I remember that.
Oh man, do I remember that.
And Frank Irwin was working there at the time.
And he was the courier that had went down
in the plane crash in the Vienna Woods the prior fall.
He was recuperating, and that's the first time I met him.
He turned out to be a great guy, real nice guy.
I served with him later.
MS. DUNN: I was on the train all night.
And I came into Union Station.
And I remember walking out and looking at the Capitol.
I was so impressed.
Here I am in Washington!
I took a taxi down to the personnel office,
where Mr. Wills checked me in.
And I paid $2
for my passport picture, and raised my right hand
and I was sworn in.
That very day.
When I first went into the offices,
on one wall was Africa, over here, and over here
was a map of the Philippines.
And he picked up my folder and he said, "Now, Rosemary, you're
going to Manila in the Philippines."
And I thought, now let me see, that's -
I knew it was beyond Hawaii. [LAUGHS]
MR. VERREOS: The basic training for couriers
was out of Washington.
And I met all these kids, young people
from different parts of the United States
with different backgrounds.
And, man, it was a brand new life to me,
and it was a lot of fun, especially taking me out
to seafood places.
I mean, in St. Louis in the 1930s when I grew up,
and in the 40s, seafood was a delicacy in St. Louis.
I ate my first oyster when I went to Washington.
By golly, I liked it.
And I found out, fortunately, I liked
a lot of those things, which made my life very interesting.
And being a courier gave me an opportunity
to explore all the unknowns.
And believe me, I did my best to explore as much as I could.
The courier office in Washington served
all of North and South America.
So our first trips were primarily
down through the Caribbean and Central
America and South America.
And when a vacancy would occur at one of the other two
offices - which at that time were a regional courier
office in Frankfurt and another regional courier office
was in Manila - we,
the new couriers, would be assigned accordingly.
I took my training period in North and South America,
moving the pouch, dragging the bag.
And then I was assigned to Manila
which covered the South Pacific and Southeast Asia, including
a trunk trip that ran from Manila to Hong Kong,
where we picked up Pan Am's round-the-world flight
from Hong Kong to London.
And we were on that airplane for 54 hours.
By the time we got to London, boy, your head was rattling.
This is all in pre-jet days. However,
this was the best time, actually,
I think, in the courier service, was
the pre-jet days, because airplanes could only
fly so fast.
And in those days, there was a limited amount
of traffic anywhere in the world.
So we would be able -
as a courier, you would arrive at a particular destination.
Sometimes, in order to get your next flight,
you had to wait two or three days.
So you had two or three days to see
that city, which might be Singapore or Bangkok
or Calcutta.
MR. OLIVARES: In those days, we didn't have jets,
so I think we stayed in places much longer than the people do
nowadays with jets.
So we'd always have a couple of days in a place.
Most of us that travelled in the 50s,
we were still on the old pistons -
DC-6s, Constellations, and all that.
First class was in the back of the aircraft.
And the reason for that is the engines created quite a bit
of noise.
You wanted to get as far back as possible where it'd be quiet.
So that's where first class was.
And it also was, we found out from various experience
from other couriers and other people
that the safest part of the aircraft is in the tail.
MR. HOHMAN: The propeller age was rather interesting, too,
because we had a unique group of airlines that were flying.
Some of them had archaic aircraft.
In Latin America, we had the Ford Trimotor.
But then you got into more modern ones.
One of the nicer ones, I thought,
was the "Connie" Constellation, which I believe
was designed by Howard Hughes.
When the Jet Age came in, it was a smoother ride
because you were flying above the weather, and a quicker
ride, too.
The job became more difficult, in a sense.
Jet airplanes could carry a larger load.
And then, of course, there were political considerations, too,
and things that normally would have gone by air or by ship
suddenly became important for us to have
them accompanied by couriers.
A simple case was typewriters.
We found out that the Russians were
able to eavesdrop on our electric typewriters.
They were able to pick up every stroke.
So, suddenly, these typewriters became encased
and they had to be courier-moved,
where before they went by sea or by air, unaccompanied.
MR. VERREOS: We were supplying a very essential element
of communications by providing the secure transport
of our classified information and classified materials
to various parts of the world.
When you got into a dilemma, a delay, whether it was weather
or the aircraft broke down and would
have to wait two days to get a part in to fix it,
you had to know what the general courier schedules were
in your area in order to keep the various courier
routes moving.
It wasn't just, hey, happy go lucky,
I got a pouch, deliver it there and I go out and have
a martini or something.
MR. OLIVARES: So you're representing the U.S.
Government, you're carrying their secrets around,
you're traveling on a diplomatic passport.
People made space for the diplomatic courier.
You were treated specially for it.
You're working for the most prominent country
in the world at the time and doing an official job for them.
And just take care of those bags is about it, you know.
It's simple enough.
MR. KLINE: My very first trip was a paired trip,
just to get your legs.
Jack Grover, a very senior courier at that point,
and the most famous courier at that point,
took me on my initial trip.
We flew up to Brussels for an overnight stay.
After that, I was on my own for the rest
of the 325 trips that followed.
It was over one million eight hundred
and some thousand miles,
official miles, courier miles.
Not counting what I did on my own.
MR. CELLA: My first courier trip
was paired, because that's what they usually
do with a first courier.
They used to go behind the Iron Curtain, first trip.
Started out on a train trip to Basel
and then it ended up in Zurich.
Couldn't get into Prague out of most cities,
so we got in out of Zurich.
We were sitting at the little place
where you eat in the Zurich airport.
In those days everything was little.
And who sits next to us but our Ambassador
to Prague, to Czechoslovakia.
His job, beside being Ambassador,
was being our negotiator with China.
So he would go out to Geneva, like, once
a month to meet with the Chinese.
We were sitting there, we had the one pouch in between us.
He said, "Are you the American couriers?"
I said, "Yes."
And he said, "Do you mind telling the people in Prague
that I'll be in later?
I got bumped off this flight."
We felt so - here the ambassador's bumped
and we're - and we're going in, right? [LAUGHS]
But he was such a nice guy.
I remember we came in with the pouches another time
and he was right there waiting to open up,
maybe to get his own mail or something.
Really a smart guy.
MR. COOPER: It was my one and only trip to Latin America.
That was sort of my introduction, really.
Started out going through the Caribbean, two or three
of the island posts, and then on to Rio de Janeiro,
then to Buenos Aires.
And I was supposed to go from Buenos Aires over to Santiago.
But there was a storm in the Andes and they
had to cancel all the flights
so I didn't make that part of it.
Came back to Rio and went across the top
to Central America, Mexico City, and back to Washington
from there.
It's a 30-day trip.
Got back to Washington, and
after my little brief South American sojourn,
I was off to Manila and spent the next two years
traveling in the Far East, with the occasional trip
into Europe.
MS. DUNN: I arrived in Manila on the 2nd of January, 1950.
And I thought, what have I gotten myself into?
When I saw these sunken ships in the harbor, ugh, I thought,
what is this?
Bombed out wharfs?
Well, it didn't take long
and you get kind of used to it.
And we lived right on the bay in a Quonset hut,
very close to the embassy.
You could see people coming and going from the entrance.
Most of the single people lived on the compound,
the couriers, the code clerks.
Of course, the marine guards were there, too.
It was quite a young group.
MR. VERREOS: In Washington, there
wasn't much sense of camaraderie, as such.
But now I get out to Manila,
the couriers there were a group.
We were something apart. We weren't -
we were uniquely different from everybody else in the embassy.
And the embassy treated us that way, on a friendly basis.
Not that we were standoffish, but, like, "Couriers!
The courier's here!"
Having - especially the girls, the secretaries and other
positions,
a courier asking them out for a date got -
boy, that went around the grapevine real fast.
Who is dating who?
And a courier, on his time off, had no particular executive
or office functions, other than to type up his trip report
and put in his claim for his per diem and his expenses.
And once he did that, after that, it was,
let's have a party or go bar-hopping.
And the only people who could do that
weren't the personnel in the embassy.
They had to work from 9:00 to 5:00.
We were free.
And we were the source of party for the singles
in the embassy at Manila.
And we also had a lot of Filipino friends.
MR. COOPER: Manila itself was kind of fun.
Of course, I guess, being out on the road alone
all this time, we looked for collegial companionship.
And it was good for us, because we all
compared notes about what we encountered
in our travels.
MS. DUNN: I was the secretary.
And when I first got there, we had about seven couriers.
So I'd to go to Pan American, get their tickets.
Did their ticketing.
Did schedules, airline schedules.
Did the correspondence.
I suppose my most important was ordering
San Miguel beer for them when they went on a trip.
That was - they'd just leave their orders with me
because they were gone for weeks at a time.
It was great fun.
I loved it.
I really did.
It was - there was something going on all the time.
And I must say, I was the most popular girl in the embassy,
because I had the schedule of when the couriers were
going to be in.
So I always got an invitation, which was pretty nice.
We were close.
We hung together.
Between the Quonsets on Saturday morning they'd
all come out, everybody in the Quonsets all around.
That's where we used to wash our hair,
because we didn't have hot water.
We just used the hose.
And, see, we had that lovely room
in the embassy that, you know, faces the water.
So that was just perfect for dances
and for these costume affairs.
And then we put on My Fair Lady and they all
came in costume for that.
We were big on that.
Yes, there was a - there was a party every other night
somewhere.
It was a big party town.
But, as I said, we didn't have the hot water,
we didn't have ovens.
And we didn't have windows.
And you slept under mosquito netting.
But it was fun.
MR. VERREOS: That same camaraderie that we had as a group,
we had in Frankfurt as we did out in Manila.
In Frankfurt, all of the American Government personnel,
whether they were military or State Department
or Agriculture, whatever, were in one large area.
We had well over 50 couriers and there was always
8 or 10 or 12 of them in town at any one time.
And on a Saturday or Sunday, we would
barbecue our sausages and stuff in the so-called backyard.
MR. CELLA: When I first went there in the military,
there was still a lot of rubble around.
'51 it was still - god, walking around Nuremberg,
it was just a mess.
But I went back later as a courier, things
were a lot better already.
A lot of Mercedes driving around with silver-haired Germans
at the wheel, the captains of industry, the economic miracle.
When we started out, we were only about 15 or 16
because it was just Europe, including
Eastern Europe and a couple of points in North Africa, Israel
and Libya and Turkey.
And then the rest of that area was covered out of Cairo.
Finally, after the Suez War, Frankfurt
covered then all of Europe, Africa, and the Middle East.
There was good camaraderie.
And it was fostered mainly by the Iron Curtain
trips that were always paired.
So you got to know the couriers a lot,
because you traveled with them.
And then you had details in about four or five places -
Helsinki, Madrid, Rome, Athens -
where you would be with another courier.
Then a third courier would be coming down to deliver stuff.
So you got to know all of the couriers that
were stationed there.
MR. KLINE: We used to take a military train from Frankfurt,
through East Germany, up to Berlin, to the English zone.
There were four zones: English, French, U.S., and Russian.
And the English had an air base in their zone.
We would go over there and get aboard an RAF World War II
Lancaster bomber which had been reconditioned as a cargo plane.
We would take off from there to fly to Warsaw.
The Russians gave us clearance through
a 15-mile-wide corridor, left to right.
A narrow, well, relatively narrow corridor in the air.
One of those days that I took off on that flight, the weather
was absolutely terrible.
Cloudy, rainy, really bad flying weather.
And somehow or other, we drifted out of the corridor.
And I was looking out the left side of the plane.
And, all of a sudden, there was a Russian MiG-15
on our wing tip.
And he was so close I could see his face.
And it scared the daylights out of me,
because I thought he was going to shoot us down
after he took a good look.
Because the Russians had been known
to shoot down American military planes along the van
route between Turkey and Russia.
The van route - we used to have spy planes
flew right alongside of it, which
would listen in on radio transmissions coming out
of Russia.
And that's what I was thinking about
on this particular flight, whether they're
going to shoot us down or not. [LAUGHS]
They let us go.
And I landed in Warsaw and turned around and
came right back out.
Had no problem on the way out.
Still bad weather, but we stayed in our corridor.
MR. VERREOS: I'd say probably the favorite trip for all
the couriers was the one from Manila to Hong Kong to London,
because in London we got three and a half days' break, and we got
to go to the London theaters and see everything.
I mean, London was London.
I mean, that's like going to New York City.
The fact that it was a tough trip getting up to London
was nothing.
The most interesting travel that I had was while I was in Manila
and detailed
to Karachi which, at that time,
was the capital of Pakistan.
And Karachi is where we served Afghanistan.
We would take the train from Karachi to Peshawar.
And the embassy in Kabul would send down
their vehicle and driver.
And then from Peshawar, we would go through the Khyber Pass
to go into Afghanistan.
And believe me, that was the most interesting trip
in the world.
MR. COOPER: The other part of the Far East assignment
that was interesting and exciting
was our trips to South Vietnam.
This was prior to Dien Bien Phu.
We still had a consulate operating in Hanoi,
so we used to have a bag to carry up to them
all the time, up through Haiphong, all the way up
to Hanoi and back.
Every place I went was, of course, different.
It was a different adventure.
How do you-- I don't know how I'd rank them.
I love the food in Spain, the food in Paris. [LAUGHS]
Maybe a trip to Paris, Madrid, Lisbon, and back would be -
would be pretty hard to beat, too. [LAUGHS]
MR. OLIVARES: Paris, at one time, was my favorite city.
I didn't think I could live without Paris.
And when I left Paris, I was almost in tears.
I didn't want to leave.
Even Frankfurt became familiar to me
and I didn't like leaving Frankfurt.
Although I loved the Rome detail.
We'd take the train up to Bologna and to Venice
and then to Trieste.
And we did exchanges through the window.
People from the consulate would come out.
And then from Trieste we went to Milan,
to Turin, and then to Genoa.
And that part I liked.
Going back to Rome, you went along the Italian Riviera.
And I remember having pasta on the train
and looking out the window, the beautiful scenery down below,
the Mediterranean and all those colorful towns.
Living high on the hog, I thought.
MR. COOPER: I had a lot of fun in the courier service.
It was something I took great pride in.
MR. VERREOS: After carrying the bag now for about eight years,
I got tired being married to a suitcase
and I decided I'd like to maybe fly a desk,
rather than fly an airplane.
So I decided to take the Foreign Service Officer's examination
and was commissioned by President Eisenhower
as a Foreign Service Officer.
My first assignment outside of the courier service
was as vice-consul at our embassy in Mexico City.
MR. OLIVARES: In those days, most of the guys
did get out after one or two tours.
I wasn't disillusioned with the courier service,
but I was getting a little tired -
and I think quite a few us were -
of traveling on airplanes.
And a lot of us were thinking, you know, planes do crash,
and there have been a few casualties,
and we had several couriers who've been in crashes -
Frank Irwin in Vienna.
MR. HOHMAN: It was a good lifestyle.
I have no regrets at all.
Actually, initially, I was only going to stay in a short while.
Yeah, see, the first tour was in Frankfurt, Germany.
And I saw the area there.
And I said, oh, I'll go for another tour.
And it was in Manila, Asia, and Southeast Asia.
So I went on to Panama.
I remember one time we were here in Washington, a group of us,
and we were at a restaurant.
And we were talking about our various travels and so,
and what we'd been seeing.
And all these foreign places, the names
were just spilling out.
And a man at an adjoining table, he got up and he said,
"I've been eavesdropping with you guys."
And he said, "You're the biggest group of BSers
I've ever heard about.
I can't believe a word you said."
And he walked off.
[LAUGHS]
We were proud of what we were doing.
We thought it was important what we were
doing for the U.S. Government.
I really enjoyed every moment of it.
I miss the travel, the unique places I went to,
and the people.
It was an erudite group of individuals,
aside from the very fact that, you know -
that we were doing government work.
Government work in the air, so to speak.
MR. KLINE: Seeing the world, and getting paid to do it,
was just -
I mean, how much better can it get? [LAUGHS]
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Cartoon - Dreams Comes True Be Virtue of Thouse Who Support Us | AmoMama - Duration: 2:20.Every dream needs a bunny
Sally lost her parents when she was very young
Her only dear soul was her grandmother
Grandmother became Sally's best friend
Soon, there were three of them
Sally loved to perform dance numbers with the bunny for her grandmother
Grandmother decided to sign Sally up for ballet classes
That was both the happiest and saddest day in the girl's life!
Sally had to give up things she loved the most
She cried every night before going to sleep
However, those who believed in her bream were always around
Soon, Sally's eagerness was noticed and she received an invitation from a well-known ballet school
It was the first time Sally parted with her closest ones
At the news school, nobody took as much delight in her achievements
Quite soon, Sally got the main part in her troupe's performance
Sally rehearsed days and nights
However, several other girls decided to ruin her performance
Sally got really upset, when she discovered whay hepprned to her costume
Her heart was about to explode! She made the first step and fell.
Suddenly, somebody threw a plush bunny on the stage
Sally plucked up her courage and started dancing
It was an amazing performance. The audience broke into applause!
However, the happiest member of the audience was Sally's Grandmother.
Dreams come true by virtue of thouse who support us!
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U.S. Commander Says 5,200 troops to the Southern Border "Just the Start" - Duration: 3:42.The Trump administration is responding to the Central American caravan heading towards
the U.S. southern border by sending 5,200 military personnel to protect the United States.
Homeland Security and Pentagon officials said that the soldiers would focus on helping secure
key points of entry into the United States.
The deployment has been named 'Operation Faithful Patriot.'
According to a new report, a U.S. commander says the "5,200 troops" is just the beginning
of the operation and more troops will follow.
From Washington Examiner
SHOW OF FORCE: U.S. Northern Commander Air Force Gen. Terrence O'Shaughnessy is tackling
his mission to use the military to harden the southern border with gusto.
"We know border security is national security," he told reporters at a news conference yesterday,
in which he announced that 800 soldiers from Fort Campbell, Ky., are already en route to
Texas.
By week's end they will be joined by thousands more, not just in Texas, but also in Arizona
and California.
"By the end of this week, we will deploy over 5,200 soldiers to the southwest border.
That is just the start of this operation.
We'll continue to adjust the numbers and inform you of those," O'Shaughnessy said.
THE MISSION: The active-duty troops have two main objectives: Reinforce infrastructure,
such as security barriers at 26 designated ports of entry, and help seal gaps in the
border between the crossing points where immigrants may try to cross illegally.
But the responsibility for border security will remain with U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
"Our first level of effort with CBP will be to harden the points of entry and address
key gaps in areas around the points of entry," O'Shaughnessy said.
CBP Commissioner Kevin McAleenan disputed the idea that the deployment of thousands
of troops was a political ploy in advance of the midterms elections.
"No, this is a law enforcement operation from CBP's perspective and we partner with
DOD all the time to help secure our border," McAleenan said.
WHAT THE MILITARY BRINGS: Combat engineers to build things, such as barriers, walls,
fencing and tent cities.
"We have enough concertina wire to cover up to 22 miles, already deployed to the border.
We have additional concertina wire that we can string, with over 150 miles available,"
O'Shaughnessy said.
Helicopters to surveil the border, and quickly transport special operations Border Patrol
Tactical Units to austere locations where they can fast-rope down to the ground if needed.
And medical units to treat both border protection agents and immigrants.
WHAT'S THE THREAT?
The border patrol is concerned about being overwhelmed due to the sheer number of asylum
seekers, even if they try to enter through a designated border crossing.
"We've got to be prepared for the potential arrival of a very large group," McAleenan
said.
"What we saw when this group crossed the Honduras-Guatemala borders, they did it very
forcefully.
They pushed past the Guatemalan security forces.
Even more risky was on the Guatemala-Mexico border, where it was a combination, of you
know, near-rioting on the bridge and then crossing illegally."
The CBP says there are now two groups in Mexico each numbering more than 3,000.
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Illegal Invaders Just Got Massive Gift To Help Them Get To US – Who Paid For This?! - Duration: 2:50.This is quite disturbing.
Thankfully we have a President who will protect the border.
Remember this when voting this election.
From The Gateway Pundit:
FOX News reporter Griff Jenkins is traveling with one of the illegal immigrant caravans
on its way to the US.
Caravan Organizers are seen loading illegal immigrants on buses to take them to their
next stop on their way to the United States.
There are currently FOUR DIFFERENT CARAVANS working their way to the southern US border
through Central America and Mexico.
Meanwhile, as we previously reported, these so-called "migrants" are not actually
"refugees" as the left likes to call them since they are refusing multiple residential
settlement options.
So what's their real motive here?
Denver 7 News is now reporting that members of the soon to be illegal alien caravan have
rejected an offer from Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto to settle in Mexico.
The thousands of illegal aliens within the group have instead decided to continue their
trip towards the United States which is very interesting since Peña Nieto's offer would
actually put the migrants into two Mexican states.
Where they would be offered temporary work permits, medical care, shelter, and even schooling.
But not welfare!
Here is more via The AP:
"Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto has announced what he called the "You are at
home" plan, offering shelter, medical attention, schooling and jobs to Central Americans in
Chiapas and Oaxaca states if migrants apply, calling it a first step toward permanent refugee
status.
Authorities said more than 1,700 had already applied for refugee status.
But a standoff unfolded as federal police officers blocked the highway, saying there
was an operation underway to stop the caravan.
Thousands of migrants waited to advance, vowing to continue their long trek toward the U.S.
border.
At a meeting brokered by Mexico's National Human Rights Commission, police said they
would reopen the highway and only wanted an opportunity for federal authorities to explain
the proposal to migrants who had rejected it the previous evening.
Migrants countered that the middle of a highway was no place to negotiate and said they wanted
to at least arrive safely to Mexico City to discuss the topic with authorities and Mexican
lawmakers
They agreed to relay information back to their respective sides and said they would reconvene.
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U.S. Diplomatic Couriers - Behind the Iron Curtain - Duration: 23:33.NARRATOR: In 1918, the Diplomatic Courier Service
was established to support the work of American diplomats
by ensuring that classified messages and materials were
delivered safely and securely to U.S. embassies and consulates
around the world.
Over the 100 year history of the Courier Service,
this mission, critical to the national security of the United
States, has not changed.
In the 1950s, before the onset of the jet age,
this small group of couriers traveled tens of thousands
of miles per year, often spending months on the road.
Following World War II, as tensions between former allies
grew into the Cold War and the Soviets consolidated power
on their Western border, it became increasingly
difficult to reach our posts behind what became
known as the Iron Curtain.
Because of a continued mutual respect
for international conventions on diplomatic relations,
even during these complicated times,
diplomatic couriers were among the few still able
to travel across these borders.
Each week, they took the Orient Express from Vienna
to reach Budapest and Bucharest.
MR. JAMES VERREOS: Oh, the Orient Express.
That was, of course, a fabled train ride.
We never got to ride it all the way to Constantinople
or Istanbul, but we would pick it up in Vienna
and ride it in from Vienna to Budapest to Bucharest.
Then we would turn around and come back out.
Sometimes inside Europe, we'd take train travel
because it was more effective and quicker
than trying to take an airplane, especially when we
were providing service to the Iron Curtain countries, which
required two couriers to be on a trip for security reasons.
We were carrying classified material.
Top secret wasn't always something that was written.
In those days before the technology we have today,
we had to have code machines,
equipment that was highly classified.
Outside of the Iron Curtain you traveled solo.
For example, when delivering the pouches
to Southeast Asia or Africa or South America,
the courier went out on trips solo.
However, trips to the Iron Curtain,
we were always in pairs so that there was no possibility
that the couriers would be unable to have
control of their pouches.
MR. KENNETH COOPER: I think I've got the history right.
The reason we'd make paired trips behind the Curtain
goes back to immediate post-war.
An American courier fell off the train, and he was killed,
and his pouch disappeared for a while.
And there was, I think, a little suspicion
that this was not an accident.
Henceforth, the Americans decided
it would be a paired trip, and I think the British did the same.
MR. DONOVAN KLINE: You had to have somebody with the pouches
at all times.
We'd get out and walk up and down
the aisle in the Wagon-Lits, but that was as far as we ventured.
On the same sleeping cars, there were other couriers
from other nations -
Italian, French, Russians.
When they were outside of Russia,
they traveled paired, just like we did
behind the Iron Curtain.
That's one of the things about the Russians.
They wanted the same treatment in the West
that we were given behind the Iron Curtain, which
was decent for the most part.
MR. PHILIP OLIVARES: Well, your job
was to take care of those pouches.
I don't think we ever felt that somebody was threatening
us or trying to try to steal them,
but we always have to assume that.
In fact, I remember Jim Vandivier
and I got off the train with our pouches.
There was quite a load.
We pulled over one of these baggage cars
that was already half loaded, the porter said,
and there were Russian pouches on that.
There were two Russian couriers.
So here were the four of us.
He's got the pouches, watching our own bags.
There was only one baggage cart.
We tried to get a separate one, but they said no,
and that was it.
I thought how ironic -
the four of us in this situation.
We were stationed in Vienna.
There were two of us then.
Monday we would go into Budapest
and spend the night, and then the next day on to Bucharest.
MR. COOPER: Vienna itself was a lot of fun, and
so was Budapest. Except for the brief hiatus in Bucharest,
which was dull as dishwater,
the rest of it was fun.
MR. ERNEST HOHMAN: We used the Arlberg Orient
Express, which came out of Paris
but we picked it up in Vienna.
It's just a delightful city.
It showed the grandeur that it had
as part of the Austro-Hungarian empire,
even though it was somewhat damaged from
the rubble after the war.
[MUSIC - JOHANN STRAUSS - "THE BLUE DANUBE"]
The Austrians - one of the first things they thought
was important to rebuild was the Opera House.
And now to see the change, the transformation,
the rebuilding that was going on there.
Loved going to the opera.
Of course, the Danube is not blue.
It's only in the eyes of a poet and a composer.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
[VOCALIZING]
MR. KLINE: I attended my first and only opera, sung in German,
which I did not understand, and as a result never went
to another opera in my life.
[LAUGHS]
We did a lot of eating and a lot of sightseeing.
All of us did, because it was a fantastic city.
I repeated that Vienna detail several times
thereafter in later years.
It was always enjoyable for me because we got out
of the air for a while.
It was restful. On those trains
all we did was sleep, eat, and play
chess or pinochle or something like that.
MR. VINCENT CELLA: The courier would come down from Frankfurt
every week or twice a week to give us the stuff to take in.
Then we'd go shopping to get our food to take on the train,
made sure we had enough wine or scotch and reading material,
cards, et cetera.
And we'd leave at night from the West Bahnhof in Vienna
and made one stop,
I guess it's called the North Bahnhof.
And then into the border, which on the Austrian side
is Nickelsdorf.
And it would stay there for some long time.
So, even though Vienna is not that far from Budapest,
it was an overnight trip.
MR. VERREOS: The train, the Orient Express,
would set up a single sleeper car
for the diplomatic couriers.
That would be the British, the Queen's Messenger,
King's Messenger, the Italians, whoever -
any courier from any nation that was making a trip
would be on that train.
MR. HOHMAN: The other people in the sleeping compartments,
they were all diplomatic couriers
from various countries.
There were Italians and the British and the French,
also, because the air travel was not possible, particularly
during the winter months there.
We usually dressed rather casually at that point.
And the Italians would dress in their silk pajamas or a silk
robe and so on.
The English, which were the Queen's Messengers,
they were great storytellers,
raconteurs, and had fantastic tales to tell.
MR. COOPER: The Queen's Messenger was usually
a very senior officer,
an army officer or a military officer
or sometimes civil servant.
They traveled in pairs also, but their junior courier
was usually a retired policeman, so there
was a very distinct difference in rank.
So when the Queen's Messenger had his dinner,
the number two courier would lay out
a white tablecloth in his compartment
and proceed to serve him his meal.
We got a kick out of that.
MR. OLIVARES: The primary car for us was the old
Wagon-Lits Cook.
They handled all the sleeping cars.
The first class car was practically all couriers.
There was a dining car next to it, but the food was awful.
We had to cook our own food, so we all
carried a little alcohol stove we'd set up in the sleeping
compartment and we'd cook on that.
MR. VERREOS: The ride in would leave early in the evening,
and we would have dinner while we were on the train.
We had developed an international society of couriers,
and we'd set it up in advance so that the couriers
from this country would bring in an entree, the couriers
from the other country would bring in the salad, who
would bring in the dessert, who would bring in the wine,
and what have you.
And we would just merely leave notes
so that next week's couriers - we didn't know who they'd be,
but you'd get into Vienna and say, hey, it's this week,
I would say, well, if Ken and I were on a trip,
we got the note at the embassy
we were supposed to provide the wine.
We knew there'd be x number of couriers on board,
and we'd bring that much on.
Coming out was totally different.
The train left Bucharest near midnight,
so everybody was sacked in, and it was dawn
by the time you arrived in Vienna.
MR. CELLA: We slept in one compartment
on that portion of that trip.
Then it would cross into Hungary,
and that town was called Hegyeshalom.
After they stopped there for a long time,
we'd go into Budapest, and we'd arrive there in the morning.
MR. KLINE: We'd get off the train
and have a full 24 hour period in Budapest
where we could shop, look around.
And the parliament building there
was magnificent, especially from across the river where
you could see it so plainly.
MR. HOHMAN: It was an interesting city.
It was still showing war damage.
The bridge across the Danube River was destroyed.
It was laying there in the river itself.
But, you see, it had a glamor to it
yet, and it was trying to restore that.
And it was an exciting and interesting city
with a bit of the schmaltz that you had in Vienna,
Austria too, with evening dinners that were excellent
and violin music to go with it.
MR. COOPER: We'd have a layover sometimes, a day
or so in Budapest, which was fun.
It was still a lively city, and it was before the revolution.
MR. OLIVARES: Budapest itself -
I loved the city.
A lot of people consider it the Paris of Eastern Europe.
It still had some damage though, from World War II,
actually.
And then after the revolution, of course,
it really got torn apart.
In spite of communism and all the restrictions
they imposed on their society, they
were a really fun loving people.
I remember going to a nightclub and seeing the people dancing
and having a ball, and I thought, this can't be.
Everywhere else usually is so drab, like Moscow itself.
To see those people enjoying themselves and having fun,
they were a fun people.
MR. VERREOS: Hungary was the nicest place in the Iron
Curtain for couriers.
Even though you were always under surveillance
by the local KGB -
they were called AVOs in Hungary -
they were less intrusive than they were in Moscow.
MR. CELLA: We spent the whole day and the night
at the Hotel Duna, which was really a nice hotel
right on the Danube.
They had a nice restaurant, a little nice bar, and there
was a guy there that we used to refer to as AVO Joe,
and he would always befriend the couriers.
And we were sure that he were being paid by the AVO
just to keep an eye on the couriers,
but we all sort of liked the guy.
He was helpful, a funny old guy.
And you enjoyed walking around Budapest,
even though it was still pretty well shot
because of the revolution.
In fact, they did more damage, I think, during that time
than they did during the war.
What I always understood was that the Russian troops didn't want
to fight against the Hungarians, and the AVO
were tougher on the Hungarian citizens
than the Russian soldiers.
The revolution started right in front of the Hotel Duna,
and the two couriers were stuck in there for about a week.
They were Woody Vest and Phil Olivares.
MR. OLIVARES: We got off at the station.
We went to the Duna Hotel.
The Duna is the word for the Danube, of course.
It was right on the river.
It was quite a hotel.
It's an old fashioned hotel with the high ceilings and all that.
We liked the place.
And I remember Woody Vest and I, we went to see the opera.
They were doing "Eugene Onegin."
We came back from the theater, and then
we got into the elevator, and we heard
some noise and such about.
We thought something's going on around town.
I think we heard a shot or two, if I'm not mistaken.
But I remember -
and in the elevator was the New York Times correspondent
and his wife.
And we said, well,
we asked him,
I said, "You know, what's going on?"
He said, "Oh, it seems to be a minor thing" and all that.
Well, [CHUCKLES] we went up to our rooms.
The next morning, we got a call from the Legation
saying, "Stay put.
You're not going anyplace.
Everything is closing down.
We're in the beginning of an insurrection."
And that's when it started.
And the shooting starts.
And we just stayed put a couple of days.
There was British couriers in there as well.
There was some shooting.
I think I walked out to see what was going on at one point.
I walked a few feet, and I heard bullets whizzing by my ear,
and I said, I better get back into the hotel.
And then I realized it was really bad.
And they even brought in a Russian soldier
who had been hit by a sniper. One of the Hungarian insurgents
was up on the roof.
[GUNFIRE]
The Legation wanted to evacuate most of the personnel.
In fact, most of legations - the British as well.
They put us in Embassy cars with dependents,
and we drove out of Budapest with the flag
flying on the fenders like Ambassadors' cars.
But I remember the people applauding and clapping
when they saw Americans and British flags.
All around them were Russians.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
I remember, even in the hotel, the men behind the desk,
the reception desk, kept saying,
"Where are you Americans?
Why don't you help us?"
They said, "Your Voice of America tells
us to rise up, do something about it,
and now we need your help."
RADIO COMMENTATOR: [SPEAKING HUNGARIAN]
RADIO COMMENTATOR: [SPEAKING HUNGARIAN]
MR. OLIVARES: I felt so embarrassed by all of this,
in a sense.
Why aren't we helping these people?
And I felt a little guilty that we were
like rats leaving this ship.
They were applauding but we're not really
doing anything for them.
We should be doing something for them,
and we should have our tanks in here.
But I know that's not something for me to decide on.
And I always felt a little guilty about that going out.
We're going out to safety, and these people
got to be here and live with the Russians on top of them.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
MR. CELLA: The longest part was when you got on the train
the next morning to Bucharest because that was overnight
from the morning to the next morning.
After going all through the Ploiesti oil fields.
Oh, you see them burning the gas off the top.
It was really something.
Yeah, that was pretty close to the end of the trip because
they were up still in the mountains.
Not long after that, you came down into Bucharest.
You'd get in in the morning, and leave late at night.
So you'd spend the whole day in Bucharest.
For most of the time I was there,
we stayed with the Military Attache, no matter who he was.
MR. KLINE: We would arrive in Bucharest
early in the morning, six o'clock or so,
something like that, and we would
go to the Military Attache's residence.
He provided us with breakfast.
They couldn't get fruits and vegetables and stuff like that.
We would carry oranges into them and give them
oranges or bananas.
The diplomatic colony there,
the Western diplomatic colony,
had a six hole golf course at a club that they had
where they had a bar.
And you could play six holes.
And I did.
I played six holes of golf there more than once.
A place for the Western community
to relax without anybody around spying on them -
and I'm sure there was plenty of that behind the Iron Curtain
at all times.
I don't know whether I was followed.
I wasn't looking for it.
But we were briefed beforehand:
"Don't fraternize.
Don't get caught with any women behind the Iron
Curtain, period."
MR. CELLA: Well, we went out a lot of times
to that diplomatic golf course, especially in the good weather.
We would bring cigarettes and razorblades and instant coffee
to pay for our golf lessons.
And there was a little lake there
where you could go out in a little boat
to help spend the day because it wasn't that long
and we left again that night.
We had to check in and get the pouches
and leave to go back.
MR. COOPER: I found Bucharest a very uninteresting city.
Now they were really behind the Curtain there.
I can't recall having any interaction at all.
For their sake and our sake, it was better not to.
That was my impression.
Perhaps if I were to go back today, I'd be dead wrong.
MR. HOHMAN: Bucharest - yeah.
We had time there too, and it's a poorer country.
It was a dictatorship for quite a while under Ceausescu.
As we well know, the people were really dominated
with the secret police, although the communist elite
led a very gracious and a very luxurious lifestyle.
I found it rather a poor city, by contrast even
with Budapest which still had a glory aspect to it.
MR. CELLA: Going back it was a little different.
We would get some food in Bucharest,
buy bread and buy this and buy that
at these little outlet stores.
You know, you had to stand in line to buy some stuff.
It was depressing, in a way -
for the people, I mean.
As we came back on that trip, we would
leave in the night from Bucharest,
get in the next night into Budapest.
The train would stop in Budapest for quite a long time.
You could see that red star in the foggy night mist.
Not until the next morning we'd end up back in Vienna.
MR. OLIVARES: We'd enjoy those trips.
I think we all did.
I still think it's a more civilized way to travel,
by train.
Train stations were fascinating in those days.
They had all the excitement that airports took on.
I remember in Europe, the railroad stations themselves -
they were big, cavernous affairs, mostly wrought iron
and such.
There was an aura about them all that fascinated me.
I felt so proud to be part of all of that.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
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S. Korea and U.S. to establish new working group on N. Korea nuclear issue - Duration: 2:25.US nuclear envoy Steven vegan left South Korea after spending two full days
meeting with senior officials here in the nation according to a government
source the main agenda of this visit was the establishment of a halt Washington's
working group eg1 tells us more
deputy US State Department spokesperson Robert Palladino announced at Tuesday's
press briefing that South Korea the u.s. have agreed to establish a new working
group the group he said will further strengthen the two countries close
coordination on diplomacy on denuclearization efforts on the
implementation of sanctions there are ways for the two Koreas to
cooperate within the limits of UN sanctions this comes as a u.s. special
representative for North Korea Stephen vegan concludes his 40 trip to Seoul
he's known to have fined two of those details with his South Korean
counterpart Edelen Seoul special representative for korean peninsula
peace and security affairs a senior official at South Korea's foreign
ministry told reporters Tuesday that the working group will be led by the two
nuclear envoys and that it will be launched soon likely in November
many have suspected that the reason such a working group was suddenly formed was
because of a perceived imbalance in the pace of inter-korean ties and
denuclearization talks but the official said that is definitely not the case
establishing the group he said is something that had been discussed over
the past four months and that it's meant to formally set up a system for Seoul in
Washington to consistently talk and continuously work together on the
numerous issues surrounding North Korea us negotiations the main agenda of the
group will be Pyongyang's denuclearization and three other issues
mentioned by the State Department but the official said the agenda could
become more specific and the group could even include officials from other
relevant ministries as it gets rolling the official was asked why be and met
with South Korea's presidential chief of staff in daung huk who is also in charge
of the committee tasked with implementing the two Koreas agreements
he said that began mainly sought to meet various senior South Korean officials to
carefully listen and learn the country stands during his visit bein
met with officials from the presidential office and the ministers of Foreign
Affairs and unification easy one Arirang news
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S. Korea and U.S. to establish new working group on N. Korea nuclear issue - Duration: 2:25.U.S. nuclear envoy Stephen Biegun left South Korea after spending two full days meeting
with senior officials here in the nation.
According to a government source, the main agenda of this visit was the establishment
of Seoul-Washington working group.
Lee Ji-won tells us more.
Deputy U.S. State Department Spokesperson Robert Palladino announced at Tuesday's press
briefing that South Korea and the U.S. have agreed to establish a new working group.
The group, he said, will further strengthen the two countries' close coordination on diplomacy,
on denuclearization efforts, on the implementation of sanctions... and on ways for the two Koreas
to cooperate within the limits of the UN sanctions.
This comes as the U.S. Special Representative for North Korea, Stephen Biegun, concludes
his four day trip to Seoul.
He is known to have fine-tuned those details with his South Korean counterpart, Lee Do-hoon,
Seoul's special representative for Korean Peninsula peace and security affairs.
A senior official at South Korea's foreign ministry told reporters Tuesday that the working
group will be led by the two nuclear envoys... and that it will be launched soon, likely
in November.
Many have suspected that the reason such a working group was suddenly formed was because
of a perceived imbalance in the pace of inter-Korean ties and denuclearization talks, but the official
said that is definitely not the case.
Establishing the group, he said, is something that had been discussed over the past four
months, and that it's meant to formally set up a system for Seoul and Washington to consistently
talk and continuously work together on the numerous issues surrounding North Korea-U.S.
negotiations.
The main agenda of the group will be Pyeongyang's denuclearization and three other issues mentioned
by the State Department.
But the official said the agenda could become more specific, and the group could even include
officials from other relevant ministries as it gets rolling.
The official was asked why Biegun met with South Korea's Presidential Chief of Staff,
Im Jong-seok, who is also in charge of the committee tasked with implementing the two
Koreas' agreements.
He said that Biegun mainly sought to meet various senior South Korean officials to carefully
listen and learn about the country's stance.
During his visit, Biegun met with officials from the presidential office, and the ministers
of foreign affairs and unification.
Lee Ji-won, Arirang News.
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S. Korea and U.S. agree to establish new working group to cooperate on N. Korea's nuclear issue - Duration: 0:37.Meanwhile, South Korea and the U.S. have agreed to establish a new working group on North
Korea issues.
This is one outcome of this week's visit to Seoul by the U.S. Special Representative for
North Korea, Steven Biegun.
The State Department said Tuesday that the group will further strengthen the two allies'
cooperation on diplomacy, denuclearization efforts, the implementation of UN sanctions
and ways for the two Koreas to cooperate under the sanctions.
The working group will be headed by Special Representative Biegun.
The State Department also said Seoul and Washington are coordinating on an almost daily basis.
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