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Jimmy Carter, 39th US president, Nobel winner, dies at 100North Korean leader Kim Jong Un vowed to implement the “toughest” anti-U.S. policy, state media reported Sunday, less than a month before Donald Trump takes office as U.S. president. Trump’s return to the White House raises prospects for high-profile diplomacy with North Korea. During his first term, Trump met Kim three times for talks on the North’s nuclear program. Many experts however say a quick resumption of Kim-Trump summitry is unlikely as Trump would first focus on conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East. North Korea’s support for Russia’s war against Ukraine also poses a challenge to efforts to revive diplomacy, experts say. During a five-day plenary meeting of the ruling Workers’ Party that ended Friday, Kim called the U.S. “the most reactionary state that regards anti-communism as its invariable state policy.” Kim said that the U.S.-South Korea-Japan security partnership is expanding into “a nuclear military bloc for aggression.” “This reality clearly shows to which direction we should advance and what we should do and how,” Kim said, according to the official Korean Central News Agency. It said Kim’s speech “clarified the strategy for the toughest anti-U.S. counteraction to be launched aggressively” by North Korea for its long-term national interests and security. KCNA didn’t elaborate on the anti-U.S. strategy. But it said Kim set forth tasks to bolster military capability through defence technology advancements and stressed the need to improve the mental toughness of North Korean soldiers. The previous meetings between Trump and Kim had not only put an end to their exchanges of fiery rhetoric and threats of destruction, but they developed personal connections. Trump once famously said he and Kim “fell in love.” But their talks eventually collapsed in 2019, as they wrangled over U.S.-led sanctions on the North. North Korea has since sharply increased the pace of its weapons testing activities to build more reliable nuclear missiles targeting the U.S. and its allies. The U.S. and South Korea have responded by expanding their military bilateral drills and also trilateral ones involving Japan, drawing strong rebukes from the North, which views such U.S.-led exercises as invasion rehearsals. Further complicating efforts to convince North Korea to abandon its nuclear weapons in return for economic and political benefits is its deepening military co-operation with Russia. According to U.S., Ukrainian and South Korean assessments, North Korea has sent more than 10,000 troops and conventional weapons systems to support Moscow’s war against Ukraine. There are concerns that Russia could give North Korea advanced weapons technology in return, including help to build more powerful nuclear missiles. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said last week that 3,000 North Korean troops have been killed and wounded in the fighting in Russia’s Kursk region. It was the first significant estimate by Ukraine of North Korean casualties since the North Korean troop deployment to Russia began in October. Russia and China, locked in separate disputes with the U.S., have repeatedly blocked U.S.-led pushes to levy more U.N. sanctions on North Korea despite its repeated missile tests in defiance of U.N. Security Council resolutions. Last month, Kim said that his past negotiations with the United States only confirmed Washington’s “unchangeable” hostility toward his country and described his nuclear buildup as the only way to counter external threats.
Photo: Timothy Schafer CUPW members continue with job action outside of the Nelson Post Office. When Sherry answered the door two weeks ago and found a hand delivered income assistance cheque from the province she felt she had won the lottery. Like many affected by the Canada Post job action that stretches across the nation, the Nelson resident was planning for life without the monthly cheque and scrambling to make other arrangements to provide for her and her eight-year-old daughter’s needs in the face of a stalemate in contract negotiations between Canada Post and CUPW. But Ministry of Social Development and Poverty Reduction (SDPR) staff, including community integration specialists, were delivering cheques to vulnerable populations who are unable to sign up for direct deposit or attend an office. “I really don’t know what I would have done if that cheque had not been delivered,” she said, her real name being withheld by request. Like Sherry, thousands of families in Nelson and across B.C. rely on assistance to meet their basic needs, to pay for food and rent each month, but don’t have direct deposit set up to receive the cheques automatically. So when the job action began three weeks ago it put people like Sherry into a bind. Income and disability assistance payments are necessary for many people in the province and cause additional challenges when there are delays, even though the SDPR said 85 per cent of people receive their monthly payments through direct deposit already — which means they received their payments on schedule despite the strike. Last week the B.C. Ombudsperson issued a statement saying it was investigating the province for “ineffective” distribution of income and disability assistance clients during the current Canada Post strike. The Ombudsperson claimed around 40 per cent of the ministry cheques had not been delivered in the Nelson region and across the province — to vulnerable Nelsonites during the Canada Post strike — and began the investigation. But cheques that aren’t being directly deposited are being mailed to the closest ministry or Services B.C. office for pick up. And as of Nov. 30, 98 per cent of the ministry’s November payments have been distributed. The ministry noted there are people who leave the system every month without notifying the ministry — whether they find employment, move to another province, or become deceased — and make up the remaining two per cent of cheques. “This is the normal monthly amount of cheques being distributed every month, considering the regular flow of people in and out of provincial assistance,” the ministry noted in an email to Castanet (Nelson). “For the small amount of the remaining cheques the ministry has attempted to connect with clients to arrange for distribution ... to get assistance cheques to people who cannot use direct deposit, including hand delivery by ministry staff and couriers in some situations.” With no resolution in sight for the contract negotiations, the SDPR said staff are available to help people in need to sign up for direct deposit to avoid any future delays. "The ministry is prepared for the Dec.18 cheque date should there be a need to manually distribute cheques normally delivered by Canada Post,” the ministry spokesperson said. Anyone concerned about not receiving their cheques can contact the ministry at 1-866-866-0800 to discuss options.
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