NPR's Audie Cornish talks with Patrick McEachern, a former analyst on North Korea with the State Department, about Kim Yong Chol and the North Korean intelligence operation.
The Trump administration says it will impose a 25 percent tariff on $50 billion of Chinese goods with "industrially significant technology." A list of products will be released in the next few weeks.
The researchers used a technology known as LiDAR to map the city of Jerash. It's helping them understand its past, as a growing modern city encroaches on the well-preserved ancient site.
President Michel Temer apparently conceded to truck drivers' demands. But many truckers remain on strike — and so many Brazilians across the country also remain short of fuel and perishable food.
Students are again occupying universities and workers are protesting an overhaul of the state railway. "The struggle is still the same," says a labor leader. But the protests are on a smaller scale.
President Trump says a North Korean diplomat is bound for New York. It's the latest sign that the on-again-off-again meeting with North Korea's leader maybe on again.
A top North Korean official is traveling to the U.S., indicating talks between Kim Jong Un and President Trump may be back on. Ex-diplomat Joel Wit tells us what the resumption of talks may portend.