Korean Summit Opens With Smiles, Cross-Border Strolls

ERIC TALMADGE / The Associated Press Apr 26, 2018 After a year of tensions, the first North-South Korea summit in more than a decade begins with a handshake between leaders Kim Jong Un and Moon Jae-in. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

North Korea Canceled Meeting With Pence, U.S. Says

JOSH LEDERMAN / The Associated Press Feb 20, 2018 The vice president was set to hold a history-making meeting at the Winter Olympics, says the State Department, which adds, “We regret [North Korea's] failure to seize this opportunity.” Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Can South Korea’s Leader End Trump’s North Korea Crisis?

Gareth Porter / Truthdig Feb 9, 2018 President Moon Jae-in has taken advantage of the Olympics to advance a proposal for a U.S.-North Korean deal. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

Rival Koreas to Form First Unified Olympic Team

HYUNG-JIN KIM / The Associated Press Jan 17, 2018 The agreements still require approval from the International Olympic Committee, but they are prominent steps toward rapprochement. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Kim Jong Un Brags He Has a Nuclear Button on His Desk

ERIC TALMADGE / The Associated Press Dec 31, 2017 “The entire area of the U.S. mainland is within our nuclear strike range. ... The United States can never start a war against me and our country,” the North Korean leader declares. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Wall Street’s Buying the World’s Water Supply at an Alarming Pace

Staff / Truthdig May 31, 2014 "Water barons" may soon own every drop of H2O left on earth; techies may be responsible for women getting pushed out of journalism; meanwhile, no one seems to want to host the 2022 Winter Olympics. These discoveries and more after the jump. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Warmer Winters Will Limit Olympic Snow

By Tim Radford, Climate News Network Mar 23, 2014 By the 2080s, two-thirds of the cities that have hosted the Winter Olympics since 1924 are likely to be too warm to be able to do so again. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Stephen Colbert Spent All Weekend Watching the Sochi Olympics, and Here Are His Only Complaints

Staff / Truthdig Feb 11, 2014 The murky (and possibly deadly) hotel water and the U.S. bobsledder who had to break out of his bathroom are not worthy of the pundit's attention. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Sochi or Christie

Randall Enos, Cagle Cartoons Feb 10, 2014 Dig deeper

Sochi Budget

Pavel Constantin, Cagle Cartoons, Romania Feb 9, 2014 Dig deeper

Sochi Olympic Spirit

Pat Bagley, Cagle Cartoons, Salt Lake Tribune Feb 8, 2014 Dig deeper

Olympic Preparedness

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