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Obama has implied that the FTA’s are held up by the GOP but its the unions demanding another half billion in funding for Trade Adjustment Assistance which pays unions for claims that jobs were lost to overseas companies. Solyndra employees are filing for over $14 million in assistance even though the failure of Solyndra has nothing to do with foreign competition. Senator McConnell says that American jobs are more important than Obama appeasing his union allies.

The heaviest snowfall in more than a century on South Korea’s east coast is causing widespread chaos.

“If war breaks out, it will lead to nuclear warfare and not be limited to the Korean peninsula,” it said in a posting dated Thursday.

Republican congressional leaders say they will use a new trade deal with South Korea that President Obama wants to pass, as leverage to move a long-delayed agreement with Colombia.

Charles Krauthammer says its time to offer South Korea and Japan nuclear weapons.

John Bolton on the Korean military conflict and the embarrassing revelation that the Afghan Taliban negotiator was a fraud.

North and South Korea fire artillery shells across their tense western sea border, in one of the most serious clashes since the Korean War in the 1950s.

This coming immediately after the elections in which the Democratic Party lost control of the House of Representatives and its majority in the Senate was reduced considerably, painted a vivid portrait of an administration in trouble.

“The military counteraction of (North Korea) will be the severest punishment no one has ever met in the world,” he said.

North Korea has promised a “physical response” to joint US-South Korean military exercises this weekend. The comments came as Asian foreign ministers met in Vietnam for a regional security forum.