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Asahi Shimbun
16-07-2025
- Politics
- Asahi Shimbun
South Korea summons Japan's defense attache in protest over island claims
A 1:2,000,000 aerial navigation map developed by the U.S. Air Force in 1954, which is kept at the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, shows a dotted line representing the Japan-South Korea border between the Takeshima islets, or Liancourt Rocks, and nearby Ullung-do island. (Provided by the Japan Institute of International Affairs) SEOUL--South Korea's defense ministry summoned Japan's defense attache on Tuesday to protest over an annual white paper published by Tokyo, which made a territorial claim over disputed islands located in the East Sea. Both sides claim longstanding territorial rights over the islands, which are known as Dokdo in Korean and Takeshima in Japanese and lie roughly halfway between the two countries. South Korea's Defense Ministry said in a statement its international affairs chief Lee Kwang-seok had summoned the Japanese defense attache to Korea in protest. Lee demanded the immediate removal of Japan's territorial claims from the paper and added that the government will 'sternly respond to any attempts to harm sovereignty over the Dokdo islands.' Tokyo has claimed the islands as its own territory in its annual defense white paper for decades, prompting protests from Seoul. The islands are currently controlled by Seoul with a small contingent of coast guards.
Chicago Tribune
18-04-2025
- Politics
- Chicago Tribune
10,000 pages of records about Robert F. Kennedy's 1968 assassination are released, on Trump's order
WASHINGTON — Approximately 10,000 pages of records related to the 1968 assassination of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy were released Friday, continuing the disclosure of national secrets ordered by President Donald Trump. Kennedy was fatally shot on June 5, 1968, at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles moments after giving his victory speech for winning California's Democratic presidential primary. His assassin, Sirhan Sirhan, was convicted of first-degree murder and is serving life in prison. The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration posted 229 files containing the pages to its public website. Many files related to the senator's assassination had been previously released, but others had not been digitized and sat for decades in storage facilities maintained by the federal government. 'Nearly 60 years after the tragic assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy, the American people will, for the first time, have the opportunity to review the federal government's investigation thanks to the leadership of President Trump,' Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, said in a statement. Gabbard also said the files release 'shine a long-overdue light on the truth.' The release of the RFK files comes a month after unredacted files related to the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy were disclosed. Those documents gave curious readers more details about Cold War-era covert U.S. operations in other nations but didn't initially lend credence to long-circulating conspiracy theories about who killed JFK. Trump, a Republican, has championed in the name of transparency the release of documents related to high-profile assassinations and investigations. But he's also been deeply suspicious for years of the government's intelligence agencies, and his administration's release of once-hidden files opens the door for additional public scrutiny and questioning about the conclusions and operations of institutions such as the CIA and the FBI. Trump signed an executive order in January calling for the release of governmental documents related to the assassinations of Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr., who were killed within two months of each other. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a son of the Democratic New York senator who now serves as the U.S. Health and Human Services secretary, commended Trump and Gabbard for their 'courage' and 'dogged efforts' to release the files. 'Lifting the veil on the RFK papers is a necessary step toward restoring trust in American government,' the health secretary said in a statement. Originally Published: April 18, 2025 at 10:24 AM CDT
Yahoo
18-04-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
10,000 pages of records about Robert F. Kennedy's 1968 assassination are released, on Trump's order
WASHINGTON (AP) — Approximately 10,000 pages of records related to the 1968 assassination of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy were released Friday, continuing the disclosure of national secrets ordered by President Donald Trump. Kennedy was fatally shot on June 5, 1968, at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles moments after giving his victory speech for winning California's Democratic presidential primary. His assassin, Sirhan Sirhan, was convicted of first-degree murder and is serving life in prison. The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration posted 229 files containing the pages to its public website. Many files related to the senator's assassination had been previously released, but others had not been digitized and sat for decades in storage facilities maintained by the federal government. 'Nearly 60 years after the tragic assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy, the American people will, for the first time, have the opportunity to review the federal government's investigation thanks to the leadership of President Trump,' Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, said in a statement. Gabbard also said the files release 'shine a long-overdue light on the truth.' The release of the RFK files comes a month after unredacted files related to the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy were disclosed. Those documents gave curious readers more details about Cold War-era covert U.S. operations in other nations but didn't initially lend credence to long-circulating conspiracy theories about who killed JFK. Trump, a Republican, has championed in the name of transparency the release of documents related to high-profile assassinations and investigations. But he's also been deeply suspicious for years of the government's intelligence agencies, and his administration's release of once-hidden files opens the door for additional public scrutiny and questioning about the conclusions and operations of institutions such as the CIA and the FBI. Trump signed an executive order in January calling for the release of governmental documents related to the assassinations of Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr., who were killed within two months of each other. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a son of the Democratic New York senator who now serves as the U.S. Health and Human Services secretary, commended Trump and Gabbard for their 'courage' and 'dogged efforts' to release the files. 'Lifting the veil on the RFK papers is a necessary step toward restoring trust in American government,' the health secretary said in a statement. ___ AP writer Eric Tucker contributed.
Associated Press
18-04-2025
- Politics
- Associated Press
10,000 pages of records related to the 1968 assassination of Robert F. Kennedy are released
WASHINGTON (AP) — Approximately 10,000 pages of records related to the 1968 assassination of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy have been released. The Friday release continues the disclosure of national secrets ordered by President Donald Trump. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard says in a statement the RFK files' release will 'shine a long-overdue light on the truth.' Gabbard says, 'Nearly 60 years after the tragic assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy, the American people will, for the first time, have the opportunity to review the federal government's investigation thanks to the leadership of President Trump.' The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration posted roughly 229 files containing the pages on its website.
Washington Post
23-03-2025
- Politics
- Washington Post
A dump of JFK-related records reveals past CIA secrets but also some personal data
History buffs dove into thousands of pages of government records released online this week, hoping for new nuggets about President John F. Kennedy's assassination . They instead found revelations about U.S. espionage in the massive document dump that also exposed some previously redacted personal information. The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration posted more than 63,000 pages of records on its website, following an executive order from President Donald Trump. Many of the documents had been released previously but with redactions that hid the names of CIA sources or details about its spying and covert operations in the 1960s. Kennedy was killed on Nov. 22, 1963, during a visit to Dallas. As his motorcade finished its parade route downtown, shots rang out from the Texas School Book Depository building. Police arrested Lee Harvey Oswald, who had positioned himself from a sniper's perch on the sixth floor. Two days later, nightclub owner Jack Ruby fatally shot Oswald during a jail transfer broadcast live on television. The latest release of documents pumped new energy into conspiracy theories about the assassination. Kennedy scholars said they haven't seen anything out of line with the conclusion that Oswald, a 24-year-old ex-Marine, was the lone gunman. 'The chase for the truth will go on forever, I suspect,' said Philip Shenon, who wrote a 2013 book about the killing of JFK. The vast majority of the National Archives' collection of more than 6 million related pages of records, photographs, motion pictures, sound recordings and artifacts had already been released before the archives posted about 2,200 files online this week. Writers, historians and conspiracy promoters have spent decades pushing for the release of all the records. In the early 1990s, the federal government mandated that all assassination-related documents be housed in a single collection in the National Archives and Records Administration. The collection was required to be opened by 2017, barring any exemptions designated by the president. According to researchers and the FBI, roughly 3,700 files held by federal authorities still haven't been released. Trump's order also called for declassifying the remaining federal records related to the 1968 assassinations of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Scholars and history buffs described the latest release as rushed and expressed frustration that going through the files one by one represented a random search for unreleased information. 'We've all heard the reports about the lawyers staying up all night, which I believe, because there's there's a lot of sloppiness in this,' said Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics and author of 'The Kennedy Half-Century.' Scholars and history buffs grumbled that, unlike past releases, the National Archives didn't provide an index or workable search tool. Also, the files included material generated after the 1960s, and some people listed in the records were angry to find out that sensitive information about them was revealed, including Social Security numbers. They include Joseph diGenova, a former campaign lawyer for Trump . His personal information was on documents relating to his work for a U.S. Senate select committee that investigated abuses of power by government officials in the 1970s, including the surveillance of U.S. citizens. He is planning to sue the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration for violating privacy laws. 'I think it's the result of incompetent people doing the reviewing,' he said. 'The people who reviewed these documents did not do their job.' White House officials said a plan was in place to help those whose personal information was disclosed, including credit monitoring, until new Social Security numbers are issued. Officials are still screening the records to identify all the Social Security numbers that were released. The latest release represented a boon to mainstream historians, particularly those researching international relations, the Cold War and the activities of the CIA. One revelation was that a key adviser warned President Kennedy after the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba in 1961 that the CIA had grown too powerful. The aide proposed giving the State Department control of 'all clandestine activities' and breaking up the CIA. The page of Special Assistant Arthur Schlesinger Jr.'s memo outlining the proposal had not been released before. A previous release of part of his memo redacted Schlesinger's statement that 47% of the political officers in U.S. embassies were controlled by the CIA. Schlesinger's plan never came to fruition. Timothy Naftali, an adjunct professor at Columbia University who is writing a book about JFK's presidency, said scholars likely now have more details about U.S. intelligence activities under Kennedy than under any other president. 'It's quite remarkable to be able to walk through that secret world,' he said. ____ This story has been updated to correct that the date of President John F. Kennedy's assassination was Nov. 22, 1963, not Nov. 23.
