World number one Simona Halep avoided the dramas of her third round to ease into the quarter-finals of the Australian Open with a 6-3 6-2 victory over Naomi Osaka.The 26-year-old looked to be heading home when Lauren Davis held three match points in their titanic encounter on Saturday but recovered to win 15-13 in the deciding Watch New Dramas At iserieshd.
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Back in the #ausopen quarterfinals!@Simona_Halep tops Naomi Osaka 6-3 6-2 to sail further into the second week here in Melbourne. pic.twitter.com/QkhYXAPsit The 20-year-old began well and had an early break but Halep quickly began to break down Osaka's game with her variety, athleticism and ability to turn defence into Watch New Dramas At iserieshd.
Halep needed just an hour and 19 minutes to wrap up victory and will play either sixth seed Karolina Pliskova or her fellow Czech Barbora Strycova in the last eight.I'm really happy to be back in the QF. I didn't expect that before I started the tournament because of the Watch New Dramas At iserieshd."
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As tensions soar over North Korea's nuclear weapons development and President Donald Trump prepares for his first trip to Asia, Thae Yong Ho offered rare insight into the reclusive North Korean system and the insecurities he says drove leader Kim Jong Un to ruthlessly purge ranks and accelerate nuclear weapons Watch Online Dramas At iserieshd.
Speaking Tuesday at a Washington think tank, Thae said Kim, who was educated in Switzerland, lacked the respect of North Korea's senior leadership after taking power in 2012 as the little-known, third son of his predecessor and Watch Online Dramas At iserieshd.
To build his legitimacy, Kim Jong Un championed the rapid progress toward a nuclear-tipped intercontinental ballistic missile that could threaten the United States - which now puts him on a path to confrontation with Watch Online Dramas At iserieshd.
FILE - In this Jan. 25, 2017, file photo, former North Korean deputy ambassador to the UK, Thae Yong Ho, center, speaks with media at the Foreign Correspondents Club in Seoul, South Korea."We should start from basic concepts of human rights and freedom," Thae said, not railing against the Kim dictatorship and Watch Online Dramas At iserieshd.
The highest-level North Korean defector in two decades says America should bring change peacefully by challenging the totalitarian regime's grip on information rather than resorting to military Watch Online Dramas At iserieshd.
Thae said Kim's weapons development also reflected anxiety, after Arab Spring uprisings against authoritarian governments in the Mideast, about the possibility of the U.S. and other Western nations mounting a "humanitarian intervention" bombing campaign as occurred in Libya in 2011 and led to Moammar Gadhafi's Watch Online Dramas At iserieshd.
If there are street protests inside North Korea, Thae said "there is no doubt that Kim Jong Un would stamp it out mercilessly with his forces, even tanks." He said Kim believes that with a nuclear-tipped missile, "then he can prevent that kind of humanitarian Watch Online Dramas At iserieshd."
Thae, 55, who now lives in South Korea, is making his first visit to Washington since his 2016 defection as deputy chief of mission at the North Korean Embassy in London. He'll address a congressional hearing Watch Online Dramas At iserieshd.
He said he supported the Trump administration's policy of exerting "maximum pressure" on Pyongyang, but said it should be coupled with "maximum engagement" of North Korea's leadership and efforts to end the isolation of the country's 24 million Watch Online Dramas At iserieshd.
"I strongly believe in the use of soft power before taking any military action," said Thae, the most senior North Korean defector since the nation's ambassador to Egypt fled and resettled in the United States in Watch Online Dramas At iserieshd.
North Korea has called Thae "human scum" and accused him of embezzling government money and committing other crimes."You can't change the reign of terror policy of the internal regime, but we can do the dissemination of outside information inside North Korea," he said Watch Online Dramas At iserieshd.
Addressing an audience of about 200 people with confidence and smiles, Thae on Tuesday said the North Korean system can only endure through a "reign of terror" and by preventing outside information getting in. He said that task is increasingly difficult because of the availability inside North Korea of portable digital devices and easily hidden memory Watch Online Dramas At iserieshd.
"The technology has developed dramatically in the past five years," Thae told a forum at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. He said North Korean youths call the commonly used SD memory cards "nose cards" because they can insert them in their nostrils to escape detection during a body Watch Online Dramas At iserieshd.
Thae called for more small digital players to be smuggled into North Korea to receive outside broadcasts. He said North Koreans most commonly watch South Korean TV dramas, but outside content should be tailored to appeal more directly to a North Korean audience and convey democratic principles in a subtle Watch Online Dramas At iserieshd.
He suggested, for example, referring to how beautiful young girls are often sent from rural areas to serve the North Korean leadership in Pyongyang - something often viewed as an honor rather than a human rights abuse. Also, programs could educate North Koreans on how they should be paid for labor they provide for free when mobilized by the Watch Online Dramas At iserieshd.
As tensions soar over North Korea's nuclear weapons development and President Donald Trump prepares for his first trip to Asia, Thae Yong Ho offered rare insight into the reclusive North Korean system and the insecurities he says drove leader Kim Jong Un to ruthlessly purge ranks and accelerate nuclear weapons Watch Online Dramas At iserieshd.
Speaking Tuesday at a Washington think tank, Thae said Kim, who was educated in Switzerland, lacked the respect of North Korea's senior leadership after taking power in 2012 as the little-known, third son of his predecessor and Watch Online Dramas At iserieshd.
To build his legitimacy, Kim Jong Un championed the rapid progress toward a nuclear-tipped intercontinental ballistic missile that could threaten the United States - which now puts him on a path to confrontation with Watch Online Dramas At iserieshd.
FILE - In this Jan. 25, 2017, file photo, former North Korean deputy ambassador to the UK, Thae Yong Ho, center, speaks with media at the Foreign Correspondents Club in Seoul, South Korea."We should start from basic concepts of human rights and freedom," Thae said, not railing against the Kim dictatorship and Watch Online Dramas At iserieshd.
The highest-level North Korean defector in two decades says America should bring change peacefully by challenging the totalitarian regime's grip on information rather than resorting to military Watch Online Dramas At iserieshd.
Thae said Kim's weapons development also reflected anxiety, after Arab Spring uprisings against authoritarian governments in the Mideast, about the possibility of the U.S. and other Western nations mounting a "humanitarian intervention" bombing campaign as occurred in Libya in 2011 and led to Moammar Gadhafi's Watch Online Dramas At iserieshd.
If there are street protests inside North Korea, Thae said "there is no doubt that Kim Jong Un would stamp it out mercilessly with his forces, even tanks." He said Kim believes that with a nuclear-tipped missile, "then he can prevent that kind of humanitarian Watch Online Dramas At iserieshd."
Thae, 55, who now lives in South Korea, is making his first visit to Washington since his 2016 defection as deputy chief of mission at the North Korean Embassy in London. He'll address a congressional hearing Watch Online Dramas At iserieshd.
He said he supported the Trump administration's policy of exerting "maximum pressure" on Pyongyang, but said it should be coupled with "maximum engagement" of North Korea's leadership and efforts to end the isolation of the country's 24 million Watch Online Dramas At iserieshd.
"I strongly believe in the use of soft power before taking any military action," said Thae, the most senior North Korean defector since the nation's ambassador to Egypt fled and resettled in the United States in Watch Online Dramas At iserieshd.
North Korea has called Thae "human scum" and accused him of embezzling government money and committing other crimes."You can't change the reign of terror policy of the internal regime, but we can do the dissemination of outside information inside North Korea," he said Watch Online Dramas At iserieshd.
Addressing an audience of about 200 people with confidence and smiles, Thae on Tuesday said the North Korean system can only endure through a "reign of terror" and by preventing outside information getting in. He said that task is increasingly difficult because of the availability inside North Korea of portable digital devices and easily hidden memory Watch Online Dramas At iserieshd.
"The technology has developed dramatically in the past five years," Thae told a forum at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. He said North Korean youths call the commonly used SD memory cards "nose cards" because they can insert them in their nostrils to escape detection during a body Watch Online Dramas At iserieshd.
Thae called for more small digital players to be smuggled into North Korea to receive outside broadcasts. He said North Koreans most commonly watch South Korean TV dramas, but outside content should be tailored to appeal more directly to a North Korean audience and convey democratic principles in a subtle Watch Online Dramas At iserieshd.
He suggested, for example, referring to how beautiful young girls are often sent from rural areas to serve the North Korean leadership in Pyongyang - something often viewed as an honor rather than a human rights abuse. Also, programs could educate North Koreans on how they should be paid for labor they provide for free when mobilized by the Watch Online Dramas At iserieshd.
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