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Question: MURDEROUS  thin-skinned and in possession of nuclear weapons  the North Korean dictator   Kim Jong Un   has one good deed to  his  name:  he  has united America and China. Max Baucus  Americaâs ambassador to Beijing until January 2017  recalls the Chinese president  Xi Jinping  privately expressing âdisgustâ at Mr Kimâs reckless pursuit of nukes and missiles to carry them to other continents. Mr Xiâs frustration with North Koreaâs hereditary despot stands out as âthe strongest statement that I have ever heard Xi makeâ  says Mr Baucus. China has never sounded as closely aligned with America when it comes to using sanctions and diplomatic pressure  in a last-ditch bid to change how Mr Kim calculates his regimeâs interests.
Unfortunately for relations between the worldâs two biggest economies  China will hate the next steps that America is likely to take on North Korea. Evan Medeiros  until 2015 the senior director for Asia in Barack Obamaâs National Security Council  says that when the Chinese accuse America of refusing to engage in talks with the regime  this is largely âposturingâ. But behind it lies a truth  that âsanctions wonât stop North Koreaâ. When battling the proliferation of the deadliest weapons  sanctions are always in a race with technology  says Mr Medeiros  now with the Eurasia Group  a consultancy. âKim Jong Un is close to grasping the brass ring. We have probably lost the race and need to think about deterrence.â This could include deploying new missiles and missile-defence systems in South Korea and Japan  and perhaps another aircraft-carrier in the region.
Still  cold-war theories of deterrence are being dusted off  with such jargon as âsecond-strike capabilityââthe certainty that a country attacked with nuclear weapons can retaliate massively. Douglas Paal  a senior Asia hand in the Reagan White House and both Bush administrations  approves of the Senate plan to place more interceptors in Alaska  in part to gain leverage over China. âWe need to layer up more missile defence. China needs to see that their second-strike capacity is really deteriorating  which hurts them.â Mr Paal  who runs the Asia programme at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace  a think-tank  is in frequent contact with envoys of governments including Chinaâs and  recently  North Koreaâs. He concedes the need for talks with the  Kim  regime  alongside containment and deterrence  but notes that in previous negotiations  North Korea wanted an end to American defence alliances in Asia and to Americaâs troop presence in South Korea: âSo we canât get there.â
A policy of containment would not just strain relations with China as new American weapons bristled in Asia. Global non-proliferation regimes would be tested  not least because a North Korea facing crippling sanctions might see selling nuclear technology as a lifeline. Perhaps Chinaâs greatest nightmare involves Japan feeling compelled to build nuclear weapons (it could quickly develop the technology). A Chinese build-up of warheads in response could result in India and then Pakistan increasing their stockpiles. The unity fostered by  Mr Kim  may thus prove short-lived. If  he  builds the arsenal  he  wants  China and America will be sincere in their shared dismay. But if America then prepares to contain him  a whole new Sino-American stand-off may begin.

Answer: Kim Jong Un


Question: Matt Damon  has apologized for  his  comments about sexual harassment and the #MeToo movement  which drew a slew of well-deserved controversy when  he  waded into the debate last month.
âI really wish Iâd listened a lot more before I weighed in on this â  Damon  admitted during an interview on TODAY. âI donât want to further anybodyâs pain with anything that I do or say. So for that I am really sorry. A lot of those women are my dear friends and I love them and respect them and support what theyâre doing and want to be a part of that change...but I should get in the back seat and close my mouth for a while.â
During an ABC News interview in December   Damon  pointed out that sexual misconduct encompasses "a spectrum of behavior " and made the revolutionary observation that there is "a difference between patting someone on the butt and rape or child molestation."
While  he  acknowledged that both types of behavior "need to be confronted and eradicated without question  they shouldn't be conflated." In a separate interview with Business Insider   Damon  also noted "one thing that's not being talked about is there are a whole shitload of guysâthe preponderance of men I've worked withâwho don't do this kind of thing and whose lives aren't going to be affected." Because our real priority here should be celebrating the brave men who manage not to sexually abuse women.
Following  Damon 's comments  a number of peopleâincluding  Damon 's former co-star and ex-girlfriend Minnie Driverâsharply criticized  him  for failing to recognize that even "minor" incidents of harassment are symptomatic of a much bigger problem. "It's the micro that makes the macro " actress Alyssa Milano wrote in an open letter to Damon on Twitter. "I have been a victim of each component of the sexual assault spectrum of which you speak. They all hurt. And they are all connected to a patriarchy intertwined with normalized  acceptedâeven welcomedâmisogyny."

Answer: Matt Damon


Question: Steve Bannon  who ran the final stage of Donald Trump's presidential campaign and served until last month as his chief strategist in the White House  is speaking more openly now about what he considers to be the significant errors the president and his team have made since the election.
In an interview with Charlie Rose on "60 Minutes" broadcast Sunday night   Bannon  pointed to two mistakes in particular: the decision after the election to work with establishment Republicans and the decision to fire then FBI director James Comey after Trump took office.
"In the 48 hours after we won  there's a fundamental decision that was made "  Bannon  told Rose. "You might call it the original sin of the administration. We embraced the establishment. I mean  we totally embraced the establishment."
 Bannon   an architect of Trump's brand of nationalist politics  left the administration in August and returned to  his  role as chairman of far-right news site Breitbart. The site has regularly attacked establishment Republicans  like House Speaker Paul Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell  as well as supposed establishment figures within the Trump administration  like economic adviser Gary Cohn.
As  Bannon  described it  though  there was an early and ultimately misguided calculation that Trump would be better off by siding with mainstream Republicans.
"I think in President Trump's mind  or President-Elect Trump's mind  in Jared [Kushner]'s mind  in the family's mind  I actually agreed with the decision. Because you had to staff a government  " Bannon  told Rose. "And to be brutally frank  you know  the campaign  look  I'd never been on a campaign in my entire life  right? You know  I'm a former investment banker who's a media guy  running a little website. We were  our whole campaign was a little bit the island of misfit toys. So he looks around and I'm wearing my combat jacket  I haven't shaved  I got  you know  my hair's down to here  and he says  he's thinking  'Hey  I've gotta put together a government. I've gotta really staff up something. I need to embrace the establishment.'"
In the interview   Bannon  particularly lamented how House and Senate Republican leadership attempted to repeal and replace Obamacare  arguing that they did not initially realize the scope of the divide over healthcare policy within their own party.
In an additional clip from the interview published later Sunday on 60 Minutes Overtime   Bannon  also suggested Trump's decision to fire Comey was an historic error.
Rose initially asked  Bannon  if  he  was in favor of firing Comey  but the former White House strategist would only point to media reports saying he was "adamantly opposed" to the move.
Those reports  published earlier this year  said that  Bannon  had pushed back against the idea of firing Comey  a decision that the White House initially said was connected to Comey's handling of the investigation into Hillary Clinton's use of her personal email account. The move was later explained by the president as being necessary because Comey was a "grandstander" and his department had been in "turmoil."
In Sunday's interview   Bannon  did say  he  believed that if Comey had not been fired  there would not have been a need to appoint a special counsel to oversee the Justice Department's investigation into Russia's interference in last year's presidential campaign. That special counsel  former FBI director Robert Mueller  is currently conducting a seemingly wide investigation  including looking for potential collusion between the Trump campaign and Russian officials.
"We would not have the Mueller investigation  " Bannon  said. "We would not have the Mueller investigation and the breadth that  clearly  Mr. Mueller is going for."
 Bannon  added that  he  does not believe Mueller should be fired as special counsel.  He  would not say if conversations to that effect have taken place in the White House  though  he  claimed  he  had not heard any discussions himself.
Rose said that "someone" had once told  him  that  Bannon  had privately described Comey's firing as "the biggest mistake in political history."
"That would be probably  that probably would be too bombastic even for me "  Bannon  responded. "But maybe modern political history."
"I think  if you're saying that that's associated with me  then I'll leave it at that "  Bannon  said.

Answer:
Steve Bannon