North Korea "at war" with the USA

[Daily Maverick] FIRST THING with JOHN STUPART Tuesday, 26 September 2017 “We all want things we can't have. Being a decent human being is accepting that.” John Fowles STORY OF THE DAY [Declassified: Apartheid Profits – Behind the Iron Curtain]( By OPEN SECRETS Welcome to the ninth instalment of "Declassified: Apartheid Profits". While researching the recently published book Apartheid Guns and Money: A Tale of Profit, OPEN SECRETS collected approximately 40,000 archival documents from 25 archives in seven countries. This treasure trove contains damning details of the individuals and corporations that propped up apartheid and profited in return. Many of these documents were kept secret until now. This week we take a look behind the Iron Curtain and discover that during the Cold War, all was not as it seemed. Apartheid’s alliances did not fit neatly into the narrative of the “Communist threat". [USA 'declared war' on North Korea]( North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong-ho has accused the United States of "declaring war" against North Korea. Donald Trump's comments over the country "not being around much longer" clearly touched a raw nerve. North Korea has since threatened to shoot down American bombers, even if they are not inside Korean airspace. [Puerto Rico criticises slow response to disaster]( Devastated by Hurricane Maria, Puerto Rico has not yet received more than a "trickle" of government aid. Governor Ricardo Rossello cautioned that the American territory required urgent aid to prevent a humanitarian crisis. Trump had been criticised for spending more time tweeting about NFL boycotts and declaring war on Korea than Puerto Rico's creeping disaster. [China clamps down on WhatsApp ahead of congress]( Chinese authorities appeared to have disrupted WhatsApp services ahead of an October Communist Party congress. Text messaging, voice calls and video calls were all down or intermittently working today. Forget missiles and angry Tweets, if you want to strike fear into a Communist regime, it seems, just develop encrypted chat. [Nobel Foundation increases prize money]( A week before the prestigious Nobel Prizes will begin being awarded, the foundation has announced a cash boost for winners. Reduced in 2012 to 8-million krona, the award was increased back this year to SEK 9-million, or about $1.1-million. The Nobel Prize for medicine will be announced on 2 October. — PICTURE OF THE DAY By EPA-EFE/RICK MUSACCHIO The colours were presented to an empty bench as both teams stayed in their locker rooms during the singing of the national anthem and then some of the Tennessee Titans went to the end zone before their game at Nissan Stadium in Nashville, Tennessee, US, on 24 September 2017 in protests to comments by President Donald Trump calling for the firing of NFL players who don't stand for the national anthem before games. IN NUMBERS 00000000 The US nuclear launch codes for 20 years. FACTS OF THE DAY Today in 1973 Concorde makes its first trans-Atlantic crossing, in pretty quick time to boot. Walt Disney personally hated Goofy. He only retained the character because it employed so many people. 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