President Obama on Monday will visit CIA headquarters amid criticism from an ex-CIA chief that he compromised national security last week by releasing Bush-era memos on interrogation tactics.
S. Korean, N. Korean officials meetGovernment officials from South Korea arrived in the North on Tuesday for the first inter-Korean talks in more than a year.
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