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U.S. Defense Secretary James Mattis arrived in Seoul this morning,... and was at the North

Korean border -- the DMZ -- with his South Korean counterpart, Song Young-moo.

Mattis took the opportunity to stress the importance of denuclearizing the regime.

Kim Hyun-bin reports.

U.S. Secretary of Defense James Mattis arrived in Seoul early Friday for his second visit

as Pentagon chief.

Mattis toured the front line units with his South Korean counterpart Song Young-moo and

gave a strong message towards North Korea.

The U.S. general stressed that Washington's goal is to denuclearize the regime.

"Our goal is not war, but rather the complete, verifiable, and irreversible denuclearization

of the Korean Peninsula.

Defense Minister Song made similar comments, urging Pyongyang to give up its nuclear ambitions.

(Korean) "I urge North Korea should halt its reckless

provocations and come back to the negotiating table as soon as possible."

The U.S. defense chief's visit comes as South Korea and the U.S. are scheduled to hold their

annual Security Consultative Meeting in Seoul on Saturday, a day after the allies' Military

Committee Meeting.

Friday's Military Committee Meeting was led by the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the two allies

-- General Jeong Kyeong-doo and General Joseph Dunford.

Seoul's Defense Minister Song Young-moo and Mattis will hold their official talks at the

SCM on Saturday.

The allies plan to have in-depth discussions on enhancing extended deterrence against North

Korea's ever-expanding nuclear and ballistic missile threats.

They are also expected to discuss alliance policies, including the early transfer of

wartime operational control from Washington to Seoul, which is one of the key goals of

the Moon Jae-in administration.

Kim Hyun-bin, Arirang News.

For more infomation >> : U.S. defense chief James Mattis says Washington's goal is to denuclearize North Korea - Duration: 1:45.

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Alumni Stories - Dr. Joseph Young, Washington Semester Program '96 - Duration: 2:30.

My name is Joe Young.

I attended the Washington Semester Program in the Fall of 1996, and I am now currently

a professor at American University in the School of International Service as well as

the school of Public Affairs.

I went to a small school in Florida called Stetson University.

It's in rural Florida, so there weren't a lot of internships, and especially not a lot

of internships in the area that I'm interested in, which at the time - it's pretty similar

to what it is now - but was peace and conflict resolution.

I interned at this organization called Campaign for UN Reform.

They were trying to support Congresspeople, Senators, who were pro-UN.

And they were also trying to get legislation that was reforming the UN, making it empowered.

The good of it was, it was a fairly small office, so I was doing things that were pretty

high-level for an intern.

I wasn't getting coffee and doing mundane tasks.

But, it became really clear to me I didn't want to have a traditional office job.

I like the topic, I love being in DC, I'm interested in peace and conflict, but not

sitting in an office all day.

I ultimately knew I wanted to be a professor but working in these topics, and ideally working

in DC.

You know, you can't really study these processes in Texas - not like you can here.

And there are even some overwhelming benefits of being here to being in New York City.

Especially for our students, they want some practical experience and knowledge, so they're

less interested in the general, vague notions of how these things might work.

And the upside of experiential learning is you see how they work in practice.

You know, you make connections, and those connections may be at your internship, or

those connections might be a friend that you make who gets a job in a place and then they

say, "Oh, by the way, there's an open position here."

"You should apply for it."

It's those kinds of networks that help you develop jobs, and so anywhere you are in the

process, it's helpful to be here and start developing those networks.

If you want to be in DC working on these things in these areas, you need to have a practice

run at it.

That can't be replicated in other places.

For more infomation >> Alumni Stories - Dr. Joseph Young, Washington Semester Program '96 - Duration: 2:30.

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Terrifying experience in Ape Cave || Washington State - Duration: 2:17.

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