http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2019/06/22/2019062200357.html

KCNA said that friendship needs to be strengthened given the "serious and complex" state of international relations. According to China's state-run Xinhua news agency, Xi said at a welcome banquet that the two countries had agreed to "unswervingly pass down their traditional friendship from generation to generation."

But ties between the two countries are much more tense and complex than state media reports suggest, partly explaining why Xi is the first Chinese leader to visit North Korea since 2005.

But it's not about friendship, says Zhao Tong, a researcher with the Carnegie Tsinghua Center for Global Policy.

"I don't believe there is any real trust or any personal chemistry," Zhao says. China and North Korea "want to improve relations because of calculations of national interests."

From North Korea's point of view, it is about resuming diplomacy and easing up the pressure from sanctions, Zhao says, noting that Kim Jong Un is anxious. Earlier this month, Kim sent a message to the U.S president, one that Trump called a "beautiful letter."

"There is a growing need on the DPRK (Democratic People's Republic of Korea) side to get diplomacy going again and hopefully get sanctions relaxed as soon as possible," Zhao says.

Joseph Siracusa, a professor of human security and international diplomacy at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, says Kim is stuck between a rock and a hard place. "If he gives the president of the United states too much, the North Korean military will shoot him in the night," Siracusa says. "If he gives the president too little, he's going to have a shooting war with America 12 months down the road

https://nypost.com/2019/06/21/air-force-warns-about-nationwide-threat-of-incels/

Air Force instructors have been warning troops about the growing threat of radicalized “incels” — aka guys who can’t find women to sleep with them, a report says.

Airmen stationed at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland were recently briefed on the “involuntary celibates,” with documents cautioning them about an “increase in nationwide activity,” according to the military website Task & Purpose.

A number of shootings and mass casualty events have been linked to the incel movement in recent years — including the 2014 Isla Vista massacre in California, last year’s Toronto van attack and this month’s Dallas shooting.

Alek Minassian, the man charged in the Toronto killings, had pledged allegiance to the “Incel Rebellion” before mowing down his 10 victims, according to prosecutors.

The “Beta [Male] Uprising” — as some have dubbed it — was described in the Air Force briefing documents with colorful illustrations, which referenced a popular incel internet meme known as “Becky vs. Stacy,” which is a play on the “Virgin Walk” and “Virgin vs. Chad” memes that have been used to target involuntary celibates.

Incels believe “they are owned attention from ‘Beckys’,” the Air Force documents read, noting how the individuals judge women on their physical features, alone.

“Most Incels believe only men can be Incels as women could engage in sexual activity if they wanted to,” the docs say.

An airmen took a screenshot of the briefing papers and reportedly posted them on Facebook Tuesday. Military officials wound up confirming their existence