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Book review: Routledge Companion to Alternative Organization
Making and sharing the commons: Reimagining 'the West' as Riverlands, Sydney through a dialogue between design and ethnography
Sarah Pink, Michelle Catanzaro, Katrina Sandbach, Alison Barnes, Joanne McNeill, Mitra Gushesh, Enrico Scotece, Ciro Catanzaro
Scholars from the social sciences and humanities are increasingly seeking to improve the relevance and social impact of their research beyond the academy. In this context, 'designerly' thinking and methods are being drawn on to inform social change agendas, and a range of new relationships and collaborations are forming around this node of activity. This article critically reflects on this trajectory through a dialogue between ethnography, design and theoretical principles from anthropology and human geography. We draw on the example from a workshop during the ICD Symposium and our response to the challenge of reimagining Western Sydney as 'Riverlands, Sydney'.
Insights into Social Procurement: From Policy to Practice
Butler's Tourism Area Life Cycle and Its Expansion to the Creative Economy
In 1980, R. W. Butler published his tourism area cycle of evolution model graphing a correlation of number of tourists on the y-axis and time on the x-axis. Although a location's capacity for number of tourists and the specific number of sustainable years may vary from location to location, Butler proposed that every tourist location evolves through a common set of stages: exploration, involvement, development, consolidation, stagnation, and then some variation of rejuvenation or decline. Butler's model frames the resources that enable a region to become a tourist destination as finite and ultimately exhaustible.
Struggling for Housing, from D.C. to Johannesburg: Washington Innercity Self Help Goes to South Africa
In the early 1990s, a group of housing activists from Washington, D.C. traveled to Johannesburg to help start the first housing cooperatives in South Africa's history. These activists were from Washington Innercity Self Help, or WISH, a community-based group that directed much of its work towards helping low-income tenants purchase their buildings from their landlords and form limited-equity housing cooperatives – collectively owned housing that, because of restrictions placed on resale prices, would be affordable to poor people for years to come.
Developing a Vacant Property Inventory through Productive Partnerships: A University, NGO, and Municipal Planning Collaboration in Trenton, New Jersey
Luke Drake, Beth Ravit, and Laura Lawson
This paper analyzes the development of an inventory of vacant buildings and land in Trenton, New Jersey that resulted from a research partnership between the Rutgers University Center for Urban Environmental Sustainability; Isles, Inc. a Trenton-based non-governmental organization; and the City of Trenton. Participatory research design between university and NGO staff led to a smartphone GIS survey tool that functioned through web and desktop GIS. University students and community residents collected data through a smartphone GIS application and visually inspected almost every property within the city's boundaries.
Navigating dilemmas of community development: Practitioner reflections on working with Aboriginal communities
Jenny Cameron, Paul Hodge, Amanda Howard, Graeme Stuart
Intrinsically, community development involves navigating dilemmas. These dilemmas have intensified as neoliberal "arts of government" become more widespread and a "results agenda" more entrenched. Recent studies explore how community development practitioners manage the ambiguities of this current context. This article contributes by exploring how practitioners who work with Aboriginal communities in Central and Northern Australia navigate the dilemmas they encounter. Consistent with other studies, we find that practitioners draw on the foundations of community development practice while also responding to the specific characteristics of the setting.
Beyond the birth wars: diverse assemblages of care
Kelly Dombroski, Katharine McKinnon, Stephen Healy
In this article, we argue that paying attention to the diverse assemblages of care enables us to go beyond simplistic natural versus medical models of birth and maternity care. We draw on interviews with women in New Zealand.
Call and response: A reflection on Miranda Joseph's Debt to Society from Aotearoa New Zealand
This review essay of Miranda Joseph's Debt to Society reflects on its relevance to both Aotearoa New Zealand and community economies thinking.
Hybrid Activist Collectives: Reframing mothers' environmental and caring labour
Part of a special issue 'Activists with(out) organisation' edited by Richard White and Patricia Wood, this article argues that the environmental and caring labour of mothers within the home is a kind of collective economic and environmental activism, where the collective is hybrid human and more than human. I connect the work mothers do in the home with the kinds of shared concerns community economies activists gather around.
Gender Equality and Economic Empowerment in the Solomon Islands and Fiji: a Place-based Approach
K. McKinnon, M. Carnegie, K. Gibson and C. Rowland
The economic empowerment of women is emerging as a core focus of both economic
development and gender equality programs internationally. At the same time there is
increasing importance placed on measuring outcomes and quantifying progress towards
gender and development goals. These trends raise significant questions around how well
gender differences are understood, especially in economies dominated by the informal sector
and characterised by a highly gendered division of labour, as is the case in many Pacific
countries. How well do existing international and national indicators of gender equality
reflect the experiences and aspirations of Pacific women and men? What do concepts such as
No Place for Wilderness: Urban Parks and the Assembling of Neoliberal Urban Environmental Governance
In this paper, I examine the ways in which urban parks are enrolled in political struggles to reorient the techniques of urban governance toward entrepreneurialism as the only viable model for economic development. Through a case study of Philadelphia's Fairmount Park System, I examine a series of events during the previous three decades in which Fairmount Park has become subject to this reorientation toward entrepreneurialism. Specifically, I examine how parks, no longer treated as spaces of "nature", have been reframed as self-supporting constituents of a business-minded urbanism, promotional tools for the attraction of new labor to the city, and a reinforcement of the notion of entrepreneurialism as the inevitable urban development strategy for the 21st century.
In this paper we use the concept of surviving well to reframe contemporary discussion of happiness and wellbeing in the context of international development discourse. While the attempts to move beyond metrics that privilege economic growth as the singular indicator of progress, it's equally true that our understanding of happiness and wellbeing needs to move beyond individual notions of contentment and towards a measure that allows people to thinking about their own needs in relation to others and in relation to planetary wellbeing.
Commoning As Postcapitalist Politics
J.K. Gibson-Graham, Jenny Cameron, Stephen Healy
Today the planet faces a genuine tragedy of the unmanaged "commons." For decades an open access and unmanaged resource has been treated with the same sort of disregard as Hardin's pasture was treated. The planet's life-supporting atmosphere has been spoiled by "'help yourself' or 'feel free' attitudes" (Hardin 1998: 683). We are now faced with the seemingly impossible task of transforming an open access and unmanaged planetary resource into a commons which is managed and cared for. With the cause and impacts of global warming now beyond debate, we are being pressed to take responsibility and to act in new ways. But how are we to do this? What type of politics is called for?
Cooperation and Commoning to Secure Other Futures
In preparing for the talk associated with this paper I was invited to consider two things—the future of the arts in the era of austerity and restructuring and what the arts community might learn from the environmental movement. My thoughts on how to respond to this positioning is directed by my involvement with the Community Economies Collective (CEC) an international group of activist-scholars interested in enacting post-capitalist economies. And it is in this context that the concept of the Big Society provides us with an interesting point of departure.
Childbirth has been transformed by increased use of life-saving medical technologies, greater understanding of the complex interplay between care environments, emotional states, complex biophysical processes and ongoing physical and mental health for babies and mothers. Maternity care has also been subject to broader changes in healthcare economies that reposition mothers as rational consumers in a health care marketplace. Drawing on empirical research we identify problems with imagining maternity care and the cared-for subject via 'choice' alone, and explore how the diverse assemblages that converge in birthing spaces could be better attended to through alternative 'logics of care' (Mol, 2008).
Radical Openings: Hegemony and the Everyday Politics of Community Economies
Rhyall Gordon
What might an alliance between Gibson-Graham's concept of community economy and Laclau
and Mouffe's concept of hegemony generate for theories and practices of everyday postcapitalist
politics? This essay theorizes a shared space between these concepts, opening up new ground for
politics. It provides an illustration of the dynamic of hegemony within a community economy
through empirical work carried out with food-sovereignty collectives in the Asturias region of
northern Spain. These collectives demonstrate economic practices that foreground our
communality and interdependence while negotiating the exclusion that accompanies all
politics. These food sovereignty economies demonstrate that when the concept of hegemony
Differenz als immanente Kategorie des Ökonomischen
This article introduces German language readers to the work of J. K. Gibson-Graham. Thematically, it discusses the relevance of gender and class as intertwined categories in the diverse economy perspective.
Seeing Diversity, Multiplying Possibility: My Journey from Post-feminism to Postdevelopment with J.K. Gibson-Graham
As a graduate student I first came into contact with the work and persons of JK Gibson-Graham. As I was mentored and supervised by Katherine Gibson, the piece, Building Community Economies: Women and the Politics of Place became part of my journey into feminism and feminist postdevelopment research. In this chapter, I highlight three principles I have carried with me from that time until now: starting where you are, seeing diversity, and multiplying possibility. With reference to my own developing research interests, I show how Gibson-Graham's work is relevant and inspiring in a third wave feminist context.
The Geopolitics of Birth
This paper explores the territoriality and politics of birth. Engaging with debates that are largely polarised between discourses of natural versus medical birth, in this paper I take an in depth look at one birth story, and look for a different way to think through how women's birth experiences might be understood. Written at the beginning of a year of research into women's birth experiences this paper represents my early thinking in the study.
Building Dignified Worlds: Geographies of Collective Action
Gerda Roelvink
Building Dignified Worlds investigates social movements that do not simply protest but actively forge functional alternatives. Gerda Roelvink takes actor network and performativity theories of action as starting points for thinking about how contemporary collectives bring the new into being.
Working with Strangers in Saturated Space: Reclaiming and Maintaining the Urban Commons
The commons is increasingly invoked as a way to envision new worlds. One strand of commons research focuses at the local scale, on small groups in "traditional", mostly rural societies; this research asks how commons are maintained over time. Another strand focuses on the commons at a global scale; this is political research that asks how commons can be reclaimed from a capitalist landscape. Here, I bridge these two approaches by theorizing the commons as reclaimed and maintained in the context of the city, through examining the experiences of limited-equity housing cooperatives in Washington, DC.
Enacting post-capitalist politics through the sites and practices of social reproduction
Oona Morrow, Kelly Dombroski
In this book chapter, we consider what it would mean to see the sites and practices of 'life's work' as potential areas that spark change in economies and subjectivities.
Parody, the Party, Politics and Postcapitalism: Some thoughts on a Shared Future
This essay responds to the generous commentaries on the talks Jodi Dean and I delivered during the 2013 Rethinking Marxism International Conference. It offers further reflections on communism as a political project, on its relation to postcapitalist practices, and on Dean's desire to "return to the party," making two distinct interventions.
Groundswell Post Conference Summary Report
On January 29th, 2014, a community conference called Groundswell brought community members together in order to inspire creativity, ideas, and relationships that advance the wellbeing of our community. This report illuminates both the process of facilitating meaningful community engagement as well the outcomes of doing so. The report was written for the community in which the event took place, but the hope is that it also inspire similar efforts in other communities that are ready for a groundswell of their own.
Post-industrial Pathways for a 'Single Industry Resource Town': a Community Economies Approach
Janet Newbury, Katherine Gibson
Although communities are constantly undergoing processes of becoming the Powell River community on Canada's Pacific coast is in a unique transitional moment when it comes to possibilities for post-industrial economic pathways. With the downsizing of its main industry and employer over the past 3 decades, community members are currently exploring a diverse range of economic possibilities that extend beyond strictly capitalist options. Reading for economic diversity can help us to identify and pursue existing and potential economic pathways that enhance wellbeing for human and nonhuman community members.
Realizing New Economic Futures, One Community at a Time
Since all communities face their own sets of unique challenges and assets, this report explores possibilities for new economic futures in the context of one particular community. By contextualizing the discussion within broader economic and political realities, it also provides insights for other communities that are undergoing economic and social transitions and striving to do so in a sustainable and humane way.
Making Other Worlds Possible: Performing Diverse Economies
Gerda Roelvink, Kevin St. Martin, J.K. Gibson-Graham (Eds)
What exactly constitutes an economy? Making Other Worlds Possible brings together a compelling range of projects inspired by the diverse economies research agenda pioneered by J. K. Gibson-Graham. Firmly establishing diverse economies as a field of research, Making Other Worlds Possible outlines an array of different ways scholars are enacting economies that privilege ethical negotiation and a politics of possibility.
What makes the book so special is that each of authors know the communities they speak of and they write with real passion — Antipode


By now, there should be no secret that the abuse of prescription drugs has become a full fledged epidemic, but for some, it still is. Not only are these people unaware of the epidemic of prescription drug abuse, they are unknowingly contributing to it.
In terms of the number of deaths caused by an overdose, this type of drug abuse has already become more dangerous than the combination of cocaine and heroin. The market for these drugs has also increased so much that gangs are beginning to get involved, which increases the violence that surrounds prescription drugs.
The head of the US Drug Enforcement Administration has indicated prescription drug abuse is the greatest drug threat they have ever faced. More than 7 million Americans currently abuse prescription drugs.
One of the big problems inside of this epidemic is that your own medicine cabinet may be contributing to this epidemic. Public perception of the dangers of has not yet caught up to the reality.
The reality is that prescription drugs are beginning to mimic hard-core narcotics trafficking because the abusers eventually need more pills than they can continue to get on their own. Unfortunately, there are some doctors and pharmacists involved in this trafficking as well due to the money involved.
However, the shocking part of the story is that of the people who begin to abuse prescription drugs, more than 70% get their drugs from their friends and family.
The DEA, CDC and FDA are all working to better educate the public, but they have an uphill battle. There was also a $20 million project in the last national budget to provide for a media campaign to educate the public, but this plan was not funded by Congress.
One plan that is in the works is to make it easier for people to dispose of prescription medication they no longer need, instead of letting those drugs sit in their medicine cabinet. If you don't have the pills, your friends and family can't ask for them and they can't be stolen.
When people abuse prescription drugs, they usually start at home. They ask their friends and family to provide them with pills that weren't prescribed to them.
Fifty-five percent of the "new" people who abuse prescription drugs get their drugs for free from their friends or family. Another 11% of abusers still get their drugs from friends and family, but they pay for them. Five percent used the same source, but just took the pills without those people knowing about it.
That means 71% of the people who begin abusing prescription drugs get them directly from friends and family.
That number drops when those new users turn into chronic abusers. However, 41% of chronic abusers still get their drugs from their friends and family. Another 25% get their drugs from a doctor and a similar number obtain their drugs from dealers or online sources.
This has become a significant problem and it will continue to grow until people understand the dangers of giving their own prescription drugs to other people.


Bangladesh, Nov. 25 -- Question paper leaks have become commonplace in Bangladesh. The crisis reflects the state of education in the country. Given the current scenario, it seems that many people start their higher education or professional careers by passing exams with the help of leaked question papers.
But who are the people behind all of this? According to newspaper reports, students, powerful political leaders, employees at educational institutions, coaching centres etc are involved in the nefarious business of leaking question papers.
Before the exams start, there is a race to find examinees who want to cheat in order to pass. Either the candidates track down the syndicates or the syndicates reach out to interested candidates.


I have been thinking lately about how to classify different types of theology. This is what I have come up with thus far. Don't be shy in terms of leaving feedback as I would love to hear whether or not this sort of typology rings true.
What I am interested in here is only secondarily connected to the sorts of theological positions taken by those doing theology in any of the modes that I will explicate. The modes themselves are what interest me. It seems to me that one can fall anywhere on the continuum between orthodoxy and heterodoxy while working within any of these modes. Of course, some modes may make it easier than others to lean toward one or the other pole on this continuum, but that is beside the point.
W. Travis McMaken, "Review of Simon Chan's Liturgical Theology: The Church as Worshiping Community," Evangelical Review of Theology (32.4): 375-7.
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Esther Edwards Burr was Jonathan and Sarah Edwards' daughter, who died a few weeks after her father died at 26 years old, leaving two children behind. Esther is Marsden's favorite of the Edwards on a personal level. We know a lot about her personally because she and a good friend exchanged daily diaries reflecting on their daily lives and thoughts – discussing novels, for instance. Also, Esther could hold her own in social situations, and she recalls one instance where a man disparaged women's intellectual abilities. She "talked him into silence," as she put it. She was not initially happy to move to Princeton, but became less recalcitrant after a revival hit the College of New Jersey campus.
2008 Stone Lectures: Lecture 4 - "Jonathan and Sarah Attend a Megachurch: the Religious Affections and Evangelicalism Today"
David has provided a report, and assessment, of Marsden's fourth lecture, entitled "Jonathan and Sarah Attend a Megachurch: the Religious Affections and Evangelicalism Today".
2008 Stone Lectures - Lecture 3: "Edwards' Vision and the Religion that Whitefield and Franklin Shaped"
Chris has posted an account of Marsden's third lecture, "Edwards' Vision and the Religion that Whitefield and Franklin Shaped".
2008 Stone Lectures - Lecture 2: "Edwards's Vision in the Land that Franklin Built"
Darren has provided us with an account of Marsden's second lecture, "Edward's Vision in the Land that Franklin Built".
2008 Stone Lectures - Lecture 1: "Rip Van Edwards"
David has provided us with an account of Marsden's first lecture, "Rip Van Edwards".
That is right! Your intrepid band of PTS theo-bloggers are at it again, organizing and combining their efforts to bring you coverage of the 2008 Stone Lectures at Princeton Theological Seminary. This year's Stone Lecturer is George Marsden, noted historian and Francis A. McAnaney Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame. His lectures are entitled "Rip Van Edwards: President Jonathan Edwards Returns to Princeton After 250 Years," and promise to be interesting – to say the least. I encourage you to take a look at the official poster for the lectures.
So, stay tuned! The fun begins tomorrow!
Chapters 1 & 2: An unfolding of God's trinitarian existence through analogy to human existence.
Chapter 3: Summary of the preceding, Christianity a mean between Hellenist polytheism and Jewish monotheism.
Chapter 4: All this grounded in Scripture, aimed at convincing a Jewish interlocutor.
The following list was compiled by Dennis Doyle and is based on JP2's "As the Third Millennium Draws Near" / Tertio Millennio Adveniente (1994). It ranks what JP2 thought were the important developments of Vatican 2. Some context is required, however, and Doyle provides it: "For John Paul II, the greatest principle of the Council was its affirmation that salvation comes through Christ, and the second is like it: that the salvation of Christ is mediated to us through the mystery of the Church, his body. All other developments of the Council need to be read in this light" (80). So, without further ado, here is the list.
Dennis M. Doyle, Communion Ecclesiology: Vision and Versions (Orbis, 2000): 80-1.
A renewed discovery on the part of the Church of the depth of its identity as a mystery and as the body and bride of Christ.
The reaffirmation of the universal call to holiness.
The reform of the liturgy.
The renewal of church life on both the universal and local levels.


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Q: How to reduce the multiplicity of existing real roots without introducing new real roots? Given a monic polyomial $P(x)=x^d+r_{d-1}x^{d-1}+\cdots+a_1r+a_0\in\mathbb{R}[x]$ is there a way to manipulate the coefficients of $P$ in an algebraic way such that the new polynomial has exactly as many simple real roots as $P$ has pairs of twofold roots? For example if $d=9$ and
$$P(x)=x^9-15x^8+95x^7-333x^6+719x^5-1029x^4+1057x^3-819x^2+432x-108=(x-1)^2(x-2)^2(x-3)^3(x^2+1)$$
then the transformed polynomial (the coefficients of which should be polynomial expressions in $r_0,\ldots,r_8$) should have exactly two simple real root corresponding to the twofold roots $1$ and $2$ of $P$ (it can have an arbitrary amount of additional multiple real roots or complex roots though).
One trick that almost does it is $Q(x)=P(x)^2+P'(x)^2$. This polynomial has no simple real roots and its twofold real roots are exactly the twofold real roots of $P$. If there was a way to reduce the multiplicity of the twofold real roots without introducing new real roots this would be the solution.
Another idea is to take $\gcd(P(x),P'(x))$ which has exactly as many simple real roots as $P$ has twofold roots. But one cannot compute the gcd in an alebraic way. One needs to know $P$ in order to use the Euclidean algorithm.

A: Yun's Algorithm will give you a series of polynomials, each corresponding to factors of that multiplicity in the original polynomial.  $p_1$ will have all the roots of multiplicity $1$, $p_2$ will have all the roots of multiplicity $2$, etc.
It requires you to take derivatives, perform gcd, and do basic arithmetic with polynomials.  It's deterministic.  It doesn't actually give you the roots though.

A: You have to know $P$
in order to do anything with it.
So you can compute
$gcd(P, P')$
in an entirely algebraic way.
In other words,
I don't know what you mean
when you write
"One needs to know P in order to use the Euclidean algorithm."

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The Maitland Estate is a historic home located at 9 Sunset Drive. in Cherry Hills Village, Colorado. Designed by Denver architects Merrill H. Hoyt & Burnham F. Hoyt and built in 1925 in a Tudor Revival style. The estate was the home of Denver business leader James Maitland who operated the Colorado Builders' Supply.

The listing included a  area.

It has an L-shaped plan,  on its north–south axis and  on its east–west.  Through its first of two stories it is built of  brown brick laid in common bond.

See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Arapahoe County, Colorado

References

External links
 History of Colorado

Tudor Revival architecture in Colorado
Houses in Arapahoe County, Colorado
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Colorado
Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Colorado
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There are as many reasons as there are snowbirds as to why retirees head to warmer territory than their home state during the winter months. It's not news to anyone who knows me that one of my top reasons is that I can be outside and enjoy nature.
The weather here is like everywhere else – up and down. But, we have had some beautiful, sunny, warm days in the mid 70's. Those days are true gifts from Mother Nature. They allow walks on the beach, at the gardens, or just around a shopping area to enjoy hanging baskets and planters done up for spring. Yes, spring has sprung in South Carolina.
Magnolia tree, hyacinths, tulips, and daffodils.
Besides the beautiful spring blooming flowers, there are also animals to enjoy.
Gator swimming in the tree reflections, fox squirrel, cardinal, and turtles.
We stay in touch with the weather at home because although we're thrilled we don't have to scrape and shovel, we know our daughter is clearing paths and driveways.
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They certainly are! Which reminds me … I need to buy flowers today. Some balm for the soul would be nice!
When we were in the south last week, one of the best parts was seeing the flowers blooming! And the green–we've gone a long time without green up here . . . It'll still be pretty cold when you get home, won't it? You may even get a chance to shovel a little snow, for old times' sake . . . .
Oh, thank you! It is so bleak here that your photos are all the more miraculous. I needed the reminder that winter really isn't eternal. I particularly love those hyacinths (I'm not sure but I think I can smell them from here). Your collages are kind of like quilts, yes –where each part does its own thing yet they all work together? It's a lovely effect!
Believe it! When I spot that first daffodil, they'll hear me on Mars!
Oh Judy, I'm glad you have the opportunity to be surrounded by first spring. It looks lovely. Enjoy the warm weather and perhaps when you get back , the snow will be gone and the air will smell like a new season.
Good to see the magnolia flowering…looking forward to our turn.
I was just about to ask what the little creature in the tree was when I saw that Joyce had correctly identified it as a fox squirrel. Never heard of a fox squirrel and what a treat to see one even if it's only in a photo. Learned something new today. What a great way to start the day!
Not today, but yesterday. A little storm blew in with a few inches of snow.
I've heard rumors of spring spreading to N.C. too. We have potential to hit 60 degrees today in Southern Delaware, and I'll take anything at this point above 40. We are still below freezing some nights this week. My daffodils are poking their leaves up through the garden leaves. I am just wishing for some sunshine. Tired of the gloom. Enjoy your last weeks along the beach and thanks for reminding us that winter is soon over!
Love to see the signs of spring where you are. The trees and some wildflowers were flowering in north central Florida and the azaleas are almost in full bloom here in coastal Georgia. Won't be long before the dogwoods are in full bloom.
Of course I will! They're my favorite. I love pink dogwoods but they are not very common.
I don't have any desire to spend significant time away form this weather up here, but I am a bit jealous of being able to walk and see the beautiful sights you have shared. I hope the rest of your time in SC is as remarkable as these photos, Judy. I'll try to clear the road in Hartford so you have an easy ride through.
I always appreciate when you clear me a path through Hartford. 🙂 We're leaving a couple of days early so we can travel on the weekend hoping there will be less truck traffic at least.
Check your plans against NCAA basketball tournament. Hartford is hosting first round games.
Oh my – thank you for the warning. We'll definitely check.
So nice to see these gorgeous flowers and the magnolia tree in full bloom. I like the shots you took of the turtles and the cardinal. That fox squirrel is quite unique, but it looks a bit intimidating to me. Maybe he's just camera shy!
What a pleasure it is to see nature blooming and critters basking in the warmth of the sun. I am so tired of freezing temperatures and ice and snow and sleet and ice and freezing rain and ice and endless slush and now mud, and did I mention ice? Lol.
What beautiful and interesting photos! Encouraging, too! I am quite ready for more colors around here than white, brown and asphalt!
That fox squirrel is neat. I 've never seen one. Two Springs for a gardener like you must be heaven.
2 springs is a luxury. Lucky you. Such beautiful photos of now… and I'm hoping then. Safe travels.
It's the same here. Many retirees head north from the southern states to warmer temperatures in winter. They hitch up their caravans and go wandering for three or four months. They're fondly known as "grey nomads". Enjoy your beautiful spring weather.
Wow, beautiful! Spring is springing!
What is that scary animal in the tree?!?!
It resembles neither a fox nor a squirrel. It looks like a small panda or a wallaby. I mus be looking at it wrong. Regardless, I would not mess with it.
I never thought I would be one that would be a snowbird, if given the chance, but I think I probably would if I could. But even if we could, I don't think Roger could survive the trips. But I sure enjoyed seeing these photos of what will eventually be here!
I never understood why folks went to warmer climates until I did it the first year. Then I appreciated being able to walk outside in weather that resembled spring/fall temps. Yes, the traveling is not the fun part of it, we do miss family ,but enjoy our time with winter friends.
We've just returned from a short trip to South Carolina; the Lowcountry is one of my favorite parts of the world. It has been spring here at home for some weeks now, as we live in the South. My in-laws (based in NH) used to spend several weeks each winter on the South Carolina shore, and then enjoy a slow trip by car back home with the changing season. There's actually a book called "North With the Spring" by naturalist Edwin Way Teale, describing his and his wife's own journey following the season in the US. It's well worth seeking out!
Spring and nature and rebirth… all go hand in hand.
We are starting to see Spring here in the desert… although a bit late in some areas because of our colder then usual winter. The wildflowers are in full bloom!
Enjoy the rest of your time in the south…!
You brought up a timely issue. The pollen right now is absolutely covering everything with yellow. The pollen count is 10.4/high today from Juniper, Elm, and Oak. First day I've kicked on the AC.
Well…. I'm warming things up for your return trip home to New Hampshire. Today was 61° and I actually sat outdoors on the deck in the sun. Snow is melting fast and running downhill in rivers of water. I hope the snow vanishes soon and these mild temperatures greet you upon your return.
Two springs is a great treat. I just got back from two weeks in CA and it was lovely to see things blooming. Things are warming up here and our own spring won't be long now. Hopefully, your return will be timed perfectly!
What a glorious spring! Well, at least here we have the first Snowdrops.


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South Korean President: You Know Who Deserves "Big Credit" For Panmunjom Talks, Right?
South Korean President: You Know Who Deserves "Big Credit" For Panmunjom Talks, Right? Hot Air, Ed Morrissey, January 10, 2018
Wait — Moon Jae-in can't mean the man who is going to get us all nuked, can he? Well, yes, that's precisely what South Korea's president means. After opening the first talks with North Korea in over two years, Moon told reporters that Donald Trump deserves "big credit" for forcing the Kim regime to the table with a fresh strategy of hardball from the US (via Jake Tapper):
South Korean President Moon Jae-in credited U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday for helping to spark the first inter-Korean talks in more than two years, and warned that Pyongyang would face stronger sanctions if provocations continued. …
Seoul and Pyongyang agreed at Tuesday's talks, the first since December 2015, to resolve all problems between them through dialogue and also to revive military consultations so that accidental conflict could be averted.
"I think President Trump deserves big credit for bringing about the inter-Korean talks, I want to show my gratitude," Moon told reporters at his New Year's news conference. "It could be a resulting work of the U.S.-led sanctions and pressure."
Granted, Moon softens this with a conditional in the end, but it doesn't keep him from providing the credit up front. Previous administrations seemed more content to kick the can down the road, especially the Obama administration, which kept up sanctions but kept trying to downplay the crisis. Thanks to that approach, other players were able to shrug off the North Korean crisis, especially China.
Trump has taken a different tack; he is acting as though the crisis were present, which it is and has been for some time now. Trump has increased the pace and reach of sanctions to the point where North Korea now has very few avenues for trade on critical commodities such as fuel and food. Trump's belligerence has forced China into action to try to bring its obstreperous client under some form of control. The disruption even forced Moon, who ran as an appeaser looking to dial down tensions, into deploying the THAAD systems he had opposed during his campaign.
Besides the fact that it reflects reality, Moon's credit sets the table for an eventual US-North Korea negotiations, one expert tells Reuters:
Lee Woo-young, a professor at the University of North Korean Studies in Seoul, said it was wise of Moon to praise Trump, his sanctions and pressure campaign.
"By doing that, he can help the U.S. build logic for moving toward negotiations and turning around the state of affairs in the future, so when they were ready to talk to the North, they can say the North came out of isolation because the sanctions were effective."
At this point, direct negotiations are the only path left to avoid another armed conflict. Trump has said he would consider that option if the conditions were right, although Kim Jong-un has so far balked at the idea until he achieves nuclear parity with the US. This week's talks could provide a short-cut to a settlement, but don't expect Trump to take his foot off the gas pedal until those talks become a reality. He's getting pretty good mileage right now out of his foreign policy toward the Korean Peninsula, and Moon corroborates that.
This makes Andrew Malcolm's latest column on Trump's foreign policy and general productivity look prescient:
Trump's tweets at North Korea's "little Rocket Man" draw instant media attention, even igniting speculations on the president's mental health. They reinforce a popular perception that this president is a loose cannon, a perception he sometimes seeks and feeds with unorthodox presidential behavior and statements.
What doesn't get reported so eagerly nor attributed to Trump's presidency are puzzling positive developments: Economic growth exceeding three percent by Trump's seventh month, unemployment falling to longtime lows, 1.84 million new jobs since Trump's inauguration, confident stock markets soaring to all-time highs, new homebuilding up, dozens of large companies granting bonuses and wage hikes. Even Trump's job approval was climbing at year's end.
How can so many things be going so well with an unbalanced usurper in the Oval Office? …
These and other actions demonstrating freshened resolve abroad suggest when it comes to foreign policy, friends and foes alike would do well to note that Trump follows words with action.
They're beginning to notice that in Pyongyang.
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U.S., South Korea begin massive military drill in wake of North Korea missile launch
U.S., South Korea begin massive military drill in wake of North Korea missile launch, Washington Times, Carlo Muñoz, December 4, 2017
(China and Russia, not to mention Kim Jong-un, will not like it. Good.
— DM)
A U.S. Air Force EA-18G Growler fighter jet prepares to land at the Osan U.S. Air Base in Pyeongtaek, South Korea, Monday, Dec. 4, 2017. Hundreds of aircrafts including two dozen stealth jets began training Monday
Among the various combat scenarios both forces are expected to play out during the weeklong drill, several will focus on "enemy infiltration and precision strike drills with South Korean jets," Air Force officials told the Military Times.
Ahead of Monday's kickoff of the U.S.-South Korea wargames, National Security Adviser Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster warned that Pyongyang's continued aggression on the peninsula was inching the region closer to war.
"I think it's increasing every day, which means that we are in a race, really, we are in a race to be able to solve this problem," Gen. McMaster said Sunday during a speech at the Reagan National Defense Forum in Simi Valley, California.
Over 200 American and South Korean warplanes took to the skies above the Korean peninsula on Monday in one of the largest military drills between the two allies in recent history and a massive show of force against the North Korean regime.
The annual exercise, dubbed Vigilant Ace, comes less than a week after Pyongyang carried out a successful test launch of its newest intercontinental ballistic missile. The test launch of the new Hwasong-15 weapon traveled longer and farther than any North Korean intercontinental missile to date.
The launch, carried out from a North Korean weapons facility in Sain Ni, forced Japanese officials to put the country's northern provinces located along the missile's trajectory on high alert.
The Nov. 6 missile test was further proof that the North Korean regime remains committed to the "effort to build a ballistic missile threat that endangers world peace, regional peace and threatens the United States," Defense Secretary James Mattis said shortly after the missile test.
The Pentagon says the large-scale wargames between Washington and Seoul over the weekend were part of annual military drills routinely conducted between the allied nations. That said, the exercise featured several pieces of U.S. military hardware — such as the stealth-capable F-22A Raptor and F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, as well as long-range B-1 bombers — that could be used in potential strikes against North Korean targets should war break out on the peninsula.
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Trump strikes at the heart of the North Korean regime with speech
Trump strikes at the heart of the North Korean regime with speech, Washington Post, Anna Fifield, November 8, 2017
(Here's a North Korean propaganda video from 2010. An attractive North Korean girl explains that life is wonderful in North Korea and far better than in South Korea or America. Some high-level members of the Kim regime, until they say or do something the Dear Leader considers insulting, may even live as well as the video suggests is common throughout the country.
President Trump's full speech is available here. — DM)
It is hard to exaggerate the reverence with which North Koreans are forced to treat the Kim family. Every home and all public buildings must display portraits of Kim Il Sung and his son, Kim Jong Il, that must be cleaned only with a special cloth. North Koreans must bow at monuments to the leaders and sing songs celebrating their supposedly legendary feats.
There is no escaping the Kims and the narrative that they have created a utopia that is the envy of the world.
TOKYO — President Trump has said on several occasions that he's willing to talk to the North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. Well, on Wednesday, Trump did — after a fashion.
The American president directly addressed his 33-year-old nemesis during his speech to South Korea's National Assembly. This time, Trump didn't call Kim "Little Rocket Man" or use the kinds of rhetorical flourishes that play so well on Twitter.
But the words that Trump used will have cut deeper because they strike at the very heart of the Kim regime.
If there is one thing that Kim Jong Un has shown that he cannot tolerate, it's personal criticism.
"North Korea is not the paradise your grandfather envisioned," Trump said to Kim, who, if he was in Pyongyang, was just 120 miles away. "It is a hell that no person deserves."
Kim Il Sung, who is revered like a god in North Korean propaganda, established the country in 1948 as a "socialist paradise" of free housing, health care, and education where people would want for nothing. Kim Jong Un claims his legitimacy to be the leader as the direct descendant of this quasi-deity.
Trump devoted a large part of his address to detailing the human rights abuses that the Kims have committed in North Korea, filling his speech with words like "twisted," "sinister," "tyrant," "fascism" and "cult."
"I wanted to stand up from my seat and shout 'yahoo!'" said Lee Hyeon-seo, an escapee from North Korea who was sitting in the assembly hall Wednesday during Trump's address. "We just don't hear people talking about North Korea in this way in South Korea, so I was very emotional during the speech. I was very impressed."
Trump noted the slave-like conditions that North Korean workers endure, the malnutrition among children, the suppression of religion, and the forced-labor prison camps where North Koreans endure "torture, starvation, rape, and murder on a constant basis."
Other advocates for North Koreans expressed hope that Trump's remarks would remind the outside world that the country is not just home to a dictator with nuclear weapons, but 25 million people who suffer under him.
"President Trump spoke about human rights in North Korea more than any other previous U.S. president," Jeong Kwang-il, who was held as a political prisoner in North Korea and now runs the "No Chain for North Korea" human rights group in Seoul. "I'm hopeful that American policy toward North Korea will focus more on improving human rights there."
The president did not mince his words about the way the Kim regime has managed to retain its grip on the populace.
"North Korea is a country ruled as a cult. At the center of this military cult is a deranged belief in the leader's destiny to rule as parent protector over a conquered Korean Peninsula and an enslaved Korean people," he said.
The success of South Korea discredited "the dark fantasy at the heart of the Kim regime," Trump said.
So to suggest that the regime is founded on a "fantasy" and that the country is something other than a socialist paradise amounts to heresy in North Korea.
"This speech made the 'axis of evil' speech look friendly," said John Delury, a professor of international relations at Yonsei University in Seoul, referring to President George W. Bush's 2002 State of the Union speech, in which he included North Korea as a country seeking weapons of mass destruction.
"That sent a signal to Pyongyang that the Americans are not open to changing their relationship with North Korea and that the president was deeply hostile and ideologically hostile to them."
But others saw an opening from Trump, with his suggestion there was a way out of the current quagmire. "Despite every crime you have committed against God and man … we will offer a path to a much better future," Trump said, saying that this would require total denuclearization.
The president publicly offered a "diplomacy exit ramp" to the Kim regime, Victor Cha, tipped to be Trump's nominee for ambassador to South Korea, wrote on Twitter.
At a press conference with South Korean president Moon Jae-in the previous day, Trump urged North Korea "to come to the table" and "do the right thing, not only for North Korea but for humanity all over the world."
At recent meetings near Geneva and in Moscow, Pyongyang's representatives have signaled an interest in talks with the United States — as long as those talks are not about denuclearization, a non-starter for Washington.
The regime in Pyongyang is likely to react angrily to Trump's speech.
After Trump threatened at the U.N. General Assembly in September to "totally destroy" North Korea and mocked Kim as "Rocket Man," Kim took the unprecedented step of releasing a statement in his own name, calling Trump a "mentally deranged U.S. dotard" who would "pay dearly" for his threats.
At the same time, North Korea's foreign minister said the country might detonate a nuclear device over the Pacific.
A U.N. Commission of Inquiry once charged that the blame for North Korea's human rights abuses went all way to the top of the leadership, leading to calls for Kim Jong Un to be referred to the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity.
That prompted North Korean officials to respond publicly to questions about human rights conditions in a way they had not before — a clear attempt to defend the dignity of their leader.
"North Korea tends to react sensitively to criticism in human rights," said Cheong Seong-chang, director of the unification strategy program at the Sejong Institute, a private think tank in South Korea.
He predicted that the response would be especially sharp because of the time that Trump spent talking about North Korea and the detail he went into, plus the president's repeated calls for the world to isolate the country.
"North Korea is highly likely to take Trump's address as a declaration of war and call for a holy war of its own against the U.S.," Cheong said.
Yoonjung Seo in Seoul contributed reporting.
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Trump's Biggest Challenge in Seoul
Trump's Biggest Challenge in Seoul, American Thinker, Daren Jonescu, November 7, 2017
There is no equivalency here. North Korea's hostilities are their essence, not a product of outside provocation, real or imagined. Anything they do will be on their own heads, as will any destruction that gets unleashed upon them due to their actions. Theirs is a regime that has no moral legitimacy, and hence, while no one is obliged to do anything about that, neither does anyone owe their rule, their aspirations, or their tender feelings any respect.
The only moral considerations that have any weight in this issue are related to whether annihilating Kim's national death camp — inherently justifiable — is worth the risk it may bring to the lives of other nations' citizens.
Donald Trump is in South Korea today. All focus, of course, is on whether Trump and recently-elected Korean president Moon Jae-in will present a unified position against North Korean aggression. Or let me restate that in words that make sense within the current zeitgeist: "a unified position on how to avoid an escalation of tensions with North Korea."
In our worldwide progressive paradigm, suggesting that the problem to be solved here is the threat posed by a tyrannical rogue state's immoral behavior is considered inflammatory. Rather, we are all supposed to pretend that North Korea is "a sovereign state" with "legitimate concerns about being threatened by the U.S. military presence in Asia," and that its outrageous provocations, unprovoked violence, and frequent promises to annihilate its democratic enemies are merely "understandable responses to its increased global isolation."
Demonstrators reacting to Trump's visit
(Even many conservatives of the libertarian bent are wont to ask, "How would you feel if your neighbors were all discussing how to end your regime?" — as though rationalizing a killing machine's sensitivities were anything but a moral absurdity.)
As for President Moon, a progressive appeaser in the mold of his old ally and boss, Roh Moo-hyun (of North-South "Sunshine Policy" fame), he may be a tough sell on taking a stronger stand against North Korea. He would likely accept the inevitable if necessary, however, especially since Japan has already signed onto America's "all options on the table" position, and since China has remained largely aloof from the situation so far.
But President Moon probably will have to be dragged to a harder stance by events — a bizarre thing to have to say about the president of a nation that is technically at war with a communist madhouse dictatorship that tore his own country in half, has starved and enslaved millions of his countrymen, and has carried out repeated acts of murderous aggression against the South in recent years, in addition to its constant threats of all-out attack. Talk about Stockholm Syndrome.
But the depth of the moral problem facing this world — in which most governments, media voices, and academics are progressive in their underlying principles and perspective — may be seen in the sheer silliness with which people speak of what might cause an "escalation of hostilities" with North Korea. Here is a perfect example, from Professor Koo Kab-woo at the University of North Korean Studies in Seoul. (Imagine the political perspective likely to prevail at a university with such a name.)
Addressing the concern that Trump might say or do something careless or bombastic during his South Korean trip, Professor Koo says, "If Trump says anything that can provoke North Korea, it could send military tensions soaring again."
Right. North Korea is calm and trying to restore a peaceful coexistence. But what if Trump goes and blows it with a stupid remark?
You see, the tensions, whatever might have caused them (who can say?), have settled recently, but if they rise again due to Trump's rhetoric during his visit to Seoul, then the resulting danger will be on America's head for having "provoked" it.
This is a classic moral equivalency argument (and an excellent preview of exactly how China will respond if an armed conflict begins on the Korean peninsula): "Both sides need to calm down. If Nation A (the world's oldest republic and traditional leader of the free world) causes things to escalate again by speaking too harshly, then Nation B (a bloody tyranny starving its own broken people and threatening the world with nuclear war) cannot be held solely responsible for the resulting rise in tensions."
This is the same argument used for decades to frame the Cold War as a battle between "two noble experiments," rather than between good and evil. It is the same argument used to equate the pro-Palestinian efforts by much of the Middle East (along with the UN and Europe and most of academia and the North American left) to wipe Israel off the map, to Israeli efforts to push back in defense of a nation the size of New Jersey.
Moral equivalency in international relations — "both sides are to blame," or "both sides have understandable concerns" — is the last refuge of the morally bankrupt. In this case, expressing peevishness that somehow Donald Trump's words might provoke North Korean hostilities is a convenient way of implying that North Korea is not inherently, essentially hostile to begin with, but rather that any hostility they display is merely a response to outside instigation. Thus, a tyranny is falsely portrayed as an equal participant in difficult diplomacy, rather than a victim of its own obsession with power and destruction. This in turn creates an aura of legitimacy around one of the most illegitimate regimes of modern times.
I myself have been critical of Trump's often careless rhetoric on North Korea, but my concern has always been that by speaking too cavalierly, Trump risks tipping his administration's hand unnecessarily, or painting himself into a strategic corner with Obama-like "red lines." My concerns, in other words, are related to American interests, not North Korea's "feelings." Under no circumstances would I ever suggest Trump's words or actions were to blame for North Korea's behavior.
Similarly, appeasers like Moon Jae-in, who has used moral equivalency arguments against his own nation and yet has somehow been elected president under the guise of a "champion of the people" — reminiscent of Barack Obama in that regard, both in policy and in manner — exacerbate a national tragedy by emboldening a dictatorship. But by no means would I suggest such appeasers are to blame for the murderous aspirations of Kim Jong-un's illegitimate regime.
North Korea is a brutal dictatorship with fantasies of eventually uniting the Korean peninsula under their communist bloodlust regime. They, and they alone, are to blame for their aggression; their aggression is not a response to anything, but rather their regime's raison d'être.
Progressives constantly use moral equivalency arguments and moral relativism to obscure the crimes committed in the name of their death cult ideology. They have thereby obliterated an extremely proper and reasonable category of political discourse: illegitimate power.
In this age, any tyranny that survives long enough to become stable in its authority, or that exists as a protectorate of a bigger tyranny, is regarded as "sovereign," in the sense of unassailable. The UN exists largely to reinforce and defend the "right" of unjust regimes to exist unchallenged, or to set strict limits on the conditions in which such regimes may be confronted by the so-called "international community."
North Korea, under its current and permanent government, is not a sovereign nation. It is an illegitimate tyrannical regime, a state governed by men without even a pretense of concern for the well-being of their trampled population, which exists not at all as citizens, but rather as slaves, without any modicum or memory of self-determination or self-ownership.
To legitimize that regime by worrying about whether Donald Trump might say something to "raise tensions" is to miss the point. Tensions are permanent and unavoidable when a tyranny feels its power threatened. But tyrannies deserve to feel their power threatened, and in fact they always will. As Plato taught us long ago, the tyrannical man is the most frightened man in the world, for he lives in the knowledge that his power is not deserved, and that everyone hates him for it. He cannot sleep at night, because he cannot even trust his own guards, or his own brother.
But today, we are told not to speak too loudly, lest we disturb the tyrant's sleep and make him angry, as if we would be to blame if our would-be killer's anger were roused. Thus, progressives defend one of their own — an extreme and ridiculous one to be sure, but one of them nonetheless — with moral equivalency arguments.
Daren Jonescu lives in South Korea where he writes about politics, philosophy, education, and the decline of civilization at http://darenjonescu.com/.
Categories: Kim Jong-un, North Korea - military options, North Korea - negotiations, North Korea - recognition as a nuclear power, North Korean dictatorship, North Korean missiles, North Korean nukes, South Korean President Moon Jae-in, Trump and North Korea, Trump and South Korea
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South Korean President: Trump's 'Very Strong Speech' Will 'Help Contain North Korea'
South Korean President: Trump's 'Very Strong Speech' Will 'Help Contain North Korea', Washington Free Beacon, Paul Crookston, September 21, 2017
South Korean President Moon Jae-in expressed his support Thursday for President Donald Trump's stance on North Korea's nuclear program, indicating it will be effective to help contain its Northern neighbor.
At a meeting in New York City, Trump and Moon focused on responding to the North Korean regime's development of nuclear weapons and long-range ballistic missiles. During the discussion, the South Korean president said, through an interpreter, that he is satisfied with Trump's firm approach toward the North Korean regime and leader Kim Jong Un.
"North Korea has continued to make provocations and this is extremely deplorable and this has angered both me and our people," Moon said. "But the United States has responded firmly and in a very good way and because of this I also believe that we have very close coordination between Korea and the United States and because of this I am very satisfied."
Trump joked about the interpreter using "deplorable," a word Hillary Clinton famously used during the election to describe Trump's supporters.
Moon specifically praised Trump's speech at the U.N., saying it will "help contain North Korea."
"Mr. President, in the U.N. general assembly you made a very strong speech and I believe that the strength of your speech will also help contain North Korea," Moon said. "Thank you very much."
Trump's initial words emphasized his cooperation with Moon and other allies in Asia.
"We are meeting on a constant basis," Trump said. "We'll be meeting in a little while also with Prime Minister Abe of Japan and that will be a tri-meeting, so we will see. But, I think we're making a lot of progress in a lot of different ways. Stay tuned."
Trump made a point to say North Korea was the more important issue, but also referred to ongoing negotiations regarding the United State's trade deal with South Korea.
"We are on a very friendly basis working on trade and working on trade agreements and we'll see how that all comes out," Trump said. Later he remarked that the current deal has been "so bad for the United States and so good for South Korea."
"We're going to try to straighten out the trade deal and make it fair for everybody," Trump said shortly before going into a meeting with Moon and Abe. "But our real focus will be on the military and our relationship with South Korea, which is excellent, really excellent."
Moon also emphasized that he has spoken with Trump regularly about the Kim regime situation. He did not address trade deals.
"Mr. President, I have met with you several times and have also had many telephone conversations with you, and because of this I am becoming more and more familiar with you," Moon said.
Trump also announced an executive order to bring new sanctions against countries who trade with North Korea.
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South Korea, U.S. to scrap warhead weight limit on South Korean missiles: Blue House
South Korea, U.S. to scrap warhead weight limit on South Korean missiles: Blue House, Reuters, Christine Kim, September 4, 2017
South Korea said earlier in the day it was talking to the United States about deploying aircraft carriers and strategic bombers to the Korean peninsula after signs North Korea might launch more missiles.
SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korean President Moon Jae-in and his U.S. counterpart Donald Trump agreed on Monday to scrap a warhead weight limit on South Korea's missiles in the wake of North Korea's sixth nuclear test, South Korea's presidential office said.
In a separate phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin also on Monday, Moon said the U.N. Security Council should seek ways to sever North Korea's foreign currency income, including from its workers employed abroad and oil shipments.
Under the existing missile pact between the United States and South Korea, Seoul's warheads currently face a cap of 500 kg (1100 lb).
The agreement, last amended in 2012, was in the process of being changed in the wake of a series of missile tests by North Korea this year after Moon took office in May, including two intercontinental ballistic missile launches.
An unlimited warhead weight allowance would enable the South to strike North Korea with greater force in the event of a military conflict.
The missiles would still be bound by a flight range cap of 800 km. No changes to the flight range were mentioned in the Blue House statement.
The two presidents made the decision in a phone call, a statement from the Blue House said. They also agreed to apply the strongest sanctions and pressure on North Korea through the United Nations.
Most analysts and policymakers agree cutting off the oil pipeline to North Korea would hurt its economy. It remains to be seen whether China, the North's biggest ally and trade partner, would cooperate.
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