Good morning. A new president in South Korea signals shifting political winds, but will his leadership bring stability or more chaos?

We don't know how he will implement his foreign policy and security policy, and we don't know if he will try to reconcile the two very divided

halves of the South Korean electorate.

And the Church of England gets ready to choose its next Archbishop of Canterbury.

Also learning new skills later in life can still pay off, just maybe not the way you'd

expect.

Fortunately or unfortunately, there are muscles that develop when we're children that stop

developing when we reach a certain age.

And World Commentator Count Thomas on the lasting effects of losing the war in Vietnam.

It's Thursday, June 19th. This is The World and Everything in it from listener-supported World Radio.

I'm Mary Riker.

And I'm Myrna Brown.

Good morning.

Time now for the news with Kent Covington.

A plea for peace.

A Palestinian citizen of Israel heard there saying that his wife and two daughters were killed in an Iranian missile strike over the weekend.

His family members among the roughly two dozen residents killed in Israel since the back-and-forth

air strikes began a week ago when Israel launched a mission to destroy Iran's nuclear sites.

And sirens once again rang out over Tel Aviv yesterday as Israeli air defenses intercepted more incoming Iranian missiles.

But the Wall Street Journal reports that Israel's defenses may be increasingly vulnerable

with defense forces running low on critical arrow defensive interceptors.

As for Iran publicly, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei says his government has no intention of backing down.

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