Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2018

The Daily

The New York Times

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🗓️ 16 January 2018

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

As South Korea prepares to host the Winter Olympics, it has been eager to get the North to participate. What is Seoul afraid will happen if it won’t? And, for 38 minutes on Saturday morning, people in Hawaii believed that a missile was headed for the state. Guest: Susan Chira, a Times journalist who covered Asia in the 1980s, when South Korea hosted the Olympic Games for the first time; voice mail messages from people who received a false alert about an incoming missile attack in Hawaii. For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily.

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0:26.0	From the New York Times, I'm Michael Barbarrow.
0:32.8	This is Daily.
0:37.4	Today, South Korea has been eager to get North Korea's participation in the 2018 Winter Olympics.
0:48.0	What are they afraid of if they don't?
0:52.4	Then, the 38 minutes on Saturday morning when people in Hawaii believed a missile was
0:59.6	headed for the state.
1:03.3	It's Tuesday, January 16th.
1:08.2	The International Olympic Committee is meeting to unveil where the next 1988 Olympics will
1:31.3	be held and it's a big surprise.
1:34.5	They're going to be held in Seoul.
1:49.2	Susan Chira reported on the situation for the times.
1:53.3	So I actually was a correspondent in Asia for the times.
1:56.9	I arrived in the 80s and when I got to Seoul, it was palpable.
2:02.5	The Seoul Olympics will be the biggest and best games ever.
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