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<p>Here’s what they might be saying in the White House this evening: It’s only Wednesday.</p> <p>It’s been a rough week for the Obama administration with revelations the Justice Department tracked reporters’ phone lines adding to the pressure already building over the response to that attack in Benghazi last September and the IRS’s targeting of conservative groups.</p>

China, as a "traditional friend" to North Korea, is loathe to discuss contingency plans to prepare for possible political unrest in the reclusive regime, a Chinese scholar said yesterday. The reason is partially because the Chinese do not believe the internal political system in the North is subject to imminent collapse, and also because North Korea has its rights as a United Nations member and sovereign country. "Beijing would look at a possible political implosion in North Korea in the most negative terms and would never try to destabilize that country or join others to do so," said Wang Ji-si,...