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South Korean President Lee Myung-bak took responsibility for failing to protect his country against attack and threatened retaliation against any further provocation by North Korea.

Tieyan Liu of Microsoft Research Asia in Beijing says that as a researcher, he isn't focused on the competition, but rather on his own projects — and on how best to collaborate with his colleagues in the U.S. He reflects on what his facility has meant for Chinese-educated researchers and for the country's universities.

North Korea warned Friday that U.S.-South Korean plans for military maneuvers put the peninsula on the brink of war.

President Obama pledged the U.S. would defend South Korea after the North shot dozens of rounds of artillery onto Yeonpyeong island, near their disputed western border. Two South Korean marines were killed. The South Korean army fired back, deploying fighter jets to the area.

President Obama pledged Tuesday that the United States would defend South Korea after what the White House branded an outrageous attack by North Korea on its neighbor.

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Institutional Wellbeing, on view through August 9th at Oceanside Museum of Art.

Conceptual artist Brian Goeltzenleuchter creates a special scent for Oceanside Museum of Art.

Steve Inskeep speaks with NPR's Scott Horsley, who is traveling with President Obama in Asia, about the Group of 20 summit in Seoul, South Korea. Horsley says the leaders agreed to develop yardsticks to help detect when a country is running too big of a deficit or too big of a surplus.

The U.S. and others say they are ready to broaden the leadership of key international institutions, but the emerging powers may not be satisfied with a share of the leadership. They may want to change the institutions themselves and the principles that guide them.