Jon Karl flags a Danish television clip showing how President Obama welcomed Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt to the Oval Office last month by noting the Danes “punch above their weight in international affairs.”

But the video also cleverly shows how President Obama has — in the same Oval Office setting — found that “Norway punches above its weight.” Ireland, too. And the Netherlands. And even the Philippines.

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Just hours before Daw Aung San Suu Kyi announced her return to politics, President Obama said he was sending Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on a visit to Myanmar next month, the New York Times reports.

“The twin events underscored the remarkable and sudden pace of change in Myanmar, which has stunned observers inside and outside the country, analysts said.”

The Washington Post notes “the two-day trip, starting Dec. 1, would mark the first visit by a U.S. secretary of state in 50 years.”

A man wearing nothing but a loin cloth and carrying a torch ran behind Secretary of State Hillary Clinton during a photo op in Hawaii.

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The New York Times confirms reports that the radical American-born cleric Anwar al-Awlaki was killed in a drone strike in Yemen.

First Read: “No president since George H.W. Bush has had more foreign-policy successes happen under his watch than President Obama. The death of bin Laden. The dismantling of al Qaeda. The ouster of Khaddafy. And the end of combat operations in Iraq. Yet when you look at polls and Obama’s approval rating, he’s getting almost no credit from the American public, a la Bush 41.”

Jake Tapper: “Remember when Rudy Giuliani warned that electing Barack Obama would mean that the U.S. played defense, not offense, against the terrorists? If this is defense, what does offense look like?”

Andrew Sullivan: “Obama has done in two years what Bush failed to do in eight.”