13 May 2010

To most, a joke; to a few, a nightmare: Did you hear the one about North Korea claiming to have achieved nuclear fusion? Something tells me that my banner image will still be good for the time being.

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Like most things about North Korea, its World Cup team looks rather strange to foreign eyes.

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Another North Korean man has defected to the South by sea.

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The Chosun Ilbo talks about North Korea’s special forces, and the damage they could do to the inhabitants of a South Korean city.

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I like Aidan Foster-Carter’s new piece on denial and North Korea; in fact, this pretty much sums up what I’ve felt for years in many ways. Unlike Foster-Carter, however, I’m optimistic that South Korea — its government, at least — is just about done with denial. Instead, I see Lee Myung-Bak actually laying a neat foundation to shift his country’s policy in a much tougher direction, and to induce the United States to do the same.

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More bad publicity for the thugs at Samsung.