Open Sources: Election Special
I can’t believe Kim Jong Il just got re-elected again! I don’t know a single person who voted for him!
If current trends continue, however, and subversive information continues to pour across North Korea’s borders, Kim Jong Il’s approval rating could decline into the high nineties by the time of the next election. And in related news, North Korea’s borders are also a two-way street. Yonhap reports on how information is smuggled out of North Korea, and I don’t mean by the Democratic Labor Party, either.
Well, it has been almost a year since they shelled South Korea: North Korea demands peace treaty.
I’m waiting for some conspiracy theorist to allege that China’s increasingly predatory foreign policy is a plot by the military-industrial complex to drive every small Asian nation into the arms of the Pentagon and sell them weapons. That certainly seems to be the effect it’s having. The more I see, the more convinced I become that Asia needs its own equivalent to NATO as an alliance against Chinese aggression. In some form or another, that alliance needs to include Taiwan.
The Jim Gomez story about China’s increasingly predatory foreign policy tells us, ‘The Philippines has said it intends to bring the Spratlys disputes before the U.N.’s International Tribunal on the Law of the Sea.’ The United States Senate has not approved the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea.