North Korea, which was removed from the list of state sponsors of terrorism on October 11, 2008 as a reward for its nuclear disarmament, looks to be preparing another nuclear weapons test. _________________________________ “It’s changed out there, and it’s dangerous. Increasingly dangerous,” Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said during an informal question and answer session with troops in Iraq. What does it tell you that soldiers in Iraq are fretting about Korea? _________________________________ China has done...

Libby Liu, the President of Radio Free Asia, writes: [M]ounting evidence suggests that there are cracks, through which North Koreans are able to get a glimmer of the world outside their own. Cell phone use has shot up, especially along the Chinese border where wireless signals are stronger. This also is just one of the means by which many relatives of the 20,000 North Korean defectors in the South keep in touch with their family members. Restricted technology such as...