Archives for the 'Korea' Category
Mata Hwa-ri Nabbed
Published on 27 Aug 2008 at 1:52 pm.
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Filed under Korea, sex.
North Korean spy “used sex as a tool for her spying.” It’s a low-budget Bond scenario, as model defector/anti-communist speaker Won Jeong-hwa is accused of taking in $60,000 in cash and goods for funneling information she got after seducing a Capt. Hwang, among others who apparently let their little hwangs do the thinking. via Boston Herald. [...]
Kim Cheesed
Published on 6 Apr 2008 at 8:49 pm.
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Filed under Kim, Korea.
Commie dictator rallies the troops in ongoing snit over new ROK hardliner’s hard line. Yonhap News:
KNews
Published on 10 Mar 2008 at 8:54 am.
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Filed under Kim, Korea, media.
WSJ’s “Rare Glimpse at Pyongyang” vid. What is interesting is how closely this supposedly objective reactionary propaganda resembles the demented, madcap, anti-Juche presentation of “Team America: World Police.”
Here’s your one-stop spot if you want some straight NK reporting.
Attention K-Mart Shoppers
Published on 2 Nov 2007 at 7:55 am.
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Filed under Kim, Korea.
No, not that K-Mart. This is a Red Light Special. Stratfor re North Korea’s economic charm offensive, as Kim seeks all the benefits of foreign investment, without any of that political reform, standard-of-living raising nonsense. Stratfor outlines great ground-floor opportunities for boutique investment in old-fashioned totalitarianism for those not averse to a little risk:
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Concerns About Stability
Published on 6 Oct 2007 at 7:27 pm.
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Filed under Iran, Israel, Korea, Syria.
This is interesting. Concerns about stability in the region stalled attack on Syrian nuke facility.
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About Korea
Published on 4 Jun 2007 at 12:02 am.
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Filed under Iraq, Korea.
As this Washington Post editorial notes, the 54-year old war is back in the news. Bush’s invocation of its name drew mockery and disgust as well as, in this case, recognition that what he is talking about is stabilizing the country, the region, the future. A position all reasonable parties in government are going to have to arrive [...]
