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Archive for the 'North Korea' Category

Sometimes An Earthquake Isn’t Just An Earthquake

by @ Monday, October 9th, 2006. Filed under Foreign Affairs, North Korea

Sometimes, its an underground nuclear test by a regime run by a nutcase:
TOKYO, Oct. 9 — North Korea declared on Monday that it had conducted its first nuclear test, asserting a claim to be the world’s newest nuclear power and drawing strong international condemnation.
The South Korean government informed officials in Washington that an explosion occurred [...]

This Can’t Be Good News

by @ Saturday, October 7th, 2006. Filed under Foreign Affairs, North Korea

Things are getting tense on along the 38th parallel:
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Shots were fired Saturday along the heavily armed no man’s land separating the divided Koreas as regional tensions mounted in anticipation of communist North Korea’s plan to test its first atomic bomb.
South Korean soldiers fired warning shots shortly before noon (0300 GMT) [...]

Just In Case You Were Getting Bored

by @ Thursday, August 17th, 2006. Filed under North Korea

Now that the Middle East is cooling down, relatively speaking of course, it’s time for North Korea to start making noise again.
Aug. 17, 2006 ??There is new evidence that North Korea may be preparing for an underground test of a nuclear bomb, U.S. officials told ABC News.
“It is the view of the intelligence community that [...]

Okay, This Means War

by @ Thursday, July 6th, 2006. Filed under Foreign Affairs, North Korea

If reports are to be believed, that North Korean missile test on July 4th may have been aimed at America’s 50th state:
TOKYO (Reuters) - A North Korean missile launched on Wednesday was aimed at an area of the ocean close to Hawaii, a Japanese newspaper reported on Friday.
Experts estimated the Taepodong-2 ballistic missile to have [...]

North Korean Fireworks

by @ Wednesday, July 5th, 2006. Filed under Foreign Affairs, North Korea

While America was celebrating its 230th birthday, North Korea was providing some fireworks of its own:
WASHINGTON (CNN) — North Korea test-fired a long-range missile and five shorter-range rockets early Wednesday, but the closely watched long-range test failed within a minute, U.S. officials said.
The tests began shortly after 3:30 a.m. local time (2:30 p.m. Tuesday ET) [...]

A Glimpse Into The Gulag

by @ Wednesday, June 28th, 2006. Filed under Foreign Affairs, Individual Liberty, North Korea

From Will Collier at Vodkapundit comes a link to photos taken by a Russian web designer on a recent visit to North Korea. Most of these photos were taken without permission, meaning we get a glimpse of what life inside one of the world’s last Gulag’s is really like.

From Star Wars To Real War

by @ Tuesday, June 20th, 2006. Filed under Foreign Affairs, North Korea

As North Korea apparently gets ready to test a missile capable of reaching Western North America, the United States has put its missle defense system into operational mode.
The Pentagon activated its new U.S. ground-based interceptor missile defense system, and officials announced yesterday that any long-range missile launch by North Korea would be considered a “provocative [...]

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