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A blunt and explicit threat from North Korea on Thursday that its missile and nuclear programs would “target” the United States poses a stark challenge to the Obama Administration even as it hoped it could focus its major diplomatic effort on restraining Iran’s less-advanced nuclear program. (“North Korea Issues Blunt Threat to United States,” New… Read more.
President Obama led a chorus of world leaders hurling patently meaningless condemnation at North Korea yesterday after it launched a long-range missile/satellite into space. Never mind that the only thing newsworthy about this launch is that (after the fifth, brazen attempt) it appears to have been successful. Moreover, all indications are that the only danger… Read more.
Yesterday the world was treated to curious images of people wailing in the streets of North Korea upon hearing the news that Kim Jong-il, the man who had served more as jailer than leader for the past 17 years, had died of a sudden heart attack. Instead of sympathy, though, their public display of grief evoked… Read more.
The United States and South Korea wrapped up four days of “war games” in the Yellow Sea yesterday – in what can only be described as an accidental response to North Korea’s manic shelling of a fishing village and military base in the South on November 23. I dismiss it as accidental because these games were scheduled… Read more.
Here’s to a groveling plea and a whole lotta cash to secure their release…. And, trust me, nothing would please Lil’ Kim more than to have Gore, the former vice president of the United States, personally make this plea while handing over a Yankee-size bag of cash. [North Korea adds kidnapping (of US journalists) to its diplomatic arsenal, TIJ, June… Read more.
No doubt you’ve seen how much fear and loathing North Korean President Kim Jong-Il incited among G-20 leaders this week with his latest threat to test fire his stockpile of missiles. And no doubt he did this in a hissy fit just to remind everyone that he’s still a far greater menace to the world than that Iranian guy – Ahmadinejad. But I’ve been fulminating for years against the… Read more.
