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	<title>A Second Hand Conjecture &#187; japan</title>
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		<title>China&#8217;s Hurt Feelings</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/12/12/chinas-hurt-feelings/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2008 06:17:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Blogger FangKC queried the archive of the People&#8217;s Daily, the Chinese Communist Party&#8217;s mouthpiece, and discovered that 19 countries and organizations have been officially accused of hurting the feelings of the Chinese people. You can anticipate some such as the &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/12/12/chinas-hurt-feelings/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Post-Post-American World</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/01/the-post-post-american-world/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Nov 2008 13:10:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, did you enjoy the much discussed post-American world order? Hope you didn&#8217;t miss it. Surely it didn&#8217;t lack for advertising. But if you did happen to step out for a moment, we just lived through the end of market &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/01/the-post-post-american-world/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>North Korea&#8217;s Sex Agents</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/11/north-koreas-sex-agents/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/11/north-koreas-sex-agents/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2008 16:38:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Around the Web]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DPRK]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[espionage]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to an expose in Japanese magazine Shukan Taishu, Kim Jong Il instituted a training program in sexual espionage for the DPRK&#8217;s female secret agents. They&#8217;ve been used to seduce and entrap everyone from foreign government officials to defectors.]]></description>
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		<title>Steel, Now with Less Iron</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/01/steel-now-with-less-iron/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 03:08:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[iron]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Premium iron ore is expensive in the days of the mineral wars, and Japan&#8217;s industry needs a lot of it. So,  Japan is looking at an inventive new way to minimize steel production&#8217;s iron appetite.]]></description>
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		<title>Rumors from the Necrocracy</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/23/rumors-from-the-necrocracy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Aug 2008 23:02:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kim Jong Il as Colonel Sanders by Jonathan Barnbrook (photo: acb &#124; The Null Device) North Korea is already a formal necrocracy (government by the dead), given that Kim Il-sung &#8211;who has been dead since 1994&#8211; remains the titular head &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/23/rumors-from-the-necrocracy/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Looming NoKO Disaster</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/25/looming-noko-disaster/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/25/looming-noko-disaster/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2008 21:13:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MichaelW</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s not the one you might think. The most interesting observation: &#8220;Not to be overlooked is the massive economic cost of reintegrating an antiquated North Korean economy into the modern economic world. The contrast between a backward North and a &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/25/looming-noko-disaster/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Bible as Manga, With a Samurai Christ</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/11/the-bible-as-manga-with-a-samurai-christ/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/11/the-bible-as-manga-with-a-samurai-christ/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2008 20:24:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ChrisB</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oh hells yeah.]]></description>
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		<title>Minister for Kleptocracy</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/13/minister-for-kleptocracy/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/13/minister-for-kleptocracy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jan 2008 00:30:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Japan runs the world&#8217;s second largest economy with 17 cabinet ministers. Ghana, one of the world&#8217;s poorest, currently has 70. Why? Ben Ofosu-Appiah examines the question and argues the need for the dramatic downsizing of African governments. Shakara then offers &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/13/minister-for-kleptocracy/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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