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Tag Archives: North Korea
The West as Nuclear Proliferator
(NYT) The New York Times has a fascinating little chart today, illustrating the primary sources of nuclear weapons proliferation over time. In looking at the diagram, one cannot escape the overall impression that until recently the West has been the … Continue reading
Posted in Foreign affairs, Technology
Tagged Africa, Asia, authoritarianism, chart, China, civic culture, communications, democracy, diagram, DPRK, eastern bloc, English, espionage, former soviet republics, government, individualism, infographic, lingua franca, military intelligence, networks, New York Times, North Korea, nucelar research, nuclear proliferation, nuclear weapons, political dissent, prc, proliferation risk, rogue states, Russia, scientific community, Soviet Union, Technology, technology transfer, trade, translation services, Transportation, USSR, western democracy
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A Solution to the Financial Crisis? Sharia!
Italian economist Loretta Napoleoni (of Rogue Economics fame), blames the lingering financial crisis in part on the American War on Terrorism, which inaugurated an allegedly “suspicious attitude…toward Muslim investors.” She goes further though, and argues that the only solution to … Continue reading
Posted in Economics
Tagged academia, academics, bankers, banking, case studies, clients, despotism, dictatorship, Economics, finance, financial crisis, gendr, home loans, islam, Islamic finance, Italian, Loretta Napoleoni, married women, marxism, Marxist, medieval, militarims, Muslim, North Korea, property rights, rogue economics, scholars, sharia, social responsibility, Somalia, Soviet Union, UNM, Vermont, War on Terrorism, women
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North Korea’s Sex Agents
According to an expose in Japanese magazine Shukan Taishu, Kim Jong Il instituted a training program in sexual espionage for the DPRK’s female secret agents. They’ve been used to seduce and entrap everyone from foreign government officials to defectors.
Posted in Around the Web
Tagged DPRK, espionage, japan, Japanese, Kim Jon Il, North Korea, North Korean, secret agents, sex, sexual, Shukan Taishu
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Goonwalking
There’s just something goofy looking about a parade of goosestepping goons marching with RPGs. Really, only rifles with bayonets will do. (via SnappedShot)
What Does the Evidence Say… About Us?
Question the timing! That old mantra from the halcyon days of 2002-4, when the Left would be mocked by the Right for wondering about the suspicious timing of terror alerts, is universally applicable to the Presidency. In the case of … Continue reading
Breaking: CIA Tells Us Something We Already Knew
For at least a decade, there has been a running joke in the world of intelligence contractors that perhaps 90% of what the CIA does could be done for 1/10 the cost and 10x the effective accuracy by private, open-source … Continue reading
Looming NoKO Disaster
It’s not the one you might think. The most interesting observation: “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 … Continue reading
Posted in Around the Web
Tagged China, crisis, cummunism, economic collapse, japan, North Korea, stalinism, world effects
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Visit the People’s Paradise
Communist documents promoting North Korea, which were seized from Cuban personnel during the invasion of Grenada in 1983. Not your ordinary tourist brochures. Click to enlarge: photo: Department of Defense
Posted in History, Lee's Page
Tagged 1983, brochures, communism, communist, Cuba, Grenada, North Korea, paradise, propaganda, tourist
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A Strange Maps Addiction
It is a very beneficial habit. Steve Newton has really gotten the bug, and has a startling one showing the difference between North and South Korea. Looking at it reminded me of one I posted about a long time ago. … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Lance's Page, Libertarianism, regulation
Tagged air traffic, Hayek, Maps, North Korea, Russell Roberts, South Korea, spontaneous order
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