An interactive guide to the dispute between North and South Korea.
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Models and some hazy photographs of the Shang-class (Type 093) nuclear submarine were on display in an exhibition at the Military Museum of the Chinese People’s Revolution during the 80th anniversary of the founding of the PLA in late July.
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With Iran’s President Ahmadinejad planning to attend the U.N. General Assembly’s opening session next Tuesday in New York City, diplomacy over Iran’s nuclear program is entering a critical stage.
Over the last several weeks, the Bush administration has turned up the rhetoric on Iran, emphasized by Gen. Petraeus testifying to Congress that Iran was engaged in [...]

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WASHINGTON - China and Russia are spying on the United States nearly as much as they did during the Cold War, according to the top U.S. intelligence official.
Mike McConnell, the director of national intelligence, says in testimony prepared for a Tuesday congressional hearing that a law passed last month expanding the U.S. government’s eavesdropping [...]

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Proof of cooperation between Iran and Syria in the development and proliferation of weapons of mass destruction was brought to light Monday in a Jane’s Magazine report that dozens of Iranian engineers and 15 Syrianofficers were killed in a July 23 accident in Syria.
According to the report, cited by Channel 10, the joint Syrian-Iranian team [...]

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What the raid exposed is that the free world faces a cohesive alliance of enemy forces that collaborate closely in their joint and separate offensives against their common foes. Whether or not it is called the axis of evil, after the IAF raid it is undeniable that its members - North Korea, Iran and Syria [...]

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Israel’s silence on Syria speaks volumes.
What’s beyond question is that something big went down on Sept. 6. Israeli sources had been telling me for months that their air force was intensively war-gaming attack scenarios against Syria; I assumed this was in anticipation of a second round of fighting with Hezbollah. On the morning of [...]

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In 1999 this columnist put forward the theory of a “proxy nuclear state,” a country that has had nuclear capability grafted onto it by an outside power. Thus far, China has developed two such states — North Korea (to harry Japan) and Pakistan (to contain India). A third, Bangladesh, is well on the way, with [...]

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FSM Contributing Editor David Jonsson shows us how Venezuela links with anyone who opposes America – Russia, China, Iran, Cuba and more - and how that strategy can mightily contribute to the US losing economic and political strength not only in the Pacific, but around the world.
Venezuela: Strategic Partner of Russia, China, Iran and Cuba
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Polaris 1 is electronically steered, and its synthetic aperture radar has a 1-meter resolution; its differing spot, mosaic and strip modes provide many different radar aspect angles from which to illuminate ground targets, a huge military asset for precise data-gathering on Iran’s military weapons systems and an improvement over the information available to ordinary spy [...]

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North Korea has told the United States that it procured aluminum pipes, which can be used to build uranium-enriching centrifuges, from a third country, a report said Monday. But Pyongyang stopped short of admitting that it had begun the process of uranium enrichment, Japan’s Kyodo News said quoting unnamed diplomatic sources. The revelation was [...]

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Swedish artist Lars Vilks is taking no chances: After murder threats following the publication of a caricature he drew of the Prophet Muhammad, the cartoonist has temporarily gone into hiding under police protection. more…

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