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In February, the Iranian government showed a fictionalized video on the dangers of foreign plots against the state. One of its stars: a mysterious American named Gene Sharp.
In June 2007, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez publicly accused Mr. Sharp of stirring unrest in Venezuela. Last year in Vietnam, authorities arrested [...]

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I like this article. Pat Buchanan is pointing out the obvious, but America can’t seem to see clearly.
Poland wants to charge us billions for permission to site a missile defense base on Polish soil. This is to defend Poland and other European countries, mind you. Are the Polish nuts?
Polls show that Europe is no [...]

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It’s a reminder that China’s pollution problems aren’t just taking a devastating toll on China–they’re also affecting the rest of the world. Acid rain partly caused by Chinese sulfur emissions pours down on Japan and South Korea. Eighty percent of the East China Sea, one of the world’s largest fisheries, has become toxic, due to [...]

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If you want to understand the future, find out what is being taught in the schools.
From the article:
Moreover, 51 percent did not know that the war started with North Korea’s invasion of the South. About 14 percent picked Japan as the nation responsible for the war; 13.4 percent, the United States, and 11 percent Russia. [...]

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“U.S. officials are downplaying reports in the New York Times and Washington Post that Pakistan’s A.Q. Khan may have given Iran–and other nations–blueprints for a miniature nuclear warhead first developed for his country’s program.”
Oh really! The same network that provided Iran and North Korea with the technology to enrich uranium has plans for a miniturized [...]

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Much has been written about the rise of Chinese nationalism and its implications for the stability of Northeast Asia. But Korean nationalism could prove to be just as destabilizing.
The two Koreas, even combined, are no match for China’s economic and military might. But the latent intensity of nationalism on both sides of the peninsula’s demilitarized [...]

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In weeks of street rallies by angry critics of Lee, what had been seen as the former businessman’s strengths have instead been blasted as weaknesses. Nicknamed “The Bulldozer” for decisively pushing through projects as a Hyundai construction CEO and Seoul mayor, Lee has instead been labeled by protesters as a “dictator” who fails to heed [...]

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South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak hopes to develop farmland in Sudan as part of efforts to secure offshore grain resources to help North Korea cope with its worsening food crisis.
Meeting with visiting Sudanese President Omar el-Bashir, Lee discussed the proposed cooperation, which includes building grain storage facilities, Lee’s aides said.
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So many people have defected from North Korea that the government is now building a wall along the Chinese border. This exclusive report follows one family’s dangerous exodus.
At a safe house in China, a brother and sister collapse into each other arms. For months, ‘Uncle Jung’ has been trying to smuggle his sister and her [...]

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Asia in general, and China in particular: The pressure in Asia is starting to show, beginning with South Korea. But anecdotal reports out of China also show the ratcheting of pressure. We have reports of plant closures due partly to informal taxes for earthquake relief imposed by the government and partly to the business environment. [...]

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“After decades of considering Pakistan their principal enemy, Indian defence officials are beginning to see China as a more serious long-term threat, and they don’t want to be caught unprepared again. Washington is embracing India as a rising power that can be a valuable ally to stand with this country, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and [...]

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This is an interesting article. It gives us a clue about why South Koreans have no problem showing their anti-Americanism but might be hesitant about showing anti-Chinese behavior. They fear the Chinese and don’t fear the Americans.
From the article:
An American living in Seoul recently asked me this unexpected question: “What would have happened if the [...]

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I need your help to precisely locate the Thunderbird airport located near Wonsan in North Korea.
North Korean engineers are working on an underground runway beneath a mountain that can protect fighter aircraft from attack until they take off at high speed through the mouth of a tunnel.
The runway is a few minutes’ flying time from [...]

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Some of the world’s major concentrations of military power and potential hot spots are in Asia: for example on the Korean peninsula, across the Taiwan Straits and between India and Pakistan. Strong economic growth in our region is leading to the build-up of modern military forces in China and India, as well as in South [...]

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For the first time in a decade, a North Korean has defected to South Korea by crossing the heavily armed border dividing the two countries. VOA Seoul Correspondent Kurt Achin has more.
South Korean military officials say the North Korean military officer crossed into the South on Sunday.
The officer is being debriefed by South Korean [...]

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An airbase inside a mountain is the latest sign that North Korea, whose links to Syria’s nuclear programme came to light last week, is cranking up its military machine
North Korean military engineers are completing an underground runway beneath a mountain that can protect fighter aircraft from attack until they take off at high speed through [...]

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The principal characteristic of twenty-first-century international relations is turning out to be nonpolarity: a world dominated not by one or two or even several states but rather by dozens of actors possessing and exercising various kinds of power. This represents a tectonic shift from the past.
The twentieth century started out distinctly multipolar. But after almost [...]

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A poll shows that 34 percent of first-year army cadets called the United States the main enemy of South Korea, a former superintendent of the Korea Military Academy (KMA) said.
Kim Choong-bae, president of the Korea Institute for Defense Analyses, disclosed a past survey of 250 KMA entrants to single out “the country’s main enemy” while [...]

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North Korea Monday renewed its attacks on South Korea’s new President Lee Myung-Bak, accusing him of pushing the peninsula closer to nuclear war.
The communist party newspaper Rodong Sinmun poured scorn on his decision to link economic aid to the North’s nuclear disarmament, and said he should order the United States to withdraw “its nuclear weapons [...]

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SEOUL, March 26 (Reuters) - South Korea will this week resume aid to North Norea, suspended after its defiant missile and nuclear tests and despite international talks on ending Pyongyang’s atomic arms ambitions hitting a wall.
South Korea will start shipping 300,000 tonnes of fertiliser on Tuesday in time for North’s spring planting season. On Wednesday, [...]

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Seoul, South Korea (AHN) - South Korea’s Defense Ministry on Wednesday announced plans to develop Global Positioning System-guided missiles to arm its fighter jets and increase the country’s defense capabilities.
According to a statement released by the ministry, the government will allocate some $45 million for the project. The South Korean Defense Acquisition Program Administration said [...]

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