Archive for: North Korea

Pyongyang 2012: Policy Shift or Brinksmanship?

Pyongyang 2012: Policy Shift or Brinksmanship?

Without its nuclear deterrent, the North Korean regime’s continued existence would be unlikely. Its people are starving, and even its military, which is granted most of North Korea’s meager resources and is the 4th largest in the world,...

 

Still il?

Still il?

Artwork by Audrey Westcott In the style of Joseph Goebbels, North Korean state television celebrated Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un’s first birthday in power on January 8 with a rousing documentary detailing the young ruler’s prodigious achievements....

 

Feeding Frenzy: To Infinity or Not

Feeding Frenzy: To Infinity or Not

This is actually one of the most flattering pictures of Greene available. Mathematician Benoit B. Mandelbrot, known for his work on fractals, died this week. Wikipedia insists that his middle initial doesn’t stand for anything, but it seems...

 

Learn to Love the Bomb

Learn to Love the Bomb

Hiroshima, 1945 Japan in 1945.. The nuclear age begins when America uses the first atom bombs, Fat Man and Little Boy, on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, bringing World War II to an end. Nearly a decade of physics research and...

 

Netanyahu Cancels Nuclear Summit Trip

Netanyahu Cancels Nuclear Summit Trip

Netanyahu and Joe Biden in better times Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced yesterday that he is canceling his planned attendance to an international summit on nuclear weapons, putting further strain on already tense relations...

 

North Korea Sentences American

North Korea Sentences American

Aijon Mahli Gomes: North Korean prisoner, but for how long? North Korea has just announced that is has sentenced an American prisoner to eight years of hard labor and ordered him to pay a $700,000 fine for illegally crossing the border into...

 

Dear Leader Kim Jong Il of North Korea:

Dear Leader Kim Jong Il of North Korea:

"And with this finger, I can destroy the world" WUPR: Hello and welcome everyone. Joining us from for this episode of Talking Heads straight from Pyongyang, North Korea, is Mr. Kim Jong Il. Well, unfortunately, due to his fear of...

 

North Korea Announces New Nuclear Plans

North Korea Announces New Nuclear Plans

Yesterday, North Korean military officials sent a warning to the US and its allies by announcing that it will conduct further nuclear weaponry tests. These strikes have deeply concerned North Korea’s closest neighbors Japan and South Korea,...