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,...
March 5, 2012 11:40 am / no comments
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....
February 12, 2012 9:07 pm / no comments
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...
October 25, 2010 1:17 pm / no comments
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...
April 12, 2010 5:00 am / no comments
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...
April 9, 2010 2:48 pm / no comments
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...
April 8, 2010 1:36 am / no comments
"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...
March 28, 2010 12:31 pm / no comments
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,...
March 26, 2010 12:00 pm / no comments