December 09, 2005
Chinese Fire on Protestors
With protests steadily becoming more common in China, it was only a matter of time before the first deadly clash between the government and protestors since Tiananmen Square occurred. And an early report suggests such an event has occurred: Armed… Posted by Jeff on 2005 12:Read more… | Comments (0)
October 24, 2005
Hey, No One Ever Accused the NorKs of Rationality
North Korea on Sunday demanded the United States grant the communist state the same status as Israel, a US ally suspected of having nuclear arms outside the Non-Proliferation Treaty. Wow. I think 10 million Moonbats just earned their wings. I… Posted by Brad on 2005 10: Read more… | Comments (0)
October 23, 2005
China Has Much to Lose, According to Rumsfeld
Secretary Rumsfeld says China’s desire for economic growth has led to an openness that will cause a healthy tension with its political system, and that in the end the desire for more growth will be the winner. He says China… Posted by Brad on 2005 10: Read more… | Comments (0)
October 19, 2005
Oh, That Axis of Evil…
North Korea conspiring with terrorists? Well, not quite there yet, but this is another gem saved from the memory hole… Never accuse the North of not fighting above its weight or thinking big. In the process, it has cemented the… Posted by Brad on 2005 10: Read more… | Comments (0)
September 19, 2005
North Koreans Cede Nukes
China announced Monday that negotiators from six nations have reached agreement under which North Korea pledged to dismantle its nuclear arms program in return for recognition and aid from the United States and its Asian allies. Although it included only… Posted by Brad on 2005 09: Read more… | Comments (0)
September 07, 2005
Terrorism Statistics in China
In a rare event, China offered specific statistics on the damage caused by Muslim terrorists in Western China (keep in mind that this information originates from a dictatorship): Muslim separatists in western China have carried out 260 attacks in the… Posted by Jeff on 2005 09:Read more… | Comments (0)
July 27, 2005
North Korean Diet: Acorns & Seaweed
The AP reports on the worsening famine in North Korea: “People are gathering wild food, grasses, bracken (ferns), acorns,” Bourke said after returning Monday from a three-week trip to the North. “I’ve seen people going up into the hills with… Posted by Jeff on 2005 07: Read more… | Comments (0)
July 25, 2005
Mr. Mugabe Goes to Beijing
African despot Robert Mugabe is visiting long-time ally China to request aid as a result of the self-induced and rapidly deteriorating economic situation in Zimbabwe: Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe is in Beijing to discuss financial aid and trade with Chinese… Posted by Jeff on 2005 07: Read more… | Comments (0)
Christianity Spreading in China
A former Time correspondent David Aikman recently returned from a three-month fact finding mission in China and reports that Christianity is spreading across China and playing a significant role in changing the composition of Chinese society. Here is an excerpt… Posted by Jeff on 2005 07: Read more… | Comments (0)
July 21, 2005
Defector: North Korea Tried to Sell Arms to Taiwan
A report by a North Korean defector suggests that China might want to reevaluate their belief that a nuclear North Korea only poses a threat to Japan and/or the United States: A North Korean parliament-arian who defected to the South… Posted by Jeff on 2005 07: Read more…| Comments (0)
June 17, 2005
Beheadings Becoming Common in Thailand
The tactic of beheading one’s enemy has become firmly entrenched in the repertoire of Muslim separatists in Thailand. But this time, the Buddhist majority is fighting back: An elderly Buddhist man was beheaded – the fifth such killing since violence… Posted by Jeff on 2005 06:Read more… | Comments (1)
June 14, 2005
North Korea to help Iran Dig Secret Missile Bunkers
The London Telegraph is reporting that Iran is requesting aid from North Korea in concealing their nuclear weapons program (via Intelligence Watch): A team of construction experts has arrived in Teheran to conduct a survey of Iranian requirements. It included… Posted by Jeff on 2005 06: Read more… | Comments (0)
June 13, 2005
Europe’s Arms Embargo on China to Remain
France’s attempt to widen the EU’s weapons market by lifting the arms embargo on China has failed: The European Union will shelve plans to lift a 16-year-old arms embargo against China because of concerns about the nation’s human-rights record and… Posted by Jeff on 2005 06:Read more… | Comments (0)
June 02, 2005
Guerrillas in North Korea?
Over at the Captain’s Quarter’s, there is a story on North Korea… Nicole Winfield reports in the Associated Press that the Kim regime has begun a mass relocation effort, driving millions of citydwellers to the countryside in what looks to… Posted by Brad on 2005 06: Read more… | Comments (0)
May 11, 2005
Projecting -North Korean Style
“Bush is the world’s worst fascist dictator, a first-class war maniac and Hitler Junior, who is jerking his hands, stained with blood of innocent people.” – Official statement by the North Korean Government, May 10, 2005…. Posted by Jeff on 2005 05: Read more… | Comments (0)
April 26, 2005
China’s Arabic Lesson
The last few weeks saw a good deal of attention bestowed upon the anti-Japan protests in China. Japanese textbooks ignoring World War II atrocities were the standard reason given for the basis of the protests. But was that really all… Posted by Jeff on 2005 04: Read more… | Comments (0)
April 19, 2005
Routine Maintenance or Making A Bomb?
North Korea claims it is taking steps to make additional nuclear weapons: North Korea has shut down its nuclear reactor and plans to remove the fuel to make bombs and “increase our deterrent” against a possible U.S. attack, North Korean… Posted by Jeff on 2005 04: Read more… | Comments (0)
April 11, 2005
New Chinese Military Capabilities Concern U.S.
With tensions rising between Taiwan and mainland China, not to forget issues with Japan and North Korea, years of rapid militarization by China may be starting to publicly concern the U.S. military: While the American military is consumed with wars… Posted by GPR on 2005 04: Read more… | Comments (0)
April 05, 2005
North Korean Humanitarian Situation Worsens
The BBC reported yesterday that the U.K. government claims the human rights situation in Stalinist North Korea has worsened in recent years. Furthermore, North Korea is evidently refusing to take part in discussions concerning the topic. Here is an excerpt… Posted by GPR on 2005 04: Read more… | Comments (0)
March 29, 2005
Mongolians Learn Lessons From Kyrgyzstan
The BBC is reporting that “activists” in Mongolia fed up with government corruption and a perceived flawed election have begun street demonstrations. The protests are said to have been inspired by the demonstrations in Kyrgyzstan, which were inspired by Lebanon,… Posted by GPR on 2005 03: Read more… | Comments (0)
March 28, 2005
Russia & China Strengthen Military Ties
With the lingering nuclear crisis in North Korea and growing tension between China and Taiwain, the geopolitical situation in East Asia continues to grow more complex. Adding to that is a report by wire service UPI that Russia and China… Posted by GPR on 2005 03: Read more… | Comments (0)
March 23, 2005
Condi’s Deal With China?
TigerHawk hypothesized earlier today that China’s sudden contact with North Korea suggests Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice cut a deal with China to get North Korea back to the nuclear bargaining table. So what was that important bargaining chip? Most… Posted by GPR on 2005 03: Read more… | Comments (1)
February 15, 2005
Pressuring North Korea
In an effort to keep the flow of money to North Korea’s nuclear program to a minimum, the Bush administration is reportedly implementing new tactics targeting traditional sources of income for North Korea such as counterfeiting and drug trafficking: In… Posted by GPR on 2005 02:Read more… | Comments (0)
February 14, 2005
North Korean Executions
A South Korean based human rights group is reporting that the North Korean government has executed 70 refugees who were returned by China after attempting to flee the dictatorship: North Korea has executed about 70 refugees who were captured in… Posted by GPR on 2005 02:Read more… | Comments (0)
February 09, 2005
Pressuring North Korea
In response to a recent revelation that North Korea’s nuclear program has evolved from production to proliferation, President Bush has once again asked China to pressure North Korea to discontinue their nuclear program: Driven by new evidence that North Korea… Posted by GPR on 2005 02: Read more… | Comments (0)
January 31, 2005
Is North Korea Collapsing?
Over the last few months we have reported on various stories from North Korea indicating that strange events were taking place inside the Stalinist enclave, some of which indicated a weakening of the Kim Jong-Il regime. Yesterday the Times Online… Posted by GPR on 2005 01:Read more… | Comments (0)
January 19, 2005
China’s String of Pearls
Over the last few months, we have closely followed China’s growing quest for oil, highlighting deals they made with Iran and a potential one with Venezuela. But yesterday brought news courtesy of the Washington Times that China is building up… Posted by GPR on 2005 01:Read more… | Comments (1)
January 10, 2005
North Korean Haircuts
The BBC is reporting that the North Korean communist government has launched a media campaign to combat a recently identified threat to the regime: long hair on men. North Korea has launched an intensive media assault on its latest arch… Posted by GPR on 2005 01: Read more… | Comments (0)
January 05, 2005
Appeasing North Korea
In what can only be described as a surprising (if not shocking) development in the relationship between the divided Koreas, South Korea will no longer accept large groups of North Korean defectors: Unification Minister Chung Dong-young declared Tuesday that Seoul… Posted by GPR on 2005 01: Read more…
November 26, 2004
North Korean Scientific Experiments
Former North Korean scientists recently provided stunning details on the scientific experiments preformed on human subjects in the Stalinist country. Here is an excerpt of their revelations, reminiscent of Nazi Germany, courtesy of the Washington Times: North Korean scientists are…Posted by GPR on 2004 11: Read more…
November 24, 2004
Demographic Invasion
Europe is not the only region experiencing a demographic crisis. Their neighbor to the East, Russia, is also having similar problems. As recently as a few years ago, Russia was the only country in the world with negative population growth…. Posted by GPR on 2004 11: Read more…
November 21, 2004
Update On the Disaperance of the Kim Portraits
Updating a situation we reported last week, North Korea Zone has some new information on the removal of North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Il’s portraits through out the communist country. Read about the possible theories for this bizarre development here…. Posted by GPR on 2004 11: Read more…
November 16, 2004
Clampdown in North Korea
The Austrlian is reporting that the death of Kim Jon Il’s third wife and the loss of John Kerry in the 2004 U.S. Presidential campaign is causing serious angst for the North Korean dictator: HARDLINERS have tightened their political grip… Posted by GPR on 2004 11: Read more…
November 12, 2004
Japan Looking Toward the Future
An Australian Foreign Policy Think Tank has released a report that argues Japan is ready to move beyond their pacifist past grounded in their post World War II constitution. CNN reports: Japan is abandoning its pacifist past for a hard-headed,… Posted by GPR on 2004 11:Read more…
November 10, 2004
Diversifying Oil Customers
Venezuela and Colombia held preliminary discussions yesterday regarding the possibility of laying a pipeline through Colombia in order to capitalize on China’s growing demand for energy: Colombia and Venezuela will set aside border conflicts today as their two presidents consider… Posted by GPR on 2004 11: Read more…
November 08, 2004
Clinton Administration Had Plan to Nuke N. Korea
The Washington Times reports that recently declassified documents reveal the Clinton Administration had contingency plans to use nuclear weapons against North Korea should they attack South Korea: Newly declassified documents revealed the United States planned as recently as 1998 to… Posted by GPR on 2004 11: Read more…
November 06, 2004
China and Iran
China will reportedly oppose any attempts to refer Iran’s nuclear ambitions to the United Nations Security Council: China gave Iran crucial backing in its stand-off with the UN’s nuclear watchdog, with Beijing saying it opposed US efforts to have the… Posted by GPR on 2004 11:Read more…
November 01, 2004
Tension in China
Deadly riots broke out in a small central town in China between the Hun majority and their Muslim minority on Monday: LANGCHENGGANG, China Nov 1, 2004 — Police by the thousands patrolled this central Chinese town Monday and residents hunkered… Posted by GPR on 2004 11: Read more…
October 20, 2004
Trouble on the Horizon
Foreign investment through the purchase of U.S. treasury bonds played a crucial role in softening the economic repercussions in the United States brought on by the September 11th terrorist attacks. (Estimates vary widely on the actual impact of the attacks,… Posted by GPR on 2004 10: Read more…
October 18, 2004
Chinese Amrs Embargo
Taiwan is displeased with French efforts to soften the EU arms embargo upon China: Taiwan Foreign Minister Chen Tan-sun on Monday fired a salvo at French President Jacques Chirac for his efforts to push for the lifting of a 15-year-old… Posted by GPR on 2004 10: Read more…
October 01, 2004
Update on “Bilateral” discussion
Dartmouth professor and author of Nuclear North Korea: A Debate on Engagement Strategies David Kang (who emphasized he is not a member of the Kerry campaign) explained on Fox News’ Special Report the rationale behind the bilateral strategy. At this… Posted by GPR on 2004 10: Read more…
Election Year Word Play
“I want bilateral talks which put all of the issues, from the armistice of 1952, the economic issues, the human rights issues, the artillery disposal issues, the DMZ issues and the nuclear issues on the table.” – Senator John Kerry… Posted by GPR on 2004 10: Read more…
April 26, 2004
Sanctuary for Mrs. Despotic
The BBC noted in a report covering the deadly train accident in North Korea that Kim Jon Il, North Korea’s brutal dictator, has had a string of bad news lately. According to unconfirmed reports, Kim Jong-il’s wife, Ko Yong-hi, was… Posted by GPR on 2004 04: Read more…
