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Best Korea has (foreign-built) MiG-29s already. Those are roughly comparable to the F-15 if you only look at stats and ignore things like pilot training, avionics, and support. And I don't think China is going to pay all that much attention when it's already rolling out indigenous Flanker redesigns and fifth-gen fighters.
Charlie Stross's cheerful, optimistic predictions for 2017, part one of three.
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20160620_19/
North Korea's sending someone to China.
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A planned propaganda documentary done by a contracted Russian filmmaker has backfired spectacularly.
North Korea can't win for losing, can they?
Expergiscēre cras, medior quam hodie. (Awaken tomorrow, better than today.)
The law in the night
Damn, they can't even pull Happiness Is Mandatory without highlighting how awful living in North Korea is.
Inter arma enim silent leges
Night Clerk of the Apacalypse.
ROFLMAO. Of course the family of the girl would denounce it not exactly like they have much choice.
Who watches the watchmen?
https://www.wnyc.org/radio/#/ondemand/570414
Here's a podcast regarding an abduction of Japanese nationals in North Korea during the Cold War.
Poland, Malta and a couple of other eastern European countries have been using North Koreans as super cheap labor (read: slave labor). Even worse, the laborers in question don't even get to enjoy the fruits of their work. Some sources estimate that up to 90% of their earnings are sent back to Best Korea as a means of financing the government, whilist the little left they have left either goes into buying what little goods they can. If they're lucky, the company they're contracted with might cover their living expenses. If not... well, that remaining 10% is what's supposed to cover that problem.
Oh, and of course, Warsaw denies the use of any North Korean immigrant labor.
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Oh yeah, Vice News (of all things) reported on it a couple of months back I believe.
Si Vis Pacem, Para Perkele
Causing freakouts over sourcing since 2018
I would be surprised if the current government in Warsaw admitted to being in the wrong about something.
Malaysia has a similar issue. No, this country will never display a spine for anyone that isn't the Palestinians >_<
North Korea vows 'physical response' to South's new missile defence system
Probably drag their tractors to the border.
Si Vis Pacem, Para Perkele
Beware the Crazy Man.
Maybe the world is hoping all these provocations will prevent NK from focusing on economics?
Final Fantasy, Foreign Policy, and Bollywood. Helluva combo, that...
New Details of North Korean Spy Radio Messages Emerge
A talk about the current relations between Japan and the Norks, mostly about the weirdness surrounding it (defections, kidnappings etc).
The introduction was kinda funny at the start, but still. It's pretty serious.
Night Clerk of the Apacalypse.
That was really interesting and just goes to show how complex the situation really is in terms of politics and social aspects.
Who watches the watchmen?
https://sg.news.yahoo.com/n-korea-math-student-seeks-asylum-hong-kong-063711136.html?nhp=1
Someone defected to Hong Kong.
Hong Kong? Umm will that even work?
I hope so because if it doesn't he is as good as dead.
edited 28th Jul '16 12:04:26 AM by Memers
Word is that South Korean consulate officials are "protecting him". Lot of security nearby.
The police aren't even talking about this now.
Pyongyang is Moving Rodong Missiles Closer to the Border with the South largely due to THAAD.
Aren't those missles' ranges so large they can already reach Japan? Moving them closer to the border would only make a hypothetical pre-emptive airstrike easier, wouldn't it?
The law in the night
The idea is to limit the reaction time for interceptors and ABM defenses, but hey it isn't like they'd be reduced to cinders if they tried anything.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-07-28/nkorean-seeks-refuge-in-skorean-consulate-in-hong-kong/7669562
More details on the defector who's holed up in the South Korean consul office.
In apparent first, North Korea launches ballistic missile into Sea of Japan EEZ
In Tokyo, Defense Minister Gen Nakatani told reporters that the missile flew around 1,000 km and appeared to have landed in Japan’s EEZ 250 km west of the Oga Peninsula in Akita Prefecture.
If confirmed, it would be the first time that a missile had landed in the Sea of Japan EEZ.
A Taepodong-1 missile lobbed by the North over Japan in 1998 fell into the country’s EEZ in the Pacific Ocean.
South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said the launch was conducted from the country’s southwestern South Hwanghae Province at around 7:50 a.m.
The Yonhap news agency, quoting a military source, said the missile was a medium-range Rodong, which has an estimated range of up to 1,300 km, making it capable of reaching as far as Japan.
The Japanese government said it had issued a strongly worded protest to Pyongyang over the launch.
“(The launch) is in defiance of clear U.N. Security Council resolutions and is an extremely problematic act from the standpoint of securing the safety of aircraft and vessels at sea,” the government said in a statement.
Nakatani ordered the Self-Defense Forces to gather information gathering on the launch and continue its surveillance of the relevant airspace and waters.
A series of North Korean missile launches and attempted launches since the start of the year have raised concern in Japan, South Korea and the U.S.
The launches follow last month’s announcement by South Korea and the United States of their decision to set up the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense missile system in South Korea to counter the North’s rising threat.
North Korea has also conducted four nuclear tests, most recently in January, despite U.N. Security Council resolutions prohibiting the act and warnings from the international community.
Fuck you, Fascist sympathizers
They've got to be very confident of these tests. One misfire and there goes the regime, unless the misfire landed in uninhabited mountains or something (statistically, highly likely for targeting Japan, but still...)
If the Chinese can't replicate those what hope do the Best Koreans have? Let alone fueling the damn thing.
Oh really when?