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Thanks for the heads-up on this one, Bill. Definitely looks worth a watch.

Just spitballing, perhaps irresponsibly so, but I wonder if the age difference between Kim Jong Un and his uncle has something to do with the execution? Age normally carries so much weight in Korean...

He was just a life-long resident of Seoul. I've never been to Korea but the half dozen or so Korean friends I have seem to share the attitude that the War is probably never going to resume but that...

Stan,

Here it is looking from the other direction, where it (or at least this segment) is apparently the closest thing the DPRK has to a tourist attraction. Weird, but hardly the weirdest thing...

It was heavily covered on NPR this morning in the States. I don't want to make light of the very real danger that exists every day along the DMZ, but I remember in the spring of 1994 when the US...

North Korean functionaries are claiming that their country now possesses missiles capable of reaching the U.S. mainland. This reminds me of an anecdote from a fellow who was brought to my...

offer as good a look-see at the contemporary DPRK as I have seen. [LINK]

I’ve always thought Romania was a decent comparison, though off the top of my head no other modern state has incorporated into their political system the sort of ancestor worship seen in the DPRK. (I...

If you plan to make it out the door walking rather than being dragged you should 1) avoid getting into a drinking contest with an Irishman or a Korean and 2) immediately line up behind either when...

I don’t think it’s stereotyping to say that Koreans can be a bit belligerent in general. It’s a reasonable survival strategy when your little country finds China on one side and Japan on the other.

There was a lot of that sort of thing going around in those days.

The notion that any country that is not the ROK or Japan (and probably not Japan) has anything to fear from the DPRK seems ridiculous to me. Equally ridiculous to me is the notion that any sane world...

who takes both of them from you and starts beating himself in the head with the stick. That’s the real deterrent, if you ask me.

I spent February of 1997 in Cuba. I was lodging on the same street...

Also, though there was some diversity among the Eastern European and even the Warsaw Pact member nations, their governments were generally imposed by a foreign government to a far greater degree than...