A Shocking Exposé of the Power Behind North Korea’s Kim Dictatorship
The great dystopian science fiction novels of the 20th Century were written from the perspective of elite totalitarian functionaries who become hunt...
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The Perils Of North Korea’s Kim Jong Un
It’s been a landmark year for North Korea’s third-generation tyrant, Kim Jong Un, who inherited power two years ago with the death of his father, Kim Jong Il. Young Kim kicked off 201...
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Iran Follows in North Korea’s Nuclear Shoes
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry emerged from the latest round of Iran nuclear talks in Geneva earlier this month to say t...
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Fight the Blackmail
Kick out North Korean diplos
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Pyongyang’s Ballistic Bluff
Since conducting a third nuclear test in February, North Korea has been escalating its rhetoric and actions ever closer to the brink. Suddenly, the possibility of a second Korean war appears real...
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The Problem with the Pivot
The Far East is as inscrutable as the Middle East.
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Lessons in Supreme Leadership
Kim Jong Un is teaching Khamenei that the West can be beaten — repeatedly.
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The Iran-North Korea Axis of Proliferation
Both Iran and North Korea are subject to a growing stack of sanctions with which the United Nations, since 2006, has been...
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Google Bamboozled by North Korea?
As if there isn’t enough trouble in the world, the executive chairman of Google Inc., Eric Schmidt, has taken it into his head to visit North Korea. Schmidt is touring the world’s lea...
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Return of the Czech Communists
Vaclav Havel is turning over in his grave.
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Is ‘The Dictator’ Racist?
Even before it hit theaters, Sacha Baron Cohen's "The Dictator" - a gross-out parody of autocrats and the Western leftists who romanticize them - was met with cries that it's...
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In the fall of 2007 Israel reportedly hacked into Syria’s air defense systems and disabled them, as a prelude to bombing a nuclear facility in the Syrian desert. This vaunted cyber exploit,...
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Memo to World Diplomats: Don’t Cry for Kim
To release news of Kim Jong Il’s death, North Korea’s government stuck a woman newsreader in front of a TV camera,...
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Mother of All Grinches, North Korea
The AFP reports that North Korea’s government has warned South Korea it will retaliate with “unexpected consequences,” should the South display Christmas lights near the DMZ tha...
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Belarus, the Land of No Applause
Unlike other dictators, who speak of their love for “freedom” and “liberty,” President Aleksandr Lukashenko of Belarus is admirably blunt abou...
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Closet Case
The U.N.'s Worldwide Inventory Problem
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Condi Rice Wants Us to Stop Worrying and Learn to Love Kim Jong Il
It needs the talents of Stanley Kubrick to do justice to the complete Cuckoo’s Nest that American policy on North Korea has become. The State Department wants a nuclear deal, Presi...
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Let Them Eat Kim
By J. Peter Pham This week, one day after Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates publicly confirmed that Kim Jong-Il’s regime had indeed been aiding Syria in its clandestine at...
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Soft Foreign Policy Hurts the U.S.
If American diplomacy were delivering on its promises, we'd be heading into boom times for peace and security. Instead, the new year begins with Washington foreign policy increasingly cocoon...
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U.S. Should Help North Koreans Flee
"We look forward to the moment when we can celebrate the blessings of liberty with the North Korean people," President Bush said in a statement released last week. So we should, faced wi...