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North Korea turns to air smuggling

10 hours ago ago from Romans 15:5 in Asia Pacific

North Korea, banned from selling arms by U.N. sanctions, may have gambled and lost when it dispatched 35 tons of weapons by air rather than by sea as it has done in the past.

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Sino-NK Developments / 中朝消息

10 hours ago ago from Sinologistical Violoncellist

Several rather interesting Sino-North Korean stories have come across the transom recently.  And isn’t that what life is all about: stories?  Narratives have power, particularly when they change.  Some arguments and stories which we may have believed to be immutable – such as Chinese support for North Korea on the refugee issue – may in fact be changing before our very eyes. Indications of a potential shift (not an actual shift, but an ...

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Dept. of the Shockingly Predictable

1 day ago ago from GW Discourse

The destination of that seized North Korean ship carrying 35 tons of weapons? Surprise! it was the Middle East: Thai officials said they were enforcing United Nations Resolution 1874 passed in June following North Korean missile and nuclear tests. It was the first known airborne arms cargo from Pyongyang to have been seized since the resolution banned all its weapons exports. Blair cited the seizure in a commentary touting ...

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Where were the North Korean weapons headed?

13 hours ago ago from Ink Spots

You'll remember that Thai authorities seized a plane and its cargo on December 12 . The reason: its cargo, 35 tons of weapons, came from North Korea, which is under an arms embargo. The flight manifest had all sorts of documents that said the cargo was oil-drilling equipment. The plane, an IL-76, was registered in Georgia and its crew was from Kazakhstan and Belarus. Since then, there have been a lot of questions: Where was the plane ...

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My Punditry Brings All The Boys To The Yard

10 hours ago ago from Broken Toys

It's that time of year. Last post I linked you to my MMORPG.column where I described a little of how the year that was was. But one of my more masochistic habits, before making predictions, is to call myself on my own windbaggery. So let's see how I did last year in the predictivating ! PREDICTION 1: The video game industry is not going to be immune from the Great Recession. The MMO industry is especially not going to be immune, as ...

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