Day: March 8, 2012
North Korea News Today
Any Person Caught Defecting from North Korea During the Official Mourning Period for Dear Leader Kim Jong-il will have: ‘Three Generations of Their Family Executed’
The totalitarian regime of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea has promised death to three generations of kinsmen for any person caught trying to escape from the Stalinist state during the official mourning period for former leader Kim Jong-il who died in December 2011. It is well-known that defectors from North Korea captured by Chinese […]
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Libya Unstable After the Departure of Qaddafi
While the hated dictator Muammar Qaddafi is dead and gone, the people of Libya still suffer as instability deepens and eastern Libya increasingly acts semi-autonomously in a movement led by former Libyan army officer Idris al-Rahel. The region’s top tribal leaders convened in Benghazi to plan a unilateral move toward statehood with only a loose […]
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Does the U.K. Have an Unjust Court System?
In the ‘Age of Terror’ western legal systems have grappled with the dual tension of protecting its citizens from terrorist attacks while also preserving the citizenry’s civil rights. While often the focus is on the secretive renditions and proceedings brought against terror suspects, we should not forget that sometimes other areas of the legal system, […]
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People’s Liberation Army (人民解放軍) Military Budget to Exceed $100 Billion
The rising superpower of the People’s Republic of China pledges more funds towards building its military capability as its interests in East Asia come more clearly into focus. With North Korea, Taiwan, and the South China Sea all on its plate, the need for China to build projective naval capability as well as concomitant land […]
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