Avatar photoKPA Journal

As one of the continuing efforts to provide additional resources to our readers,  I thought I would provide links and article lists of the KPA Journal by Joseph S. Bermudez Jr. KPA Journal is a valuable resource on the Korean People’s Army.  Each issue and article title are listed after the jump. Special thanks also …

Avatar photoCarnegie is Hiring

Think you’ve got what it takes? I haven’t heard where Deepti Choubey is headed, but the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace is seeking a new Research Scholar & Deputy Director, Nuclear Policy Program. That’s one position with two titles, for those of you keeping score at home. Apply here.

Avatar photoThe Mystery of Stuxnet

One of the strangest and most interesting stories of the last week has been the apparent cyber attack on Iranian computer systems that may have targeted the nuclear plant at Bushehr. The malware virus, Stuxnet, also struck parts of China, Indonesia, India and Pakistan, but was largely focused in Iran. The malware, Stuxnet, attacks Siemens …

Avatar photoWhy China Won’t Engage

Washington is abuzz with flummery purporting to explain why the Chinese are so damned obdurate as of late.  (Ah, the inscrutable Chinese.) For a representative, if credulous, account of this palaver, see Josh Rogin’s story, Has China Realized It Overplayed Its Foreign Policy Hand? Americans, it seems, are bewildered by China’s “increasingly aggressive and arrogant …