We have been following the Cheonan incident on the blog — from Geoff Forden’s initial post indicating Torpedo damage (ROK Ship: Typical Torpedo Damage), to Josh Pollack’s posts on the report that concluded, yes, indeed North Korea had torpedoed the Cheonan (The Cheonan Report, The Cheonan Report, Continued) and South Korea’s response (Lee Myung-bak’s Line …
Death by Number
by | 2010-05-27 | 33 Comments
Courtesy of Milton Leitenberg’s research (“The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy of Bio-Terrorism” in the NONPROLIFERATION REVIEW, 16:1 (March 2009): Annual deaths in the United States due to cancer: 565,000 Annual deaths in the United States due to tobacco: 440,000 Annual deaths in the United States due to obesity: 400,000 Annual deaths in the United States due to …
Did Yang Jiechi Lose it?
by | 2010-05-25 | 2 Comments
Or are Japanese officials just having some fun at his expense? Japanese officials are leaking an account of an exchange between Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi and Japanese Foreign Minister Okada. The basic story is that Okada on May 15 twice pressed Yang on the subject of reducing China’s nuclear forces — once at a …
Lee Myung-bak's Line Drawn in the Water
by | 2010-05-24 | 8 Comments
The President of South Korea, Lee Myung-bak, has something to say. The complete text will appear in the comments. For now, I’d just like to call your attention to this passage: Fellow citizens, We have always tolerated North Korea’s brutality, time and again. We did so because we have always had a genuine longing for …
