I’ve been struggling to say something witty about the race to succeed Mohamed ElBaradei as IAEA Director-General. Mark Heinrich at Reuters sums it up pretty well: The International Atomic Energy Agency failed to agree on a new chief on Friday, with Japanese frontrunner Yukiya Amano falling one vote short of the required two-thirds majority. He …
Defensive Transition
by | 2009-03-30 | 1 Comment
No, not the switch from an offense-dominated world to a defense-dominated one — you might remember that idea from the 1980s, kids — but the switch from a Republican administration to a Democratic one, and what that means for ballistic missile defense. It’s been the major theme of the week over at TotalWonkerr.com. Are You …
DPRK: Reading Between the Blurs
by | 2009-03-30 | 8 Comments
The image comes from ISIS while the outline to the left is my handiwork. I’m starting to feel rather parasitic about using ISIS’s pictures for analysis so I’d like to thank them for publishing them in such a timely fashion! In fact, ISIS’s latest picture clarifies a lot of false impressions that early images of …
DPRK: Keeping its Secrets
by | 2009-03-27 | 8 Comments
Click on the image for a larger version (The 26 March 2009 image is from ISIS) If you haven’t seen it, check out ISIS’s latest report on North Korea’s missile launch preparation which shows an image of the launch site taken on 26 March, 2009. Strangely, ISIS seems to emphasize the crane on top of …
