I did not think it was possible, but Kim Jong Il might not be the most colorful character in the entire saga of US-DPRK relations. For all the Il-iminator’s quirks and foibles, that title clearly belongs Bobby Egan — BBQ hawker and, in his own description, “Kim Jong Il’s guy in New Jersey”. Rebecca Mead …
Mission to Moscow
by | 2007-10-11 | 2 Comments
McClatchy’s Jonathan Landay reports that Rice and Gates are headed to Moscow to discuss missile defense deployments in Europe, the Conventional Forces in Europe Treaty and, my favorite, extending the verification provisions of the START treaty: Bush is sending Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Defense Secretary Robert Gates on a rare joint mission to …
Dimona Lookin all Pretty on Google Earth
by | 2007-10-10 | 2 Comments
After looking at low-res blurs for years, now you can count the cars in the Dimona parking lot. Granted they were probably there a year or two ago, but this is still cool. The latest update of Google Earth has some fun new images of Israeli sites. To find the nuclear reactor, search for the …
Syrian Plutonium?
by | 2007-10-09 | 21 Comments
Jim Hoagland claims a “senior official” says the Israelis struck a “facility … to produce plutonium”: But highly classified U.S. intelligence reports say that the Israelis destroyed a nuclear-related facility and caused North Korean casualties at the site, which may have been intended to produce plutonium, according to a senior official with access to those …
