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London calling: News reports that the BBC was contemplating initiating a broadcast service aimed at North Korea got me thinking about a Clash-themed slave to the blog post. Obviously the more outside information that reaches North Korea the better, and given the US fiscal situation, it would be surprising if RFA got a big boost. [...]
Most readers of this blog have no doubt seen the news that the North Koreans have announced their intention to re-test. We call it a re-test because the justification and flight path of the polar-orbiting “satellite” are the same as the April test which we covered ad nauseum (missile posts can be found here). According [...]
One of the more disturbing developments of the spring has been North Korean jamming of GPS navigation of airliners flying in and out of Incheon airport as well as ships traveling near the disputed Northern Limit Line. The North Koreans eventually stood down, but also earned a rebuke from the International Telecommunications Union, which requested [...]
In December, we considered the dribs and drabs of evidence on a North Korea-Burma nuclear link in connection with Secretary Clinton’s historic trip to the country. Most of these claims have emanated from a very small handful of military defectors, amplified by the Democratic Voice of Burma. David Albright and Andrea Stricker at IISS have [...]
We are once again getting leaks about a pending UN Panel of Experts Report. If the earlier reports are any indication, the document will provide useful detail on North Korea’s efforts to circumvent the sanctions regime. But it will also set in train a highly politicized debate among the Five Parties, including particularly the Chinese. [...]
The headline on the Yonhap piece was jarring: “N. Korea sets up insurance firm to attract more foreign investment.” The last time “North Korea” and “insurance” met, it was in the context of fraud, in which it was claimed that the North Korean state insurance agency insured assets (such as the contents of a warehouse), [...]
As might be expected, KCNA runs stories daily attacking the tightening sanctions against Iran. But Bob Carlin, winner of the Joe Robert Memorial 12-rounder, pointed out the other day that the news agency had chosen to run a piece on a statement by the foreign ministry of the Philippines urging an easing of sanctions against Burma [...]
Prior to Secretary Clinton’s groundbreaking trip to Burma, we commented on the flap surrounding Burma’s nuclear and missile ambitions, as well as evidence of conventional arms sales by North Korea. David Albright, Andrea Stricker and colleagues over at the Institute for Science and International Security have a useful archive on the Burma-North Korea connection, as [...]
With Secretary Clinton headed to Burma and the press drinking the Kool Aid on the reforms there, it is important to underscore how little we actually know about the Burma-North Korea connection. In June, we discussed the infamous interdiction case in some detail. There does not seem much doubt that North Korea has shipped conventional [...]
The recent confrontation with a North Korean vessel suspected of transporting missile components to Burma has once again raised the issue of what the US can and can’t do on the high seas, both legally and politically. First, here is the little we know about the case drawn from a variety of news sources, including [...]
