by Marcus Noland | November 19th, 2012 | 06:25 am
Syria has been popping up frequently in the Witness to Transformation blog of late, most recently in Steph Haggard’s piece on possible North Korean involvement in missiles fired from Gaza into Israel. More often, however, the linkage has been via interdiction of North Korean arms allegedly bound for Syria in violation of UN Security Council [...]
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Tags: arms sales, Ethiopia, sanctions, Syria
by Marcus Noland | October 18th, 2011 | 06:43 am
When I loaded my CDs into Itunes, I noticed that somehow the Dead Kennedys’ “Holiday in Cambodia” came out as “Holiday in China.” I ascribed it to the black humor of the lowly paid Chinese tech coding the catalog. Well, maybe in the next version of Itunes it will come out as “Holiday in North [...]
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Tags: Africa, Bosnia, China, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Georgia, Mt. Kumgang, Northern Ireland, Serbia, tourism
by Marcus Noland and Stephan Haggard | May 26th, 2011 | 02:52 pm
We have finally gotten around to reading the leaked UN Panel of Experts report that has been getting so much attention recently. It provides a surprisingly useful and blunt introduction to how the North Koreans—with the complicity of unnamed “third parties”—has sought to circumvent the sanctions. But it goes farther by putting the country’s weapons programs [...]
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Tags: Africa, Burma, China, Congo, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Iran, missiles, Nigeria, nuclear program, Pakistan, sanctions, Syria, UN, Vietnam, Yemen, Zimbabwe