North Korea vs. South Korea: Who Wins If They Go to War Once More?
I’ve been gunning through the final pages of Bradley K. Martin’s Under the Loving Care of the Heavenly Father: North Korea and the Kim Dynasty, blowing through the sections about potential wartime scenarios between the two rival Koreas.
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North Korea: China’s First “Official” Bona Fide, Fully-Fledged, Full-Service Colony. That’s Right, I Said It: A Colony, Folks!
Pictured above is North Korea’s Rajin (Rason) Port which borders the Tumen (Duman) River, a key crossing point between Russia and North Korea for refugees from the Hermit Kingdom.
A Chinese company recently gained a 10-year lease on the port’s full-time use (kudos and nice catch NKeconWatch!) which now enables manufacturers in the PRC’s Jilin Province – a strongly ethnic Korean part of the country — direct access to the Pacific Ocean. Yay! Incidentally, Russia also gained a 50-year lease on the same facility, but that didn’t score as much fanfare. Wonder why…
Peter Hessler's Exclusive Photos from Country Driving
These are the 11 roadside snaps care of Peter Hessler’s digicam you didn’t get a chance to see inside the pages of his latest read, Country Driving: A Journey Through China from Farm to Factory.
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Revisiting the Resplendent, Wind-Bending, Mighty Sword Clanging, and Colorful Cinematic Glory and Mastery of Zhang Yimou’s “Hero/Ying xiong” (circa 2004)
Okay, so now that we’ve got that windbag blog title out of the way (how did I do, folks?), let’s get down to the brass tacks of the matter: the iconic and often-imitated-rarely-duplicated cinematographic marvel which was once Zhang Yimou’s Hero/Ying xiong, the 2004 swashbuckling flicker picture that dazzled and titillated, yet somehow didn’t intellectually connect.
The 6 Ingredients of What Makes for a Good Online Comment
Tom Davenport pumps out a nifty 6-pointed list on what makes for the best in online commenting. A must-read for anyone who reads blogs.
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