• North Korea vs. South Korea: Who Wins If They Go to War Once More?

    Korea's DMZ

    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!

    Rajin Port

    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…

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  • 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)

    Hero In the Lake

    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.

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  • 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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