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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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But that would seem to be the prognosis of an excellent new book called The Cleanest Race (affiliate link), penned by B.R. Myers, a title I’d written about extensively yesterday which garnered a considerable amount of feedback from my readers (thanks to all who emailed in, especially on Facebook)

Myers’ premise in a nutshell is thus: we here in cushy West are astonishingly  ignorant of the North Korean menace, and our present political engagements and strategies vis-a-vis the hermit kingdom — whereby the US and its allies demand unfettered access to the DPRK’s nuclear facilities and the immediate, unconditional dismantling of its overall WMD program — runs counter to the ruling philosophy of North Korea’s “Dear Leader,” Mr. Kim Jong Il (ain’t he cute? Some South Koreans certainly think so).

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