October 3, 2008

U.S. intel analyzes lineup of leaders at key N. Korean military parade missed by Kim

State-run television coverage of the Sept. 9 parade marking the 60th anniversary of the founding of North Korea showed a Korean army general in a new, elevated position among the leadership. Korean People’s Army Gen. Hyon Chol-Hae was featured in an unusually prominent position.      (FULL STORY)
A North Korean missile unit takes part in a military parade to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the founding of the Korean People's Army in Pyongyang on April 25, 2007. Korea News Service/Reuters

China winning Asian space race with boost from military-aeronautics conglomerate

The epochal “spacewalk” undertaken by “Taikonaut” Zhai Zhigang last weekend marked a milestone in Chinese space and weapons technology. For Beijing, the feat of the Shenzhou 7 spaceship is in many ways a bigger cause for celebrating the achievements of the Chinese Communist Party administration than the Summer Olympics.     (FULL STORY)
Observers watch the launch of the Shenzhou 7 space craft at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China's Gansu province, on Sept. 25.   AP/Color China
North Korea said to work at secret Teheran site on Iran's nuclear warheads
Not just nukes, but over-fishing stokes tensions between China, North Korea
   
China invites foreign observers, including from U.S. and Mongolia, to Inner Mongolia exercise
U.S. IDs top economic leader in China’s secretive Politburo
'Surge' advisor calls China ties most important for U.S. in 21st century
Seoul vulnerable to short-range strikes from 25 N. Korea missile bases

Japanese carmakers began to feel Detroit's pain even before U.S. financial crisis / Small Turkmenistan emerging as a big energy player / Pakistani women and banking
New Japan PM seen reviving Koizumi's hardline policies on China
China helping Burma with cyberwar attacks on opposition
China’s online mobs use dig for dirt to discredit perceived enemies of the state
U.S. intelligence shares N. Korea succession scenarios with Seoul

 
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