April 14, 2010

Kim's military assumes direct control of North Korea security agency

North Korea has elevated its top police agency and placed it under the direct control of the country's supreme ruler Kim Jong-Il. The reshuffle comes as Kim's regime has put the country under higher alert following a mysterious explosion and sinking of a South Korean patrol boat near the tense inter-Korean maritime border in late March. (FULL STORY)
Salvage team members put part of South Korean ship on a barge after recovering it with a giant crane, near the maritime border with North Korea, on April 15.  Reuters/Seo Jae-hun/Newsis
Beijing waging 'Second Opium War'
in 21st-century challenge to the CPC

China is waging what Beijing analysts call a "Second Opium War." The targets are a multi-racial army of international drug runners that, in collusion with an expanding network of domestic "triad" gangs, seem to be spinning out of control.  (FULL STORY)
As part of the "people's warfare against drugs," China's courts will be meting out more severe punishments against narcotics-related felons.   
China bolstering info security as U.S. Strategic Command girds for cyber warfare
Intelligence monitoring Gowadia trial for clues on Chinese strategic espionage
   
Kim uses up 20 percent of N. Korean budget to fund lifestyle, defector says
U.S. report drops mention of nuclear retaliation against China
Ma again demands China move estimated 1,400 missiles targeting Taiwan
Chinese dam on Mekong raises tension with Vietnam, all of Southeast Asia

  INSIDE  NORTH  KOREA     
There can now be only one Kim Jong-Un in all of North Korea

A South Korean official said intelligence sources had confirmed that all other Kim Jong-Uns in North Korea were being advised by local party officials, police stations and administrative offices to change their names.
DoD official: China neither enemy nor a nuclear ally of the U.S.
U.S. report fails to confirm North Korea test was nuclear
China cyber espionage targeted classified Indian defense documents

 
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