July 7, 2010

CIA chief calls North Korea succession a 'dangerous period'

CIA Director Leon Panetta said last week that a leadership succession is underway in North Korea from current leader Kim Jong-Il to his son and that the regime in Pyongyang remains dangerous. Panetta said the North Korean attack on the warship Cheonan "could have been part" of the leadership succession struggle in order to "establish credibility for his son." (FULL STORY)
A 1998 school photo of Kim Jong-Un in Bern, Switzerland.
War of the war games: Beijing aims publicity barrage at U.S.; PLA navy flexes its muscles
Beijing has delivered this unambiguous message to the United States by holding a high-profile war game in the East China Sea from June 30 to July 5: "The East and South China Seas are our spheres of influence and don't mess with us." Late last month, the Chinese Foreign Ministry expressed "serious concern" about an imminent U.S.-South Korea military exercise in the Yellow Sea that is meant to serve as a warning to the Kim Jong-Il regime.  (FULL STORY)
Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) Navy's missile ship at a live-ammunition exercise in the East China Sea.   Xinhua/Zha Chunming
Iran weighs shift to China as primary military supplier
U.S. officials acknowledge discussing electrical grid technology with Chinese counterparts
   
Report: N. Korean restaurants in China produce cash, recruit agents
Chinese Communist Party denies it members face a 'faith crisis'
U.S. cites 'complex policy' in excluding China from Space Station
Increasing number of N. Korean defectors by sea puts Seoul on alert

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N. Korea's heir-apparent was elected to parliament under a pseudonym

SEOUL — Kim Jong-Un, North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il's youngest son, was elected to parliament apparently as part of a carefully-concealed process to succeed his father's dictatorship.
Mullen: 'Totality of the leadership' in China opposes military ties with U.S.
China-based cyber attacks have compromised 'multiple technology companies' in U.S.
Investigators probe Chinese intelligence operation against Falun Gong in Germany

 
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