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• North Korea's Lack of Success Wed May 1
  Night Watch
  What is apparent is that Kim Jong Un has put his country and population under significant stress and has little to show for it, whether measured in increased national readiness, increased personal loyalty or US recognition as a nuclear armed state. UN Sanctions remain in place. Kim refuses South Korean aid and international aid has dried up in a donation weary world. Kim still seems to need a victory. ... more
• North Korea Issues More Threats Wed Apr 17
  Night Watch
  The references to action without warning and to starting military actions immediately indicate the North's leaders probably have ordered a military demonstration. ... more
• The Media is a Circus with North Korea Tue Apr 16
  Night Watch
  North Koreans celebrated Kim Il-sung's birthday without launching a missile, as of this Watch. The leadership rejected offers of talks proposed by the US and by the Republic of Korea. It also rejected negotiations over Kaesong, which remains idle. ... more
• Obama’s Sittin’ on the Dock of the Bay Mon Apr 15
  Ken Blackwell
  It’s a pity North Korea’s Kim Jong Un had to spoil the party this week. Rockers at the White House should not have had to listen to disturbing news stories about rattling sabers and missile launches ... more
• 'Proportional' Response Tue Apr 9
  Thomas Sowell
  Since when has it been considered smart to tell your enemies what your plans are? ... more
• A Korean Nightmare Mon Apr 8
  Kurt Schlichter
  The Second Korean War began as Kim Jong Un smiled while the elderly clique of generals who had frustrated him with their cowardly advice and feeble half-measures filed into the Central Committee’s grand conference room. ... more
• North Korea's Target List Is a Freudian Slip Wed Apr 3
  Austin Bay
  Propaganda campaigns inevitably experience the equivalent of a mass media Freudian slip, a moment so blatantly extreme their ostensibly crafted spiels of fear, hate and threat backfire and reveal an inconvenient truth or two about the propagandists. ... more
• Another Wake-Up Call From North Korea Tue Apr 2
  Phyllis Schlafly
  Thirty years ago, on March 23, 1983, Ronald Reagan made a television address calling on the United States to build an anti-missile defense. His rationale was compelling: Isn't it better to save American lives than to kill millions of the enemy? ... more
• The Grim Legacy Behind North Korea's Theater of Extortion Wed Mar 13
  Austin Bay
  Call it North Korea's version of a '50s revival, though Pyongyang's 1950s retro is vicious Stalinist threat, not an evening of Chuck Berry and Elvis. ... more
• George Stephanopoulos Has "No Hate" For Dennis Rodman's N. Korea Trip Mon Mar 4
  Katie Pavlich
• Dennis Rodman Bows to Kim Jong Un Sat Mar 2
  Night Watch
  Warmly welcoming him, Kim Jong Un let Rodman sit next to him. Rodman and the Globetrotters are the first Americans to meet and dine with Kim Jong Un and his wife. ... more
• Why Are We Still on the DMZ? Fri Feb 15
  Pat Buchanan
  North Korea has just pulled off an impressive dual feat -- the successful test both of an intercontinental ballistic missile and an atom bomb in the 6-kiloton range. ... more
• Nuclear Endgame on the Korean Peninsula? Wed Feb 13
  Austin Bay
  Last October, while riding on South Korea's KTX express train from Seoul to Cheonan, I glanced at one of the rail car's video monitors just as a chilling yet cyclically familiar news flash lit the screen: "North Korea threatens South Korea with nuclear war." ... more
• Happy Holidays, Saudi Arabia Sat Jan 5
  Bill O'Reilly
  With Christmas now in the rearview mirror, it is perplexing that some far-left bloggers are still bemoaning the fact that Newsweek magazine proclaimed that folks who respect the traditions of the Christmas holiday "won" the battle against secular progressives who want to diminish the birth of Jesus in the public square. ... more
• North Korea's Wakeup Call Tue Dec 25
  Phyllis Schlafly
  It should have been a loud wakeup call in December when North Korea successfully launched a three-stage rocket delivering a payload in orbit around the globe. ... more
• Japan Responds to North Korea's Missile Threat Wed Dec 12
  Austin Bay
  North Korea's decision to delay the test launch of its latest long-range ballistic missile also delays a much more remarkable demonstration of national will: Japan's pledge to intercept Pyongyang's missile should it intrude on Japanese territory. ... more
• Appeasement in Fast Time Wed Mar 21
  Paul Greenberg
  It's not just Pyongyang's repeated promises that have proven worthless but Washington's. ... more

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