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Did North Korea cheat, you ask?

North Korea has been developing a uranium enrichment programme — a potential second way to make nuclear bombs — since the late 1990s, a senior defector was Wednesday quoted as saying. The defector, quoted by South Korea’s Chosun Ilbo newspaper, said centrifuges for the programme are being made at the city of Heechon, 57 kilometres (35 miles) northeast of its main nuclear complex at Yongbyon. [AFP]

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John Bolton and Christian Whiton call for tightening sanctions, increasing radio broadcasts, and augmenting U.S. forces in Northeast Asia. There is also a call for the redeployment of tactical nukes.

No meat soup for you: North Korea moves the goalposts on its predictions of prosperity by 2012. More here.

Have you ever noticed how North Korea, which spends one-third of its national income on its military while children literally starve in the streets, is never the object of leftist cliches about the military-industrial complex?

I think I’ve found the solution to our trade deficit.

North Korea is suspected in a denial of service attack on Radio Free North Korea.