Wednesday, October 08, 2014

Foreign Policy

Turmoil among North Korea's rulers.
"The rumor-mill is working overtime to make sense of these events, and all sorts of speculation is being put out there. Word is out that Kim’s younger sister, Kim Yo-yong, is now effectively in charge of day-to-day affairs of state. A group of high level North Korean defectors say there has been a coup in progress for many months, with senior military and party leaders no longer taking orders from Kim and in effect establishing a military junta with Kim as their front man."
Months is a long time.
"There are many confirmed reports indicating that Sino-Korean relations are less than comradely: in the recent greeting issued by the Workers Party of North Korea on the occasion of the 65th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China the flowery rhetoric of past messages was omitted. More ominously, the Telegraph reports that a crack division of the North Korean army was pulled away from the Demilitarized Zone and put on the border with China in mid-August:"
Americans shouldn't be involved.

Google chairman warns internet spying by governments will break the internet by balkanizing it.
"American tech companies have long cautioned the U.S. government that their global competitiveness is being crippled because of eroding mistrust among their users, who fear that data may not be safe from intelligence agencies.
"This is going to cost Americans jobs," said Wyden, the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee. "Good-paying, American jobs, when wage growth is one of the premier issues of our time.""
Rulers don't care.

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