Archive for the tag 'north korea'

politics

The nation that wasn’t there…

I wasn’t clear on the exact location of the latest North Korean tantrum , so I enlisted the ever faithful Google Maps to precisely show me where the Kim Jong Ill minions were lobbing shells into civilians . Yeonpyeong Island is indicated in Red.  To be fair, the island has also yet to be mapped.  [...]

sports

…this match will determine once and for all which is the greatest nation on earth: North Korea or Portugal!

    North Korea vs. Portugal 21 June  8:30am (AT) Lots floating around about North Korea’s attempt (105th in FIFA rankings) at football dominance in 2010. Of course, it was only a matter of time before the Dear Leader would be invoked as the force behind the team . The North Korean player who scored [...]

china, personal

Conversation with a North Korean

I was meaning to mention this awhile ago, but didn’t get around to it until now.  For the first month or so in Shanghai I was sharing a floor with four or five North Koreans. At first I wasn’t sure if they were North Koreans, but the presence of little North Korean flags taped to [...]

china, urban planning

Most Hideous Building in the World?

No, it’s not the CCTV Headquarters building…which I strangely kind of like, even though it appears to epitomize masturbatory architecture and sky-line wonks nor does it fit at all into the surrounding fabric…I remain strangely drawn to it.  I can’t seem to explain my new found attraction towards good ultra-modernist design.  I could blame weburbanist.com [...]

military

DMZ

military

Nuke Theory and the Crazy North

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china, military

World Deterrent

china

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