Archivos de Categoría: Armas de Destrucción Masiva

Corea del Norte

Carta
El Mercurio, 14.08.2017
Jaime Lagos Erazo, abogado (U. de Chile), embajador (r) y columnista
En recientes cartas de opinión bajo el título Corea del Norte, dos lectores entregan útiles informaciones sobre la presente crisis en la península coreana. Manuel Blanco opina que desde que se inició la Guerra de Corea en 1950, EE.UU., como lo aconsejaba entonces el general...
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Kim Jong Un cambia su rutina por temor a ser asesinado

Reportaje
La Tercera, 06.07.2017
Fernando Fuentes
  • Ya no utiliza su Mercedes-Benz, según la Inteligencia surcoreana. El líder norcoreano solo viaja al amanecer y redujo sus actos públicos
[caption id="attachment_18259" align="alignright" width="400"] Reuters[/caption] A pesar de sus audaces pruebas de misiles balísticos prohibidos (como la última realizada ayer) y su creciente amenaza de...
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Kim Jong Un: ‘Crazy Fat Kid’ or Rational Despot?

Análisis
Stratfor Worldview
Bao Pu
[caption id="attachment_49387" align="alignnone" width="550"] (STR/AFP/Getty Images)[/caption] North Korea's nuclear and missile program has been making plenty of headlines lately. Tension is running high and many people are losing sleep over what happens next. One newspaper even called the situation a "Cuban Missile Crisis in Slow Motion." But...
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How to deal with the world’s most dangerous regime

Editorial
The Economist, 22.04.2017
  • Donald Trump grapples with his trickiest task
North Korea can be as confusing as it is alarming. It is a hereditary Marxist monarchy. It has the world’s youngest supreme leader and also its oldest. The reigning tyrant, Kim Jong Un, is in his 30s; and...
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Kim Jong-un, amenaza para la paz mundial

Editorial
El Mundo, 16.04.2017
[caption id="attachment_48284" align="alignnone" width="495"] EFE[/caption] El enigmático líder norcoreano tiene claros rasgos de psicopatía, según los expertos, lo que no significa en modo alguno que no sepa lo que hace al frente del último régimen estalinista del planeta. Kim Jong-un ha vuelto a poner en vilo a la comunidad internacional...
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The Geopolitics of Iran: Holding the Center of a Mountain Fortress

Análisis
Stratfor Global Intelligence, 16.12.2011
Analysis To understand Iran, you must begin by understanding how large it is. Iran is the 17th largest country in world. It measures 1,684,000 square kilometers. That means that its territory is larger than the combined territories of France, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, Spain and Portugal — Western Europe. Iran is the 16th...
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North Korea (4): How North Korea Would Retaliate

Análisis
Stratfor Global Intelligence, 26.05.2016
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Summary

North Korea is powerless to prevent a U.S. strike on its nuclear program, but retaliation is well within its means. The significant military capability that North Korea has built up against South Korea is not advanced by Western standards, but there are practical...
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North Korea (5): The Cost of Intervention

Análisis
Stratfor Global Intelligence, 27.05.2016
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What North Korea lacks in sophistication it makes up for in guile. Its answer to any attack would go beyond conventional means to include its experienced commando force, cyberwarfare capability and submarine force, at the very least. Though North Korea has chemical weapons,...
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North Korea (1): Assessing the North Korean Hazard

Análisis
Stratfor Global Intelligence, 23.05.2016
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Few countries intrigue and perplex like the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. Isolated by choice from the ebbs and flows of the international system, North Korea is an island of its own making. It is often painted as a weak, fearsome lunatic with delusions...
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