Archivos de Categoría: Corea del Norte

How (Not) to Kill Kim Jong Un

Artículo
Foreign Policy, 06.07.2017
Adam Rawnsley, reportero norteamericano especializado en tecnología y seguridad nacional
The history of failed attempts on the lives of Pyongyang’s leaders shows if you come for the Kims, you better not miss
The two dozen commandos trained to kill North Korean dictator Kim Il Sung on a remote island off the coast of South Korea...
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Weep Not for Kim Jong Il

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Foreign Policy, 23.12.2011
Andrei Lankov, profesor (U. de Kookmin-Seúl)
  • He had a good life
So, it finally happened. Kim Jong Il, the Dear Leader, Marshal of a Mighty Republic and the Lodestar of the 20th Century, is dead. His demise was widely expected — Marshal Kim has not looked healthy...
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Kim Jong Un: ‘Crazy Fat Kid’ or Rational Despot?

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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 Soviet Korean Who Ended the Forgotten War

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The Diplomat, 24.08.2016
Victoria Kim
  • The story of General Nam Il’s incredible journey from the Russian Far East to North Korea, via Uzbekistan.
[caption id="attachment_40327" align="alignnone" width="388"]General Nam Il, the senior communist delegate at the Korean Armistice talks arrives at Panmunjom, Korea, for a plenary session of the Armistice negotiations (February 19, 1952).... 				</div>
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Filosofia, anarquía y descontento

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Enrique Subercaseaux, ex diplomático chileno y gestor cultural
  • "Los Dioses inmortales entregan a los humanos  dos dolores por cada alegría. Los inútiles no construyen nada de ellas. Los sagaces  giran ambas a su provecho: Absorbiendo el dolor e irradiando belleza". Píndaro (Pitias III, 80-83)
Tres han sido los temas de los últimos días: -Proponer eliminar las clases de Filosofía del...
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North Korea (4): How North Korea Would Retaliate

Análisis
Stratfor Global Intelligence, 26.05.2016
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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

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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

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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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