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• Republican Purity and Conservatism

  
  Outside The Beltway | OTB — Authority: 673
  It appears that the Republican National Committee is working on a set of principles that Republican candidates have to adhere to in order to receive funding and support from the RNC. There are ten principles listed, and the candidates have to adhere to at least seven of these principles “as identified by the ...
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• An RNC Purity Test?

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 156
  Reid Wilson has the first look at a resolution being pushed by Republican National Committee member Jim Bopp, author of the infamous “socialist” resolution, that would aim to prevent future NY-23 disasters by requiring that candidates agree to at least seven of 10 issue promises in order to receive financial ...
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• OBAMAS MAGIC WORKING OUT WELL...

  
  A Tangled Web — Authority: 483
  Following on from Obamas wildly successful visit to China and his regimes much more nuanced approach to dealing with North Korea, it looks like things are working out really well! Chinese and North Korean defence chiefs have pledged to strengthen their long-standing military alliance. The Chinese Defence ...
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• Beating Kim’s game of ‘blackmail diplomacy’

  
  East Asia Forum — Authority: 431
  Author: Andrei Lankov, Kookmin University North Korea will never give up its nuclear weapons, but it makes sense for the United States to continue talks now with a more realistic understanding of the North’s strategies and goals. President Barack Obama arrived in Seoul last Wednesday for a summit meeting with ...
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• How North Koreas Arms Trade Funds Its Nuclear Program

  
  War News Updates — Authority: 504
  North Korea Arms Trade Funds Nuclear-Bomb Work, UN Panel Says -- Bloomberg Nov. 19 (Bloomberg) -- North Korea is running a global arms smuggling enterprise to finance its nuclear weapons program, a United Nations panel said in a report on sanctions imposed on the regime. “The Democratic People’s Republic of ...
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• What Life Is Like In The North Korean Army

  
  War News Updates — Authority: 504
  North Korean military honour guard standing to attention at Pyongyangs airport during a diplomatic visit Photograph: Stephen Shaver/AFP/Getty Images Defector Tells Of Life In North Korean Army -- BBC Newsnight has spoken to two North Korean defectors about life inside the secretive Stalinist state, one of ...
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• Terror Trial, Iran, Afghanistan, etc. Are Not Independent Events

  
  American Conservative Daily — Authority: 503
  Hope and Change or Truth or Consequences What Credibility Does Mr. Obama Think That He Has? He Talks of Consequences In Iran While Allowing Terrorists To Go On Trial In Civilian Court In The United States Talk and rhetoric are cheap as the nation and the world has witnessed since the campaign that ...
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• Obama Says He Seeks To Break Pattern With North Korea

  
  Pacific Freeze — Authority: 116
  (November 19, 2009) Seoul– President Barack Obama said he and South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak aim to “break the pattern” in dealing with North Korea in which the regime in Pyongyang alternates between provocation and negotiation. Obama said he will send his special envoy, Stephen Bosworth, to North Korea ...
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• The Hidden ‘Arrogance’ Behind Obama’s Royal Bow: Global Geographic Times, China

  
  The Moderate Voice — Authority: 735
  What is the significance of President Obama’s habit of bowing to foreign royalty? Continuing with our coverage of China’s reaction to president Obama’s Asia tour, Diguo Zhunjiang for China’s state-controlled Global Geographic Times asserts that while this results in a great loss of face for the United ...
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• Two North Korean diplomats arrested for smuggling

  
  Gadling — Authority: 703
  Filed under: Sweden , News Two North Korean diplomats tried to claim diplomatic immunity when they were arrested in Stockholm for smuggling cigarettes. The man and woman, who were caught driving their tobacco-filled car off a ferry from Helsinki, have been taken into police custody. Apparently, they have ...
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• UN panel condemns Iran for post-election crackdown

  
  AlertNet Newsdesk — Authority: 728
  Source: Reuters * Canadian-drafted resolution adopted by 74-48 vote * Saudi Arabia breaks ranks with Muslim states, votes yes * U.S., Britain, Canada welcome the censure of Iran (Adds U.S., British and Canadian ...
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• UN committee slams Iran for post-election crackdown

  
  AlertNet Newsdesk — Authority: 728
  Source: Reuters * Canadian-drafted resolution adopted by 74-48 vote * Saudi Arabia breaks ranks with Muslim states, votes yes By Louis Charbonneau UNITED NATIONS, Nov 20 (Reuters) - The U.N. General Assemblys ...
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• The greed of the generals (II): two questions

  
  The Best Defense — Authority: 654
  Im interested that in all the e-mails Ive gotten, and responses posted on this blog about triple-dipping retired generals getting paid to "mentor" the active duty military while at the same time working in the defense industry, and also collecting their pensions, not a single person has contended that, yes, ...
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• Addiction to Growth is China’s ‘Berlin Wall’: Global Geographic Times, People’s Republic of China

  
  The Moderate Voice — Authority: 735
  Can President Obama persuade China not to be so dependent on growth, particularly trade-dependent growth? Likening Beijing’s obsession with growth to a Chinese version of the ‘Berlin Wall,’ Feng Mengyun of China’s state-run Global Geographic Times expresses his hope that President Obama can do something to ...
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• What happened to containment of North Korea?

  
  Shadow Government — Authority: 630
  By Jamie Fly  In 1947, after George Kennan, writing under the pseudonym "X," published his famous article on "The Sources of Soviet Conduct" in  Foreign Affairs , he quickly found that his concept of "containment" was distorted in the public discussion about his article that ensued. In his new book, The Hawk and ...
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• Give North Korea a break | John Delury

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 162
  Denuclearisation will only come when bridges have been built with Pyongyang and it feels firmly set on a new economic course Negotiations over the denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula look set to resume . Sadly, they are unlikely to end soon. Talk of a "grand bargain" remains just that – talk. Trust between ...
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• Engaging the DPRK: A “Deferred Delivery” Option?

  
  Leonid Petrov's KOREA VISION — Authority: 112
  by Georgy Toloraya, “Engaging the DPRK: A ‘Deferred Delivery’ Option?” The Asia-Pacific Journal, 47-3-09, November 23, 2009.Regardless of rhetoric, there is little doubt that North Korea is not prepared to give up its nuclear capability any time soon. Although it might simply be a bargaining position, ...
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• Age of cyber warfare is ‘dawning’

  
  Command the Raven — Authority: 149
  From BBC UKCyber war has moved from fiction to fact, says a report.Compiled by security firm McAfee, it bases its conclusion on analysis of recent net-based attacks.Analysis of the motives of the actors behind many attacks carried out via the internet showed that many were mounted with a explicitly political aim.It ...
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• Obama Winds Up Asia Tour With South Korea Summit

  
  dailyQi — Authority: 139
  Source: VOA News (November 18, 2009, Seoul), Obama Winds Up Asia Tour With South Korea Summit U.S. President Barack Obama has arrived in South Korea, where he is expected to show solidarity with the country’s president in demanding North Korea move toward ending its nuclear weapons programs. The president ...
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• North Korea: U.S. Imperialists ride the Pyongyang Metro

  
  At Home In The Wasteland — Authority: 122
  “The metro, a monumental edifice in the era of the Workers’ Party, is providing the people with easy access to different parts of Pyongyang and is very instrumental in their ideological and cultural education.” – KCNA Of all the things we did in North Korea, taking a short trip on the Pyongyang metro was ...
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