what's happening in Korea?

a long discussion on StrategyPage of the background of what's going on in Korea: they have broken so many promises in the past that no one trusts them.

but here is a factoid I bet you never read about in the news:

a million people starved there in the early 1990s.

Despite that North Korea diverted enormous resources to developing nukes and now North Korea is a nuclear power that is starving.

and they are into the drug trade too.

but Dilbert is optimistic about what's going on.

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SP has a long article about Burma and the Rohingye refugees, with some notes about Chinese neocolonialism in the area, and NGO's manipulating the press to get their way (and in this case, the Burmese gov't not letting them do their SJW stuff to manipulate what's going on.).

lots of subtle stuff there, unlike the "ain't it awful" one sided stories one reads in the MSM.

I have written in support of the Rohingye before their plight hit the MSM.

a lot of it is cultural, and is spreading to Christian tribes in the north: link2