Taiwan is unwilling to spend money on its defense. Who needs high-tech weapons, when they’ve got the Kindersturmkorps!
For those who can’t figure it out, Kindersturmkorps is a play on Volksturm units that Germany created as last ditch defense out of old men and young boys. Kinder, of course, means children in German (that’s whence our term “Kindergarten” — children’s garden — originates).
A bit dated, but Yoelchae's write up on his trip to Kaesong in October is well worth the read.
- #New additions are: Andrei Lankov's blog (translated version via DPRK Forum); Saber Fencer; The Grand Narrative; Korea in Focus; KoreaArticle, and; Information Dissemination.
- #Via CNN: "An Iranian woman, blinded by a jilted stalker who threw acid in her face, has persuaded a court to sentence him to be blinded with acid himself under Islamic law demanding an eye for an eye... Her attacker... admitted throwing acid in her face in November 2004."
- #In an article at the Asia Times, Riddles and enigmas from North Korea, Andrei Lankov speculates on how governments get intelligence from inside North Korea, and lists some of the other valuable sources of information from the country.
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