Update, 19 August: Per Yonhap:
South Korea suspended Wednesday the launch of its first space rocket with just under eight minutes remaining in the countdown due to a technical glitch.
Original post: South Korea’s first space launch vehicle (KSLV-1) is set for a 19 August launch from the new Naro Space Center. This is causing some [...]

Last Thursday, while addressing at the American Enterprise Institute, Jay Lefkowitz, President Bush’s Special Envoy for Human Rights in North Korea, stated that, “North Korea is not serious about disarming in a timely manner,” and “It is increasingly likely that North Korea will have the same nuclear status one year from now that it has [...]

Probably most email users today have multiple email accounts, the need to check email at different locations, and have tried various web email solutions like Yahoo Mail, Gmail, Hotmail, etc. (there are others most of us haven’t heard of).
But the big two are Yahoo Mail and Gmail. Long time provider Yahoo Mail (not sure when [...]

I don’t see this as hurting much, but as usual the Kim regime is the short-to-mid term winner, which mean most North Koreans are the losers:
Reunification IT Forum (South), Chosun People’s Science Technology Association (North) and Chinese Information Society co-hosted ICMIP 2007 in Yenji, China on November 27 to 28.
At the conference, IT experts from [...]

In a report from East Asia Intel (subscription), a North Korea defector describes parts of the nuclear program, including a nuclear weapon he claims to have seen in 1992. He said that North Korean scientists discovered a method for attaining a secondary explosion from Pu-240, which he claims was used in the October 2006 nuclear [...]

The title of the Korea Times article made me chuckle, but if not a Dr.-Hwang-like hoax, there are some potential energy security implications for this:
A team of Korean scientists has created a new substance that can convert inexpensive intermediate crude oil to valuable gasoline in a very efficient fashion.
Venezuela – and those who might want [...]

Sorry, y’all, I can’t believe I missed the following announcement of July 11th. My thanks to Heidi Stirrup for the tip:
FRIST PROPOSES ADDING NORTH KOREA TO THE IRAN AND SYRIA NONPROLIFERATION ACT
WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, M.D., (R–Tenn.) today announced his intention to introduce legislation that would add North Korea to [...]

The marketing to high-tech gear in the U.S. according to WaPo:
When Helio LLC wanted to market a new $250 ultra-high-tech cellphone this year, it targeted three distinct groups: spoiled teens, tech geeks and Korean Americans [boldface mine].
Korean Americans make up less than 1 percent of the U.S. population, but U.S. telecommunications firms take note of [...]

From the Korea Times:
A female android will chair the opening ceremony of the SEK 2006, Korea’s biggest info-tech exhibition that begins a four-day run at COEX in southern Seoul Wednesday.

[Image source: The Korea Times]
So that’s what happens when there is a societal male/female ratio imbalance.
The caption contest is open.

A Taiwanese businessman pleaded guilty Wednesday to acting as a covert agent for the Chinese government and trying to buy sophisticated military parts and weapons, including an F-16 fighter jet engine and cruise missiles.
Reports Fox News (you can read the whole thing here; h/t Simon World). Boy, a Taiwanese! So this guy betrayed his [...]