Archive for category ‘President Kim Jong Il’


Pakistan’s Widening Whirlpools of Dysfunctionalities

 July 8th, 2011      No Comments »

Posted in: Afghanistan, Counterterrorism, Islam, Pakistan, President Kim Jong Il, South Asia, Strategic Affairs of South Asia, United States, Usama Bin Laden

All countries have armies; however, it is said about Pakistan that its Army has a country.  That expression is more of a reflection of reality than it is meant to be derisive.  At one time, the Pakistani Army had a prestige inside the country that it could do things that the civilian governments could not.  Today’s [...]

The North Korean Brinkmanship and Sino-American Maneuvers

 November 28th, 2010      No Comments »

Posted in: China, Hot Global Issues from Other Sources, Japan, Nuclear Proliferation, President Kim Jong Il, United States

Authoritarian regimes are so hard to predict in terms of why they make specific decisions; when there is likely to be major shifts in their foreign policy, even on issues of high politics; and especially how candid those regimes are in dealing with each other. These are some of the bewildering issues involving North Korean-Sino [...]

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