Showing posts with label Korea. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Korea. Show all posts

Saturday, November 23, 2013

China expands ADIZ to in your face levels

A picture is worth a thousand words, the map shows the new overlap created by the PRC's expansionist policies:






I expect the PRC to start splashing drones on any pretext they can find.   Then as tempers flare, they will jump on the first counter move with a heavy boot.


Wednesday, October 16, 2013

S. Korea outperforms America in stem cell technology

S. Korea uses stem cells more often and with more success than America treating diseases of the blood:

Seoul St. Mary`s Hospital performs 5,000th hematopoietic stem cell transplantation 

From the article:

".... we are one of the best performers in the world, as the rate is 10 to 30 percent higher than in the United States, as the survival rate of our 5,000 transplantation surgeries is 20 to 30 percent higher than U.S. hospitals," said Dr. Lee Jong-wook, head of the hospital`s hematopoietic stem cell transplantation center. "There is no need to go overseas for leukemia treatments." "




Wednesday, June 19, 2013

More rewritten history

69% of South Korean High School Students believe South Korea invaded North Korea to start the Korean War:

http://english.donga.com/srv/service.php3?biid=2013061802058

Update 08/06/13:
It appears there are some deep shenanigans in the Korean Government.  Not my strong suit, but i find it interesting that presidential records are mysteriously disappearing:

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/08/06/s-korea-president-weighs-in-on-missing-summit-papers/

Update 09/13/13

Korean Lawmaker accused of insurrection:

www.foxnews.com/world/2013/09/04/south-korean-lawmaker-accused-plotting-to-hand-power-to-north-in-event-war/

Korean Lawmaker calls for quick resolution to the above mentioned lawmakers transgressions.  Both are from the same party.

english.donga.com/srv/service.php3?biid=2013091008128

Thursday, November 29, 2012

Obama negotiates directly with N. Korea to stall missle tests?

The current administration may have made a secret deal with the N. Korean govenment to stall provacative behavior from the ostracized country.

It appears there was a 4 day long secret US diplomatic mission to N. Korea on or about Aug. 17th.

http://english.donga.com/srv/service.php3?biid=2012112928598

From the article, an english version of the Korean news site Donga.

“There is a high possibility that the U.S. tried to prevent the North from making an armed provocation ahead of the November presidential election and made a proposal corresponding to it,” the source said

While the press is all over Benghazi gate, i hope they manage a few lines on this one.

Update: an article from an english site , the Atlantic Wire:
http://www.theatlanticwire.com/global/2012/11/us-secretly-talking-north-korea/59459/

Update 12/5/12 from another Korean source:The Kyunghyang Shinmum

http://english.khan.co.kr/khan_art_view.html?artid=201210111436367&code=710100