Time visits objective reality on North Korean nuclear test.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  May 25th at 11:50 AM  | 

If you’re wondering why this Time article (“North Korean Nuke Test: What Good Is Diplomacy?“) sounds, well, sensible, take a look at the byline: Bill Powell/Tokyo It’s amazing how being somewhere that the lunatics in North Korea can easily hit with a nuclear weapon can clarify the mind. Although I am forced to point this out to Mr. Powell: his “usually very well-informed intelligence source | Read More »

North Korean nuclear test successful?

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  May 25th at 09:30 AM  | 

Well, they’re claiming that it was, and there’s evidence that it happened in the form of an earthquake,so that’s how everyone is betting.  Japan is calling for an emergency UNSC meeting; South Korea, dealing simultaneously with this and the suddenly-more-murky suicide of its former President, is doing the same.  The White House hasn’t put up the President’s official statement on this yet, but you can | Read More »