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ASPI suggests
Posted By Amelia Long and David Lang on February 12, 2016 @ 15:28
Everyone’s favourite hermit kingdom has done much to excite and exercise the world of late, first with last weekend’s rocket launch, and then through the decision to boot 248 South Korean managers from the Kaesong industrial complex, in retaliation for ROK sanctions. For some choice analysis on North Korea’s actions, check out this brief video overview of the North’s nuclear program or this analysis in Time, which manages to hoist-in references to both Beyoncé and Kim Jong-un—hopefully not for the last time. Over at The Washington Post Dan Drezner offers some sage realism on the topic of China and the DPRK. See also this stellar infographic from the Council on Foreign Relations, which ticks off North Korea as part of a veritable smorgasbord of foreign policy issues.
Head over to The New York Review of Books and catch up with Robert O. Paxton’s meditation on the French Resistance during the Second World War.
The CATO Institute has released a fascinating study into how new and improved technology is leading to a range of new capabilities being available to smaller and smaller powers—even to the individual. According to the research, small, smart and cheap weapons will continue to diffuse power, which greatly complicates the policy responses of major powers. Read up here.
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[1] Image: http://www.aspistrategist.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/9917158573_d9a1b56f78_c.jpg
[2] last weekend’s rocket launch: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/11/world/asia/china-south-korea-thaad.html
[3] boot 248 South Korean managers: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/12/world/asia/north-south-korea-kaesong.html?_r=0
[4] brief video overview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKMav-pu3O8&feature=youtu.be
[5] this analysis in Time: http://time.com/4216937/north-korea-pyongyang-kim-jong-un-kaesong-industrial-complex-south-korea-china-xi-jinping/
[6] Dan Drezner offers some sage realism: https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2016/02/11/lets-dispense-with-the-fiction-that-china-will-solve-the-north-korea-problem/
[7] stellar infographic from the Council on Foreign Relations: http://www.cfr.org/campaign2016/#/north-korea
[8] this piece at Vocativ: http://www.vocativ.com/news/282749/donald-trump-reading-level-new-hampshire/?post_item=282824#post-item-282824
[9] meditation on the French Resistance: http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2016/02/25/truth-about-french-resistance/
[10] here: http://www.cato.org/publications/policy-analysis/technologies-converge-power-diffuses-evolution-small-smart-cheap#full
[11] light-hearted piece: http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-unlikely-nightlife-hotspot-at-united-nations-headquarters?utm_source=atl-daily-newsletter
[12] Listen here: https://foreignpolicy.com/2016/02/08/why-is-the-united-states-more-afraid-of-the-islamic-state-than-russia/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=New%20Campaign&utm_term=Flashpoints
[13] cracking discussion and Q&A: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZTkxu8vjs0
[14] here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ddNkws1Vq0
[15] here: http://nsc.anu.edu.au/seminars/public-seminars-2016/seminar-201602.php
[16] online: http://ips.cap.anu.edu.au/cap-events/2016-02-25/costs-conflict
[17] China Matters website: http://chinamatters.org.au/