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East Asia
North Korea closes down embassy in Uzbekistan
North Korea has closed down its embassy in Uzbekistan as part of a restructuring of its missions in the Commonwealth of Independent States, a diplomatic source in Uzbekistan said on August 20, Trend News reports. The source said that the North Korean embassy informed foreign embassies in Tashkent, the Uzbek…
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Central Asia
Kazakhstan and Israel to jointly manufacture UAVs
Kazakhstan and Israel have reached agreements on joint production of UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicle), Kazakh ministry of defense said on August 22, Trend reports. The message did not reveal the UAV models that Kazakhstan and Israel plan to manufacture. The agreements have been reached during the meeting of Kazakh and…
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East Asia
Koreans’ knowledge of China
Lee Seong-hyon – The Korea Times A Chinese government official once told me why he likes Koreans more than the Japanese. “It’s because when I talk to Koreans, I can tell what they’re thinking inside. It’s written all over their faces. But when I talk to the Japanese, I don’t…
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West Asia
Iran unveils Bavar-373 missile system
Iranian President Rouhani has inaugurated Bavar-373 which is an Iranian long-range mobile air defense system. On the occasion of the National Defense Industry Day which falls on 21 August, the Iranian president visited Aerospace Industries Organization (AIO) at the Ministry of Defense to take a tour of the Ministry’s capabilities…
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East Asia
A cheap big ‘little’ China
Park Moo-jong – The Korea Times China is a big country. No one can deny it. The Communist country has the largest population of nearly 1.5 billion and occupies the fourth-biggest land in the world. It is also the world’s second-largest economy only after the U.S. But what the country…
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East Asia
Alliance of convenience
Many, if not most, Westerners with a passing interest in North Korea tend to believe that in the bygone days of the Communist bloc the Soviet Union and North Korea were close allies. This is a gross mistake. While relations between Moscow and Pyongyang were initially quite close, from the…
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Central Asia
Turkey: Russia can use Incirlik airbase if necessary
Ankara wouldn’t mind it if Russia used the Incirlik airbase for its anti-terror missions against Islamic State terrorists in Syria, Turkey’s Prime Minister Binali Yildirim hinted on August 20, but acknowledged that no such requests have been made. “Turkey opened Incirlik airbase to fight Daesh terrorists. It is being used…
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East Asia
Japan’s intervention in South China Sea perverse
Japan’s efforts to muddle the waters of the South China Sea are perverse acts that turn back the wheel of history, a Chinese expert wrote on Monday in an article that marked the 71st anniversary of Japan’s unconditional surrender in World War II and called on the public to ponder…
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West Asia
Why anti-corruption protests are rising in Armenia?
Vestnik Kavkaza – On July 17, 2016, 12 Armenian anti-government activists raided a police station in Yerevan and took nine police officers hostage. After storming the station, the hostage takers urged the Armenian government to release right-wing opposition leader Jarir Sefilian from prison and called for Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan’s…
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East Asia
An Astonishing Victory: Battle of Salsu
Battle of Salsu might be accepted as one of the most destructive and astonishing wars in the military history. The expansionist and dominant policy of China aimed at to destroy a Korean power, Goguryeo, which was accepted as a potential threat on its northern borders. China tried to suppress the…
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