The Koreas

• Must read post on North Korea’s Camp 16 and the Mt. Mantap nuclear test site.
• Some thoughts on Korea’s first voting in of a non-ethnic Korean member of the National Assembly.
• Here is another Korea guidebook I will need to check out.
• I wonder if this Samsung gadget is better than my Roomba?
• What is Korean and what is North Korean?
• Probably not the best choice to hire on the police force.
• Interesting analysis of how the Korean media is portraying white and Asian foreigners.
• Most mixed race kids in Korea consider themselves Korean.
• Another scandal about forced sex in the Korean entertainment industry.
• Has anyone seen this Oreo breastfeeding ad in Korea?
• Some nice pictures from Suwon Hwaseong’s Janganmun Gate.
• The Korean cure for hangovers.
• At least one person thinks that North Korea deliberately blew up their rocket.
• Apparently Newt Gingrich thinks everyone in Korea should own a gun.

Japan

• Viewing cherry blossoms in the Fukushima exclusion zone.
• Will Tokyo purchase the Senkaku Islands?
• It looks like North Korea will use Japanese wives as leverage.
• If anyone tries this let me know how it goes.
• Gaijin CEO’s of Japanese companies.
• JSDF participates in international humanitarian relief exercise.

China

• I’m sure the irony is not lost on the Chinese complaining about the Japanese building up their military force.
• Famous western suburbs appear in China.