An article in the Christian Science Monitor reports that some scientists in South Korea are saying the North tipped its rocket with a dummy satellite in order to justify a test of its missile technology. They cannot have been shooting a real satellite,” says Myung Noh-hoon, director of the Space Research Center at the Korea [...]
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Keeping with the theme of North Korea, the verb “to launch,” as in launch a rocket is: 1. 쏘다 : which can also be used in the expression 누가 쏠 차려여요 to mean “whose turn is it to pay?” 2. 짙다: thick or dark. A local expression goes “립스틱 짙게 바르고” to describe a woman [...]
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Per the WSJ article: China on Tuesday repeated a call for calm after North Korea’s latest test of a multistage rocket, attempting to defuse anger in the U.S. and elsewhere at a time when its economic interest in the neighboring state is soaring[...] China increased trade with North Korea over the past four years. Last [...]
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Hans Blix, former head of the WMD inspection team in Iraq and chairman of the Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission, says engagement with the North is the only way to convince the country that “a piece of paper” will guarantee its safety more so than a nuclear stockpile. Perhaps a piece of paper could be [...]
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