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6 December 2011 11:12
- North Korea has changed a lot in the last twenty years.
- Then again: a Dutch stamp collector arrested in North Korea on espionage charges was treated more or less how you would expect.
- An early response to my call for Vietnam-related material: Andrew Butcher from the Asia New Zealand Foundation alerts me to this account of a recent track II dialogue.
- From the US Naval Warfare Center: 'Just as a newlywed couple wants a “starter home,” a new great power wants a “starter carrier”'.
- New UN poverty numbers for China and India.
- ABC journalist Mark Corcoran looks at the siege of the British Embassy in Tehran, and reminisces about the protests he witnessed in Iran.
- Ed Husain from the Council for Foreign Relations tweets a picture of a 'woman from Jeddah in 1873, before "Saudi" Arabia was created. No black robes, gloves, or face veils.' (Thanks Danielle.)
- Further to our India uranium debate, here's Ziggy Zwitkowski's take in Business Spectator.
- Via The Browser, a piece about London's almost completed 'The Shard', which shows the continuing relevance of the skyscraper: 'The pyramids are still up. The Empire State Building looks as good as when it was built. They have inherent robustness to them'. I wonder what Prince Charles makes of it...
