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Weapons

The South Korea Cyberattack Aftermath: We Are F*cked

12:00AM Jesus Diaz | Defense Tech has some interesting analysis of what happened with the North Korea’s attacks on United States and South Korean government sites. Given Kim Jong Il’s pathetic telecommunication infrastructure, their summary is both scary and kind of saddening. More »
Online

North Korea Now Attacking US Government Sites, Sources Say

2:50AM Jesus Diaz | Since North Korea’s unreliable “Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles” are still far from hitting the US, Kim Jong Il’s hacker hordes are now attacking US government web sites. At least, according to the South Korea Information Security Agency. More »
Weapons

What’s The Fallout If North Korea Nukes Hawaii?

10:00PM Brian Lam | North Korea’s aiming their test missile near Hawaii. The US military says they can protect the islands, and locals aren’t too worried, but if something happens, the thermal, shockwave and radioactive fallout will look something like this. More »
Weapons

More Analysis On The Korean Rocket Launch

6:20AM Jason Chen | Really interested in what kind of nuclear rocket capability North Korea has? The Bulletin does a really in-depth analysis of the latest launch, based on released and carefully reasoned interpolated data. More »
Weapons

Just Where Can North Korea’s Missiles Hit?

6:00AM Jason Chen | This Guardian report says that North Korea would hit the United States with a “fire shower” of nukes if we attack first. But how far can NK deliver the 5-7 nukes that they’re currently suspected of having? More »
Online

Kim Jong-il Has More Twitter Followers than You

3:40AM Mark Wilson | I didn’t want it to come to this. But if enriching uranium is the only way I can amass a decent threshold of Twitter followers, then so be it. [Gary Varvel via Newlaunches] More »
Weapons

North Korea Intercontinental Ballistic Missile Fails Miserably

10:24AM Jesus Diaz | According to the US Northern Command, the infamous North Korean launch of an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile—which went over Japan terrifying Brian Ashcraft—has been a complete failure, with its payload falling into the Pacific Ocean: More »
Entertainment

Kim Jong Il’s Plan to Bring the Moon to North Korea Isn’t Actually Real…Right Guys?

9:00AM Mark Wilson | Breaking news from The Onion: Kim Jong Il will transport the moon to North Korea by 2015. And it’s a plan that’s so damn crazy that it just might work. [via bbGadgets] More »
Networks

North Korea To Get Its First National Mobile Phone Network

2:45AM John Mahoney | Kim Jong Il may be on his deathbed, but now he can easily order via mobile phone more rare stewed peacock meat to be delivered to him via horseback while the theme from the Godfather plays. More »
Games

North Korean Arcades Are Incredibly Sad

12:45AM Matt Buchanan | I’ve seen some crappy arcades in my day, mostly tucked into some crummy corner of whatever cheap hotel my mum had stashed us at, populated with well-worn Galaga and Street Fighter II machines. They had a certain kind of charm, though, and still do, considering the fact that the arcade is an endangered species in the US. Then there’s this arcade in North Korea, which is almost as bad as the old Soviet ones. More »