Dutch, stop being so excellent! You're making it embarrassing for everyone else. This train station in Haarlem has a lending library between platforms 3 and 4.
Platform 3¾ —aka The Bookworm Express.
North Korea has been shaping up as Russia's leading weapons supplier, reportedly providing Moscow with extensive military packages, including ballistic missiles and over 3 million artillery shells.
US think tank Beyond Parallel observed an increase in freight railcars along the North Korea-Russia border, suggesting likely supply of arms and munitions to Moscow.
A South Korean province removed more than 2,500 books on sex education, gender equality and feminism from school libraries.
The person behind the campaign claims the books promoted the “early sexualization” of children through “sexual explicitness” and the “promotion of homosexuality.”
In particular, the General Staff said that this appeared to be happening with Russian troops in the Dnipro Group under the command of Colonel General Mikhail Teplinsky, operating in the south of Ukraine.
The U.S. believes that in return for ammunition shipments, Pyongyang seeks advanced Russian technologies for the North Korean military and nuclear program, National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby said.
While the number of missiles Pyongyang has given to Moscow remains a tiny percentage of Russia's overall stockpiles, Ukraine and its allies are concerned about the growing ties between the two countries.
Is there a website or an online museum which tracked the originals of traditional #games and how it spread across different nations?
There are traditional games in #Korea and the #Philippines which are (very) similar, yet, there was no known contact between the two nations at the time these traditional games were estimated to have been “developed”.
That only leaves us with two possibilities:
The games did develop independently. Which someone gives us the idea that humans think similarly regardless of place and time.
Another foreign contact brought the games.
Here are some examples:
Korea: Red Light, Green Light.
Philippines: Stop, Go.
Philippines: Sipa (predates Spanish rule)
Korea: I don't remember what it's called, but I first saw it in a #RunningMan episode.
Russia’s isolated war-criminal president is cultivating North Korea and Iran. But more dispiriting are the Putin-fanciers in South Africa and Slovakia, writes Simon Tisdall
The U.S. Pentagon assessed that North Korea continues to supply Russia with weapons, Pentagon spokesperson Sabrina Singh said at a press briefing on April 1.
"Passengers who have a visa to enter the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and 32 countries of the European Union can stay in Korea visa-free for 30 days. Those who will be going to a third country not included in the previous list may also enter Korea visa-free for 3 days."
The G7 foreign ministers of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the U.K., the U.S., and the High Representative of the European Union, condemned arms transfer from North Korea to Russia as a direct violation of United Nations Security Council Resolutions (UNSCRs) on Nov. 22.
In Korea, a gas leak at a gas station was mistaken for fog: the mistake turned out to be deadly
Only miraculously, an unusual emergency in the Changpyeongri area, the city of Yeonpyeong-Myeon, resulted in no deaths. Local authorities reported five casualties. Two witnesses suffered serious burns.
"All South Koreans have instantly become a year or two younger, as the country ditched its traditional – and increasingly unpopular – system for counting someone’s age and replaced it with the internationally accepted method.
Under the previous system, the country’s citizens are deemed to be a year old when they are born, and a year is added every 1 January. The unusual custom meant that a baby born on New Year’s Eve would become two years old as soon as the clock strikes midnight." #Korea#SouthKorea#calendar#birthday
South Korea's intelligence service is conducting a review into suspicions that North Korea has provided Russia with artillery shells and other weaponry made in the 1970s, the country's National Intelligence Service (NIS) said on May 12.
I’ve been a casual amateur observer of North Korean politics for a long time and
(Also why tankies annoy me, with their utter lack of understanding of North Korea)
Something that I don’t think gets talked about enough is how racial purity is such a big deal that while North Korea used to welcome defectors who think they have a better society, they also KIDNAP foreigners from elsewhere to be their spouses
US: Russia attacked Ukraine with North Korean missiles at least 10 times (kyivindependent.com)
North Korea has been shaping up as Russia's leading weapons supplier, reportedly providing Moscow with extensive military packages, including ballistic missiles and over 3 million artillery shells.
‘Unprecedented’ rail traffic between North Korea and Russia suggests military transfers (www.politico.eu)
US think tank Beyond Parallel observed an increase in freight railcars along the North Korea-Russia border, suggesting likely supply of arms and munitions to Moscow.
General Staff: Russia using low-quality, defective North Korean shells (kyivindependent.com)
In particular, the General Staff said that this appeared to be happening with Russian troops in the Dnipro Group under the command of Colonel General Mikhail Teplinsky, operating in the south of Ukraine.
White House: North Korea delivers over 1,000 containers of military supplies to Russia (kyivindependent.com)
The U.S. believes that in return for ammunition shipments, Pyongyang seeks advanced Russian technologies for the North Korean military and nuclear program, National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby said.
Reuters: Half of North Korean missiles fired by Russia blow up in mid-air, Ukraine's top prosecutor says (kyivindependent.com)
While the number of missiles Pyongyang has given to Moscow remains a tiny percentage of Russia's overall stockpiles, Ukraine and its allies are concerned about the growing ties between the two countries.
Putin’s collection of oddball allies grows by the day. It’s time the west got tougher | Simon Tisdall (www.theguardian.com)
Russia’s isolated war-criminal president is cultivating North Korea and Iran. But more dispiriting are the Putin-fanciers in South Africa and Slovakia, writes Simon Tisdall
Pentagon: North Korea continues to supply weapons to Russia (kyivindependent.com)
The U.S. Pentagon assessed that North Korea continues to supply Russia with weapons, Pentagon spokesperson Sabrina Singh said at a press briefing on April 1.
G7 condemns North Korean weapons transfer to Russia (kyivindependent.com)
The G7 foreign ministers of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the U.K., the U.S., and the High Representative of the European Union, condemned arms transfer from North Korea to Russia as a direct violation of United Nations Security Council Resolutions (UNSCRs) on Nov. 22.
South Koreans are set to become younger, thanks to new law (www.independent.co.uk)
South Korea adopts new law to join the international standard of age counting
South Korean intelligence: North Korea suspected of supplying Russia with weapons made in 1970s (kyivindependent.com)
South Korea's intelligence service is conducting a review into suspicions that North Korea has provided Russia with artillery shells and other weaponry made in the 1970s, the country's National Intelligence Service (NIS) said on May 12.
North Korea sent more than 3m artillery shells to Russia, says Seoul (asia.nikkei.com)
Moscow seen continuing to help with Pyongyang's spy satellite program