North Korea[PJ Media] Every year there are a few events that fly under the radar of the media but have a seminal impact nonetheless. Five PJ Media columnists agreed to contribute their knowledge and expertise to tell us what they consider to be the most underreported foreign news stories of 2013.| Short essays from each at the link. |
Claudia Rosett: The most underreported foreign story of 2013 is the decline of American power.
Michael Ledeen: Our "news hounds" just don't want to dig into the largely untold story of the ongoing, mostly secret, negotiations between the B.O. regime and the Iranian regime over the fate of several Americans held in Iran.
Richard Fernandez: One of the most underreported stories of 2013 is the one simmering in the background, known mostly to the public through the horror-comic figure of Kim
PudgeJong-un
...the overweight, pouty-looking hereditary potentate of North Korea. Pudge appears to believe in his own divinity, but has yet to produce any loaves and fishes, so his subjects remain malnourished...
: . RAND's recent paper, "Preparing for the Possibility of a North Korean Collapse," should be required reading for those interested in the subject.
David Goldman(AKA "Spengler"): China's technological capacity is reaching critical mass. In a few years we will see the old China of smokestacks and cheap labor fade into the past and a new high-tech China emerge, ready to compete with the West.