A South Korean research team has announced that they have developed a room-temperature superconducting compound that, if proven to be a viable source of the long-sought after material, could revolutionize electrical equipment across numerous scientific, medical, transportation and power generation fields. The material, called “LK-99” by the research team, isread more
On November 24, the Korea Superconducting Tokamak Advanced Research fusion reactor (KSTAR) set a new operating record, running at over a million degrees Celsius for twenty seconds. While this might seem like a less-than-useful amount of time to have run the high-tech facility at peak temperature, this 20-second uptime is more thanread more
North Korea’s third nuclear test is a good time for China to re-evaluate its longstanding alliance with the Kim dynasty. If China wants to increase its profitable alliance with US, it should press for the reunification of Korea.
In the February 28th edition of the Financial Times, Deng Yuwen writes: "A relationship between states based on ideology is dangerous. If we were to choose our allies on ideology alone, China’s relationship with the west today would not exist. Although both countries are socialist, their differences are much larger than those between China and the west.
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UPDATE – North Korea tested five missiles, one of them a long-range weapon of the type that could reach the United States. This missile, a Taepodong Type 2, failed 40 seconds into its flight, in all probability due to a fuel system breakdown.
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