In the past few hours, Twitter has exploded with unsubstantiated rumors that the new North Korean dictator died in Beijing today and that a coup is underway in North Korea. So far there is no indication at all that these rumors are true. The rumors originated on China’s twitter-like platform Weibo (fyi: here’s the fascinating Google translated [...]
SEOUL, South Korea — Kim Jong-il, the North Korean leader who realized his family’s dream of turning his starving, isolated country into a nuclear-weapons power even as it sank further into despotism, died on Saturday of a heart attack while traveling on his train, according to an announcement Monday by the country’s state-run media. Word of [...]
The J-10B is a modified variant of the J-10 multirole fighter aircraft, with modifications in airframe and avionics. Chengdu Aircraft Corporation (CAC) of AVIC began to develop a follow-on variant of its J-10 fighter around 2004/05. A J-10B prototype reportedly made its maiden flight in December 2008. Photos of the aircraft began to emerge on the Chinese [...]
KUANSHAN, TAIWAN — Early this year, military intelligence agents and prosecutors showed up at a white, single-story farmhouse here in southern Taiwan and told Lo Hsien-sheng that they needed to search the premises. They hunted in sacks of rice, burrowed in the garden and checked the chicken pen. 台湾关山-早些年， “They said they were looking for [...]
The 911 system does not currently support text, photo or video messages from mobile phones911系统当前不支持来自于手机文本，相片或者视频信息 The US Federal Communication Commission (FCC) is considering updating the 911 emergency call system to accept photo, text and video messages. 美国联邦通信管理委员正在考虑提升911紧急呼叫系统，以能够接受照片，文本和视频信息。 Roughly 70% of 911 calls are already being made from mobile telephones, said FCC chairman Julius Genachowski. FCC主席Julius [...]
该机构从1947年及早期的测试期已经开始运输美国的核武器材料。 US agents who drive nuclear weapons around the country were involved in 16 alcohol-related incidents in two years, the energy department has said. One was arrested for public drunkenness and two were held after an incident at a bar while on overnight missions. The incidents “indicate a potential vulnerability in [a] critical national security [...]
In Greek mythology, Hercules rose to an unthinkable level of performance and mastered the twelve tasks placed before him. He tapped an inner strength and achieved a level of greatness that set the performance standard. In 1951, the United States Air Force challenged the civilian aviation development industry to design an aircraft that could do [...]
