Foreign Confidential ™
Foreign News and Analysis Since April 2005 -- formerly China Confidential -- What's Really Happening in the World
Friday, May 25, 2012
Cuba Confined by Dial-Up Internet as Mystery Surrounds Submarine Cable
Mystery surrounds Cuba's undersea fiber-optinc link to Venezuela, which was supposed to liberate long-suffereing citizens (victims) of the Communist island nation from the confines of dial-up Internet. But the link remains dark--with Cubans still confined to the dark ages of impossibly slow dial-up--despiteclaims by officials in Caracas that the cable is working.
Click here to read more about the mysterious cable.
Thursday, May 24, 2012
Seoul Says North Korea Ready to Conduct Nuclear Test
Foreign Confidential™ Says Iranian Nuclear Experts Will Observe the Explosion
South Korea says the North has completed preparations for another nuclear test, which could happen "any time." Read more.
Another North Korean nuclear test will serve the interests of Pyongyang's partner in nuclear and missile crimes, Iran. The detonation will divert international attention away from Iran's nuclear program; and the explosion, which will be observed by Iranian nuclear experts, will provide Tehran with valuable data.
Foreign intelligence services are aware of Iran's involvement in North Korea's nuclear arms program. Yet the oil-rich mullahocracy has the nerve to still insist that its intentions are peaceful with regard to its costly pursuit of nuclear power, and. more incredibly, Iran's claims are still treated seriously by many Western politicians and pundits. Even worse, there are those who argue that it will be possible for the United States and its allies, including Israel, to "live with but never accept" a nuclear-armed Iranian regime.
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