Monday, March 8, 2010

Burma's military relationship with N. Korea

John Pomfret (Washington Post)
Risking torture and life in jail, courageous young citizens of Burma live the essence of journalism as they insist on keeping up the flow of news from their closed country.

The Obama administration, concerned that Burma is expanding its military relationship with North Korea, has launched an aggressive campaign to persuade Myanmar's junta to stop buy-ing North Korean military technology, U.S. officials said. Concerns about the relationship — which encompass the sale of small arms, missile components, and technology possibly related to nuclear weapons — in part prompted the Obama administration in October to end the George W. Bush-era policy of isolating the military junta, said a senior State Department official, speaking on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the subject. More>>


Burma's Saffron Revolution saw monks and lay Buddhists unite against tyranny.

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