North Korea specialist & professor of intelligence studies. Latest book on history of communist guerilla warfare. Views My own, Not My employer.
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Today is publication day of my latest book. I started writing it back in 2019 at a cafe in rural South Dakota. I wanted to write a book that was not centered on North Korea or diplomatic history, my areas of expertise. I hope people find it interesting: cornellpress.cornell.edu/boo…
REDS, REVOLUTIONS, AND REBELLIONS by Benjamin R. Young investigates how insurgent strategies from three revolutionary states—Mao's #China, Guevara's #Cuba, and Ho Chi Minh's #Vietnam—shaped the tactics of armed movements across the Global South. #ColdWar #History #Global
Learn more here:
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One of the things the Kim family regime did when it last had loudspeakers aimed at the South is that they would play howling ghost-like noises and discordant screams on repeat. They love to weaponize their weirdness.
Clip: youtube.com/shorts/BECS_4YA7…
God, Vance is such a self righteous and smarmy asshole. Acting like he has no accountability for this stupid war his administration started.
Vance is confronted by the emotional husband of a soldier killed in Iran War and acts like he had no idea anyone ever died:
Q: It's a hard price to pay. There's a failure in the leadership. How will the leadership be held accountable?
Vance: If there were failures... This is the first time I've heard of this.
Stolen valor
.@KatieZacharia is not a lawyer and has never been licensed to practice law. The @WSJ reports this evening that she took the California Bar Exam but failed.
Nevertheless, Zacharia appeared on media programs for YEARS and repeatedly called herself a lawyer.
Here's a super cut:
The Juche-ification of American continues. Hell yeah.
White House Press Secretary Katie Zacharia’s husband, Tyler Zacharia, helped expand Schulze Global Investments (later SGI Frontier Capital) into North Korea while based in China, where Katie also previously lived.
The firm made three loans to North Korean mining companies in 2008 and provided a $1 million loan to a North Korean conglomerate in 2011, while U.S. sanctions on North Korea were in effect.
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Humanity is so f**ked. What are we doing to ourselves?
Hackers raise the temperature of refrigerators and freezers at hundreds of French supermarkets to as high as 122 degrees Fahrenheit, causing fires and spoiling food. nbcnews.com/world/europe/hac…
For being such a technologically advanced society, South Korea’s banking services are archaic and backwards. Unsurprisingly, an AI-backed cyber attack seems to have severely impacted the industry now.
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I’m going to make Claude listen to Hanson’s MMMBop song for 24 hours straight.
🚨 #BREAKING: Anthropic declares users must be nice to their models & refrain from subjecting AI to psychological abuse.
Benjamin R. Young retweeted
Pope Leo XIV: “Someone who says, ‘I’m against abortion,’ but says, ‘I’m in favor of the death penalty,’ is not really pro-life.”
A live-streamed public execution is a disgrace to human dignity and a moral stain on our national consciousness. It’s what tinpot dictatorships do.
In 2021, I published my 1st book. I gave around 6 or 7 book talks for it. It was reviewed by a bunch of different academic journals & even some news outlets. In July of this year, I published my second book. Crickets. Are academics just not reading anymore either?
Goon the Grifter King
If you watched the WSJ DPRK IT Workers thing a while back you saw Derrik Goon the facilitator....well this is an interesting development.... derrikgoon.com/
Court filing from the Sue Mi Terry espionage case (Max Boot's wife). Can't say I miss her mundane run of the mill centrist takes on CNN.
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Is the Russian plague leak just one journalist’s attempt to seize an irrelevant nothing burger and then use it to strategically advertise her book? I know this is crazy cynical. Reminds me of how Cloverfield once tried to advertise its crappy alien movie.
At least, we don’t worry about the diarrhea lettuce anymore.
FDA finds potential source of cyclosporiasis outbreak linked to lettuce abc11.com/story/fda-finds-po…
I’m sorry but I can’t stand Annie Jacobsen’s constant fear-mongering in order to sell her books. She’s not an expert on any of this stuff. Our society is already addicted to doom scrolling. We don’t need more fear porn. Her shtick is getting old.
☣️‼️I’ve now been in contact w/current, highest level mil/intel/diplo/homeland security officials in biological threat arena and report w/authority that USG has all eyes on the plague outbreak in Russia and is not letting up. ☣️
Read BIOLOGICAL WAR: A SCENARIO. All of them have. Get informed. Stay informed.
TIME: Last week, you said you might annihilate Iran. That was the word you used.
TRUMP: Yeah, I would do that. It's possible.
TIME: How can the president of peace be calling for the annihilation of an entire people?
TRUMP: Because by annihilating Iran, we've created peace in the world. With Iran, I don't think you could ever have peace. time.com/article/2026/10/01/…
I’m glad the FlyDubai airplane landed safely and a catastrophe was averted. But I also can’t help but think we are on the verge of a new wave of terrorism.