While many parts of the world celebrated Easter, North Koreans commemorated the 105th birthday of the country’s late founder Kim Il-Sung. Along with parades of military vehicles, ballistic missiles and soldiers, the celebrations featured a mock-up video of North Korea destroying an American city.
This visceral expression of Pyongyang’s intentions was most likely timed to coincide with the expected arrival of the US Navy’s aircraft carrier, the USS Carl Vinson, and its accompanying fleet of warships in Korean waters, says Graham Ong-Webb. And it’s another reason why the world needs to address North Korea’s nuclear threat sooner rather than later.
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Seismic waves observed in South Korea after North Korea claimed it tested a hydrogen bomb on January 6 2016.
Kim Hong-Ji/Reuters
Graham Ong-Webb, Nanyang Technological University
The key question is whether North Korea does have nuclear weapons that it can readily use against the United States and its regional allies, South Korea and Japan.
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Politics + Society
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Yvonne Rowa Woods, University of Adelaide
Kenyan voters are aware of their central role in the electoral process, yet they tend to limit their leadership choices. Are they ready to break away from tradition in the 2017 elections?
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Business + Economy
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Philipp M. Lersch, University of Cologne
The economic costs of having children are more often shouldered by women, so mothers tend to accumulate less capital over time.
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Arts + Culture
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Sally Baker, University of Newcastle; Rachel Burke, University of Newcastle
Refugees are both more likely to apply for citizenship, and twice as likely as other migrant groups to have to retake the test.
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Science + Technology
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Paul Ralph, University of Auckland
Facebook has a new, depressingly incompetent strategy for tackling fake news.
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Tom Sear, UNSW
A decade after the first coordinated cyber attack, the players might be the same, but cyber operations have changed dramatically.
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