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25 Million Best Koreans
•�October 11, 2020
•�400 Words •�246 Comments
Can create a MIRV'ed ICBM to accompany the hydrogen bomb they unveiled in 2017: And even the chassis for it - at least, to the amazement of Western journalists*. It's own MBT*: Some kind of S-300 like system: Even new uniforms, which look quite sturdier than the old ones: � This is what 25 million... Read More
Is Rocket Man Getting Dominated by Corona?
•�April 23, 2020
•�300 Words •�47 Comments
N. Korean tests positive for COVID-19 in China There were reports of Corona-chan slithering its way through the northern part of the country and the Korean People's Army back in early March. No way to be sure, since reports from Best Korea are usually speculative and north worth the bytes they occupy on a hard... Read More
The Lowdown on North Korea
•�December 24, 2017
•�1,300 Words •�210 Comments
1. I do not consider it likely that North Korea will have the means to successfully deliver nukes to population concentrations in S. Korea, Japan, or the US. As far as I know this is expert consensus. It has had impressive successes in both nuclear weaponry and long-range rocketry in the past year, but there... Read More
Open Thread 22: Google, Norks, Gen Zyklon
•�August 11, 2017
•�1,900 Words •�125 Comments
Went to the North Korean restaurant in Moscow the other day to fight American imperialism. The food at the Koryo Korean Restaurant was actually rather good - I assume it must have improved considerably since Varlamov's review from 2013. The kimchi was properly fermented, as it ought to be (it has been about a year... Read More
North Korea. It's Banally Simple.
•�April 14, 2017
•�400 Words •�46 Comments
I once wrote a long article about a Korean War II. But this one chart tells essentually the same tale. I suspect it will be a harder nut to crack than Iraq in 2003, or even 1991. It is an ultranationalist (not a Communist) regime with a formidable secret police, so you're not going to... Read More
North Korea's Nuclear Substitution
•�January 19, 2016
•�600 Words •�13 Comments
Another (possibly abortive) North Korean nuclear test, another round of hyperbolic headlines about how Kim Jong Un is going off his rockers. Admittedly, this is an impression North Korea's state media - perhaps the closest approximation we have to a Real Life troll - is always happy to feed. But hystrionics aside, the reason for... Read More
North Korea, Poster Child for HBD Theory
•�June 24, 2012
•�300 Words •�63 Comments
In a response to a race denier on this blog, who argued for the primacy of culture and political economic systems, Lazy Glossophiliac wrote: Touché. NK demonstrates that no matter how fucked up a country's polity is, the HBD component will still make itself felt. The distortions of a command economy that directs up to... Read More
Karlin Freedom Index 2012
•�January 24, 2012
•�1,000 Words •�26 Comments
This is the Karlin Freedom Index for 2012, a political classification system I formulated more than a year ago in response to systemic bias on the part of traditional "freedom indices" such as Freedom House and The Economist Democracy Index (hint: they give massive bonus points for neoliberalism and pro-Western foreign policy orientations). The explanation:... Read More
New York Times Manipulation of the (Alleged) North Korean Missile Sales to Iran Cable
•�December 3, 2010
•�11,500 Words •�5 Comments
It's sad, but not unexpected, to see the usual motley of neocons, freepers and general creeps crawling about the interwebs, baying for Assange's blood and calling for him to be disappeared into the Nacht und Nebel. But it is absolutely tragic that, misled by the MSM and dulled by their own cynicism, so many people... Read More
How a Second Korean War Will be Fought
•�March 28, 2010
•�4,800 Words •�43 Comments
The recent sinking of a South Korean (ROK) corvette, with the probable deaths of several dozen sailors, brings to focus the fraught situation on the Korean peninsula. Now the cause of this incident - North Korean (DPRK) torpedo or tragic accident - is not yet clear. Moreover, the two sides have a long history of... Read More
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Anatoly Karlin
About Anatoly Karlin

I am a blogger, thinker, and businessman in the SF Bay Area. I’m originally from Russia, spent many years in Britain, and studied at U.C. Berkeley.

One of my tenets is that ideologies tend to suck. As such, I hesitate about attaching labels to myself. That said, if it’s really necessary, I suppose “liberal-conservative neoreactionary” would be close enough.

Though I consider myself part of the Orthodox Church, my philosophy and spiritual views are more influenced by digital physics, Gnosticism, and Russian cosmism than anything specifically Judeo-Christian.