- Sort of contradicting a WSJ report on CDMA iPhones coming out (which was covered in yesterday's Loose Change), the Washington Post says don't hold your breath for a Verizon iPhone, even if Apple bringing a CDMA-capable iPhone to South Korea and Japan later this year (if that's even true) makes it more likely you could get a Verizon-compatible iPhone.
- Linde AG will build a $30 million hydrogen plant in Kihŭng, Kyŏnggi-do Province.
- RAND researcher Bruce Bennett says South Korea's outdated weapons, inadequate military budget, and reduced conscription period make South Korea's military capabilities inadequate to handle a North Korean invasion or collapse.
- Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Iran and North Korea are the two big security threats that could destabilize the fragile economic recovery.
- Former North Korean soldiers who have defected to South Korea say that the DPRK runs "naval suicide squads" that may have been responsible for the sinking of the Chonan.
- Hwang Jang-yop, the highest-ranking North Korean ever to defect from the DPRK, plans to visit the US sometime soon.
- Kim Yuna is pondering retirement, citing the never-ending tension from one competition to the next.
- Iriver has launched a new dictionary aimed at the Chinese market, called the Dicple D8, which contains twenty-five resources, including Longman and Oxford.
- Prosecutors are switching to smartphones.
- Francis Fukuyama, speaking with former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, says that by keeping the yuan artificially low against the US dollar, the euro, and Asian currencies like the won and the yen, China "has been in effect de-industrializing the rest of the world."
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