Kim Jong Un Goes Missing (Again)
After vanishing for two-weeks from all public appearances, the world is still without signs of Kim Jong Un’s whereabouts and rumor have grown regarding his poor health.
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Asia
North Korea’s Hacking Grows
North Korea’s hacking capabilities are growing significantly, which allows the country to rob financial institutions and evade international sanctions.
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Flattening the Curve: Pandemic Response and the East-West Dichotomy
Because Europe and the United States’ failure to establish equivalent early warning systems, these countries will be placed on the frontline of a battle without adequate resources, forced to wage a war with no end in immediate sight.
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China Continues to Gain International Notoriety through Belt and Road Initiative
The One Belt One Road Initiative, supposedly “the project of the century,” is President Xi Jinping’s ambitious project that would increase Chinese influence over global economics.
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Focus on Feminism: North Korea
North Korea officially recognized the equality of women and men in 1945, but their notion of true equality has not progressed much since that time.
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Focus on the “Anti-Vax” Movement: Pakistan
Pakistan is one of the only three countries in the world, along with Afghanistan and Nigeria, where polio continues to paralyze children.
Read moreBrunei Establishes Harsh Anti-LGBTQ+ Laws
A Bruneian gay man told the BBC that “you wake up and realize that your neighbors, your family or even that nice old lady that sells prawn fritters by the side of the road doesn’t think you’re human, or is okay with stoning.”
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U.S. – North Korea Envoys Prepare for Second Summit
United States’ Special Envoy has been sent to speak with their North Korean counterparts in discussing the logistics as well as organization of the second summit prior to the leaders of each country meeting up together.
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China’s Mass Detention of Uyghurs Muslims Continues, Mirroring the Rohingya Crisis
The Chinese government has turned the Xinjiang Province into a Police state, from a ban on the Uyghur language to a slew of internment camps that many claim torture and force conversion from Islam, the religion of the Uyghurs.
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American Missionary Murdered on Remote Indian Island by Isolated Tribe
On November 17, John Allen Chau, a 27 year-old missionary from Washington State was killed by the enigmatic inhabitants of the island of North Sentinel in the Bay of Bengal.
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