OK, so it was the first day at Kaya University, and I’m still recovering from that grueling opening ceremony.

• I’m glad the US isn’t sending tactical nukes to South Korea, if only because it makes Washington and Seoul look like North Korea and Myanmar.

  According to veteran Burma watcher Bertil Lintner, the Burmese junta’s Directorate of Defense Industries is already developing long-range Scud-type missiles with North Korean assistance at a munitions factory near Minhla, a small town south of Minbu in Magway Division.

  “A Scud-armed Myanmar [Burma] would place its capabilities a significant notch above its Southeast Asian neighbors, which do not possess such long-range missiles,” wrote Lintner in a report for Asia Times online.

  “The revelations could spark a regional arms race, prompting neighboring countries such as Thailand to develop or procure their own missile arsenal.”

• So, what was Samore doing? And, Einhorn? A little White House dirty laundry?

• Marcus Noland goes to Washington, and talks North Korea.

• And, I’m sure Kim Young Hwan can speak for all of China, when he says “China does not have any motive for, interest in or desire to annex North Korea”. That would be very rude to South Koreans.

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