North Koreans in China (legally) up 40% From Last Year:

http://www.dailynk.com/korean/read.php?cataId=nk00100&num=95037

In the first quarter of this year, 40,200 North Koreans came to China, compared to last year’s numbers during this period of 28,600 –a 40% increase.

북한 사람들의 중국 방문 목적은 공장이나 식당에서 일하기 위한 사람이 1만9천3백명으로 전체의 절반 가량(48%)을 차지했다. 회의 참석이나 사업을 위해 중국을 방문한 사람은 1만8백명, 관광은 1천1백명으로 나타났다.

반면, 친척이나 친구 방문은 1백명 이하에 그쳤고, 기타 목적은 9천명을 기록했다.

Of those, 19,300 (~48%) are either working in factories or restaurants, 1,800 were here to attend a business conference or were visiting for other business reasons, 1,100 were here for leisure travel, less than 100 were visiting friends or family, while 9,000 were in China for other reasons.

Laws like PIPA and SOPA may have been stopped, but this is a long fight between the MPAA+RIAA and the rest of us. Remember, before that, it was they helped influence the DMCA, and continually advanced copyright laws to the point where a dead man can capitalize on his own works posthumously. So we’re going to see more laws similar to this SOPA/PIPA in the future, they’re just going to call it something else. This is a nice video that illustrates some of the absurdity behind their claims.

So I’m very late in acting, but if you want to know more about SOPA, read this article:
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/11/stop-online-piracy-act-blacklist-any-other-name-still-blacklist

If you want to do something about it…

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Those of you who visit Google will see a black image, with a link about SOPA. For more Google News about SOPA Blackout, click here. For those who do use wikipedia as a major source of information, this they’re doing a really good job at redirecting people to the wiki page on SOPA.

http://www.stopthewall.us

If you haven’t noticed, there’s pretty much only one person that maintains most of the articles on this site, and he had to go out for a week, due to his “normal job”. Of course, what happens when he returns? Our site is hacked! We’ve done as much security measures to beef things up, but unfortunately these things do happen. We’ve noticed that visitation to the site has dramatically dropped as well, as a result of this one week absence. So to make up for things, we managed to put up the following articles today:

1. Government Cover-ups
2. Chinese Parenting
3. A Response to “Should the U.S. Keep Selling Arms to Taiwan?”
4. Dogs Vs Whales
5. Luxury Imports Up!
6. Study on Job Training for North Korean Refugees
7. Laotians in PyongYang
8. PRC and DPRK PLAN Exchange 2

If you think due to the sheer volume of such articles, that the quality of work has gone down, or if you’ve always thought the quality of work has never been good at all, please join us and help out! We’d definitely appreciate it here.

I went about the wrong way switching servers, and it ended up biting me in the ass. Now I’m stuck trying to recover what I had, and on top of that, changing up the format. Will post updates soon!