Three months after the United States successfully pressed the United Nations to impose strict sanctions on North Korea because of the country’s nuclear test, Bush administration officials allowed Ethiopia to complete a secret arms purchase from the North, in what appears to be a violation of the restrictions, according to senior American officials.

Article continues in the New-York Times

Questions : 

• May Kim Jong-Il have his new ipod now ?
• Who will complain first when UN resolutions will not be followed and respected by most of its members ?  

Further reading :

• United Nation Resolution 1718 : Acting under Chapter VII of the United Nations Charter, but barring automatic military enforcement of its demands under the Charter’s Article 41, the Council unanimously adopted resolution 1718 (2006), which prevents a range of goods from entering or leaving the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and imposes an asset freeze and travel ban on persons related to the nuclear-weapon programme…continues

• Leading by Example: How We Learn About Leadership, a Paper Presented at the NEIA Annual Conference, Sun Valley, Idaho - June 9-13, 2004. (NEIA = National Executive Institute Associates, Major Cities Chiefs Association, Major County Sheriff's Association).

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Female specialists of Rosatom enterprises and organizations and the nuclear power sectors of the former Soviet republics as well as students of specialized educational institutions aged 18–35 are invited to take part to the 3rd Miss-Atom beauty contest organized by Rosenergoatom.

 

The contest will be held Jan 30-Mar 7 on www.nuclear.ru.and the awarding ceremony will take place in Moscow.

More infos 

I wonder is Itsu customers & staff members as well as some British Airways air crew can also participate ?  

Source: Fuzz 

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Interesting informations complied by "404 Brain Not Found" regarding the most radioactive story of 2006.

The polonium-210 discovered by Marie Curie in 1898 came back to newpapers frontpage  and to the cocktail list of one of London's famous hotel leading to the death of a former soviet spy who died after having ingested a very small quantity of it.

On "Los Angeles Time" article we discover that : 

• polonium-210 is deadly and undetectable until it's too late.
• a grain of salt quantity is enough to kill someone
• a gram of it may kill up to 50 million people and sicken another 50 million.
• it's a least a million time more toxic than Zyklon B
• 100 grams are produced every year, mainly by Russia

Such tragic event definitively send James Bond and his friends back to school's benches… and bad luck for us, this time it is not a fiction.  

Vodka Polonium, stirred not shaken

Source : 404 Brain Not Found

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