international norms, the international community may act in a multitude of ways from one extreme to the other. This is what the world saw with the downing of a civilian flight in 1983. On September 1, 1983, Korean Airlines Flight 007 was on its last leg of a flight from New York City to Seoul, South Korea. At some point during the flight, for reasons that are highly speculative, the aircraft veered, off course, and crossed over the Kamchatka Peninsula into the Soviet Union. The peninsula housed a top-secret
writes the story of the ethnic theory of the Korean plane crashes happened before 1999. Without Gladwell’s discovery, how many people can relate a country’s cultural legacy with its plane crash? Gladwell doesn’t show his discovery directly, instead, he starts by telling a real story of Korean Air flight 801 which turns out to be a disaster. Next, he lists a series of plane crashes that have one thing in common─all of these disasters are happened on Korean airplanes. Gladwell patiently waits the moment
On September 1, 1983, the Soviet Union shot down Korean Air Lines Flight 007, killing 269 people including U.S. Representative Larry McDonald. A combination of fear, posturing, and paranoia lead to the downing of KAL 007 and pushed the world closer to war... but what if there was an even more sinister motive behind what officially happened? This question is what CreativeForge Games upcoming Phantom Doctrine explores in its conspiracy-laden Cold War setting. In Phantom Doctrine, a shadowy organization
The Second Industrial Revolution and International Relations Thru-out the last century, technical innovations have enabled people to live better and more productive lives. Humans have evolved thru time, and as we have evolved, so must or technology. Things would be quite difficult in 2012 if we were still relying on the technology from 1812. Innovation is part of the human spirit but is often oppressed due to the political situations one may be under. Edward Gibbon (n.d.), an English historian