Counterintelligence

Mafia State: The Evolving Threat of North Korean Narcotics Trafficking

.is the title of an article, Peng Wang published with me in the RUSI Journal. The concise abstract describes it: „The North Korean government has long been suspected of involvement...

North Korea – Still an intelligence problem

Just a short note about a paper I wrote after speaking on North Korea and the problems in analysing organised crime in East Asia at a conference in Adelaide, Australia.  A few...

Kim Jong Un – The Godfather?

I published a new paper about the long lasting discussion about North Korea and its position in the international organised crime scene – as it seems to the outside...

Wu Jiangxing knows Neuland

Interesting to read what People´s Daily from China is writing about Cyber Warfare last time: Seems the Chinese want a Network Warfare Unit…but don´t they got it already?...

Jang Song-thaek, the Torch Group and Kiribati passports

After processing a few data about DPRK and trying to understand the dots I begin to understand (I try to!) more and more the reasons why Jang was executed. And it becomes clearer...

Information sharing

Anybody who is interested in information sharing inside intelligence organisations should listen to a very interesting speech by Sean Dennehy, who was involved in the development...

Reading and thinking…

Obviously there is a lack of serious analysis of the current leaks from Edward Snowden and the so called “scandals” about hacked mobiles from governmental officials as the German...

DPRK Drug Trade. Very first steps in an amazing case….Work in progress!

I was feeding the beast: Saved all contacts and pictures from social networks, stored them well 🙂 The first graph is only a snapshot of a few information, there is a lot more...