InternationalRelations

an attempt to install a younger figure meant to solidify leader Kim Jong Un's grip on the powerful military.

unlikely that Kim Jong Un would name a moderate to the post at a time of tension with the outside world.

Kim Jong Un has made was the replacement of the powerful military chief, Ri Yong Ho, who was dismissed last July because of what Pyongyang called an unspecified illness.

Humanity is remaking the biosphere; producing the new natures in which the human future will play out. Hence the now widespread use of the term Anthropocene for the period of planetary history in which the dominant ecological force is humanity, or more precisely, fossil fueled industrial capitalist humanity.

Natural environments are no longer in any meaningful sense the given context for human existence; they are being remade by land use changes, urbanization and by both technologies and species moved and recombined in numerous artificial assemblages. Atlases with their designations of planetary biomes frequently need replacement with a dynamic cartography charting the changing “anthromes” that are the new terrestrial ecological patterns that matter.

Globalization now has to be understood as a process of material transformation quite as much as a matter of trade, culture and politics crossing frontiers. The processes whereby business decisions are made to produce particular products by using certain technologies is key to understanding the future of the planet; economic geography has become essential to geomorphology.