The Dong-A Ilbo reports that a 77-year old official from a major South Korean reunificationista organization has been arrested for attempting to give visiting North Korean officials a document that included, among other things, an oath of loyalty to the North Korean regime.
According to prosecutors, the man, identified by his family name of Wu, was [...]
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If you didn’t catch the game last night, it wasn’t hard to tell the result this morning. The surreal quiet. The lack of footie on TV. To blatantly rip off The Guardian, it was just a couple of deranged, flesh-eating Red Devils [...]
Thank God for that.
Now I can get back to regular posting.
well, for most of the 48 million people on the peninsula who live south of the 38th parallel, the 2006 world cup is effectively over, for there will no korean side–in fact, no asian one, either–in the knockout rounds after they went down, 2-0, to switzerland in the final match of the group stages.
in the pub where [...]
Been using the beta version of the Flock browser for Windows. Really like it—integrates blogging and Flickr into what is essentially a Modzilla browser. Bloggers will definitely want to give it a try. Read Paul Stamatiou’s review for more info.
Oh, and my photo albums are back up—this time, I’m using Joe Tan’s [...]
In their bombshell op-ed to the Washington Post (discussed here), Ashton Carter and Bill Perry suggest that if the U.S. were to launch a surgical strike on North Korea’s missile/rocket launch facility, Pyongyang would have little choice but to suck it up and take it. Frankly, I’m inclined to agree, although I think I’ve [...]
Now Stephen Hawking has apparently contracted Yellow Fever as well.
North Korea has gone into the online games business.
The LA Times’s Barbara Demick writes that the Bush administration has limited options to stop North Korea from testing a long-range missile said to be capable of hitting U.S. territories.
I’m not necessarily sure if I agree with her—the U.S. has options. They just aren’t pretty. I do, however, agree with Dr. Lankov’s suggestion [...]
if you didn’t stay up until 6am this morning to watch the late fixtures, you missed perhaps the best match of the tournament in croatia v. australia. and with brasil getting a wake-up call a half-hour into their match with japan before getting juiced, it made for an exciting two hours of football.
japan v. brasil: japan [...]
You gotta say this about Cheney—when he’s right, he’s right:
It was “fair to say that the North Korean missile capabilities are fairly rudimentary,” [Cheney] said.
“I mean, they’ve been building Scuds and so forth over the years, but their test flights in the past haven’t been notably successful. But we are watching it with interest and [...]
Remind me again that it’s the Bush people who are the rabid-dog warmongers itching to bring death and destruction to the Korean Peninsula—from the Washington Post:
Former defense secretary William J. Perry has called on President Bush to launch a preemptive strike against the long-range ballistic missile that U.S. intelligence analysts say North Korea is preparing [...]
Ths Chosun Ilbo ran an interview with director Kang Woo-suk, whose new film “Hanbando” will open on July 13. We’ve discussed what promises to be an exercise in Korean hypernationalist fantasy before, but why read my tripe when you can get it straight from the director’s mouth?
For example, Kang on the looming threat of [...]
well, tonight’s first fixtures have ended and it’s czech republic 0-2 italy and ghana 2-1 usa. italy win the group on 7 points and ghana finish as runners-up on 6 points.
a disappointing world cup campaign for both the czechs and the americans, but africa finally have a team through to the next round in ghana. [...]
You know, even is Team America goes down tonight, at least we can hold our heads high and chant:
It’s all right
It’s OK
Freddy Adu will be playing for US someday
Yonhap News is reporting that China is unamused by the fact that Korea’s three biggest terrestrial broadcasters—KBS, MBC and SBS—have decided to run historical dramas dealing with Goguryeo or the Goguryeo successor state of Balhae at roughly the same time.
MBC recently started up “Jumong,” a 60-part drama on the founder of the Goguryeo kingdom, while [...]
what’s with the major television broadcasters’ (KBS1, KBS2, MBC, and SBS) showing only one–that is, the same–match during these current simultaneous fixtures, especially during the 11pm time slot?
i noticed on tuesday night that MBC, KBS2, and SBS all only showed one 11pm fixture (germany-ecuador) live, while KBS1 broadcast the costa rica-poland match on tape-delay at 1:30am. same [...]
last night’s fixtures didn’t offer too much drama. in the night’s first matches, portugal v. mexico and iran v. angola, the africans needed to win by more than one goal and a portugal win in order to advance to the next round.
in the second fixtures at 4am, korea time, holland v. argentina and cote d’ivoire v. serbinegro, there was [...]
UNHCR goodwill ambassador Angelina Jolie says U.S. priorities are screwed up.
The Seoul branch of Liberty in North Korea (LiNK-International link) has a meeting this Saturday and is hosting a leadership conference on NK human rights and refugee issues on July 8.
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