You got to love it when the Onion hits a story that CNN misses:
N. Korea Detonates 40 Years Of GDP
“This is a grand day for the Democratic Peoples Republic Of Korea, whose citizens have sacrificed their wages, their food, and their lives so that our great nation could test a nuclear weapon thousands of feet [...]
Well, I guess we can assume who Secretary of State Rice was talking about here, and it ain’t Japan:
She said she intended to reaffirm “our reciprocal obligations” on her trip but also said “every country in the region must share the burdens as well as the benefits of our common security.”
Unfortunately, I feel compelled to [...]
Oh, the things you learn when you run a Naver News search on “foreign teachers.” Sports Seoul reports that a particular star famous for her “pure” image apparently likes imported sausages. Or so says the barbarian English teacher who used to teach her English. When he asked the star, identified as A, [...]
Police in Chuncheon arrested a 32-year-old American English teacher Saturday for beating a taxi driver. According to the report in the Gangwon Ilbo, the teacher, an English instructor at a language school at a local college, is accused of getting in a taxi in the wee hours of Saturday morning and striking the driver [...]
Meeting with special correspondents in Manhattan, Korean Foreign Minister and next UN General Secretary Ban Ki-moon complained of backbiting forces that spread malicious rumors about him during his UN general secretary campaign, reports Yonhap.
In particular, he cited the Wordpress blog “Chapter 15.”
He said the blog of “unclear identity” had spread malicious rumors about him since [...]
“The King and the Clown” director Lee Jun-ik, whose film was sent to the U.S. Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences to represent Korea for best foreign film, expressed his dislike of the U.S. film award ceremony.
Explaining his dislike, he said, “I think the Academy is a means to expand and maintain U.S. cultural [...]
A South Korean official told ABC news that he’s aware of signs of activity at the site of last week’s nuke test in North Korea, indicating Pyongyang may be readying for… a second test.
The signs were apparently picked up by a U.S. satellite. The South Korean Arirang-2 satellite, on the other hand, is probably [...]
According to a couple of sources, including the Chosun Ilbo and Seoul Shinmun, the latest issue of Newsweek is reporting that U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney’s aides recently told the Chinese that if North Korea has nukes, Japan could follow.
Well, that’s laying down the law, although for greater dramatic effect Cheney’s people should have mentioned [...]
U.S. ambassador to Japan Thomas Schieffer warned North Korea that it needs to do more than just return to the six-party talks if it wants sanctions lifted. What I found interesting, however, was his comment about Japanese participation in the PSI:
“We recognize that Japan has special considerations… because of constitutional issues,” he said. “It’s [...]
As all of you readers in Korea are fast asleep with hopefully happy dreams—some of you recovering from the shock of air raid drills which the Old Hands (TM) among us are serenely complacent about—here are some overnight developments to get you up to speed:
The US is confirming that radiation indicates that it was, in [...]
A note of appreciation to the National Emergency Management Agency for scaring the living shit out of me with a civil defense drill today.
UPDATE: I see from Andy’s and Shelton’s posts I wasn’t alone.
It ran for about a minutre here in Ansan. One would assume it is just a test.
Repeat after me: “Kim Jong-il is not suicidal.”
The Korean Government tested an air-raid siren in central Seoul at 2 p.m. today.
That is all.
Updated
Just heard want sounded like jet flying at low speed close to the ground. I’m going to make a logical leap an guess it might be a ROK jetfighter if they have such things. Don’t know for sure. I am [...]
The Dong-A Ilbo tells us what we already knew—the government is deeply divided as to how to proceed with North Korea, with the Unification Ministry on one side and the Foreign and Defense ministries on the other.
The Hankyoreh reports that after Oct. 9’s North Korean nuclear test, the China’s military constructed a wire fence along its border with North Korea to keep refugees from fleeing into China.
According to a local resident, a PLA platoon put up the fence, made of wire and concrete posts, on Oct. 11, shortly after Pyongyang’s nuke [...]
This is the more detailed post of my Chuseok travels I promised earlier.
Daejeon
You know, in 10 years in Korea, I’d never spent a single night in Daejeon. Like everyone else, I’d been through Daejeon something like 1,000 times, the railroad town being a major transportation hub. Unlike towns like Gyeongju, Andong or [...]
Well, I guess we have to give the Uri Party credit—at least they seem to speak for the masses:
Four in 10 South Korean adults think the United States is the country most responsible for North Korea’s declared nuclear test on Oct. 9, a survey said yesterday.
Forty-three percent of the respondents aged over 19 picked the [...]
North Korea scholar B.R. Myers recently contributed an absolute MUST READ op-ed to the New York Times warning readers that North Korea just might be suicidal. In particular, Myers notes that while North Korea is often described as “Stalinist,” its worldview is much closer to fascist—and ultimately suicidal—Japan of the 1930s and 1940s.
Like the Japanese [...]
I had recently made mention of China’s attempt to re-write Korean history as a pretext for intervention in North Korea and of how China is want to do such in places that it occupies such as Tibet but now it seems that the PRC is not above killing women and children or Chinese Government media [...]
