I know the title is more than a little sensationalist but, that was the title of the article. I am doing some research into the Americans who defected to North Korea and came across this article. I thought that many of you would like to see what was being printed in the days [...]
Looks like the Japanese government will push a special law allowing the country’s naval forces to stop and search North Korean ships, reports the Seoul Gyeongje. Ostensibly to support the American-led PSI, the law is feared by some in Korea and China to be a move by Japan to become a major military power.
The [...]
UPDATE (2 minutes, is that a record?): It appears that the deal has been done, so you can disregard the speculation in the bottom half of the post.
Original Post: After negotiations between the US, China and Russia, the UN Security Council appears to be near a deal:
The U.N. Security Council moved closer Thursday night to [...]
Keeping tabs on the American press regarding the current crisis, I’m hearing a lot of BS that dosn’t really seem to make sense. I mean, take a look at this:
Talks must switch from Pyongyang’s intentions and weapons to the shape of a reunified Korea. The basis would be Pyongyang’s longstanding suggestion of a Democratic Confederal [...]
Some 17 “military elders,” including the very-busy 14 former defense ministers, issued a statement yesterday calling on the government to strongly request that the United States redeploy tactical nuclear weapons to South Korea.
Between 1958 and 1991, the United States kept some 1,720 tactical nukes in South Korea in order to keep the North Koreans (and [...]
North Korea’s intelligence agencies believe they have found an effective way to get intelligence from South Korean diplomats overseas.
Threaten to kill their families.
According to the Hanguk Ilbo, two South Korean consuls—one serving in Asia and the other in Africa—were threatened by North Korean agents demanding a decoding program used to read documents sent between Seoul [...]
The Uri Party, on the defensive since North Korea’s nuke test, is fighting back against Grand National Party criticism of its North Korea policies by blaming the United States.
BTW, more “The World According to Kim Dae-jung”
“Because the United States is making it so that North Korea can’t live, North Korea came to commit this atrocious [...]
Choe Sang-Hun of the International Herald Tribune has written an interesting article on the history of Gogureyo and how the Chinese seek to make it their own. While so many are talking about North Korea (the midget that roared), perhaps it is important to remember that this issue of historical revision by a well [...]
The good doctor was kind enough to post his op-ed in the WSJ over at NKZone:
For years, the U.S. and other nations have warned in the most unequivocal terms that they would never tolerate North Korea’s possession of nuclear weapons. But now that Pyongyang has announced that it has conducted a nuclear test, the options [...]
In light of the illuminating article (posted by the Marmot himself) concerning how “shocked” foreigners are about the North Korean test, I thought I would post something retro - a look in the past.
According to a poll conducted by an insurance company in Seoul almost twenty years ago, and, reported in Korea Times, the number [...]
Gyeonggi-do authorities are agonizing over whether “sex doll experience rooms” are covered by the Korea’s anti-prostitution laws (Korean version here).
As one might expect from a ‘citizen journalism’ site, OhmyNews can be pretty uneven in what it serves up.
But this is one of the better pieces I have seen on the current mess that North Korea finds itself in.
After spending most of the piece talking about who is to blame for the current situation (short [...]
Need a calendar? Of course you do! Well, Seoul Selection has produced a 2007 calendar featuring beautiful pen sketches of Korean traditional architecture by the amazing Kim Yeong-taek. If you’ve got a spare lettuce leaf (10,000 won bill) laying around, you’ve got yourself a pretty cool calendar. The beautiful pen sketches are accompanied by informative English [...]
Appearing on both KBS and MBC radio (figures), Kim Jong-il’s “unofficial spokesman” Kim Myong-chol said the first stage of North Korea’s “physical response” to U.S. pressure would be additional nuke tests. After that, the North would conduct tests of increasing kilotonnage until, finally, it tested a thermonuclear device.
My, that’s a lot of holes to [...]
PSI
I mentioned in my roundup of Korean press reports last night that Korea’s ruling Uri Party would oppose Seoul’s full participation in the U.S.-led Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI). Well, Uri Party chief Kim Keun-tae once again stated his opposition to participation in the PSI during an emergency policy coordination meeting with the government this morning [...]
With all the fuss about that pipsqueak of an A-bomb test, maybe we’ve all lost sight of what’s really going on: North Korea may have finally lost it. They think they can get all in America’s grill and eventually we’ll, what, let them unite Korea under the House of Kim? With that in mind, I [...]
The National Post’s Andrew Coyne is damn-near apocalyptic in condemning the West’s lack of gumption in the wake of North Korea’s nuclear test.
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