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Beautiful Photos of North Korea
May 2, 2008 – 5:44 pm
North Korea Freedom Week in DC
April 30, 2008 – 6:22 pm
We are in the middle of North Korea Freedom Week, a series of events in DC sponsored by (among others) the North Korea Freedom Coalition. If you are in the area, please drop in on some of the events and post a report in the comment section.
Here is a brief report on NKFW in the [...]
Putting the Food Aid Where the Mouth is
April 30, 2008 – 2:08 pm
Today’s Washington Posts asks if the new LMB administration will really put its food aid where its mouth is and choose principle over hunger in the North.
Does President Lee withhold food aid that may prop up the government of the North or will he help avert a possible humanitarian crisis? Choices.. choices…
Whereas some may [...]
Olympic spirit lives in Pyongyang
April 28, 2008 – 6:03 pm
It is nice to see that North Korea did not let politics interfere with the the spirit of the Olympics (CNN):
The relay began at the Juche Idea Tower where Kim Yong Nam, the head of North Korea’s rubber-stamp parliament, handed the lit torch to 72-year-old Park Tu Ik, a hero of his country’s 1966 World [...]
N. Korean / Syrian Video Made Public
April 26, 2008 – 1:12 am
Robert wanted to see it on Youtube, well how about Veoh? The video shown to Congress has been made public. Check out the chummy picture in 5:40.
Update
The Washington Post has published an interesting article theorizing why the administration has made public, seven months after Israeli jets destroyed the site, the findings. It also introduces an [...]
I Want to See it on Youtube
April 24, 2008 – 2:27 pm
Well, the North Koreans won’t be too happy about this:
After seven months of near-total secrecy, the White House is preparing to make public on Thursday video evidence of North Koreans working at a suspected Syrian nuclear reactor just before it was destroyed in an Israeli airstrike last September.[...] The timing of the administration’s decision to [...]
Spies among us
April 23, 2008 – 6:15 pm
The Defense Security Command says that it is going to get tough on Nork spies who have been getting a free pass over the past ten years.
However, other intelligence officials say the thing lacking over the last ten years was not arrests of spies but announcements of the arrest of spies (Yonhap link above):
The officials at [...]
Plenty of shame to go around
April 18, 2008 – 5:25 pm
One Free Korea reports that there is a bill in Congress to address to force the deadenders at State to do their legally required jobsstreamline the resettlement process for North Korean refugees to the USA. It is not a moment too soon. I hope it will prevent reoccurence of this.
The bill notes that only 43 [...]
Secret NK nuke deal in the works?
April 12, 2008 – 8:08 pm
Yonhap quotes Radio Free Asia as saying that the US and North Korea have reached a deal in the two six party talks. I don’t have years of diplomatic training, which might be the reason why the purported deal strikes me as just plain stupid:
Under the secret agreement, reached at a meeting of the top [...]
Defectors in Japan show that not all NKs lack business savvy
April 3, 2008 – 10:28 pm
(This is a little old, but I didn’t find it in the Hole. If this has been posted here before, will our Dear Leader please delete it.)
This story from The Japan Times starts out innocently enough:
Yoon, a feisty 32-year-old Korean woman with a strong entrepreneurial spirit, is happy to be living and working in her newly adopted [...]
Seems Like a Great Way to Get Your Reporters Killed
April 2, 2008 – 2:38 pm
I respect the testicular fortitude of the reporters working for this magazine, but as a publisher, I sure as hell couldn’t ask someone to do this:
The first magazine about North Korea reported by North Koreans from inside the country will start publishing a Japanese version this week to try to force change in one of [...]
Seoul Tells North to Stick Apology Demand Where Sun Don’t Shine
April 2, 2008 – 11:40 am
Need proof there’s a new sheriff in town? Seoul has responded to a North Korean demand that the South apologize for Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Kim Tae-young telling the National Assembly that the South would strike North Korean nuclear sites in an emergency by essentially telling Pyongyang to fuck off:
At 10am, military authorities [...]
Israeli PM Admits IDF Hit Syrian Nuke Site Built with NK Help: Report
April 1, 2008 – 6:44 pm
If you’re willing to believe stories told by “government sources,” the Asahi Shimbun reports that Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda in February that the thing that went boom in Syria last September was indeed a nuclear facility being built with technical assistance from North Korea:
An Israeli airstrike against Syria last [...]
Oh, Those Zany North Koreans…
March 31, 2008 – 1:38 pm
You know, I think the North Koreans are trying to say they are displeased with the direction the new South Korean administration has taken in regards to intra-Korean affairs.
Yawn…
(HT to reader)
And now for something (not so) completely different
March 25, 2008 – 9:38 am
If you ever needed proof that great minds think alike, Joshua at One Free Korea and I both used Monty Python references in pieces published yesterday about the ongoing (and ongoing and….) talks on NK nukes.
Joshua invokes the Dead Parrot Sketch when pointing out part of the problem with the six party talks and the Geneva sideshow in [...]
Human Safari on the Sino-DPRK Border
March 21, 2008 – 2:55 pm
The border between China and North Korea has all but disappeared, reports the Chosun Ilbo. Very disturbing stuff:
Torrential rains had been falling for a week when a Chosun Ilbo news team arrived in Dandong. It was Aug. 9, 2007, on a special tour program called “human safari.” The program provided a rare chance for the [...]
Chuck Bob Jenkins Memoirs
March 15, 2008 – 11:06 am
The WSJ’s Gabriel Schoenfeld writes a review of “The Reluctant Communist,” the memoirs of Charles Robert Jenkins, the US Army deserter who spent 40 years as a guest of the DPRK. Here’s the money shot:
However we judge Mr. Jenkins’s actions so many years ago, “The Reluctant Communist” is itself an act of redemption. This extraordinary [...]
[MUST READ] Stephen Linton and the Eugene Bell Foundation
March 11, 2008 – 9:17 am
The WaPo ran a feature on American doctor Stephen Linton and his battle against tuberculosis in North Korea — if you haven’t read it, READ IT NOW.
The progeny of several generations of Christian missionaries, Linton spent most of his youth in South Korea. He speaks flawless Korean, marshaling it to shame obstructive bureaucrats in Pyongyang, [...]
RAS Lecture on North Korea’s Current Reality and Early-Spring Tours
March 9, 2008 – 8:29 pm
Tuesday, March 11th: RAS-K Lecture-Meeting, featuring Dr. Moon J. Pak (Biologist and MD, Chairman of the US-DPRK Medical Science Exchange Committee and the Vice-president of the Korean-American National Coordinating Council) speaking on “North Korea Today.” He will focus on the realities of contemporary North Korean society as he has experienced them, while refuting several common [...]
Oh, those nuclear engineers
March 8, 2008 – 11:41 pm
Hey, isn’t it about time for another “he said, he said” moment in the six-party process?
Say no more (AP):
NEW YORK, March 7 (AP) - (Kyodo)—North Korea admitted to sending engineers to military- related and other facilities in Syria during its recent talks with the United States over its nuclear program, diplomatic sources in New York [...]