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As if You Didn’t Have Enough to Worry About: Your four-year old might be out playing Grand Theft Auto in the family truckster while you’re fast asleep in your bed. And to think I once wanted four kids . . . .

Your first answer: yes, it could be even worse than Roh. Chung Dong-Young is running. The Korea Herald has a decent rundown on the candidates (or at least, most of them) but it’s woefully short on the candidates’ positions on specific issues. I’ll see what else I can find out.

Your first answer: yes, it could be even worse than Roh. Chung Dong-Young is running. The Korea Herald has a decent rundown on the candidates (or at least, most of them) but it’s woefully short on the candidates’ positions on specific issues. I’ll see what else I can find out.

While I don’t see anything here that justifies the description of a “smoking gun” for Kofi Annan–yet–the mysterious death of Benon Sevan’s aunt certainly suggests the need for further inquiry. Sheesh. The broader questions remains: what exactly unites these nations?

North Korea has asked the Czech Republic to ban “Team America,” a movie I have yet to see because of my little screamy ones. The Marmot has the goods. It’s actually quite funny to anyone who has been to Czech recently. The Czechs are about the happiest, friendliest, most free-spirited people in Europe–a happy island kingdom in a dour, grey, relativist sea. They seem to have democracy in their DNA. Czech dissidents once protested Communist rule by sneaking into a...

If I had known that they were celebrating “Death to America Day” at the Bethesda Marriott, I’d have hired the strippers with my own money. In fact, I’d even have gleefully explained the credit card bill to my wife. Fortunately, Gary Metz, a/k/a Dr. Zin, who runs Regime Change Iran, beat me to it by starting a letter-writing campaign and getting the thing either shut down or safely moved to the Hi-Way Budget Motel in Beltsville. Regime Change Iran is...

A team within Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) on Thursday drafted a North Korean Human Rights Act emphasizing the protection of defectors from the North. After revision, the bill will be submitted to the Diet early next month. The bill calls for Japanese legations to protect defectors who enter their premises. It also regulates financial support for groups helping defectors, and seeks improved relations with other nations to solve the kidnapping of Japanese by Pyongyang. The bill is a...

I absolutely fail to see the down side of this. But there are always people who are desperate enough to find one (sigh). These people conveniently forget that those who don’t comply with Article I are not entitled to the rights of prisoners of war. Their only rights are the very most basic: protection from unlawful killing, severe torture, the denial of food and medical treatment. To suggest that terrorists are anything but common criminals is a unilateral media amendment...

Well, well–look what Kim Jong Il has been buying, and you can bet it isn’t food: North Korea has . . . increased its field artillery by about 1,000 pieces over the last four years. With systems growing obsolete, the North has reduced the number of fighter jets and submarines, but its reserve strength has increased by 220,000 men from 7.48 million four years ago to 7.70 million. The white paper also estimates that Pyongyang has built one or two...

This certainly seems optimistic, though: The white paper also reveals how U.S. reinforcements would be deployed in the event of an emergency on the Korean Peninsula. It says more than 70 percent of the U.S. Marine Corps, 50 percent of its Air Force and 40 percent of its Navy would be sent to Korea in a crisis. In a war, U.S. strength would total about 690,000 men, 160 warships and 2,000 aircraft. Suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuure they would. That is, unless Rummy, the...

The media are calling the Iraqi elections for Shiite parties they claim have close ties to Iran. Were it not for the fact that the impeccably honest John Burns is one of those journos, I’d dismiss it as the media’s best effort to find a dark side. The results are not even in yet, and I have seen reports elsewhere that suggest that the plurality party (no party appears headed for an outright majority) has a strong secular component. In...

If I had known that they were celebrating “Death to America Day” at the Bethesda Marriott, I’d have hired the strippers with my own money. In fact, I’d even have gleefully explained the credit card bill to my wife. Fortunately, Gary Metz, a/k/a Dr. Zin, who runs Regime Change Iran, beat me to it by starting a letter-writing campaign and getting the thing either shut down or safely moved to the Hi-Way Budget Motel in Beltsville. Regime Change Iran is...

If I had known that they were celebrating “Death to America Day” at the Bethesda Marriott, I’d have hired the strippers with my own money. In fact, I’d even have gleefully explained the credit card bill to my wife. Fortunately, Gary Metz, a/k/a Dr. Zin, who runs Regime Change Iran, beat me to it by starting a letter-writing campaign and getting the thing either shut down or safely moved to the Hi-Way Budget Motel in Beltsville. Regime Change Iran is...

A team within Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) on Thursday drafted a North Korean Human Rights Act emphasizing the protection of defectors from the North. After revision, the bill will be submitted to the Diet early next month. The bill calls for Japanese legations to protect defectors who enter their premises. It also regulates financial support for groups helping defectors, and seeks improved relations with other nations to solve the kidnapping of Japanese by Pyongyang. The bill is a...

I absolutely fail to see the down side of this. But there are always people who are desperate enough to find one (sigh). These people conveniently forget that those who don’t comply with Article I are not entitled to the rights of prisoners of war. Their only rights are the very most basic: protection from unlawful killing, severe torture, the denial of food and medical treatment. To suggest that terrorists are anything but common criminals is a unilateral media amendment...

Well, well–look what Kim Jong Il has been buying, and you can bet it isn’t food: North Korea has . . . increased its field artillery by about 1,000 pieces over the last four years. With systems growing obsolete, the North has reduced the number of fighter jets and submarines, but its reserve strength has increased by 220,000 men from 7.48 million four years ago to 7.70 million. The white paper also estimates that Pyongyang has built one or two...