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It’s another failing grade for those who administer the “Global Test” — a group of Nobel Peace Prize laureates gathered in Kwangju at the invitation of Roh Moo Hyun and Kim Dae Jung, and returned the favor by calling on the U.S. to “ease up” on North Korea. I searched for the full text of their statement and found none, perhaps because no one outside South Korea really cares about a join statement by a huddle of sanctimonious has-beens. This...

Due to some ongoing technical glitches at The Korea Liberator, I will posting here for at least a few days. They’re issues that are beyond my techical competence, and they only mean that my TKL posts will be delayed. I have no plans to leave TKL, although I do offer this bit of advice to aspiring bloggers: avoid Lunarpages at all costs. Their support is awful. The specific problem afflicting me is slightly different, and it’s a long story that...

Every Korean election year, the political parties’ festering grudges and tribal feuds, catalyzed by ambition, render the entire Korean political party system unstable. Parties shatter into mercurial gobs, collide, and reform. — OFK, 5 January 2006 ============= The Center ============== The first test tube hit the laboratory floor today: Goh Kun made it clear on Thursday that he intended to run for the presidency, and the reaction in political circles has been swift. Especially with the Uri Party in disarray...

See if you can name the political diagnosis of the person who posted this: The hoaxes just do not match ! My “dear” Jewish-Americans …. i can’t tell you to stop writing bullshit because, actually, you are the Sons of Bullshit itself ! But may i please suggest to you that, at least, you should co-ordinate your hoaxes !! Ha ! Ha ! When you invent a hoax: make it credible !! Nevermind ! Adolf Hilter did not manage to...

Let’s just be clear that Professor Kang Jeong-Koo is a lying Stalinist media whore and failed petty tyrant: In a lecture in Incheon last year, Kang said, “Had the United States not intervened, the Korean War would have ended in a month with the death toll in both South and North less than 10,000. But 3.99 million more people died additionally because of the American intervention. The U.S. is the main culprit in the war and Douglas MacArthur its advance...

America is doing the right thing: China and the U.S. have reportedly agreed that four North Korean defectors who barged into the U.S. Consulate in Shenyang after making their way into the South Korean legation will be permitted to leave the country. It is understood that the U.S. has decided to give them asylum. Sources said Thursday’s secret negotiations were favorable to the defectors, adding Washington would accept the group’s request for asylum.

Could this have been a deliberate provocation, a defection attempt, or neither? Two North Korean soldiers crossed a stream some 20-30 m into the South in Hwacheon, Gangwon Province at around 12:47 p.m. on Friday but returned to the North when South Korean troops fired warning shots. This is the first time in five years the South Korean military has had to fire over the heads of North Korean soldiers crossing the Military Demarcation Line (MDL). The last time was...

Move America Forward will have webcasts this weekend devoted to the memory of those who have fought and died fighting the terrorists who would destroy all of us and our families the moment they had the means to do so. Part One Airs for Two Hours: 12:00 ““ 2:00 PM Pacific // 3:00 ““ 5:00 PM Eastern Part Two Airs for Three Hours: 3:00 ““ 6:00 PM Pacific // 6:00 ““ 9:00 PM Eastern What we owe these brave people...

You Don’t Say: The head of U.S. private equity fund Lone Star says criticism of the firm’s investment in Korea Exchange Bank is driven by an “anti-foreign political climate” in Korea. I don’t know enough to evaluate Korea’s accusations against Jay Grayken, but Grayken’s accusations against Korea certainly have a ring of truth to them. Meaning that even if Grayken is a complete scoundrel, he’s at least standing on firmer ground than Cynthia McKinney.

What Korea really needs is a futures market devoted exclusively to joint North-South projects. A very simple model here is to imagine yourself as a ruthless North Korean tyrant ensconced in an underground lair in Pyongyang, surrounded by his pleasure squad. Then ask yourself, “what’s in it for me?” Having done this, try to spot the irrational exuberance. If you can, and if that market actually did exist, there would be a beach house in Ko Samui with your name...

Tdaxp has been one of my favorite blogs since day one. Dan strips each problem to its foundational assumptions and rebuilds a range of solutions around interlocking analyses from political, economic, social, and even behavioral laws. To a greater degree than I am, Dan is a TPM Barnett fan — I tend to think Barnett places too much confidence in the power of economics to overcome the predatory nature of tyrants — but every word of his full thesis, “Redefining...

Lunarpages Reeks: Once again, TKL is down and we’re getting dismal support from Lunarpages. Yes, we’re contemplating a move elsewhere, as anyone would, but no decision yet. Suggestions for better web hosting are invited.