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All I can really say is, uhhhhhhh: Korea and the U.S. have decided to divide the future security environment on the Korean Peninsula into three or four levels including full unification and use them to draw up a new blueprint for their military alliance. The Defense Ministry said Monday the two nations agreed to the plan in principle. Pending confirmation, the levels include “reconciliation and cooperation”, “peace and coexistence” and “unification.” The new-look military alliance will be unveiled by the...

Human Rights Legislation Update: A slender hope for a watered-down human rights law in South Korea. I suppose the perfect is the enemy of the good. Momentum certainly isn’t going North Korea’s way right now.

Remember this? Well, guess who’s stinking up the place now. Either we’ll soon see environmentalist demonstrators in front of the Blue House, or another transparent excuse for America hatred is revealed for what it is.

All I can really say is, uhhhhhhh: Korea and the U.S. have decided to divide the future security environment on the Korean Peninsula into three or four levels including full unification and use them to draw up a new blueprint for their military alliance. The Defense Ministry said Monday the two nations agreed to the plan in principle. Pending confirmation, the levels include “reconciliation and cooperation”, “peace and coexistence” and “unification.” The new-look military alliance will be unveiled by the...

Human Rights Legislation Update: A slender hope for a watered-down human rights law in South Korea. I suppose the perfect is the enemy of the good. Momentum certainly isn’t going North Korea’s way right now.

Remember this? Well, guess who’s stinking up the place now. Either we’ll soon see environmentalist demonstrators in front of the Blue House, or another transparent excuse for America hatred is revealed for what it is.

Famine Update: This NKZone post by Scott Bruce, consisting of interviews with key WPF officials, is must-reading despite its length. About halfway through the post, I came to this quotation: It was reported in the press a few weeks back that the government had decided to close the OCHA office in Pyongyang. I was assured categorically and repeatedly by authoritative officials from the foreign ministry that there has been no decision to close the OCHA office in the DPRK. They...

Famine Update: This NKZone post by Scott Bruce, consisting of interviews with key WPF officials, is must-reading despite its length. About halfway through the post, I came to this quotation: It was reported in the press a few weeks back that the government had decided to close the OCHA office in Pyongyang. I was assured categorically and repeatedly by authoritative officials from the foreign ministry that there has been no decision to close the OCHA office in the DPRK. They...

From the Chosun Ilbo: President Roh Moo-hyun on Monday signaled a tougher line with North Korea over its reluctance to return to nuclear disarmament talks, saying there are times when Seoul needs to get “red in the face” with anger in its relationship with the Stalinist country. “In the intra-Korean relationship as well, we must express criticism and get red in the face when it’s time to get red in the face,” Roh said, quoting his own remarks during a...

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From the Chosun Ilbo: President Roh Moo-hyun on Monday signaled a tougher line with North Korea over its reluctance to return to nuclear disarmament talks, saying there are times when Seoul needs to get “red in the face” with anger in its relationship with the Stalinist country. “In the intra-Korean relationship as well, we must express criticism and get red in the face when it’s time to get red in the face,” Roh said, quoting his own remarks during a...

Headline: Korean Women Have Children at an Older Age

Headline: Offices Get Creative to Put Out More Fags

The BBC reports from China that “spontaneous” protests against Japanese textbooks have “spread.” Think carefully about how often protests in Chinese cities have lasted longer than 10 minutes without the government’s approval recently, and then read this: On Saturday, Japan summoned the Chinese ambassador to demand a formal apology, after windows at its embassy in Beijing were broken during a demonstration, despite the presence of Chinese police. The ambassador, Wang Yi, said Beijing did not condone the protests. I’ve already...

The BBC reports from China that “spontaneous” protests against Japanese textbooks have “spread.” Think carefully about how often protests in Chinese cities have lasted longer than 10 minutes without the government’s approval recently, and then read this: On Saturday, Japan summoned the Chinese ambassador to demand a formal apology, after windows at its embassy in Beijing were broken during a demonstration, despite the presence of Chinese police. The ambassador, Wang Yi, said Beijing did not condone the protests. I’ve already...

Reader Brendan Brown forwards this message for a worthy cause. I hope you’ll stop by if you’re in that part of the world: You are invited to a charity concert to raise funds and awareness for the plight of North Korean Refugees, sponsored by Helping Hands Korea and featuring Francois le Roux (from South Africa), also known as the HA! MAN, followed by Ma Mi Ok, playing the kayaguem. Excerpts of award-winning documentary “Seoul Train” will also be shown. Silent...

I have a post up on NKZone about South Korea’s abstention from the U.N. Resolution. Most of it will be familiar to you, although there’s some new discussion of the U.N. Special Rapporteur’s report. The report itself is nothing special; it tells us many things we already know. In many places, it suffers from a predictable lack of specifics, imprecise language, U.N. gobbledygook, and lame efforts to show the “bright side” of hell on earth. There is one important exception,...