The Army has assigned Major Mike Holley, probably its best prosecutor, to the Abu Ghraib case. I should know. I supervised Mike during my last year in Korea, and he’s unquestionably the best courtroom attorney I’ve ever seen, myself included. The Army pulled Mike out of a plum assignment as a Criminal Law Instructor at the JAG School in Charlottesville, Virginia and sent him to Iraq to try these cases (I’d add that Mike has a very large family). Consider...

The Army has assigned Major Mike Holley, probably its best prosecutor, to the Abu Ghraib case. I should know. I supervised Mike during my last year in Korea, and he’s unquestionably the best courtroom attorney I’ve ever seen, myself included. The Army pulled Mike out of a plum assignment as a Criminal Law Instructor at the JAG School in Charlottesville, Virginia and sent him to Iraq to try these cases (I’d add that Mike has a very large family). Consider...

Lazarus rising: A former South Korean soldier captured by North Korea during the Korean War escaped to China and was arrested by Chinese police while seeking to enter South Korea, a Chinese source said Monday. . . . Another source familiar with North Korea said if South Korean POWs who escaped from the North were extradited to the communist country they were likely to be executed. Returning Han to Pyongyang would be tantamount to sending him to the scaffold, the...

The Korea Herald’s analysis, boiled down to its essentials: North Korea is stable–despite terrible conditions and the country’s dependence on outside aid, which isn’t coming–because its people are scared of the government. Just like they were in Albania, Romania, and East Germany. Prediction is a very dangerous business when the facts are out of your reach.

Anyone out there work for the U.S. Information Agency? I think I’ve solved America’s bad P.R. problem in South Korea. First, we need to take a tip from these boys to get more sympathetic TV coverage. Second, the student organizations on South Korean campuses have much to teach us about alternative printed media. You’re kidding me–Hanchongryon propogating the North Korean party line? Why, you could knock me over with a gnat’s wing right now. I’m all for letting South Koreans...

Lazarus rising: A former South Korean soldier captured by North Korea during the Korean War escaped to China and was arrested by Chinese police while seeking to enter South Korea, a Chinese source said Monday. . . . Another source familiar with North Korea said if South Korean POWs who escaped from the North were extradited to the communist country they were likely to be executed. Returning Han to Pyongyang would be tantamount to sending him to the scaffold, the...

The Korea Herald’s analysis, boiled down to its essentials: North Korea is stable–despite terrible conditions and the country’s dependence on outside aid, which isn’t coming–because its people are scared of the government. Just like they were in Albania, Romania, and East Germany. Prediction is a very dangerous business when the facts are out of your reach.

Anyone out there work for the U.S. Information Agency? I think I’ve solved America’s bad P.R. problem in South Korea. First, we need to take a tip from these boys to get more sympathetic TV coverage. Second, the student organizations on South Korean campuses have much to teach us about alternative printed media. You’re kidding me–Hanchongryon propogating the North Korean party line? Why, you could knock me over with a gnat’s wing right now. I’m all for letting South Koreans...

I kid you not. North Korea has declared war on long hair and politically incorrect clothing: Tidy attire “is important in repelling the enemies’ manoeuvres to infiltrate corrupt capitalist ideas and lifestyle and establishing the socialist lifestyle of the military-first era,” the radio says. . . . . “People who wear other’s style of dress and live in other’s style will become fools and that nation will come to ruin,” it says. Yep. I couldn’t have said it any better...

I finally banged out a response to Ralph Sato’s NKZone comment on the new video of the street children North Korea. My previous post on the subject is here. Please be nice to Ralph, because no matter how misguided I consider him to be, I think he’s an entirely better species of human being than, say, this guy.

OhMyNews recently ran an interview with Christine Ahn, a strong opponent of the North Korean Human Rights Act. As it turns out, there are a few things OhMyNews didn’t tell its readers about Ms. Ahn’s membership in a group called the Korean Solidarity Committee. You can see much, much more at this very long post. My apologies in advance; it took a week to research and write this. You have been warned. UPDATE: Dave at No Illusions has added much...

I kid you not. North Korea has declared war on long hair and politically incorrect clothing: Tidy attire “is important in repelling the enemies’ manoeuvres to infiltrate corrupt capitalist ideas and lifestyle and establishing the socialist lifestyle of the military-first era,” the radio says. . . . . “People who wear other’s style of dress and live in other’s style will become fools and that nation will come to ruin,” it says. Yep. I couldn’t have said it any better...

I kid you not. North Korea has declared war on long hair and politically incorrect clothing: Tidy attire “is important in repelling the enemies’ manoeuvres to infiltrate corrupt capitalist ideas and lifestyle and establishing the socialist lifestyle of the military-first era,” the radio says. . . . . “People who wear other’s style of dress and live in other’s style will become fools and that nation will come to ruin,” it says. Yep. I couldn’t have said it any better...

I finally banged out a response to Ralph Sato’s NKZone comment on the new video of the street children North Korea. My previous post on the subject is here. Please be nice to Ralph, because no matter how misguided I consider him to be, I think he’s an entirely better species of human being than, say, this guy.

OhMyNews recently ran an interview with Christine Ahn, a strong opponent of the North Korean Human Rights Act. As it turns out, there are a few things OhMyNews didn’t tell its readers about Ms. Ahn’s membership in a group called the Korean Solidarity Committee. You can see much, much more at this very long post. My apologies in advance; it took a week to research and write this. You have been warned. UPDATE: Dave at No Illusions has added much...

The Jews did it! The Jews did it! And the Americans, too, of course. Boy, did I nail this one or what? How depressing to bet on the stupidity, venom, and mendacity of mankind and be assured of raking in heaps of winnings like this: The earthquake that struck the Indian Ocean on December 26, triggering a series of huge waves called tsunami, “was possibly” caused by an Indian nuclear experiment in which “Israeli and American nuclear experts participated,” an...

The Jews did it! The Jews did it! And the Americans, too, of course. Boy, did I nail this one or what? How depressing to bet on the stupidity, venom, and mendacity of mankind and be assured of raking in heaps of winnings like this: The earthquake that struck the Indian Ocean on December 26, triggering a series of huge waves called tsunami, “was possibly” caused by an Indian nuclear experiment in which “Israeli and American nuclear experts participated,” an...

Color me completely unsurprised to learn that there’s prostitution in North Korea, given the fact of North Korea’s extreme poverty, suppressed values, and the failure of every other east Asian nation’s war on prostitution. Hell, Kim Jong Il has even turned Alejandro Cao de Benos into his international pimp daddy, letting him run his own profitable travel agency / dating service / kisaeng house for frustrated white leftists who otherwise couldn’t get a date in a cellblock full of violent...