It’s not as if this comes as any suprise but Euna Lee of the famed Ling/Lee investigative duo has reportedly signed a six-figure deal for a memoir about her time in captivity in North Korea. I’ve tried to keep an open mind about this, holding back the gag reflex that kicked in when I saw [...]
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An article disputes attacks on Obama’s legal appointee Harold Koh over his comments regarding Sharia law and the U.S. legal system. I was in the room with my husband and several fellow alumni, and we are all adamant that Koh never said or suggested that sharia law could be used to govern cases in US [...]
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Protesters gathered in downtown Seoul yesterday to burn effigies of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il and express outrage over his country’s rocket launch on Sunday. Most were older military retirees. The common sentiment was disgust over the fact that the North can’t feed a majority of its people but it has the gall to [...]
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Descriptive article in the LA Times about conditions around the North Korea-China border where the two American journalists were taken some weeks back. A couple of sections that I found particulalry interesting for their graphic descritpitions of the border area: On their side of the border, North Korean soldiers stand watch, sheltered in concrete pillboxes [...]
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An Associated Press story notes that Voice of America has been granted permission by the Lee Myung-bak administration to broadcast into North Korea from transmitters in the South for the first time in three decades. That makes the signal much clearer than VOA’s long-running shortwave broadcasts from far-flung stations in the Philippines, Thailand and the [...]
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The first image comes from the liberal Hankyoreh, with the headline “Police prevent families of protest victims from identifying loved ones.” The second image is from the more conservative JoongAng, which reports, “Court keeps 5 in custody for fire that took 6 lives.” The two papers have been reporting on the deadly fire that broke [...]
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The Hankyoreh has an article on how the government has increasingly relied on its commando units to suppress civic dissent. Per the article: Park Rae-gun of the SARANGBANG Group for Human Rights said, “The fact that the police commando unit is being deployed to places like the sites of worker strikes itself shows the government’s [...]
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Amnesty Criticizes Rights Violations The Korea Times Amnesty International called on the Korean government to thoroughly investigate “excessive use of force” by police against anti-American beef import demonstrators, expressing concern over human rights violations. Former LMB advisor takes over YTN Hankyoreh Apparently he was approved in less than a minute by shareholders, while union members [...]
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A protest rally is planned for tomorrow, Saturday evening along downtown Seoul’s Cheongyecheon River to remind South Koreans opposed to US beef that not an hour away North Koreans starve. There’s a part of me that sympathizes with the protesters here. Yes, I think the reaction has been completely overblown, but even if they are [...]
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