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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Al Qaeda in Yemen said Thursday that it specifically targeted South Koreans in the country this month for Seoul’s ties to Washington. Per the statement: “Our heroic brother … Abu Obeida al-Jarrah, carried out a martyrdom-seeking operation … in response to South Korea’s role in the war on Islam in alliance with crusader forces under [...]
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Having slept through the inauguration I printed out a copy of Obama’s speech to read on the train home. Behind it I stapled a couple of commentaries, one by William Safire and the other by Bob Herbert, neither of which did much to shake the thought that the words before me seemed empty. There’s a [...]
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An op-ed in The Korea Times weighs US candidates’ positions on Korea, including the KORUS FTA and ongoing six-party talks over North Korea’s denuclearization. In sum, McCain supports free trade deals with South Korea, as well as continuing with the established framework of six-party negotiations involving Japan, China and Russia, as well as the two [...]
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An article in today’s Herald Tribune: US panel questions Texas oil deal in Iraq. They ought to do a hell of a lot more than question! Christ almighty, some Texas buddies of Bush in the oil industry sign a contract with the Kurdish provincial government behind the backs of the very government we are meant [...]
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