Last week I headed up to the 9th floor of my office building to take care of some routine duties. The floor is filled with young interns, dressed in the tattered jeans and flannel shirts that are the trend during Korea’s wintry weather. Turning a corner I bumped into one of them, a young man [...]
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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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Well, maybe not. But it does sound like somthing they’d say, and the personality cult that’s built around the two is eerily similar. They’re both lionized as “national treasures,” held up as icons of Korean honor and nobility. Sure, I’m taking the comparison a little far. I mean, you’re not gonna be sent to the [...]
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The Christian Science Monitor has an interesting piece by Donald Kirk on South Korea’s air force as it remains on high alert ahead of North Korea’s launch. I have to say it’s nerve racking reading about all of the North’s short-range missiles and living a stone’s throw from the Blue House, the resident of which [...]
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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 big question seems to be whether Washington or Tokyo will move to take out a North Korean rocket. Here’s an interesting inside look at what went on in 2006, the last time North Korea tested a missile. In late 2006, Lt. Gen. Joseph Inge, then-deputy commander of U.S. Northern Command, confirmed that Defense Secretary [...]
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Isolated, impoverished and universally hated North Korea is going ahead with some sort of space launch. It can’t keep its cities lit or its roads full. It can’t even feed its people. But it can keep the entire region on alert as it ratchets up the kind of tension that has proven to be a [...]
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Top selling South Korean soju Jinnro side by side with North Korea’s best, Pyongyang Soju. Between the two, I have to say the Northern drink tastes better and packs a stronger punch. Hail the Dear Leader! Bought this at Unification Village, in Paju City, an hour north of Seoul and across the river from [...]
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Today’s Korea Times reports that the shooting death of a South Korean tourist in NK on July 12th has revealed a breakdown in communications between the leaders of the two Koreas. The report noted a direct line between the two leaders set up during the Kim Dae Jung administration in 2000 as part of it’s Sunshine Policy [...]
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This from today’s Chosun Daily: U.S. ‘Condoned Summary Executions During Korean War’ To read the original AP story, go here: US Okayed Korean War Massacres I’m sure there are more sides to this than the article represents. Still, for my part, I’m inclined to believe it. Two reasons: 1) the fact that MacArthur, according to David [...]
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