According to the Hankyoreh Seoul’s policy of witholding rice aid to North Korea is driving down the price of of the grain, prompting thousands of farmers to take to the streets in protest. Approximately 30 thousand South Korean farmers convened together for a National Farmers’ Convention to ask the government to address plummeting rice prices [...]
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Andrei Lankov has an op-ed in the IHT offering his take on what American negotiators can accomplish as they prepare to engage with Pyongyang fully aware that its leaders have no intention of abandoning their nuclear arsenal. 1) it is possible to agree on dismantling the North Korean nuclear research and production facilities. 2) North [...]
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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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“I want to watch a moooovie…” That’s become the near-daily mantra my son repeats as soon as he wakes up and right before going to bed. Power Rangers, Little Einsteins, Caillou… in truth it could probably be anything and he’d likely turn to stone in front of the glowing screen. Which is great for me [...]
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On a recent trip to North Korea, John Linton remarked after viewing that country’s athletic blitzkrieg known as the Arirang Games, which closed on Oct. 20, that a third of the performance was in praise of China. The son of missionary parents raised in rural South Jeolla Province and current head of Yonsei’s College of [...]
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Excellent piece in the New Yorker by Seymour Hersh on securing (or not) Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal in the face of increasing attacks by the Taliban and radicalization of the nation’s military. A senior Pakistani official who has close ties to Zardari exploded with anger during an interview when the subject turned to the American demands [...]
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1975 — Eight South Korean men convicted of trying to overthrow the government are executed just 20 hours after a court sentenced them to death. They were among a group of 23 arrested on rebellion charges as part of a government crackdown on dissident movements. An article by Bruce Cummings in the Hankyoreh from 2007 [...]
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An article in the Christian Science Monitor reports that some scientists in South Korea are saying the North tipped its rocket with a dummy satellite in order to justify a test of its missile technology. They cannot have been shooting a real satellite,” says Myung Noh-hoon, director of the Space Research Center at the Korea [...]
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Per the WSJ article: China on Tuesday repeated a call for calm after North Korea’s latest test of a multistage rocket, attempting to defuse anger in the U.S. and elsewhere at a time when its economic interest in the neighboring state is soaring[...] China increased trade with North Korea over the past four years. Last [...]
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Hans Blix, former head of the WMD inspection team in Iraq and chairman of the Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission, says engagement with the North is the only way to convince the country that “a piece of paper” will guarantee its safety more so than a nuclear stockpile. Perhaps a piece of paper could be [...]
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