I flew home last week, or what I thought was home. As soon as I stepped out of the airport everything appeared as if through a fog, vaguely familiar but somehow different, even foreign. After having spent the past couple of years complaining about, lashing out against and ultimately adjusting to life here in Korea, [...]
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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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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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With regard to the shooting in LA, as well as an earlier rampage in New York, the following I think really goes beyond the ususal suspects of the media or simple insanity in exploring how a person – an immigrant in both these cases – becomes a cold-blooded killer. Read the full article here: Whenever [...]
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The two journalists detained by North Korea and being held in the country are going to be tried for illegal entry and “hostile acitivities,” according to Yonhap. According to the North’s Korean Central News Agency: The illegal entry of U.S. reporters into the DPRK and their suspected hostile acts have been confirmed by evidence and [...]
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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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The latest on the two American journalists being held in North Korea from the JoongAng Ilbo. As with everything on the North, speculation takes the place of certifiable intelligence, though the article does highlight the role played by South Korean intelligence in aiding Washington. The U.S. intelligence community asked South Korea for help using the [...]
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An Associated Press story reports that while Obama’s speech was being aired live in China the broadcast suddenly went to anchors when the words “communism” and “dissent” popped up. In translations too certain incendiary sentences are deleted, which makes me wonder what kind of aspiring world power could be so terrified of a few harmless [...]
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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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Yesterday I looked at the date and realized with utter astonishment that Bush is going to be out of office in less than one week. With the world falling apart at the seams, that seminal event which I have not infrequently imagined/fantasized about is upon us and I hardly even noticed. Who else but the [...]
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