Comments on: Anju Links for 13 April 2007

By: OneFreeKorea » ‘Kim Jong’ Bill Richardson and Camp 22

OneFreeKorea » ‘Kim Jong’ Bill Richardson and Camp 22 — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 03:22:17 +0000

[...] Earlier,Â I referenced my visit to this fawning “unofficial” Bill RichardsonÂ campaign site.Â The host of that site put upÂ an entry boasting about “Governor Richardson’s North Korean Breakthrough.”Â This isÂ spectacularly ill timed, comingÂ on the very eve of North Korea gettingÂ back its dirty millions and still missing the deadline to shut down Yongbyon.Â Â It’s as ifÂ Al GoreÂ were to claim heÂ invented those Nigerian spam e-mails.Â Specifically, Gov. Richardson claims, My years of experience dealing with North Korea and my knowledge of the region allowed me to help facilitate this new resolution to end their nuclear weapons program. [...]

By: Sonagi

Sonagi — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 00:44:46 +0000

I just watched the video, US. Some of the content was apalling, some of it just plain silly. I got a kick out of the fact that Australian Prime MInister John Howard is a no-name to the KTU. Reminds of a similar gaffe committed by one of English rags. A front page photo of then APEC leaders Bill Clinton, Hu Jintao, Kim Dae Jung, and Jean Cretien omitted the name of Canada’s prime minister, thus offending Canadian colleagues at my workplace. Korea complains when it gets “no-name” treatment but dishes it out to other major nations.

By: Bill Richardson has Al Gore disease, but Worse at DPRK Studies

Bill Richardson has Al Gore disease, but Worse at DPRK Studies — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 23:46:26 +0000

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By: Kim Jong-Bill’s “Breakthrough” at ROK Drop

Kim Jong-Bill’s “Breakthrough” at ROK Drop — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 22:23:55 +0000

[...] I am posting Richardson’s comments in full because Governor Richardson’s site has a policy of deleting comments they don’t like which is what One Free Korea found out when he posted on Governor Richardson’s site.Â OFK asked if Governor Richardson mentioned anything about Camp 22 to the North Koreans during his visit.Â This was taken as a troll comment and deleted by the site administrators and here was the reason given: [...]

By: usinkorea

usinkorea — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 21:57:56 +0000

[link]

That is the raw video file for the infamous anti-APEC video.

Here is some stuff I added to the infamous APEC Video. I wanted to break it down more, but I couldn’t find anybody with the Korean language skills who would work with me on it.

http://usinkorea.org/videos/new/KTU-Anti-US_Video_APEC_2005.wmv

I am still unhappily surprised at how little the K-bloggers covered this at the time. I didn’t remember anything about it at Marmot’s outside the comments section, and I did a quick check seach over there and didn’t find anything about it.

And as I remember it, the video didn’t get much play on the other popular K-blogs – not to the extent I thought it deserved.

They pulled the video off the net after some time, but not before the regular K-bloggers had a chance to see it, and I had it back up not too long afterward.

I thought there was at least a chance it wasn’t given the play it deserved, because some realized it had the potential to get play outside the K-blogsphere and make people angry at Korea. I’ve heard small notes like that here and there over the years about my site, and I know I’ve heard that in the Korean Studies area. It is a kind of thought like, “We’ve earned the right to complain about this stuff, because we’ve invested so much time in getting to know Korea, the good and the bad, but these others don’t know enough to process items like this video.” The short version – “This will make some anti-Korean who have no right.”

Maybe the video just hit my own personality in such a way to make me think it deserved more highlighting than the average person things.

I thought it was one of the most disgusting things to come out of the anti-US culture in Korea. Highly disgusting……

And obviously something that should peak the interest of at least the K-bloggers….

By: Richardson

Richardson — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 21:55:57 +0000

PLEASE, always refer to ‘him’ as “Gov. Richardson” or “Bill Richardson,” for the sake of all that is good!!!

I didn’t know they were setup to let complete strangers make *posts*, and I only made a few comments, which as GI Korea notes, are still there.

Yes, Joshua gets credit for “Kim Jong-Bill,” which I like for two reasons; a) it’s catchy, an b) makes no reference to family name. Sigh.

And yes, the owner of that site is definitely on the cultish side. A bit spooky.

By: slim

slim — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 21:54:25 +0000

They should be welcoming help at this early stage correcting all of their site’s major mistakes about North Korea diplomacy and Gov Richardson’s minor role in it — before they mushroom into a campaign-killing slogan to be used against the governor, like Al Gore’s “I invented the Internet” gaffe.

By: GI Korea

GI Korea — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 21:44:10 +0000

I have been digging around Kim Jong-Bill’s website some more and here is what the wrote on why they deleted your post:

http://www.americaforrichardson.org/node/1023

I love this opening paragraph:

“This morning I deleted three posts that appeared in quick one right after each other last night. All three were particularly critical of Gov. Richardson. While this website isn’t supposed to be a Richardson lovefest with no criticism allowed, we are a “for Richardson” site.”

So being for Richardson means not answering legitimate questions? They should call themselves a Richardson propaganda site instead.

By: GI Korea

GI Korea — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 21:08:39 +0000

I just read the Bill Richardson website and the other Richardson has totally destroyed the post they put there. I wonder how long before they take Richardson’s comments off the site?

By: GI Korea

GI Korea — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 20:58:37 +0000

“Kim Jong-Bill” I like it. I’m sure he is of the Albright mold and much to holier than thou to answer your fair criticism.