http://freekorea.us/2007/04/25/north-koreas-sponsorship-of-terrorists-acts-1996-2007/ Tue, 22 May 2012 21:47:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://freekorea.us/2007/04/25/north-koreas-sponsorship-of-terrorists-acts-1996-2007/comment-page-1/#comment-55479 OneFreeKorea » Walking the Road to Hell With the Eugene Bell Foundation Sun, 11 Nov 2007 15:13:10 +0000 http://freekorea.us/2007/04/25/north-koreas-sponsorship-of-terrorists-acts-1996-2007/#comment-55479 [...] Some policies, of course, are easier to understand than others, and mostly absent from Linton’s “explanations” are North Korea’s suffocating repression, its hellish concentration camps, and of greatest relevance for Linton’s work, its culpable misallocation of food which, according to various estimates, killed between half a million and three and a half million people.  Like other defenders of the regime, Linton views sanctions in a vacuum, without mentioning the acts of terrorism and proliferation that led to them, its stubborn refusal to convincingly renounce those methods, or its compulsion for turning plowshares into thrust-vector nozzles.  Is nothing Kim Jong Il’s fault?  If so, Linton isn’t saying. [...] [...] Some policies, of course, are easier to understand than others, and mostly absent from Linton’s “explanations” are North Korea’s suffocating repression, its hellish concentration camps, and of greatest relevance for Linton’s work, its culpable misallocation of food which, according to various estimates, killed between half a million and three and a half million people.  Like other defenders of the regime, Linton views sanctions in a vacuum, without mentioning the acts of terrorism and proliferation that led to them, its stubborn refusal to convincingly renounce those methods, or its compulsion for turning plowshares into thrust-vector nozzles.  Is nothing Kim Jong Il’s fault?  If so, Linton isn’t saying. [...]

]]> http://freekorea.us/2007/04/25/north-koreas-sponsorship-of-terrorists-acts-1996-2007/comment-page-1/#comment-54854 OneFreeKorea » Define “All” Wed, 03 Oct 2007 11:57:14 +0000 http://freekorea.us/2007/04/25/north-koreas-sponsorship-of-terrorists-acts-1996-2007/#comment-54854 [...] *  In Congress, members from both parties have introduced a bill that seeks to force North Korea to account for some specific terrorist links and acts before it can be removed from the list of state sponsors of terrorism.  A reader was kind enough to forward the full text of the bill.  It contains some fairly shocking assertions, including claims of links between North Korea and Hezbollah.  One of the bill’s conditions is the release of the Rev. Kim Dong Shik, whom North Korean agents kidnapped in China in 2002 while he was assisting North Korean refugees.  In his new book, Andrei Lankov claims that Rev. Kim died during interrogation, shortly after the North Koreans abducted him.  Let’s hope this bill does better than previous efforts.   [...] [...] *  In Congress, members from both parties have introduced a bill that seeks to force North Korea to account for some specific terrorist links and acts before it can be removed from the list of state sponsors of terrorism.  A reader was kind enough to forward the full text of the bill.  It contains some fairly shocking assertions, including claims of links between North Korea and Hezbollah.  One of the bill’s conditions is the release of the Rev. Kim Dong Shik, whom North Korean agents kidnapped in China in 2002 while he was assisting North Korean refugees.  In his new book, Andrei Lankov claims that Rev. Kim died during interrogation, shortly after the North Koreans abducted him.  Let’s hope this bill does better than previous efforts.   [...]

]]> http://freekorea.us/2007/04/25/north-koreas-sponsorship-of-terrorists-acts-1996-2007/comment-page-1/#comment-54416 OneFreeKorea » We must be smoking what they’re growing Thu, 20 Sep 2007 12:28:21 +0000 http://freekorea.us/2007/04/25/north-koreas-sponsorship-of-terrorists-acts-1996-2007/#comment-54416 [...] To say that North Korea is not producing and pushing drugs when all of the evidence we have suggests that it is is quite simply a lie — a dirty, expedient, political lie that only shows Pyongyang that we will embrace its lies as our own.  It rewards crime and mendacity, and thus invites more of it.  Does this bode well for an honest process of disarmament?  Or, for that matter, our national drug policy?  The Administration is simply playing politics with the inconvenient fact of North Korea’s dope dealing, the same way it played politics with its money laundering, the same way it played politics with its illegal arms dealing, the same way it wants to play politics with the list of state sponsors of terrorism.  Each case demonstrates a new low in disregard for law and truth for the sake of a dubious objective.  There are even signs we’re willing to ignore just the latest exposure of North Korea’s proliferation.  So just how thorough does anyone suppose our inspection and verification regime will be?  [...] [...] To say that North Korea is not producing and pushing drugs when all of the evidence we have suggests that it is is quite simply a lie — a dirty, expedient, political lie that only shows Pyongyang that we will embrace its lies as our own.  It rewards crime and mendacity, and thus invites more of it.  Does this bode well for an honest process of disarmament?  Or, for that matter, our national drug policy?  The Administration is simply playing politics with the inconvenient fact of North Korea’s dope dealing, the same way it played politics with its money laundering, the same way it played politics with its illegal arms dealing, the same way it wants to play politics with the list of state sponsors of terrorism.  Each case demonstrates a new low in disregard for law and truth for the sake of a dubious objective.  There are even signs we’re willing to ignore just the latest exposure of North Korea’s proliferation.  So just how thorough does anyone suppose our inspection and verification regime will be?  [...]

]]> http://freekorea.us/2007/04/25/north-koreas-sponsorship-of-terrorists-acts-1996-2007/comment-page-1/#comment-46938 OneFreeKorea » FTA Annex Could Allow Kaesong Imports Wed, 13 Jun 2007 04:59:50 +0000 http://freekorea.us/2007/04/25/north-koreas-sponsorship-of-terrorists-acts-1996-2007/#comment-46938 [...] Just like the sleight-of-hand in this year’s terrorism report, State has airbrushed that concern out of this year’s report, which was just issued today.  [...] [...] Just like the sleight-of-hand in this year’s terrorism report, State has airbrushed that concern out of this year’s report, which was just issued today.  [...]

]]> http://freekorea.us/2007/04/25/north-koreas-sponsorship-of-terrorists-acts-1996-2007/comment-page-1/#comment-42653 OneFreeKorea » Anju Links for 1 May 2007 Tue, 01 May 2007 11:38:09 +0000 http://freekorea.us/2007/04/25/north-koreas-sponsorship-of-terrorists-acts-1996-2007/#comment-42653 [...] *  Appeasing Terror:  The good news is that State’s new terror list is out, North Korea is still on it, and I have more time to produce my promised update to this post.  The bad news:  the section on North Korea has much of its content stripped out, particularly that relating to Japanese abductees, a subject North Korea refuses to even discuss.  In other words, State’s movement toward meeting North Korea’s demands is still independent of any compliance or good faith on North Korea’s part (and both are completely absent).  Curiously, family members of Japanese abductees recently met State Department officials and reported receiving “solid responses” that North Korea would not be removed from the list (they don’t know our State Department).  South Korea is telling Japan to drop the subject, yet South Korea’s approach to retrieving its own abductees from North Korea isn’t getting anywhere, either.  Some people are just incorrigible, and people who are pliable tend to have trouble accepting that. [...] [...] *  Appeasing Terror:  The good news is that State’s new terror list is out, North Korea is still on it, and I have more time to produce my promised update to this post.  The bad news:  the section on North Korea has much of its content stripped out, particularly that relating to Japanese abductees, a subject North Korea refuses to even discuss.  In other words, State’s movement toward meeting North Korea’s demands is still independent of any compliance or good faith on North Korea’s part (and both are completely absent).  Curiously, family members of Japanese abductees recently met State Department officials and reported receiving “solid responses” that North Korea would not be removed from the list (they don’t know our State Department).  South Korea is telling Japan to drop the subject, yet South Korea’s approach to retrieving its own abductees from North Korea isn’t getting anywhere, either.  Some people are just incorrigible, and people who are pliable tend to have trouble accepting that. [...]

]]> http://freekorea.us/2007/04/25/north-koreas-sponsorship-of-terrorists-acts-1996-2007/comment-page-1/#comment-41629 OneFreeKorea » Anju Links for 26 April: Who’s Afraid of Victor Cha, and the Sexual Psychology of Military Parades Thu, 26 Apr 2007 21:55:38 +0000 http://freekorea.us/2007/04/25/north-koreas-sponsorship-of-terrorists-acts-1996-2007/#comment-41629 [...] *  Speaking of North Korea and terrorism, the Chosun Ilbo picks up a story about the sole North Korean survivor of the Rangoon bombing plot that killed 21 people, including four South Korean officials, on October 9, 1983.  The bombing was carried out on Kim Jong Il’s personal orders, something we presumably learn from Kang Min-Chul, who saved his own life by talking under Burmese interrogation.  For that reason, Kang can’t go back to North Korea, yet South Korea — you guessed it — won’t take him either: In a meeting with South Korean officials, Kang apologized for his actions and expressed hope to settle in the South. Former governments considered bringing Kang to Seoul, but the current government is reluctant, according to National Intelligence Service Director Kim Man-bok. In his parliamentary confirmation hearing on Nov. 20 last year, Kim said North Korea had argued that Seoul was behind the bombing and might be handed an opportunity to say, “I told you so” if Kang comes to the South. [Chosun Ilbo] [...] [...] *  Speaking of North Korea and terrorism, the Chosun Ilbo picks up a story about the sole North Korean survivor of the Rangoon bombing plot that killed 21 people, including four South Korean officials, on October 9, 1983.  The bombing was carried out on Kim Jong Il’s personal orders, something we presumably learn from Kang Min-Chul, who saved his own life by talking under Burmese interrogation.  For that reason, Kang can’t go back to North Korea, yet South Korea — you guessed it — won’t take him either: In a meeting with South Korean officials, Kang apologized for his actions and expressed hope to settle in the South. Former governments considered bringing Kang to Seoul, but the current government is reluctant, according to National Intelligence Service Director Kim Man-bok. In his parliamentary confirmation hearing on Nov. 20 last year, Kim said North Korea had argued that Seoul was behind the bombing and might be handed an opportunity to say, “I told you so” if Kang comes to the South. [Chosun Ilbo] [...]

]]> http://freekorea.us/2007/04/25/north-koreas-sponsorship-of-terrorists-acts-1996-2007/comment-page-1/#comment-41384 A Second Hand Conjecture » News Brief, I Want to Be Your Sledgehammer Edition Wed, 25 Apr 2007 21:46:45 +0000 http://freekorea.us/2007/04/25/north-koreas-sponsorship-of-terrorists-acts-1996-2007/#comment-41384 [...] About 400 North Koreans, 80% of them women, are on hunger strike in Thailand to avoid being forced back to North Korea. Returned escapees are often tortured to death in the prison camps. The South doesn’t know what the prudent move is, but the right move is to save these people from certain murder. Meanwhile, North Korea continues to sponsor terrorism. [...] [...] About 400 North Koreans, 80% of them women, are on hunger strike in Thailand to avoid being forced back to North Korea. Returned escapees are often tortured to death in the prison camps. The South doesn’t know what the prudent move is, but the right move is to save these people from certain murder. Meanwhile, North Korea continues to sponsor terrorism. [...]

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