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Anju Links for 22 April 2008

ANOTHER GOOGLE EARTH MYSTERY: In the two days following my publication of this post on North Korea’s construction of a suspected underground runway, the same site has also been discovered by the Voice of America and Yonhap. Thanks a million for reading, guys. I’d thank you two million for a little attribution or a link….

IS KOREA’S LEFT MOVING TOWARD THE CENTER? Well, there’s a lot less room under the tent these days. By the way, the picture accompanying the Hankyoreh’s report has to be one of the most exploitive photo-ops I’ve ever seen.

TWO SOUTH KOREANS ARE REFUSING to carry the Olympic torch for the ChiComs … because of Tibet. That’s one of several perfectly fine reasons, but can they think of no other reason that’s closer to home, but perhaps less fashionable?

BORROWING A TACTIC FROM RADICAL ISLAM, the Chinese are staging anti-French demonstrations to try to intimidate their critics to silence. As with radical Muslim rage, ChiCom nationalist rage is probably both sincere and carefully manipulated. And given the significant inroads radical Muslim  intolerance is making against free speech in the free world, it’s only sensible that China would  also learn to leverage our own intellectual weakness against us.

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  1. I found it interesting in the news this week that both ex-Pres. Kim Dae Jung and ex-spy Kim Ki-Sam are visiting the United States.

    That wasn’t terribly interesting, but the fact that Ki-Sam’s itenerari included participation in a North Korea Human Rights event and Pres. Kim’s did not was fairly interesting to me — especially the irony of the Nobel Peace Prize’s connection to both men.

    (I believe Kim Dae Jung deserved the prize for his years of struggle in the democracy movement in South Korea, but he tainted it greatly with the buying of the Summit.)