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Good bye, for a while

To all of the regular and not-so-regular OFK readers–

Thank you for your regular visits, comments, criticisms, and interest over the last nine years. This morning, I begin work on an important project that is incompatible with continued posting, so I must suspend posting for a few months. That won’t be easy for me. This site had become an outlet for recreational thinking, and for beliefs I hold strongly. It had also become a part of my daily mental equilibrium (I’m prone to bouts of crankiness when I don’t post). I expect, like a few of you, I’ll go through a period of withdrawal, but the hiatus isn’t permanent. I’ll be back in August.

No, this is not an April Fool’s joke.

Until then, I’ll leave this post as a moderated open thread for all of you to carry on the conversation among yourselves. Fortunately, the list of terrific North Korea blogs has grown in recent years, and if you continue to check back here by sheer force of habit, you’ll see updates to some of the best of these in my sidebar feed. Finally, if you agree that some of issues, particularly human rights issues, deserve greater attention, then by all means start your own blog, write a Wikipedia page in English or in another language, join LiNK, or contribute to the Committee for Human Rights in North Korea or the North Korean Freedom Coalition.

Good bye for a while, stay safe, and keep the people of North Korea in your thoughts. They need you.

60 Responses

  1. I hope Joshua’s project is going well. Meanwhile, who can tell me whether Obama violated his oath of office by getting the AP’s phone records, or he would have violated it by failing to investigate a leak from a terrorism investigation?

  2. One of China’s generals is now saying the Ryukyuan islands don’t belong to the Japanese.

    I’m sure we can expect this same level of diplomatic respect for sovereignty from them vis-a-vis the Korean peninsula.

  3. This site is heart-wrenching and critical to Western comprehension of North Korea. I want you to know what a personal impact you have made. I am a former newspaper editor, and I don’t plan to sit idle, having seen the information you have amassed. I’m trying to figure out what my next step should be — thank you for raising my consciousness.

    Laura

  4. Sippenhaft! Representative Tom Cotton proposed an amendment to the Nuclear Iran Prevention Act of 2013. Relatives of evil Iranians would be punished, “to include a spouse and any relative to the third degree,” including, “parents, children, aunts, uncles, nephews, nieces, grandparents, great grandparents, grandkids, great grandkids.”

    “There would be no investigation,” Cotton said during Wednesday’s markup hearing before the House Foreign Affairs Committee. “If the prime malefactor of the family is identified as on the list for sanctions, then everyone within their family would automatically come within the sanctions regime as well.”

    Alan Grayson was shocked, and Ed Royce got Cotton to withdraw his amendment. Maybe he’ll tweak it.

    Zach Carter reports for Huffington Post.

  7. Adam, thanks for the kibbles. Still have this page open every day and am counting down til August.

  8. Adam, the KCNA story clearly denies that Kim Jongun shared “My Struggle” with his associates. If you can prove that he did, you’ll have caught them in a big lie.

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