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My deepest thanks to Nicholas Eberstadt of the American Enterprise Institute for agreeing to a telephone interview. Eberstadt is one of Washington’s most highly regarded Korea experts. The interview ended up lasting a full hour. Nothing has been edited out, although I missed a word here and there because I’m not a stenographer. Still, this is pretty close to a verbatim transcript; Nick Eberstadt is one of those rare individuals who speaks in complete sentences. All comments in brackets and...

My deepest thanks to Nicholas Eberstadt of the American Enterprise Institute for agreeing to a telephone interview for OFK readers. Eberstadt is one of Washington’s most highly regarded Korea experts. The interview ended up lasting a full hour. Nothing has been edited out save one abortive “I don’t know” answer, although I may have I missed a few words because I’m no stenographer. Still, this is pretty close to a verbatim transcript. Nick Eberstadt is one of those rare individuals...

Won Joon Choe kindly forwarded the following essay, which was published in The Wall Street Journal just before the Roh-Bush meeting at the White House. Because it mainly deals with long-term trends in the alliance, I don’t consider it dated. Obviously, I don’t agree with everything Won Joon says, but he makes his case thoughtfully and cogently. The Wall Street Journal June 10, 2005 COMMENTARY The Decay of the U.S.- South Korean Alliance By WON JOON CHOE June 10, 2005...

Won Joon Choe kindly forwarded the following essay, which was published in The Wall Street Journal just before the Roh-Bush meeting at the White House. Because it mainly deals with long-term trends in the alliance, I don’t consider it dated. Obviously, I don’t agree with everything Won Joon says, but he makes his case thoughtfully and cogently. The Wall Street Journal June 10, 2005 COMMENTARY The Decay of the U.S.- South Korean Alliance By WON JOON CHOE June 10, 2005...

Thanks to all of those who e-mailed me links to interesting stories recently. I’ll have to do a carnival-type group posting to discuss all of them. Your contributions, comments, and yes, corrections make this site infintely better than it would be without you. Adrian Hong in The Korea Times Adrian Hong of LiNK forwarded this letter he wrote to the Korea Times. I’m printing every word: I refer to a July 6 article on Page 19 of The Korea Herald...

Disturbing reports of a dramatically worsening famine continue to filter out of North Korea, notwithstanding the regime’s Maoist mobilization of schoolchildren and office workers to the countryside. It’s not working, according to South Korean agricultural expert Kang Jong-Man, via the L.A. Times: The rice paddies are thin and uneven. Potato plants are pale and stunted. The fields are not properly graded. Barley still on the stalks should have been harvested weeks ago so that the same fields could be used...

During our own Civil War, General Winfield Scott and Secretary of War Edwin Stanton, the Rumsfeld of his time devised an economic blockade that may have been more decisive to the Confederacy’s defeat than Gettysburg. They called it the Anaconda Plan for its stated goal of constricting the South until it could no longer breathe. The L.A. Times (free subscription required), via Barbara Demick, now reports that the Bush Administration is laying the groundwork for “other options” if the talks...

During our own Civil War, General Winfield Scott and Secretary of War Edwin Stanton, the Rumsfeld of his time devised an economic blockade that may have been more decisive to the Confederacy’s defeat than Gettysburg. They called it the Anaconda Plan for its stated goal of constricting the South until it could no longer breathe. The L.A. Times (free subscription required), via Barbara Demick, now reports that the Bush Administration is laying the groundwork for “other options” if the talks...

During our own Civil War, General Winfield Scott and Secretary of War Edwin Stanton, the Rumsfeld of his time devised an economic blockade that may have been more decisive to the Confederacy’s defeat than Gettysburg. They called it the Anaconda Plan for its stated goal of constricting the South until it could no longer breathe. The L.A. Times (free subscription required), via Barbara Demick, now reports that the Bush Administration is laying the groundwork for “other options” if the talks...

I’ve finally brought myself to say something about the South Korean left’s A.N.S.W.E.R. to human rights activism for North Korea. The central plank of the platform is opposing human rights: Speaking at the National Human Rights Commission-sponsored “North Korean Human Rights Symposium,” held on Dec. 1 at Kyungnam University’s Institute for Far Eastern Studies, Food First Economic and Social Human Rights Program Coordinator Christine Ahn said, “The current discussion on North Korean human rights is completely focused on the narrow...

I’ve finally brought myself to say something about the South Korean left’s A.N.S.W.E.R. to human rights activism for North Korea. The central plank of the platform is opposing human rights: Speaking at the National Human Rights Commission-sponsored “North Korean Human Rights Symposium,” held on Dec. 1 at Kyungnam University’s Institute for Far Eastern Studies, Food First Economic and Social Human Rights Program Coordinator Christine Ahn said, “The current discussion on North Korean human rights is completely focused on the narrow...

I’ve finally brought myself to say something about the South Korean left’s A.N.S.W.E.R. to human rights activism for North Korea. The central plank of the platform is opposing human rights: Speaking at the National Human Rights Commission-sponsored “North Korean Human Rights Symposium,” held on Dec. 1 at Kyungnam University’s Institute for Far Eastern Studies, Food First Economic and Social Human Rights Program Coordinator Christine Ahn said, “The current discussion on North Korean human rights is completely focused on the narrow...

Here is today’s list of unsubstantiated rumors and CIA disinformation about North Korea. Always happy to pass those along, in addition to chucking a little more gasoline onto the stove burners. First entry: In a sign of investor concern about North Korea, rumors swirled in financial markets in Tokyo and Seoul that leader Kim Jong-il had been shot dead. But a diplomat in Pyongyang said nothing out of the ordinary seemed to be happening, a view shared by a Japanese...

Just one week after the reelection of President Bush, Japan is moving toward a much harder line that threatens to isolate North Korea economically and South Korea diplomatically. Today’s Yomiuri Shimbun directly quotes Japan’s Foreign Minister threatening to impose sanctions against North Korea: In a meeting with South Korean President Roh Moo Hyun on Saturday in Seoul, Foreign Minister Nobutaka Machimura suggested he was considering measures to put pressure on North Korea, including economic sanctions, if there was no progress...