Suzanne Scholte, President of the North Korean Freedom Coalition, has just reported that the North Korean Human Rights Act has passed the House unanimously. To everyone who supported this, my deepest thanks. I have personally made a complete pest of myself to every member of Congress who has represented me for at least the past decade, in addition to having personally lobbied Sen. Lugar on April 28th. The Senate is next. One other note–the version passed in the House has...

Suzanne Scholte, President of the North Korean Freedom Coalition, has just reported that the North Korean Human Rights Act has passed the House unanimously. To everyone who supported this, my deepest thanks. I have personally made a complete pest of myself to every member of Congress who has represented me for at least the past decade, in addition to having personally lobbied Sen. Lugar on April 28th. The Senate is next. One other note–the version passed in the House has...

The House votes on the NKHRA this evening, in a few more hours. There’s still time to call.  Special thanks to The Marmot and Winds of Change for the links! Meanwhile, it looks like someone at the State Department wanted to give North Korea the chance to do a little lobbying of its own (warning:  safe for work but likely to induce vomiting).   Joachim von Ribbentrop was reportedly unavailable for comment.   But then, could any member of our Congress possibly be influenced by a ruthless dictator’s mouthpiece?...

The House votes on the NKHRA this evening, in a few more hours. There’s still time to call.  Special thanks to The Marmot and Winds of Change for the links! Meanwhile, it looks like someone at the State Department wanted to give North Korea the chance to do a little lobbying of its own (warning:  safe for work but likely to induce vomiting).   Joachim von Ribbentrop was reportedly unavailable for comment.   But then, could any member of our Congress possibly be influenced by a ruthless dictator’s mouthpiece?...

The Chosun Ilbo is reporting that Congress will vote on the North Korean Human Rights Act this week. No, this bill is not as strong as the original North Korean Freedom Act, but great things have small beginnings, and a strong response from voters can help build toward better things later. In brief, this bill does the following: 1. Increases funds to broadcast to North Korea for more hours every day, and to find ways to get tunable radios to...

The Chosun Ilbo is reporting that Congress will vote on the North Korean Human Rights Act this week. No, this bill is not as strong as the original North Korean Freedom Act, but great things have small beginnings, and a strong response from voters can help build toward better things later. In brief, this bill does the following: 1. Increases funds to broadcast to North Korea for more hours every day, and to find ways to get tunable radios to...

Check out the flag at 10 o’clock in this U.S. Postal Service promotion, stuck to the front door. Maybe I’m making a big deal out of nothing. Then again, we’re talking about a government that has a massive chain of concentration camps, and possibly even gas chambers. How would you react if you saw a swastika banner stuck to the door of your post office? Hon. Paul Sarbanes United States Senator Class I 309 Hart Senate Office Building Washington, DC...

Check out the flag at 10 o’clock in this U.S. Postal Service promotion, stuck to the front door. Maybe I’m making a big deal out of nothing. Then again, we’re talking about a government that has a massive chain of concentration camps, and possibly even gas chambers. How would you react if you saw a swastika banner stuck to the door of your post office? Hon. Paul Sarbanes United States Senator Class I 309 Hart Senate Office Building Washington, DC...

Check out the flag at 10 o’clock in this U.S. Postal Service promotion, stuck to the front door. Maybe I’m making a big deal out of nothing. Then again, we’re talking about a government that has a massive chain of concentration camps, and possibly even gas chambers. How would you react if you saw a swastika banner stuck to the door of your post office? Hon. Paul Sarbanes United States Senator Class I 309 Hart Senate Office Building Washington, DC...

OK, now this is just plain scary.  When people who are demonstrably spies not only dare to surface, but do so right in the middle of the very government they attempted to undermine, you have a very big problem.  You have an enormous problem when they have lawful authority to intimidate the news media and opposition politicians.    This is starting to look like a paranoid John Birch conspiracy come to life.  And after all, even paranoid people have enemies...

You don�t have to read pieces like this to know that Korea is in a funk . . . just call your Korean friends and family and ask them.  The economy is gloomy; the new transportation system is gloomy; the news is gloomy; even the weather is gloomy.    The mildly encouraging side of this, however, is the sense of political realism that lies beneath the xenophobic veneer.  Korea is beginning to realize that the American empire is voluntary, but...

It looks like Charles Robert Jenkins is about to defect again.  How?  I can only offer two guesses:    1.  It was part of the deal Koizumi made on his last visit to the Emerald City. 2.  Events spun out of North Korea�s control once he landed in Indonesia.   I rather think it was the former.  North Korea would never have let this guy leave the country and talk to his American family if it had the slightest expectation...

This is absolutely, positively, the funniest thing I have seen all year.  Even if you’re a Democrat. 

So they cleared him and then reprimanded him.  Nice to know that the U.N. is showing the principled consistency we�ve come to expect of them.  And after all, it was Ruud Lubbers, head of the UNHCR, who best exemplified those qualities when he gave China a total pass on North Korean refugees.    Whatever he did, I hope it gave him an outbreak of painful lesions, the spineless oxygen thief.

OK, now this is just plain scary.  When people who are demonstrably spies not only dare to surface, but do so right in the middle of the very government they attempted to undermine, you have a very big problem.  You have an enormous problem when they have lawful authority to intimidate the news media and opposition politicians.    This is starting to look like a paranoid John Birch conspiracy come to life.  And after all, even paranoid people have enemies...

You don�t have to read pieces like this to know that Korea is in a funk . . . just call your Korean friends and family and ask them.  The economy is gloomy; the new transportation system is gloomy; the news is gloomy; even the weather is gloomy.    The mildly encouraging side of this, however, is the sense of political realism that lies beneath the xenophobic veneer.  Korea is beginning to realize that the American empire is voluntary, but...

It looks like Charles Robert Jenkins is about to defect again.  How?  I can only offer two guesses:    1.  It was part of the deal Koizumi made on his last visit to the Emerald City. 2.  Events spun out of North Korea�s control once he landed in Indonesia.   I rather think it was the former.  North Korea would never have let this guy leave the country and talk to his American family if it had the slightest expectation...

This is absolutely, positively, the funniest thing I have seen all year.  Even if you’re a Democrat.