Monthly Archive: October, 2005

The short answer is that I don’t know, and I probably never will know. What’s more, I haven’t seen the tape–Daily NK says it won’t be broadcast until mid-October–so I’m mostly going on what I’ve seen of the stills. I’ve had suspicions about the authenticity of the video (you can see a montage here), allegedly depicting the torture of a repatriated North Korean refugee woman, since it first emerged. I summarized these suspicions in an e-mail to Life Funds for...

North Korea’s recent move to end foreign food aid threatens a Great Famine of 2006, but the move comes too late to evade the attention of the world, which means that this time, nations of the world may actually insist that the hungry are fed. The movement to bring world attention to North Korea’s treatment of its own people may have matured just in time to matter. It coalesced on April 28, 2004 and attained its political bona fides with...