November 2009 – Page 4

November 4, 2009

Christine Ahn: Above Criticism! (Or, “Help! Help! I’m Being Repressed!”)

Christine Ahn is feeling picked on, reports the Oakland East Bay Express, an alt-lefty rag with a room-temperature circulation. Writer Kathleen Wentz informs us that Ms. Ahn guards the privacy of her views jealously when she’s not on CNN, a book tour, the lecture circuit, or hectoring congressional staffers: As a longtime peace activist and progressive, Christine Ahn was used to being on the ideological fringe. But even she wasn’t prepared to be red-baited and called a supporter of dictatorship....

Media Criticism/Useful Idiocy

November 4, 2009

4 November 2009

HOPE, CHANGE, AND PEACE IN OUR TIME: Kim Jong Il announces that he’s reprocessed another 8,000 fuel rods, enough to make at least one more bomb. Thank goodness Chris Hill came along in time to end this d*ck-measuring contest with the give-and-take of compromise. Thank goodness our president isn’t afraid to talk to his enemies. Now please send Philip Goldberg to freeze the bank accounts of Orascom, Koryo Tours, and the Korean Friendship Association. CYBER ATTACKS UPDATE: After some doubts,...

Anju Links

November 3, 2009

Ban Ki Moon Is to Human Rights What Roman Polanski Is to Child Welfare

It was a horror that came from within, that consumed and devastated entire communities and families. It was a horror that left you as survivors of a trauma which to the world beyond your borders was unimaginable, even though we all now know it happened.We will not pretend to know how you must overcome the unimaginable. We can only offer, in humility, the hope and the prayer that you will overcome — and the pledge that we stand prepared to...

"United" Nations/Human Rights

November 2, 2009

At the New Ledger: Sowing the Seeds of Self-Government in North Korea

Because once you do the math, no one can govern post-Kim North Korea without the consent of the governed. There are now 17,000 North Koreans living in the South. Who is training them to play a leading role in governing and rebuilding their homeland?

Reconstruction

November 2, 2009

Yongbyon Reprocessing Plant “Restored to Its Earlier Conditions”

Who remembers the heyday of Agreed Framework II, when the foreign policy establishment united to educate the hoi polloi about all of the great unfolding achievements of diplomacy with the North Koreans? They told us that North Korea was removing fuel rods and dismantling in earnest. Siegfried Hecker went to Yongbyon and returned to report, with a few qualifications, that “the DPRK leadership has made the decision to permanently shut down plutonium production” and that “the disablement actions taken to...

Appeasement/Diplomacy/WMD

Monthly Archive: November, 2009

Christine Ahn: Above Criticism! (Or, “Help! Help! I’m Being Repressed!”)

4 November 2009

Ban Ki Moon Is to Human Rights What Roman Polanski Is to Child Welfare

At the New Ledger: Sowing the Seeds of Self-Government in North Korea

Yongbyon Reprocessing Plant “Restored to Its Earlier Conditions”