Search Results for: The Forked Tongue of Lee Jong Seok

You’ve probably already forgotten him, but the man who once sustained Kim Jong Il’s centrifuge fund the North Korean people with trainloads of cash so recently is now trying to make the transition to scholar and elder statesman. In the course of doing so, he reveals a rather obvious fact -that North Korea’s per capita annual income is fact much lower than the official Bank of Korea estimate, $1,100. The real figure is probably closer to $400, putting North Korea...

Today, the Chosun Ilbo helps us to peel away the myth of unmonitored “humanitarian” aid to North Korea. The aid wasn’t going to the people who needed it the most, and Roh’s government knew it all along. South Korean military authorities have known since 2003, when the Roh Moo-hyun administration was inaugurated, that North Korea has transported rice supplied by the South for humanitarian purposes to frontline units of the North Korean Army. The South Korean military has admitted it...