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There are some things that should be too obvious to be missed by nearly everyone, and here is one of them:  the only villains of the Afghan hostage crisis are the Taliban.  It may be human nature to seek out demons, heroes, and martyrs, including phantom ones.  South Korea’s masters of public manipulation have certainly offered the South Korean people a wide choice of villains, and that  choice occasionally even includes the Taliban.  As for heroes, I certainly don’t see...

Reporteurs Sans Frontieres has published a new handbook for bloggers and cyber-dissidents, published at its Web site.

I started compiling a list of all the pundits, who, unlike me, are paid to write for expensive newspapers, and who, unlike me, had actually drawn lessons from the North Korean nuclear “breakthrough” that proved erroneous somewhere between the time of writing and time of publication. Inexplicably, none of the examples listed here had the decency to simply acknowledge that the foundation facts were so obliterated as to require pulling the flawed analyses out of simple decency to the readers....

Asked about their preferences for the next president, 30 percent said they support former Prime Minister Goh Kun, while 16 percent backed Grand National Party chairwoman Park Geun-hye. Seoul Mayor Lee Myung-Bak and Unification Minister Chung Dong-young were third and fourth on the list with 15 percent and 10 percent, respectively. (emphasis mine) —The Joongang Ilbo, August 24, 2005 The Grand National Party’s top two contenders for the presidency both owe much to the legacy of Park Chung-Hee. If Ms....

Korean nationalism appears to have taken its toll in Japan, too. According to the blog rankings, Japanese bloggers are in no mood for reconciliation. And despite the popularity of all things Korean in Japan, the so-called Kan-ryuu, or Korean Wave, many bloggers are taking aim at Korea. Choose (what you believe) Carefully! Information on Korea is the sixth most popular blog in Japan right now, according to Ninki Blog Ranking, and bills itself as an antidote for the Japanese “mass...

From the Chosun Ilbo: A defense expert warned Thursday that North Korea’s small army of computer hackers has capacity equal that of the U.S. CIA. He said North Korea also operates some 39 bugging and surveillance posts from where it eavesdrops on communication and signals from all across South Korea. . . . . In a lecture on Defense Ministry responses to information warfare, Byeon said, “Simulations on North Korea’s information warfare capabilities reveal that Pyongyang could damage the command...

From the Chosun Ilbo: A defense expert warned Thursday that North Korea’s small army of computer hackers has capacity equal that of the U.S. CIA. He said North Korea also operates some 39 bugging and surveillance posts from where it eavesdrops on communication and signals from all across South Korea. . . . . In a lecture on Defense Ministry responses to information warfare, Byeon said, “Simulations on North Korea’s information warfare capabilities reveal that Pyongyang could damage the command...

Notwithstanding the government’s best efforts, there has been an explosion of blogs in China, many of them talking about corruption. UPDATE: From NKZone’s own Rebecca MacKinnon, we learn that some Chinese are protesting the closing of a popular BBS.

Notwithstanding the government’s best efforts, there has been an explosion of blogs in China, many of them talking about corruption. UPDATE: From NKZone’s own Rebecca MacKinnon, we learn that some Chinese are protesting the closing of a popular BBS.

The gentle, tolerant climate that gave us the English-spectrum lynch mob is at it again. You may have thought that Korea’s “netizens” and Map Police were just a nonspecific group of twitchy nationalist asshats with DSL and too much time on their hands, but they prefer to be called “cyber diplomats.” They also have a great name–VANK. Most recently, these particular VANKers punked the British Museum for failing to completely reflect their own parochial, stilted, and (one suspects) deeply insecure...

The gentle, tolerant climate that gave us the English-spectrum lynch mob is at it again. You may have thought that Korea’s “netizens” and Map Police were just a nonspecific group of twitchy nationalist asshats with DSL and too much time on their hands, but they prefer to be called “cyber diplomats.” They also have a great name–VANK. Most recently, these particular VANKers punked the British Museum for failing to completely reflect their own parochial, stilted, and (one suspects) deeply insecure...