If South Korea’s National Assembly can’t pass a North Korean human rights law now, I doubt there will be another opportunity anytime soon. But not surprisingly, the Workers’ Party, south Chosun Branch Democratic Party remains opposed, leading to this wonderfully expressive quote from Nam Sung Wook of the Institute for National Security Strategy: Therefore, he asserted, “Hoping to pass the North Korean Human Rights Law by the mutual consent of both opposition and ruling parties is the same as looking...

South Korea fires shots at a North Korean fishing boat near the NLL. ________________________ Kim Jong Nam predicts that the North Korean regime will collapse “soon.” ________________________ Our airborne laser system hasn’t been doing well in recent tests, but Japan has carried out a successful missile interception test. ________________________ Some observations on Kim Jong-Eun, from his former dietitian, Kenji Fujimoto: Added Fujimoto: “His chubby appearance is probably from eating a lot. In North Korea, those with power at the top...

The admiral in charge of Pacific Command calls on North Korea not to test another nuke. Personally, I hope the North Koreans test one. It’s one less they can use in an actual weapon, and it’s great for my traffic. Bonus points if the test a uranium bomb, since that will make plenty of the right people look really stupid. ____________________________ Selig Harrison call your office: Reuters has published a devastating chronology of all of the retrograde, statist, anti-reform confiscations...

Why does Marxist criticism seem to apply so much better to North Korea than to, you know, capitalist societies? To the Gypsy Scholar’s observation, I’d like to add this example: Wovon Lebt Der Mensch. It plays during the opening credits of The Threepenny Opera, a blunt instrument of 1920’s German Communist propaganda whose Brecht-Weill score still contained some good gritty, gripping songs that have outlasted the film. ___________________________ In the op-ed pages of Wall Street Journal, Melanie Kirkpatrick reports on...