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Welcome to the Carnival of the Revolutions edition for August 29th. Hosting next week’s edition (Sept. 5) will be Thinking-East; next up (Sept. 12) is Quid Nimis. Updates added, typos fixed. East Asia and the Pacific Rim Burma: Did the government’s army use chemical weapons against Karen rebels earlier this year? The Jubilee Campaign, a Christian human rights NGO, prints an editorial by Lord David Alton, a member of the British House of Lords. Publius reports on new rumors of...

Rebecca MacKinnon is calling “horseshit” on Microsoft’s (admitted) abetting of Chinese censorship: I lived in China for nine years straight as a journalist, and if you add up other times I’ve lived there it comes to nearly 12. I don’t know what students and professors Scoble met with, and what context he met them in. But to state that Chinese students and professors have an “anti-free-speech stance” is the biggest pile of horseshit about China I’ve come across in quite...

Rebecca MacKinnon is calling “horseshit” on Microsoft’s (admitted) abetting of Chinese censorship: I lived in China for nine years straight as a journalist, and if you add up other times I’ve lived there it comes to nearly 12. I don’t know what students and professors Scoble met with, and what context he met them in. But to state that Chinese students and professors have an “anti-free-speech stance” is the biggest pile of horseshit about China I’ve come across in quite...

According to this comment, I’m now blocked by some ISP’s in Korea. Readers, what say you? Those thumbdicks at the MIC are sure going to be pissed when they find out that DailyNK is going to start publishing my stuff . . . in Korean. UPDATE, 6/8: The evidence that I’ve been blocked isn’t conclusive, in my mind, until I get more verification. I’d like to have that while Roh is still in town. Meanwhile, I’m chewing on the irony...

According to this comment, I’m now blocked by some ISP’s in Korea. Readers, what say you? Those thumbdicks at the MIC are sure going to be pissed when they find out that DailyNK is going to start publishing my stuff . . . in Korean. UPDATE, 6/8: The evidence that I’ve been blocked isn’t conclusive, in my mind, until I get more verification. I’d like to have that while Roh is still in town. Meanwhile, I’m chewing on the irony...

Newsweek has discovered another desecration outrage. This one is intentional, premeditated, and confirmed, and will result in no riots, bans, or arrests . . . nor should it. Predictably, however, some will denounce us for censorship for making public note of our decision not to hand our money over to the people who produce this dreck.

Newsweek has discovered another desecration outrage. This one is intentional, premeditated, and confirmed, and will result in no riots, bans, or arrests . . . nor should it. Predictably, however, some will denounce us for censorship for making public note of our decision not to hand our money over to the people who produce this dreck.

The 2002 candlight vigils were an exploitation of a terrible accident and two deaths for a repulsive political purpose. They harnessed racism, nationalism, hate, and xenophobia, goose-stepped in formation with mendacity, incitement to violence, the celebration of murder, and profaniganda, and were an effort to use the accidental deaths of two to shield the premeditating murderers of two million. This, the Korean ambassador to the U.S. assures us, was not anti-Americanism. The ambassador is a liar, but that alone doesn’t...

The 2002 candlight vigils were an exploitation of a terrible accident and two deaths for a repulsive political purpose. They harnessed racism, nationalism, hate, and xenophobia, goose-stepped in formation with mendacity, incitement to violence, the celebration of murder, and profaniganda, and were an effort to use the accidental deaths of two to shield the premeditating murderers of two million. This, the Korean ambassador to the U.S. assures us, was not anti-Americanism. The ambassador is a liar, but that alone doesn’t...

More Troubling Suppression of “Offensive” Political Speech. This time, apparently, the censorship is from–on the paternalistic behalf of–the right. The Chosun Ilbo gets it, right, too. Is it at least possible that this kind of censorship validates the false outrage of Koreans on both extremes (here, here, and here), even when they’re really reacting to what might be mainstream political expression elsewhere? Add “tolerance” and “a sense of humor” to Korea’s list of pressing needs.

More Troubling Suppression of “Offensive” Political Speech. This time, apparently, the censorship is from–on the paternalistic behalf of–the right. The Chosun Ilbo gets it, right, too. Is it at least possible that this kind of censorship validates the false outrage of Koreans on both extremes (here, here, and here), even when they’re really reacting to what might be mainstream political expression elsewhere? Add “tolerance” and “a sense of humor” to Korea’s list of pressing needs.

Maybe you’ve heard of the “Korean wave” that hit Japan recently. Apparently, so have many North Koreans, and the Dear Leader–or whoever is running things up there these days–doesn’t approve. Note that the reporter is none other than North Korean defector Kang Chol-Hwan: A former high-ranking official who recently entered South Korea as a defector said, “These days, among young North Koreans, South Korean culture is rapidly spreading. . . .” An ex-government official of the North who recently visited...

Maybe you’ve heard of the “Korean wave” that hit Japan recently. Apparently, so have many North Koreans, and the Dear Leader–or whoever is running things up there these days–doesn’t approve. Note that the reporter is none other than North Korean defector Kang Chol-Hwan: A former high-ranking official who recently entered South Korea as a defector said, “These days, among young North Koreans, South Korean culture is rapidly spreading. . . .” An ex-government official of the North who recently visited...

It’s Norbert Vollertsen and his chief U.S. ally, Michael Horowitz of the Hudson Institute (in Seoul until the 11th) against Roh Moo-Hyun this week. That may have been what inspired Roh to lash out at “hard-liners” yesterday. Fresh from staring down the Pusan Migra, he has his eye-poking finger unsheathed, calling his next activities “tourist information.” He even says he’ll bring “tourist” photos of North Korea plus more newsworthy antics that seem to beg the South Koreans to deport him...

It’s Norbert Vollertsen and his chief U.S. ally, Michael Horowitz of the Hudson Institute (in Seoul until the 11th) against Roh Moo-Hyun this week. That may have been what inspired Roh to lash out at “hard-liners” yesterday. Fresh from staring down the Pusan Migra, he has his eye-poking finger unsheathed, calling his next activities “tourist information.” He even says he’ll bring “tourist” photos of North Korea plus more newsworthy antics that seem to beg the South Koreans to deport him...

I will print the nearly unedited correspondence between Rev. Douglas Shin and Dr. Vollertsen for you to add to your own mix of information. Clearly, however, the South Korean government is desperately worried that the nascent North Korean human rights movement has cost South Korea needed international support for its appeasement policy. It looks like that desperation has led them to the verge of what is either a colossal blunder or an ill-conceived bluff–banning Norbert Vollertsen from Korea. Here’s the...

I will print the nearly unedited correspondence between Rev. Douglas Shin and Dr. Vollertsen for you to add to your own mix of information. Clearly, however, the South Korean government is desperately worried that the nascent North Korean human rights movement has cost South Korea needed international support for its appeasement policy. It looks like that desperation has led them to the verge of what is either a colossal blunder or an ill-conceived bluff–banning Norbert Vollertsen from Korea. Here’s the...