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Daily NK reports two items of interest today. The first is purportedly the text of the judgments against those executed and imprisoned by the North Korean authorities there. Although it accuses most of the condemned of trafficking in North Korean women, treat that characterization with extreme caution; putting a sexual taint on a dissenter is an old trick that China has used pretty shamelessly against Korean underground railroad activists. It could be true, too. But then, why add this language?...

Daily NK reports two items of interest today. The first is purportedly the text of the judgments against those executed and imprisoned by the North Korean authorities there. Although it accuses most of the condemned of trafficking in North Korean women, treat that characterization with extreme caution; putting a sexual taint on a dissenter is an old trick that China has used pretty shamelessly against Korean underground railroad activists. It could be true, too. But then, why add this language?...

Chosun Ilbo correspondent Kang Chol-Hwan has a disturbing new report on a North Korean crackdown on dissent and efforts to destroy evidence of the regime’s atrocities. Kang himself is a survivor of North Korea’s Yodok labor camp district, a complex of camps that covers a vast, remote area of northeaster North Korea. Kang was sent to Yodok while still in elementary school because of a political transgression by his grandfather. You can read the full story in his autobiography. The...

Greatness Comes from Goodness: The paleo-right in America, of which George W. Bush is a reformed member, never tired of expressing its derision for “nation-building,” questioning its value to U.S. interests and deriding the lives thus saved as so many drops in an ocean of misery. In fact, our nation-building exercises have not always been planned, accepted, and executed intelligently, but those that were saved thousands of lives. There simply isn’t another force on earth that can move and deliver...

Greatness Comes from Goodness: The paleo-right in America, of which George W. Bush is a reformed member, never tired of expressing its derision for “nation-building,” questioning its value to U.S. interests and deriding the lives thus saved as so many drops in an ocean of misery. In fact, our nation-building exercises have not always been planned, accepted, and executed intelligently, but those that were saved thousands of lives. There simply isn’t another force on earth that can move and deliver...

Today, a new report tells us how North Korea deals with those China sends back across the border: North Korea has executed about 70 refugees who were captured in China and sent home, a South Korean group that helps North Korean refugees said yesterday, citing informants in China. The Commission to Help North Korean Refugees, a private group in Seoul, said about eight or nine of the 70 executed last month were put to death in public to discourage others...

Today, a new report tells us how North Korea deals with those China sends back across the border: North Korea has executed about 70 refugees who were captured in China and sent home, a South Korean group that helps North Korean refugees said yesterday, citing informants in China. The Commission to Help North Korean Refugees, a private group in Seoul, said about eight or nine of the 70 executed last month were put to death in public to discourage others...

Lazarus rising: A former South Korean soldier captured by North Korea during the Korean War escaped to China and was arrested by Chinese police while seeking to enter South Korea, a Chinese source said Monday. . . . Another source familiar with North Korea said if South Korean POWs who escaped from the North were extradited to the communist country they were likely to be executed. Returning Han to Pyongyang would be tantamount to sending him to the scaffold, the...

Lazarus rising: A former South Korean soldier captured by North Korea during the Korean War escaped to China and was arrested by Chinese police while seeking to enter South Korea, a Chinese source said Monday. . . . Another source familiar with North Korea said if South Korean POWs who escaped from the North were extradited to the communist country they were likely to be executed. Returning Han to Pyongyang would be tantamount to sending him to the scaffold, the...

The bad press, for what it’s worth, is really rolling down on China for repatriating 62 refugees to North Korea. The BBC prominently covered the story, including this quote: ‘China knows that they will be executed or they will be put in political prisoner camps for the crime of leaving the country,’ said Suzanne Scholte, president of the human rights group the Defense Forum Foundation, on Tuesday. Suzanne was apparently interviewed in Seoul, where she’s currently attending the North Korean...

The bad press, for what it’s worth, is really rolling down on China for repatriating 62 refugees to North Korea. The BBC prominently covered the story, including this quote: ‘China knows that they will be executed or they will be put in political prisoner camps for the crime of leaving the country,’ said Suzanne Scholte, president of the human rights group the Defense Forum Foundation, on Tuesday. Suzanne was apparently interviewed in Seoul, where she’s currently attending the North Korean...

The bad press, for what it’s worth, is really rolling down on China for repatriating 62 refugees to North Korea. The BBC prominently covered the story, including this quote: ‘China knows that they will be executed or they will be put in political prisoner camps for the crime of leaving the country,’ said Suzanne Scholte, president of the human rights group the Defense Forum Foundation, on Tuesday. Suzanne was apparently interviewed in Seoul, where she’s currently attending the North Korean...

Suzanne Scholte of the U.S. Committee for Human Rights in North Korea forwarded me this message today, via NK Gulag in Seoul. According to the report, on October 26th, Chinese police raided two locations on the outskirts of Beijing, arresting 65 North Korean refugees and South Korean activist workers working for NKGulag. Among the refugees arrested were 11 teenagers and one person who is over 70 years old. Defections to foreign embassies in Beijing appear to have spiked in the...

Suzanne Scholte of the U.S. Committee for Human Rights in North Korea forwarded me this message today, via NK Gulag in Seoul. According to the report, on October 26th, Chinese police raided two locations on the outskirts of Beijing, arresting 65 North Korean refugees and South Korean activist workers working for NKGulag. Among the refugees arrested were 11 teenagers and one person who is over 70 years old. Defections to foreign embassies in Beijing appear to have spiked in the...

Suzanne Scholte of the U.S. Committee for Human Rights in North Korea forwarded me this message today, via NK Gulag in Seoul. According to the report, on October 26th, Chinese police raided two locations on the outskirts of Beijing, arresting 65 North Korean refugees and South Korean activist workers working for NKGulag. Among the refugees arrested were 11 teenagers and one person who is over 70 years old. Defections to foreign embassies in Beijing appear to have spiked in the...

It’s still hard to believe so much time has passed. Three years ago yesterday, I was in the Trial Defense Office in Seoul, folding my uniforms and packing my suitcase, preparing to fly to Japan to litigate about a dozen motions I had filed in a court-martial case there. The TV was on, and I was watching Diane Sawyer talk about J-Lo or “Survivor” or Robert Blake whatever non-story circus was preoccupying us that day. When they cut to the...

It’s still hard to believe so much time has passed. Three years ago yesterday, I was in the Trial Defense Office in Seoul, folding my uniforms and packing my suitcase, preparing to fly to Japan to litigate about a dozen motions I had filed in a court-martial case there. The TV was on, and I was watching Diane Sawyer talk about J-Lo or “Survivor” or Robert Blake whatever non-story circus was preoccupying us that day. When they cut to the...

If you’re accustomed to the measured, soporific language that diplomats use, this interview with Richard Lawless will make you spit 815 cola all over your monitor. Money quotes, emphasis mine: But now, with our two sides asking whether the garrison transfer would be 3.6 million pyeong or 3.3 million pyong, and this petty thing becoming contentious, we are extremely confused and disappointed. I’m frustrated that in our 50-year relationship of alliance, a difference of 300,000 pyeong can become contentious. Translation–we’ve...