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Our blood allies in Korea are asserting their “maturity” again. While we’re gathering to tell the world about a few-million odd North Koreans starved to death by a regime that always seems to find the ready cash for cruise missiles and fuel rods, “progressive” South Koreans are on the way to Inchon to tear down the statue of MacArthur. Fears of a violent clash mounted Friday after progressive civic groups wanting a statue of U.S. General Douglas MacArthur in Incheon...

Gateway Pundit has a must-see post, with BBC video, here, featuring Kang Chol-Hwan and Michael Horowitz. The British press has done a far better job of covering this issue than its American counterpart. I suspect that the Nelson Report is at least a partial explanation for this. North Korea recognizes that talk about human rights is a mortal threat to the survival of its system; such talk has likely been responsible for its new flexibility on nuclear talks. There is...

Thanks to all of those who e-mailed me links to interesting stories recently. I’ll have to do a carnival-type group posting to discuss all of them. Your contributions, comments, and yes, corrections make this site infintely better than it would be without you. Adrian Hong in The Korea Times Adrian Hong of LiNK forwarded this letter he wrote to the Korea Times. I’m printing every word: I refer to a July 6 article on Page 19 of The Korea Herald...

Disturbing reports of a dramatically worsening famine continue to filter out of North Korea, notwithstanding the regime’s Maoist mobilization of schoolchildren and office workers to the countryside. It’s not working, according to South Korean agricultural expert Kang Jong-Man, via the L.A. Times: The rice paddies are thin and uneven. Potato plants are pale and stunted. The fields are not properly graded. Barley still on the stalks should have been harvested weeks ago so that the same fields could be used...

The real news from the Roh-Bush meeting is starting to surface, after both administrations’ admirable job of slathering over all of the actual news with diplospeak. For the most part, this story seems to have gotten it right: Roh gets one more chance to convince KJI to come back to the table and negotiate in good faith. There may have been some ancillary agreements, too. Thus far, neither side is engaging in leaky angst to try to sabotage whatever deal...

The real news from the Roh-Bush meeting is starting to surface, after both administrations’ admirable job of slathering over all of the actual news with diplospeak. For the most part, this story seems to have gotten it right: Roh gets one more chance to convince KJI to come back to the table and negotiate in good faith. There may have been some ancillary agreements, too. Thus far, neither side is engaging in leaky angst to try to sabotage whatever deal...

I just don’t know how long I can make this delicious agony last. In any event, once everyone else starts to declare a trend to be so, spotting it loses a lot of the fun and most of the originality. The death certificate won’t have been signed until we announce a timetable for withdrawing the bulk of our people, but Roh Moo Hyun’s visit seems to have reminded everyone that it’s time to start fighting over the choice of the...

I just don’t know how long I can make this delicious agony last. In any event, once everyone else starts to declare a trend to be so, spotting it loses a lot of the fun and most of the originality. The death certificate won’t have been signed until we announce a timetable for withdrawing the bulk of our people, but Roh Moo Hyun’s visit seems to have reminded everyone that it’s time to start fighting over the choice of the...

I have one final comment on today’s Washington Post story about North Korea, regarding a quotation from a Chinese academic. Bear in mind that in China, academics are often the voice of government policy and its internal debates. China’s rulers don’t discuss such matters through leaks to the media. In China, the media are smothered, the masses are powerless, and party leaders tend to be survivors of years of purges which have rendered their Darwinian selects into paranoid septuagenarian troglodytes...

I have one final comment on today’s Washington Post story about North Korea, regarding a quotation from a Chinese academic. Bear in mind that in China, academics are often the voice of government policy and its internal debates. China’s rulers don’t discuss such matters through leaks to the media. In China, the media are smothered, the masses are powerless, and party leaders tend to be survivors of years of purges which have rendered their Darwinian selects into paranoid septuagenarian troglodytes...

Has South Korea’s new fugitive slave law cost its first life? The Reverend Jeffrey Park is a U.S. citizen and Durihana activist (English language article on them here). A few weeks ago, he was trying to help a group of North Korean refugees get from Jilin, China to South Korea via Burma. The ROK embassy in Rangoon refused to help, so Reverend Park found himself wandering back to China through the dangerous mountains of Laos in the middle of the...

Has South Korea’s new fugitive slave law cost its first life? The Reverend Jeffrey Park is a U.S. citizen and Durihana activist (English language article on them here). A few weeks ago, he was trying to help a group of North Korean refugees get from Jilin, China to South Korea via Burma. The ROK embassy in Rangoon refused to help, so Reverend Park found himself wandering back to China through the dangerous mountains of Laos in the middle of the...

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...

OK, I really tried to resist. I thought I was stronger than my temptation. I believed my values would always protect me. But today, I gave in to my purient side and blogged about Korea’s great prostitution crackdown. Now, I don’t claim to have any particular expertise on this subject, but having prosecuted and defended cases in courts-martial in Korea for four years, the impact on the Uniform Code of Military Justice does have some serious literary and artistic merit...

OK, I really tried to resist. I thought I was stronger than my temptation. I believed my values would always protect me. But today, I gave in to my purient side and blogged about Korea’s great prostitution crackdown. Now, I don’t claim to have any particular expertise on this subject, but having prosecuted and defended cases in courts-martial in Korea for four years, the impact on the Uniform Code of Military Justice does have some serious literary and artistic merit...

(continued from here) The event, held at the Dirksen Senate Office Building, was modestly attended by about fifty people, mostly NGO representatives, activists, and Korean media types. It began with a screening of Seoul Train, which documents the efforts of North Korean refugees to escape to South Korea through China, despite the constant risk of being caught and sent back to the North Korean gulags, where they could face starvation, torture, forced abortion, infanticide, or even summary execution. The WG...

Excerpts from The American Enterprise, July/August 2005 To read the articles in full, buy your own here. Just seven bucks. If you found this article interesting, consider that it caused South Korea to pull its funding for AEI (scroll down). I’m renewing my AEI membership as a small token of my disapproval of any foreign government trying to control what I read, especially this one, and also because the magazine is always interesting reading and well worth a hundred bucks...