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Exit Neville? This headline claims that the United States and South Korea have agreed to “get tough” if North Korea tests a nuke. Color me suspicious, although these words from the MoFA are certainly a departure from the official line at the Ministry of Silly Talks: “If North Korea goes through with a nuclear test, it will start along a road where the future cannot be guaranteed,” Foreign Minister Ban Ki-moon said in a debate of the 21st Century North...

Exit Neville? This headline claims that the United States and South Korea have agreed to “get tough” if North Korea tests a nuke. Color me suspicious, although these words from the MoFA are certainly a departure from the official line at the Ministry of Silly Talks: “If North Korea goes through with a nuclear test, it will start along a road where the future cannot be guaranteed,” Foreign Minister Ban Ki-moon said in a debate of the 21st Century North...

Thailand and Laos have now decided to work together to stop North Korean refugees from entering their countries. I suppose you could call that someone’s “quiet diplomacy,” but not in a direction that favors North Korean refugees. Given anti-Unification Minister “Chicken” Chong Dong-Young’s fugitive slave exclusion policy, there isn’t much question about South Korea’s message to the people of North Korea: Rot in hell. * * * * * And now for the cover-up the Washington Post will never put...

Thailand and Laos have now decided to work together to stop North Korean refugees from entering their countries. I suppose you could call that someone’s “quiet diplomacy,” but not in a direction that favors North Korean refugees. Given anti-Unification Minister “Chicken” Chong Dong-Young’s fugitive slave exclusion policy, there isn’t much question about South Korea’s message to the people of North Korea: Rot in hell. * * * * * And now for the cover-up the Washington Post will never put...

Thailand and Laos have now decided to work together to stop North Korean refugees from entering their countries. I suppose you could call that someone’s “quiet diplomacy,” but not in a direction that favors North Korean refugees. Given anti-Unification Minister “Chicken” Chong Dong-Young’s fugitive slave exclusion policy, there isn’t much question about South Korea’s message to the people of North Korea: Rot in hell. * * * * * And now for the cover-up the Washington Post will never put...

NORTH KOREAN HOLOCAUST EXHIBITION NATIONAL ASSEMBLY BUILDING, YOIDO, SEOUL NOVEMBER 8, 9, & 10, 9 a.m. ““ 6 p.m. The North Korean Holocaust Exhibition will include a special Panel Presentations and discussions with North Korean refugees, politicians and human rights activists. The U.S. Defense Forum Foundation, Citizens Alliance for North Korean Human Rights, the Democracy Network Against the North Korean Gulag, and Helping Hands Korea, will Sponsor and moderate panels as part of the North Korea Holocaust Exhibit. Many other...

NORTH KOREAN HOLOCAUST EXHIBITION NATIONAL ASSEMBLY BUILDING, YOIDO, SEOUL NOVEMBER 8, 9, & 10, 9 a.m. ““ 6 p.m. The North Korean Holocaust Exhibition will include a special Panel Presentations and discussions with North Korean refugees, politicians and human rights activists. The U.S. Defense Forum Foundation, Citizens Alliance for North Korean Human Rights, the Democracy Network Against the North Korean Gulag, and Helping Hands Korea, will Sponsor and moderate panels as part of the North Korea Holocaust Exhibit. Many other...

Suzanne Scholte at the U.S. Committee for Human Rights in North Korea wrote today with this announcement: NORTH KOREAN HOLOCAUST EXHIBIT NATIONAL ASSEMBLY, SEOUL NOVEMBER 8, 9, and 10, 2004 [T]he Citizens Alliance for North Korean Human Rights, the Democracy Network Against the North Korean Gulag, and Helping Hands Korea, [will] sponsor and moderate panels as part of the North Korea Holocaust Exhibit. Other organizations will be contributing material for the exhibit as well as participating in these panels. In...

Suzanne Scholte at the U.S. Committee for Human Rights in North Korea wrote today with this announcement: NORTH KOREAN HOLOCAUST EXHIBIT NATIONAL ASSEMBLY, SEOUL NOVEMBER 8, 9, and 10, 2004 [T]he Citizens Alliance for North Korean Human Rights, the Democracy Network Against the North Korean Gulag, and Helping Hands Korea, [will] sponsor and moderate panels as part of the North Korea Holocaust Exhibit. Other organizations will be contributing material for the exhibit as well as participating in these panels. In...

A few days ago, I missed this editorial in the Korea Herald, a left-leaning rag from Seoul, written by former U.S. Ambassador to South Korea (Bush-41 era) Donald Gregg. The editorial mourns the demise of the U.S.-South Korean alliance. It is an astonishing admission from the same diplomatic quarter that had denied for so long that the alliance was even running a high temperature. Of course, the Kremlin is probably still insisting that Brezhnev and Stalin have nasty colds, but...

A few days ago, I missed this editorial in the Korea Herald, a left-leaning rag from Seoul, written by former U.S. Ambassador to South Korea (Bush-41 era) Donald Gregg. The editorial mourns the demise of the U.S.-South Korean alliance. It is an astonishing admission from the same diplomatic quarter that had denied for so long that the alliance was even running a high temperature. Of course, the Kremlin is probably still insisting that Brezhnev and Stalin have nasty colds, but...

The Chosun Ilbo, South Korea’s largest newspaper, has gone out of the business of printing angry letters from angry Americans–that much is apparent if you scroll through its “letters” page. In spite of the paper’s “conservative” reputation, it has not gone out of the business of printing columns taking unfair digs against the United States. This column by Kim Dae-Joong (similar name, different guy, no relation) blames the breakdown in the U.S.-Korea relationship on American “callousness.” I served three tours...

The Chosun Ilbo, South Korea’s largest newspaper, has gone out of the business of printing angry letters from angry Americans–that much is apparent if you scroll through its “letters” page. In spite of the paper’s “conservative” reputation, it has not gone out of the business of printing columns taking unfair digs against the United States. This column by Kim Dae-Joong (similar name, different guy, no relation) blames the breakdown in the U.S.-Korea relationship on American “callousness.” I served three tours...

The Chosun Ilbo, South Korea’s largest newspaper, has gone out of the business of printing angry letters from angry Americans–that much is apparent if you scroll through its “letters” page. In spite of the paper’s “conservative” reputation, it has not gone out of the business of printing columns taking unfair digs against the United States. This column by Kim Dae-Joong (similar name, different guy, no relation) blames the breakdown in the U.S.-Korea relationship on American “callousness.” I served three tours...

I’d like to thank my friend Suzanne Scholte for forwarding the full text of her keynote address at Freedom House’s North Korean Human Rights Conference in Seoul. Keynote Speech for Seoul Summit: Promoting Human Rights in North Korea Remarks by Suzanne Scholte . . . December 8, 2005 I am deeply honored to be a part of this Seoul Summit: Promoting Human Rights in North Korea and thank the Organizing Committee and Freedom House for asking me to be one...

Dear Joshua, I’d like to thank you for taking the time to write such a provocative response to my op-ed and also apologize for my own rather tardy response. While I had planned to respond earlier, the best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry, and they do so with ever greater frequency when you are taking care of a sick mother. Be that as it may, as should be the case whenever thoughtful men engage in a dialogue,...

Dear Joshua, I’d like to thank you for taking the time to write such a provocative response to my op-ed and also apologize for my own rather tardy response. While I had planned to respond earlier, the best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry, and they do so with ever greater frequency when you are taking care of a sick mother. Be that as it may, as should be the case whenever thoughtful men engage in a dialogue,...

This is a story that should start with a description of how it ended. Other than a few well-connected activists, most of those in the room had been a select group–congressional staffers, think-tankers, diplomats, attaches from embassies . . . even Nelson Mandela’s nephew, a pleasant enough man, now wearing the uniform of a general. Before the event had even begun, one bored staffer had whined to another, “I’m sooooooo ready for the weekend. When the two men we had...