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The America-hating, 9/11-celebrating Korean Teachers’ Union is about to get some competition: A new teachers’ union opposing the Korean Teachers and Education Worker`s Union (KTU) will be launched in March. It announced that it would engage in an education campaign that practices free democracy based on the Korean constitution and respects the rights of students, and that it would develop into an organization that will replace the KTU. In other words, it announced that it would become a rational organization...

Updated again Nov. 3; thanks to reader usinkorea for the hat tip; thanks to the Marmot for linking and to his readers for stopping by. Once again, anti-Unification Minister Chung Dong Young has opened his mouth, and once again, nothing good came out of it. The latest nominal justification for giving Chung a supply of ink so far out of proportion to his intellect is the 55th anniversary of the Korea Times. Chung’s first sentence, however, makes it apparent that...

[Update: Scroll down and read the updates. Mr. Kirk and the CSM have corrected the story to reflect that the HRC did not actually take such a position. Kirk appear to have quoted the complaint, believing it was the HRC’s own position. Thanks to readers Antti and Aaron for asking the specific questions that caused me to contact Don Kirk and ask him for verification. ] When my wife first showed me the the comments of Prof. Kang Jeong-Ju, South...

20th ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE COUNCIL ON U.S.-KOREA SECURITY STUDIES Changing Dynamics on the Korean Peninsula: Implications for the U.S.-ROK Alliance October 7, 2005 The Heritage Foundation 214 Massachusetts Ave., NE Washington, DC Paper: The Trojan Horse: Pyongyang’s Successful Propaganda Campaign to Win the Hearts of South Koreans and Undermine the U.S.-ROK Alliance by Dennis P. Halpin Professional Staff, House International Relations Committee This paper reflects my own views and not necessarily, except where explicitly stated, the views of Chairman...

by Dennis P. Halpin, Professional Staff, East Asian Affairs International Relations Committee, U.S. House of Representatives ______________________ Presented at North Korea Freedom Week North Korea Human Rights Conference Sponsored by the Korean Association of Maryland Metropolitan Area and Jubilee Campaign _________________ New Covenant Fellowship Church Germantown, Maryland April 30, 2005 This statement reflects my own views and not necessarily those of the International Relations Committee nor its Chairman Henry J. Hyde. The recent death of John Paul II is a...

Barring a few privileged exceptions, the lives of children are dirt cheap north of the DMZ. Last year, UNICEF and the World Food Program reported that 40% of North Korea’s children are chronically malnourished. The children in this video are mostly orphans; they’re homless kids known as “kotjaebi.” They began to appear on the streets of North Korean cities after the Great Famine killed or displaced many of their parents. They live by begging, stealing, foraging on trash, or getting...