I’ve tried to do what I could to help with North Korean Freedom Week this year, so it’s encouraging to see the Korean press covering it. Any excuse to remind readers to join us next week will suffice. In fairness, however, I’m not sure that the Washington Post actually reported that Bush will raise the issue of North Korean refugees with Hu Jintao, as the Chosun Ilbo claims. Obviously, I hope that turn out to be the case.

Ambassadors John Bolton and Jay Lefkowitz are both scheduled to speak this year. Read more here. I’ve done some — and not nearly enough — to organize and promote some of the events, and we are certainly in need of volunteers to put up posters and flyers. You can sign up to contribute time or money here. Yes, it’s tax deductible.

Oranckay has finally done it. In the span of a day, he’s joined the bulk of the IKK into a single, in-bred borg. Today, he goes to The Marmot’s Hole to defend his latest post, which links OFK posts by myself and Andy Jackson, who now co-blogs at the Hole. Someone ought to wake Dr. Hwang from his alcoholic fog to tell him a greater crime has finally been committed against nature. I make no argument with much of what...