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With this entry, posting at OneFreeKorea comes to an end. But this marks less of an end than a new beginning. I have joined forces with two of the very best Korea blogs, DPRK Studies and The Asianist, to form a new group blog, The Korea Liberator. Click the image to have your first look. Don’t mind the sawdust and the bits of sheetrock and insulation. We’re still cleaning up the construction debris. Please update your bookmarks and sidebars accordingly....

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On North Korea, President Bush said very little: “The demands of justice require their freedom as well [specifically naming the people of North Korea, Syria, Burma, and Zimbabwe, among others].” The rhetoric was no more soaring, and certainly no more specific, than anything I’ve heard him say before. I can live without soaring rhetoric for public diplomacy’s sake, but what I can’t forgive is that this president has frittered away six years without forming a forceful or even a particularly...

If only we were this hard-headed about international nuclear proliferation. In an interview with Reuters, Mr. Hill said that at a meeting in Beijing last week, Kim Gye-gwan, his North Korean counterpart, said Pyongyang was prepared to follow international rules on money laundering and was also willing to “cooperate internationally.” “We’re not looking here for words. We’re more interested in actions. We’d like to see this activity cease,” Mr. Hill reportedly told the news agency. It’s refreshing to see signs...

This interview was conducted entirely by e-mail because Norbert moves around so much. I believe he’s been in Pakistan helping earthquake victims there, or had at least been planning to do so with the Korean Medical Assocation, as he did after the Tsunami in January. Unfortunately, my e-mail truncated my last few questions, including the ones where I asked what was about to go down during the Arirang Festival up in the Emerald City. I’ve asked that question, and a...

This interview was conducted entirely by e-mail because Norbert moves around so much. I believe he’s been in Pakistan helping earthquake victims there, or had at least been planning to do so with the Korean Medical Assocation, as he did after the Tsunami in January. Unfortunately, my e-mail truncated my last few questions, including the ones where I asked what was about to go down during the Arirang Festival up in the Emerald City. I’ve asked that question, and a...

Welcome to the Carnival of the Revolutions edition for August 29th. Hosting next week’s edition (Sept. 5) will be Thinking-East; next up (Sept. 12) is Quid Nimis. Updates added, typos fixed. East Asia and the Pacific Rim Burma: Did the government’s army use chemical weapons against Karen rebels earlier this year? The Jubilee Campaign, a Christian human rights NGO, prints an editorial by Lord David Alton, a member of the British House of Lords. Publius reports on new rumors of...

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...

During the last five years of utterly ineffectual talks and not-talks, the North Korean regime (to the best of our knowledge) built four of five more nukes, sold uranium to the A.Q. Khan network, transferred nuclear technology to Iran, and bought itself some Tomohawkskis. While I can’t excuse the duration of this delay, I’ve still considered the Bush policy marginally better than the Clinton policy because I presumed we were going to insist on a deal that was in fact,...