Posted here on the White House Web site. Hat tip: NKZone. The qualifying language is intended to preserve the President’s position in a longstanding dispute with the legislative branch over who gets to make foreign policy (expect that one to reach the Supreme Court some day). All in all, a great day.

Sometimes, the ideological chasm between Seoul’s generations make you think America is positively single-minded. Nice to see Koreans defending the values our soldiers fought to protect like they actually mean it. Nice to see real common ground with a few Koreans. Too bad the people who share that common ground with us have a demographic half-life of ten years. The only way to keep Seoul from becoming Kim Il-Sung City is to capture the imagination of the younger generations with...

They have arrived in Seoul, and L.A. is presumably not on their itinerary at this point. Sounds like the ROK government made a call to the Mongolians, sensing that the arrival of North Koreans in the United States would be a profound embarassment. Letting North Koreans arrive in the United States also threatens Seoul’s ability to keep muzzling defectors who might tell the Americans where the bodies are buried. Sounds like my theory that the North Korean Human Rights Act’s...

I explain the connections between them on NKZone.

I explain the connections between them on NKZone.

. . . defectors from North Korea arrive today. I’m glad the North Koreans have paid attention to our efforts and are already taking advantage of them. I yield to no one in my enthusiasm for the North Korean Human Rights Act overall; however, I have two reservations. Really. First, the President hasn’t signed the NKHRA into law yet, which means Section 302 asylum still isn’t available to these two individuals. Second, the North Koreans are too emotionally scarred and...

. . . defectors from North Korea arrive today. I’m glad the North Koreans have paid attention to our efforts and are already taking advantage of them. I yield to no one in my enthusiasm for the North Korean Human Rights Act overall; however, I have two reservations. Really. First, the President hasn’t signed the NKHRA into law yet, which means Section 302 asylum still isn’t available to these two individuals. Second, the North Koreans are too emotionally scarred and...

Heh.

Since I’m on a roll here, I’ve humbly presented my plan to use information warfare to exploit the weaknesses–Marx would say the inherent contradictions–of the North Korean regime to undermine it. No doubt I’m giving ammo to those who claim that the NKHRA is meant to change the NK regime. It is, of course. Here’s how I think it could be done. Read the discussion, too.

I’ve posted an interesting inside scoop on the passage of the North Korea Human Rights Act on NKZone. Michael Horowitz, one of the persons most responsible for its passage, describes the steep odds proponents of the Act had to overcome.

Heh.

Heh.

Since I’m on a roll here, I’ve humbly presented my plan to use information warfare to exploit the weaknesses–Marx would say the inherent contradictions–of the North Korean regime to undermine it. No doubt I’m giving ammo to those who claim that the NKHRA is meant to change the NK regime. It is, of course. Here’s how I think it could be done. Read the discussion, too.

I’ve posted an interesting inside scoop on the passage of the North Korea Human Rights Act on NKZone. Michael Horowitz, one of the persons most responsible for its passage, describes the steep odds proponents of the Act had to overcome.

Last week�s Bush-Kerry debate hinged on which candidate would be more conspicuously horrible. As it turned out, Bush was so rambling, incoherent, twangy, and cranky that anyone with a complete set of teeth, some command of the English language, and reasonably clear annunciation could have walked away with it–and did, but not without a fatal blunder on one of the key national security issues we face. Kerry actually believes that in 2001, North Korea was safely in the box and...

Just a thought: if you were to put a pistol to my head and ask me whether Kerry thinks invading Iraq was a mistake, you might as well throw some money on the table and call it Russian roulette, because I have absolutely no frigging idea. Shortly after he flubbed the last debate, Bush (or his advisors) encapsulated it nicely: He stated that Saddam Hussein was a threat and that America had no business removing that threat. Senator Kerry said...

So much for Kerry�s secret plan to end the war. France and Germany have made it clear they�re not playing: Democratic presidential nominee Sen. John Kerry conceded yesterday that he probably will not be able to convince France and Germany to contribute troops to Iraq if he is elected president. That leaves Kerry with the argument that he can win because . . . he�s not Bush, which means he�d bring new �credibility� and �better judgment� to the war effort....

Last week�s Bush-Kerry debate hinged on which candidate would be more conspicuously horrible. As it turned out, Bush was so rambling, incoherent, twangy, and cranky that anyone with a complete set of teeth, some command of the English language, and reasonably clear annunciation could have walked away with it–and did, but not without a fatal blunder on one of the key national security issues we face. Kerry actually believes that in 2001, North Korea was safely in the box and...