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“Pots for Peace”: not another cannabinoid conflict resolution initiative from Marin County, but another Kim Tae Kyung OhMyNews pipe dream, to be sure. TK, who loves everything from North Korea except defectors, has gone all erotic and stickied himself up over the North Korean-made cookware the ajummas are buying up at the high-end department stores in Seoul (there are reportedly still some export control complications with Kaesong’s plans for a penicillin factory, a pesticide plant, and a large aluminum tube...

“Pots for Peace”: not another cannabinoid conflict resolution initiative from Marin County, but another Kim Tae Kyung OhMyNews pipe dream, to be sure. TK, who loves everything from North Korea except defectors, has gone all erotic and stickied himself up over the North Korean-made cookware the ajummas are buying up at the high-end department stores in Seoul (there are reportedly still some export control complications with Kaesong’s plans for a penicillin factory, a pesticide plant, and a large aluminum tube...

Those who believe in schemes to turn North Korea’s slave labor into the next gold mine for global capital’s deviant moral fringe should take note of this TimeAsia report: Doing business in Burma has often cost American companies p.r. points: Pepsi, Apple Computer and Levi Strauss are just a few of the U.S. firms that pulled out of the military-ruled state after being pressured by human-rights groups. Now, however, doing business with regimes like the one in Rangoon may cost...

Those who believe in schemes to turn North Korea’s slave labor into the next gold mine for global capital’s deviant moral fringe should take note of this TimeAsia report: Doing business in Burma has often cost American companies p.r. points: Pepsi, Apple Computer and Levi Strauss are just a few of the U.S. firms that pulled out of the military-ruled state after being pressured by human-rights groups. Now, however, doing business with regimes like the one in Rangoon may cost...

Meanwhile, South Korea shows its complete unseriousness about getting back its abducted citizens, human rights, or nukes by cutting ribbons and issuing letters of credit. One can’t be bothered with trivial matters when there’s money to be made. The South Korean position, of course, is that it cares about these people, wants to bring them home, but will get them back when trade has liberalized the North. This is a transparent lie. South Koreans are apparently willing to accept that...

Meanwhile, South Korea shows its complete unseriousness about getting back its abducted citizens, human rights, or nukes by cutting ribbons and issuing letters of credit. One can’t be bothered with trivial matters when there’s money to be made. The South Korean position, of course, is that it cares about these people, wants to bring them home, but will get them back when trade has liberalized the North. This is a transparent lie. South Koreans are apparently willing to accept that...

Today Singapore, tomorrow Zimbabwe. The gulag labor juggernaut rolls on . . . but fast enough to save Kim Jong Il from that new urban underclass?

Today Singapore, tomorrow Zimbabwe. The gulag labor juggernaut rolls on . . . but fast enough to save Kim Jong Il from that new urban underclass?

You know how bad the WaPo’s North Korea coverage is when the Reuters feeds outshine the stuff that Anthony Faiola and Glenn Kessler are writing these days. This story indicates that although the park proceeds toward production, U.S. opposition is putting a major crimp in its prospects (predictably, Europe has no moral qualms about buying from the Axis of Evil). One of the biggest issues–as it should be–is how to label products made mostly with North Korean labor and then...

You know how bad the WaPo’s North Korea coverage is when the Reuters feeds outshine the stuff that Anthony Faiola and Glenn Kessler are writing these days. This story indicates that although the park proceeds toward production, U.S. opposition is putting a major crimp in its prospects (predictably, Europe has no moral qualms about buying from the Axis of Evil). One of the biggest issues–as it should be–is how to label products made mostly with North Korean labor and then...