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Supporters of South Korea’s leftist President Roh-Moo Hyun have announced a fresh campaign to persuade citizens to cancel their subscriptions to the often-critical Chosun Ilbo and Dong-A Ilbo, and to subscribe instead to the pro-government Kyunghang Sinmun and Hankyoreh Sinmun. The latter newspapers both strongly support the Roh administration’s policy of appeasing North Korea and assuming a more neutral role toward the United States, which maintains 34,000 troops in Korea for that nation’s defense. The group, known as Nosamo, or...

Not even the BBC, the New York Times, or the Washington Post can deny it–the Iraqi election appears to have been a big success: BAGHDAD, Jan. 30 — Iraqis voted in their first democratic election in nearly half a century Sunday with many observers saying the day appeared to have yielded higher turnout than expected and less violence than feared. Insurgents killed about two dozen people, including a U.S. Marine. But the level of mayhem by forces striving to disrupt...

Not even the BBC, the New York Times, or the Washington Post can deny it–the Iraqi election appears to have been a big success: BAGHDAD, Jan. 30 — Iraqis voted in their first democratic election in nearly half a century Sunday with many observers saying the day appeared to have yielded higher turnout than expected and less violence than feared. Insurgents killed about two dozen people, including a U.S. Marine. But the level of mayhem by forces striving to disrupt...

This certainly is an interesting development–another step forward for the North Korean Human Rights Act. One of the Act’s provisions provides for the appointment of the Special Rapporteur, and the running is apparently down to four candidates. I’ll tell you what I know about each of them. It matters very much, because the the appointee would have the rank of ambassador and would be the strongest possible signal of where this Administration is going with its North Korea policy. Paula...

Has South Korea’s new fugitive slave law cost its first life? The Reverend Jeffrey Park is a U.S. citizen and Durihana activist (English language article on them here). A few weeks ago, he was trying to help a group of North Korean refugees get from Jilin, China to South Korea via Burma. The ROK embassy in Rangoon refused to help, so Reverend Park found himself wandering back to China through the dangerous mountains of Laos in the middle of the...

Has South Korea’s new fugitive slave law cost its first life? The Reverend Jeffrey Park is a U.S. citizen and Durihana activist (English language article on them here). A few weeks ago, he was trying to help a group of North Korean refugees get from Jilin, China to South Korea via Burma. The ROK embassy in Rangoon refused to help, so Reverend Park found himself wandering back to China through the dangerous mountains of Laos in the middle of the...

Dr. Norbert Vollertsen, who is volunteering his services to help the Acehnese as part of the Korean Medical Association contingent, writes to update us on his activities. He includes contact info if you want to assist or donate–and he has pictures! Hope they won’t crash my site, but here goes: Contact info of Korean Medical Association relief team in Banda-Aceh/Jakarta whom Dr. V is with: +82 11 792 6908 (mobile roamed from Korea) (Maybe +62) (0)868-1212-7826 (satellite phone) Ms. Yoon...

Dr. Norbert Vollertsen, who is volunteering his services to help the Acehnese as part of the Korean Medical Association contingent, writes to update us on his activities. He includes contact info if you want to assist or donate–and he has pictures! Hope they won’t crash my site, but here goes: Contact info of Korean Medical Association relief team in Banda-Aceh/Jakarta whom Dr. V is with: +82 11 792 6908 (mobile roamed from Korea) (Maybe +62) (0)868-1212-7826 (satellite phone) Ms. Yoon...

Color me completely unsurprised to learn that there’s prostitution in North Korea, given the fact of North Korea’s extreme poverty, suppressed values, and the failure of every other east Asian nation’s war on prostitution. Hell, Kim Jong Il has even turned Alejandro Cao de Benos into his international pimp daddy, letting him run his own profitable travel agency / dating service / kisaeng house for frustrated white leftists who otherwise couldn’t get a date in a cellblock full of violent...

Color me completely unsurprised to learn that there’s prostitution in North Korea, given the fact of North Korea’s extreme poverty, suppressed values, and the failure of every other east Asian nation’s war on prostitution. Hell, Kim Jong Il has even turned Alejandro Cao de Benos into his international pimp daddy, letting him run his own profitable travel agency / dating service / kisaeng house for frustrated white leftists who otherwise couldn’t get a date in a cellblock full of violent...

The Joongang Ilbo rips Roh and his Mini-Uni a new one over their plans to stiff-arm North Korean refugees: This is the most remarkable nonsense. Was Mr. Chung speaking in his capacity of unification minister? Including yesterday’s statements, Mr. Chung has shown that his awareness of defector issues and North Korea policy is seriously wrong. Mr. Chung has failed to understand that the defector issue is a matter of human rights “• a universal value of mankind. In the international...

The Joongang Ilbo rips Roh and his Mini-Uni a new one over their plans to stiff-arm North Korean refugees: This is the most remarkable nonsense. Was Mr. Chung speaking in his capacity of unification minister? Including yesterday’s statements, Mr. Chung has shown that his awareness of defector issues and North Korea policy is seriously wrong. Mr. Chung has failed to understand that the defector issue is a matter of human rights “• a universal value of mankind. In the international...

Mongolia has reportedly promised North Korea that it will not host refugee camps on its soil. I was afraid nothing good could come of a Mongolian official’s visit to Pyongyang. Never a good thing to arrive empty-handed, you know.

Mongolia has reportedly promised North Korea that it will not host refugee camps on its soil. I was afraid nothing good could come of a Mongolian official’s visit to Pyongyang. Never a good thing to arrive empty-handed, you know.

South Korea’s Anti-Unification Ministry has recently flailed to portray its new anti-defector policy as a politically neutral effort against human smuggling and asylum fraud, and some of the media seem willing to buy that line. The Minister must now wish he had chosen his words more carefully in this recent OhMyNews interview and not issued that now-withdrawn set of proposed regulations, which clearly show that his intent is to keep out virtually all defectors, and keep in all NGO reps...

South Korea’s Anti-Unification Ministry has recently flailed to portray its new anti-defector policy as a politically neutral effort against human smuggling and asylum fraud, and some of the media seem willing to buy that line. The Minister must now wish he had chosen his words more carefully in this recent OhMyNews interview and not issued that now-withdrawn set of proposed regulations, which clearly show that his intent is to keep out virtually all defectors, and keep in all NGO reps...

“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...