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Thirty years ago today, Khmer Rouge forces entered Phnom Phenh. And even now, with the mass graves opened, and the bones of the victims there for all to see, some continue to argue that Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge are not to blame: [T]o blame the death and destruction caused by foreign invasion and embargo during 1975-79 on Pol Pot’s controversial revolutionary policies is merely reactionary propaganda. —Henry C.K. Liu Does the logic sound familiar? After North Korea signed...

Growing Unrest in China: Publius has the goods. That may explain why they’re suddenly talking about human rights (while continuing their repression). Or why they’re pulling tired stunts like this. UPDATE: The anti-government rioting near Shanghai appears to have gotten much worse, revealing the depths of popular hatred of the government. The New York Times reports: There were conflicting reports about injuries, and Mr. Lu said two elderly women among the protesters had been gravely injured after being run over...

Growing Unrest in China: Publius has the goods. That may explain why they’re suddenly talking about human rights (while continuing their repression). Or why they’re pulling tired stunts like this. UPDATE: The anti-government rioting near Shanghai appears to have gotten much worse, revealing the depths of popular hatred of the government. The New York Times reports: There were conflicting reports about injuries, and Mr. Lu said two elderly women among the protesters had been gravely injured after being run over...

Yesterday, I posted on NKZone about the Bush Administration’s emerging strategy–which I believe to be the correct one–of choosing to economically (and hopefully, politically) undermine North Korea rather than resorting to an attack, as President Clinton nearly did, or more interminably pointless diplomacy with a regime that won’t negotiate in good faith or keep its agreements. Rick Vaughn disagrees; he posted this comment: How on earth can the DPRK get any more economically isolated??? I’m not sure that anyone in...

Yesterday, I posted on NKZone about the Bush Administration’s emerging strategy–which I believe to be the correct one–of choosing to economically (and hopefully, politically) undermine North Korea rather than resorting to an attack, as President Clinton nearly did, or more interminably pointless diplomacy with a regime that won’t negotiate in good faith or keep its agreements. Rick Vaughn disagrees; he posted this comment: How on earth can the DPRK get any more economically isolated??? I’m not sure that anyone in...

Kudos to the Joongang Ilbo’s Washington correspondent, Brian Lee, whose report on the State Department’s human rights report goes beyond summaries and bullet points and actually tells us a few things we didn’t already know. Freedom House, which had done much to keep human rights on the table in our Cold War-era talks with the Soviets, is going to receive $1.7 million to put together a conference on North Korea next year. They’re already hunting for a Director and a...

Kudos to the Joongang Ilbo’s Washington correspondent, Brian Lee, whose report on the State Department’s human rights report goes beyond summaries and bullet points and actually tells us a few things we didn’t already know. Freedom House, which had done much to keep human rights on the table in our Cold War-era talks with the Soviets, is going to receive $1.7 million to put together a conference on North Korea next year. They’re already hunting for a Director and a...

“Guardians of North Korea’s Right to Abuse” are protesting the Chosun Ilbo for sponsoring the North Korean Human Rights Conference. Stop now, click here, and read every word, but especially these: Organizations of this ilk are often deeply concerned about the human rights of people in faraway countries like Iraq and Burma. But on human rights abuses in North Korea they not only keep mum but attack efforts to improve human rights there as “acts threatening peace on the Korean...

“Guardians of North Korea’s Right to Abuse” are protesting the Chosun Ilbo for sponsoring the North Korean Human Rights Conference. Stop now, click here, and read every word, but especially these: Organizations of this ilk are often deeply concerned about the human rights of people in faraway countries like Iraq and Burma. But on human rights abuses in North Korea they not only keep mum but attack efforts to improve human rights there as “acts threatening peace on the Korean...

In the wake of the recent news that Japan has imposed economic sanctions in the disguise of a new insurance requirement for incoming ships, the United States is also looking for ways to amplify the shock. The New York Times reports: In the months before North Korea announced that it possessed nuclear weapons, the Bush administration began developing new strategies to choke off its few remaining sources of income, based on techniques in use against Al Qaeda, intelligence officials and...

In the wake of the recent news that Japan has imposed economic sanctions in the disguise of a new insurance requirement for incoming ships, the United States is also looking for ways to amplify the shock. The New York Times reports: In the months before North Korea announced that it possessed nuclear weapons, the Bush administration began developing new strategies to choke off its few remaining sources of income, based on techniques in use against Al Qaeda, intelligence officials and...

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...

Condi Rice’s comments on Korea contained no major surprises. We want talks; we have no intention of invading. A nice word in there about the South Korean deployment to a safe location guarded by Kurdish militia Iraq. All things you’d expect a diplomat to say. She was generally prepared, but even when she was, her answers sounded canned and tinny. My overall impression, however, was dissatisfaction that she didn’t really answer some of Babs Boxer’s tough questions on Iraq, but...

Condi Rice’s comments on Korea contained no major surprises. We want talks; we have no intention of invading. A nice word in there about the South Korean deployment to a safe location guarded by Kurdish militia Iraq. All things you’d expect a diplomat to say. She was generally prepared, but even when she was, her answers sounded canned and tinny. My overall impression, however, was dissatisfaction that she didn’t really answer some of Babs Boxer’s tough questions on Iraq, but...

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...

For a law that’s seen so much action before the Supreme Court recently, the isn’t a very long read: The district courts shall have original jurisdiction of any civil action by an alien for a tort only, committed in violation of the law of nations or a treaty of the United States. I consider myself a capitalist, which means I believe in free markets, including free labor markets where people can quit, form unions, strike, and demand better pay and...

For a law that’s seen so much action before the Supreme Court recently, the isn’t a very long read: The district courts shall have original jurisdiction of any civil action by an alien for a tort only, committed in violation of the law of nations or a treaty of the United States. I consider myself a capitalist, which means I believe in free markets, including free labor markets where people can quit, form unions, strike, and demand better pay and...