August 30, 2005

How Much Longer Will the People Take It?

Kim Dae Joong writes a great editorial for Chosun Ilbo, it is a must read

Korea’s citizens feel unsure about and dissatisfied with the country's political leadership, yet they do want the country to negotiate its political, economic, international and security dangers without getting tangled up in a constitutional emergency or political confusion.

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[NEWS] New China-N.Korea Treaty Likely About Defectors

I'm sure South Korea will keep quiet on the subject

Before the new treaty was agreed, China under an informal agreement deported North Korean defectors. But as trade and exchange between the two countries have expanded, issues of civil and criminal liability have also become more convoluted.

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[NEWS] Pro-Japan Collaborators List Sparks Controversy

No judge, no jury, no trial, oh by the way, your father is a Japanese collaborator and a traitor to Korea

Some say that the release of the list is desirable for the Korean society to step forward to ``bright'' future by clarifying its unsolved past while other argue that the criteria is too subjective.

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August 29, 2005

[NEWS] NK Cuts Kumgang Tours

South Korea did something right, but it will be interesting if South Korea will stick to their guns

North Korea said Monday it will halve the number of South Korean visitors to its tourist resort of Mt. Kumgang in protest against the dismissal of a businessman who headed the inter- Korean business project.

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August 27, 2005

[NEWS] Korea Was Eager to Assist U.S. With Vietnam War

Korea went out of its way to accommodate the U.S. during the Vietnam War, newly declassified documents reveal. They show that Seoul urged Washington to relocate a U.S. base in Japan to Korea's Jeju Island
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[NEWS] Koreas Differ Over POWs

Mr Roh turns his back on his military and SK civilians and the 386 Gen. look the other way

The South Korean government estimates that there are some 500 South Korean POWs and about 480 abductees taken after the war who have not returned home and may still be alive in the North.

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August 26, 2005

[NEWS] Church workers jailed for bashing woman

Acting Judge Gibson today sentenced the men from Chatswood's Korean Open Door Presbyterian Church [in Sydney, Australia] to prison terms of up to one year, saying protecting their culture was not an excuse to break the law.
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Tied On Taiwan

Written by Gary Schmitt & Dan Blumenthal and originally posted by New American Century

Deterring China's attempt to coerce Taiwan into unification with the mainland through military force has been United States policy for five decades The success of that policy has rested on Taiwan’s willingness to maintain a robust self-defense capability and, in turn, on America’s retaining the ability to project military power quickly and decisively into the region in a time of crisis.

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[NEWS] Agents Tight-Lipped on Kim Dae-jung-Era Bugging

National Intelligence Service Director Kim Seung-kyu on Thursday said operatives who continued illegal eavesdropping under the Kim Dae-jung administration were not saying whom they bugged and on whose orders.
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August 25, 2005

[NEWS] Pakistan confirms nuclear scientist supplied North Korea

This proves the United States accusations and discredits North and South Korea's denials 

Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf has confirmed that disgraced nuclear scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan supplied North Korea with centrifuges to enrich uranium.

 

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