September 20, 2005

[NEWS] N.Korea Agreement Hits Snag Already

Here we go again!

When the U.S. provides us with a light-water reactor that can be the basis of bilateral confidence.” It said Pyongyang was “fair and square, consistent and deep-rooted like a rock. The U.S. should not even dream of asking us to give up the nuclear deterrent we already have before providing a light-water nuclear reactor.

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September 09, 2005

[NEWS] US Envoy Hints at Linking NK Aid to Human Rights

We must help those who cannot help themselves, screw politics, human beings come first

North Korea, whose defectors have publicly attested to horrific levels of oppression and exploitation there, resists any discussion of its human rights record.

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September 01, 2005

[NEWS] N. Korea Calls Seoul ‘Traitor’ for US Army Drills

Military drills angers North Korea

"It is unacceptably treasonous that the South’s military authorities are enthusiastic about confronting people of the same blood while in cahoots with the U.S.", it said.

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[NEWS] DLP Lawmakers’ Visit to NK Cemetery Infuriates GNP

Baby steps would be the way to go but not this

Members of the conservative Grand National Party (GNP) Tuesday stepped up its criticism of the progressive Democratic Labor Party (DLP) for its delegation’s `` inappropriate courtesy’’ call paid in North Korea.

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August 30, 2005

[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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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 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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[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] S-N Red Cross Talks Stall

'Voluntary' my big fat Korean/Australian arse. 

The South Korean government estimates that a total of 486 South Koreans, mostly fishermen, have been abducted by the North during the decades following the Korean War and not returned home. But the North has been flatly denying any role in abduction, saying the people in question are ``voluntary defectors’’ to the communist country.

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August 24, 2005

[NEWS] 51 Points for State Administration, 44 for Economic Policy

When asked what score they would give the president on a scale of 0 to 100, the respondents gave the president an average of 51.1 points, which is lower than 53 points around the first anniversary this government and 55.9 on its second anniversary. In particular, the president scored a mere average of 43.6 points on economic policy operation.

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