Vivian Lee, student activist at American University who organized the Thursday evening viewing of “Seoul Train” reports:
… the film was a clutcher to most of the audience, I think. A close friend approached me after and acclaimed the film. At first I took it as a hearty joke only because this friend has a [...]
The Korea Liberator’s own Joshua reports from a North Korea Freedom Week press conference the breaking news that President Bush will meet Sakie Yokota. She is the mother of the Japanese citizen Megumi Yokota who was abducted by North Korean agents.
The meeting is to take place tomorrow morning (Friday, April 28th).
We reported earlier that the [...]
The following was forwarded to us:
“ABDUCTION” DIRECTORS GO LIVE ON CNN ISSUE WILL GET BIGGEST AUDIENCE YET
For Immediate Release
April 27, 2006
Washington, DC The abduction of Japanese citizens by North Korea will get its biggest American audience to date when the directors of a new documentary on the subject appear live on CNN’s “American Morning” on [...]
UPDATE: Peter Hayes provided the following links in comments below:
1.) DPRK Energy Status, Paths, and Options and Nuclear Dismantlement (PPT)
2.) DPRK Briefing Book, with links to, An Estimate of Energy Use in the Armed Forces of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea
3.) The DPRK Energy Sector: Estimated Year 2000 Energy Balance and Suggested Approaches to [...]
From Suzanne Scholte of North Korea Freedom Coalition:
(North Korea Freedom Week Event)
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
SENDING THE MESSAGE OF HOPE TO NORTH KOREA:
Free North Korea Radio
WHEN: Thursday, April 27 at 1 p.m. (note earlier time to accommodate Congressional hearing witnesses, Members of Congress, attendees)
WHEN: 2168 Rayburn House Office Building (across the hall from the Congressional Hearing).
TO: MEMBERS [...]
VOA: N. Korean Defectors Often Find Life Less Than Ideal in South
Yonhap: Number of N.K. workers at Kaesong park rises rapidly: ministry
AP (via Army Times): Bell: N. Korea upgrading force
Start and Stripes: South Korea to shrink troop numbers by 26.5 percent
Daily NK: NK Food Situation, Pyongyang Rationing Also Hits a Snag
Daily NK: Soldiers in [...]
Unfortunately, some personal issues have prevented me from attending events in D.C. for the last several days. But I am hoping to make it to some of the rest of the events for the North Korea Freedom Week.
Check out the North Korea Freedom Day (Friday, April 28th) flyer here (req. PDF reader).
Today Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s Supreme Leader, threatened to conceal its nuclear program and share the technology with other nations.
While I personally believe that the UN, and its nuclear arm the IAEA, have already proved their ineffectiveness in North Korea, this may be the last test. I don’t mean that they will cease to exist, [...]
Chosun Ilbo: S.Korea Mulled Providing North With Banknote Paper, Ink
Yonhap: N.K. would need months to restock fuel in case of combat: study
Yonhap: Full text of agreement by inter-Korean ministers
Reuters: N.Korea says no nuclear talks under US pressure
Bangkok Post: North Korean goods pose local threat
Dong-a Ilbo: For Sale: North Korean Tour Packages
Scoop: Kiwi [...]
Recently a commenter on this site made a rather deranged claim that the People’s Republic of China is the world’s largest democracy.
The commenter’s claim centered largely on the fact that there are elections in China. Alas, elections do not a democracy make, as witnessed by Saddam’s Iraq and Kim Jong-Il’s North Korea where elections are [...]
After missile and nuclear tests and uranium enrichment, the U.S. sanctions North Korean firms while Pyongyang reverses, making overtures. It’s not an accident, it’s a pattern of strategic disengagement.
- #Vanity Fair, of all publications, has a lengthy article on North Korea’s counterfeiting operations, including Office 39. Well worth a read. (h/t NE Asia Matters)
- #The Chosun Ilbo has an article about a new book by Chang Jin-song (formerly affiliated with the North Korean Workers' Party) that details Kim Jong-il private life, including the inside scoop on all his lady friends. According to Chang, one unfortunate young lady to get Kim's attention was, "brutally executed after she spurned Kim's persistent advances and fell in love with another man."
- #Gizmodo has an excellent array of Kim Jong-il photos; In Which We Provoke Kim Jong Il in 77 Offensive and Hilarious Ways. Some are sure to become often used classics.
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