North Korea in the News
by Richardson ~ July 26th, 2006. Filed under: News Links. USA Today: Almost 3,000 believed dead, missing in North Korea
Reuters: Senate backs North Korea nonproliferation act
Yonhap: Seoul to expand inter-Korean economic project despite U.S. concerns: official
AFP: China ’seriously concerned’ over North Korea stalemate
Korea Times: Pyongyang Wants Euro for Tours
Asia Times: Korean crisis takes a turn for the worse (Donald Kirk)
Asia Times: Of missiles and mercurial media (Aidan Foster-Carter)
Reuters: Rice says six-way talks on North Korea unlikely at ASEAN
Reuters: China says nuclear talks must include N.Korea
Yonhap: Seoul, Washington exclude talks on U.S. military presence after unification
AP: North Korea says it will bolster its nuclear weapons program
Kyodo: U.S. confirms China’s freeze of N. Korea-related bank accounts
Kyodo: Gov’t to tighten control on IT product exports to N. Korea
KBS Global: N. Korean Workers Received $6 Million at Kaesong
KBS Global: Cardinal Kim: Reunification Impossible without U.S.
Yonhap: U.S. wants U.N. members to freeze assets of N.K.entities
WaPo: Missing the Real Missile Threat
KCNA: 25 July | 26 July
Chosun Ilbo: Teachers’ Union Headed Over the Cliff (editorial)
Chosun Ilbo: A Presidential Bull in the China Shop (editorial)
Dong-a Ilbo: Adventure Diplomacy (editorial)
Dong-a Ilbo: Pro-North Teachers? (editorial)
Joongang Ilbo: Cold calculations (editorial)
July 26th, 2006 at 8:58 pm
Check out this site. Covert missionary tour to PY.
http://www.enest.org/nkoreatrip.html
“TRIP TO NORTH KOREA
The time is right to take a ground breaking trip to North Korea. This opportunity is available to any and all with a heart, a burden, a plea before God for North Korea and its precious people. The days in North Korea will follow a government led sightseeing itinerary. However, our focus will be toward ongoing silent intercession, breaking spiritual ground and planting seeds for a future harvest.”
Heard about them as I live in Seattle area where this org is based in.
July 27th, 2006 at 12:21 am
Guys,
Good article from Times Asia edition:
http://www.time.com/time/asia/magazine/article/0,13673,501060724-1215009,00.html
The Worst of Friends
North Korea’s provocative missile tests have strained the patience of longtime ally China
Excerpts:
But beneath the surface calm, diplomats and analysts said the Chinese leaders were frustrated, even angry, that Pyongyang defied their wishes. “I think the Chinese are as baffled as we are” by North Korea’s actions, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Hill said in Beijing last week.
Says Yan Xuetong, a professor of international relations at Beijing’s Tsinghua University: “I think that China is very unhappy with North Korea, which put it in a very awkward position. China now feels it is trapped in a game it can’t win.”
But this time Pyongyang may have gone too far. On Saturday, the United Nations Security Council, which includes China as a permanent member, unanimously passed a Tokyo-sponsored resolution condemning North Korea’s tests and demanding that it immediately suspend its missile program.
One of Beijing’s concerns is that Kim’s nuclear belligerence will encourage China’s ancient rival Japan to increase the role of its military or seek nuclear weapons of its own. “The Chinese leadership considers North Korea an albatross,” says Green, now at Washington’s Center for Strategic and International Studies.
But Beijing is reluctant to take a harder line, partly because it can neither control Kim nor predict how he will react. Pyongyang in the past has made veiled threats that it would attack South Korea if sanctions were imposed.
Pyongyang’s delegates walked out of the last round of talks in November, vowing not to return unless the U.S. lifts a freeze on North Korean assets at a Macau bank. That freeze was imposed to crack down on North Korea’s trafficking in drugs and counterfeit U.S. dollars.
Jing Huang, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington says he thinks China’s patience may be wearing thin. “This missile crisis will be the beginning of the end,” Huang predicts. “It is forcing Beijing to see [that] the consequences of North Korea’s actions are all bad for China.”