Via the KCNA: “General Secretary Kim Jong Il was presented with a gift by the visiting governor of New Mexico State, U.S. Governor Bill Richardson handed the gift over to Kim Yong Dae, vice-president of the Presidium of the Supreme People’s Assembly of the DPRK, Tuesday.” The gift was not identified.
A bit dated, but Yoelchae's write up on his trip to Kaesong in October is well worth the read.
- #New additions are: Andrei Lankov's blog (translated version via DPRK Forum); Saber Fencer; The Grand Narrative; Korea in Focus; KoreaArticle, and; Information Dissemination.
- #Via CNN: "An Iranian woman, blinded by a jilted stalker who threw acid in her face, has persuaded a court to sentence him to be blinded with acid himself under Islamic law demanding an eye for an eye... Her attacker... admitted throwing acid in her face in November 2004."
- #In an article at the Asia Times, Riddles and enigmas from North Korea, Andrei Lankov speculates on how governments get intelligence from inside North Korea, and lists some of the other valuable sources of information from the country.
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April 13th, 2007 at 5:44 am
$25 million.
April 13th, 2007 at 9:25 am
… in supernotes (ala Bruce Klingner)
April 13th, 2007 at 9:33 am
[…] Bill’s© campaign site to claim credit for a North Korea “breakthrough” (ht: a different Richardson) that not even Nancy Pelosi has the constitutional authority or personal prescence to have […]