Update: OneFreeKorea beat me to it, and with commentary.
Original post: Via Dynamic-Korea.com (h/t reader):
Korean President Roh Moo-hyun will make an overland trip to Pyongyang later this month for a summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-il, pool reports said on Tuesday (Aug. 14), quoting a Korean government official.
And diplomats in Seoul are getting giddy […]
From AFP: “The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is likely to approve North Korea’s country domain ‘.kp’ at a meeting in Los Angeles starting in October, board member Suh Jae-Chul said.” This has the potential to affect dozens in North Korea!
This is an update to, “The Consequences of Anti-nationalistic Acts,” concerning the South Korean government’s plan, per a “special law” cooked up by the Investigative Commission on Pro-Japanese Collaborators’ Property, to:
…confiscate $27 million worth of land from the descendants of 10 people who allegedly collaborated with Japan during its 1910-45 colonial rule… (emphasis added)
Aside […]
Korean Unification Studies and 미국 인 in 한국 (American in Korea) are both self-expalnatory, and Mong Dori, “We are a community and private job posting site for foreigners living in South Korea,” which has a lot of interesting Korea-related videos posted.
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.
- #From Mainichi and via the Chosun Bimbo, "In his first reported appearance following news of his hospitalization, North Korean leader Kim Jong Il lost his temper while watching a college soccer match, denouncing several players' long hair as "disgusting," according to a source close to the North Korean government. The outburst was followed by a nationwide ban on long hair for men." We'll all be watching the next soccer match to see if it's so.
- #Outward Bound, an international non-profit outdoor education program, is offering fully funded (including transportation to/from sites) outdoor adventure excursions to all OEF/OIF veterans. It doesn't matter what your current military status is (active, inactive, discharged, retired) - you're eligible to attend as long as you deployed in support of OEF/OIF combat operations while in the military.
- #Via AFP: “South Korea has lifted an overseas travel ban on Hwang Jang-Yop, the highest-ranking North Korean defector ever to come here and a harsh critic of the Pyongyang regime. . . Hwang, former secretary of the ruling Workers' Party and an ex-tutor of Kim Jong-Il, defected during a trip to Beijing in 1997.” His travel restriction was due to 10 years of pro-North ROK leadership, now over.
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