Something you don’t see everyday. Photo and text via Reuters:
North Korea’s diplomat Won To Hui climbs out of a tunnel while visiting the Cu Chi tunnel system with his Prime Minister Kim Yong-il in Vietnam’s southern Ho Chi Minh city October 30, 2007.
Excerpts from the 26 October Department of State Daily Press Briefing on North Korea’s nuclear declaration. Spokesman Sean McCormack is responding to questions:
QUESTION: — if North Korea provides a declaration that is seen to be something less than complete and correct on New Year’s Eve. And his response was to the effect that […]
The flag, on loan from the U.S. Naval Academy Museum in Maryland for up to 10 years, arrived in Korea on Friday:
The flag of General Eo Jae-yeon (1823-1871), the garrison commander of Ganghwa Island during the latter years of the Chosun Dynasty, has returned home 136 years after it was captured by American […]
Reuters: S Korea says US troops to stay [after peace treaty]
LA Times: GOP asks about N. Korean role in Syria
Reuters: North Korea nuclear disablement may start next week
WaPo: Envoy Warns of N. Korea Deal Fallout
AFP: Japan warns US over North Korea
AP: N Korea ‘may lose nukes next week’
AFP: NKorea “factory-apartment” throws lifeline […]
From the NYT:
Still, after 18 months in which the administration has touted the virtues of collective action against Iran by the United States and its allies, the sanctions are a major turn toward unilateralism.
The shift represents a tacit acknowledgment that the diplomatic strategy pressed most vigorously by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has been […]
Commercial satellite photos from 10 August (left) and 24 October (right) show the Syrian facility near the Euphrates River, rumored to be an unfinished nuclear reactor site being constructed with the assistance of North Korea, bombed by Israel in September:
The Syrians claim it was a warehouse; Israel says the fast cleanup of the site […]
From Bloomberg: “North Korea will submit an early list of its nuclear programs within two weeks. . . Christopher Hill said.” The real questions are; will the declaration include uranium and will it be credible?
Maj. Fred Ohr flew over 150 missions and had six kills as squadron leader for the famous 2nd Fighter Squadron (flying P-51 Mustangs), the “American Beagles.” He ended up flying in Africa and all over Europe, earning two Silver Stars, two Distinguished Flying Crosses, and a Bronze Star among other decorations:
Born in Oregon in […]
The Bush Administration’s engagement of North Korea – which I described earlier and giving Kim Jong-il enough rope to hang himself (IMO the final test of this will be what the administration accepts as North Korea’s uranium declaration) – has been drawing criticism from the likes of John Bolton from the beginning.
Now Republican opposition […]
Anyplace that has “sojutinis” has to be doing something right: “Upscale Korean food remains a relatively somnolent genre, no matter the borough: many diners haven’t moved far past the grill-it-yourself, Woo Lae Oak branch of the cuisine.”
Via the Times: "The exhibition features 400 hand-painted posters dating from the peak of the Dear Leader Kim Sung Il's power in the 1950s to the present regime led by his son, Kim Jong Il." The article has only one image, but has several interesting propaganda quotes.
- #Young Korean Herrenvolk engaging in their version of Agoge, at least according to the New York Times. The two Korean schools mentioned in the article are similar to Exeter or Andover in the United States in someways (they are private academies that serve children of affluent parents). But my guess is that the studious atmosphere and intense regimen compare more to the likes of Stuyvesant (my alma mater) in NYC or T.J. in Virginia (both highly selective, but publicly-funded high schools).
- #North Korea claims that on 25 April 1932 the Korean People’s Army (KPA, 조선인민군/ Chosŏn inmin'gun) was formed. However, the more likely accurate date is 08 February 1948. It is celebrated as “Military Foundation Day” in Kimland.
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