From the AP: “ ‘Let me make it very clear: [Lefkowitz] is the envoy for issues related to human rights in North Korea,’ State Department spokesman Sean McCormack told reporters Friday. ‘He is not, however, somebody who speaks authoritatively about the six-party talks. His comments certainly don’t represent the views of the administration.’ ” (h/t DPRK Forum). Related post: Lefkowitz Refutes Hill.
From the Dong-a Ilbo: “President of the Families of Abducted and Detained in North Korea, confirmed yesterday at a press conference, ‘A former South Korean soldier surnamed Kim is currently staying in a third country. He crossed the North Korean border at around 10 p.m. on June 14. He joined the South Korean army in August 1951 at age 17. He is now 74 years old.’”
- #GI Korea has an excellent and lengthy post on the background, events, and aftermath of the 2002 accident where a U.S. armored vehicle killed to schoolgirls. I arrived in Korea a few days after the accident, but things didn't start to heat up until two months later, as I was returning to the States.
- #Via Reuters: “…there was strong suspicion a huge shipment of methamphetamines seized at the former U.S. navy base of Subic north of Manila this week came from clandestine drugs laboratories in North Korea.” The Joker took over Batman’s abandoned cave.
- #From TimesOnline: "THE first case of murder and suicide caused by North Korea’s new food crisis has emerged with the account of a man who killed his hungry wife and children and then took his own life in despair." This report can't be confirmed, but it is entirely plausible.
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January 28th, 2008 at 4:50 am
… and so, … refresh my memory … is there any one else in the current administration who has seriously supported the concept of human rights in North Korea and who has NOT been ‘thrown under the bus’?
January 29th, 2008 at 8:05 am
No one in the headlines, that I can recall.