Senator Sam Brownback (R-Kansas), sponsor of the North Korean Human Rights Act of 2004, submitted Resolution 399, which calls for requiring several conditions before North Korea can be removed from the U.S. list of terrorism-sponsoring nations:
The resolution urges the administration not to lift the designation until it can be demonstrated that North Korea is […]

These tactics would be better used on South Korea’s Roh Moo-hyun, generally, but I do agree in using them on one of our top allies in this specific case:
The United States warned Japan in March that Washington could no longer back Tokyo on the issue of North Korea’s past abductions of Japanese unless then […]

This is the “where were you when you heard Kennedy was shot?” question for our generation. I got up late, hours after the attacks a few time zones away, got on the net, and was trying to comprehend the picture I was seeing on the front page of the Korea Herald (my start page […]

This should be good – the North Koreas face the American team on, oddly enough, 11 September at the Chengdu Sports Center:
North Korea may not allow its less-than-average national men’s soccer team to participate in every international tournament, but the secretive Stalinist state has no such qualms about its high-performing women.
[. . .]
The North […]

Update: Bolton has his say:
Congressmen, human rights activists, and a former ambassador are challenging the Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s plan to transfer $25 million in frozen funds to North Korea… “These are tainted funds and it would be bad enough to have a private bank handle them, let alone the Fed,” a […]

In a follow-up to this, from just over two hours ago via Reuters (h/t reader):
U.S.-based bank Wachovia Corp. said on Thursday it had been asked by the U.S. State Department to help with the transfer of $25 million in tainted funds that has delayed a shutdown of North Korea’s nuclear complex.
[. . .]
Although Washington […]

At Tuesday’s inter-Korea talks, the first in a year, a North Korean general cracked a joke about U.S. President George Bush. Perhaps more surprising (or perhaps not, given the atmosphere at such meetings) was that his South Korean counterpart defended Bush, if indirectly by defending the U.S.:
“I read a political joke, called ‘Saving the […]

Update: Also see Joshua’s post on this at OFK.
Original post: The first thing I thought when I read this report (h/t BesottedTom) was, “shouldn’t it be illegal for North Korea to export goods to the U.S.? [The answer is no, see below.] So it seem that those in the U.S. will be able to […]

Their subtitle for the article, “Anti-Europeanism is a bad response to anti-Americanism.” It presents an excellent example of them - Europeans - simply not getting it:
America’s anti-Europeans have three big complaints about the Old Continent. The first is that Europe is committing demographic and economic suicide. . The second is that, unlike America, Europe […]