Daily Chosun says:
Taliban killed another Korean hostage in Afghanistan after the latest deadline for negotiations expired on Monday. Qari Yousuf Ahmadi, a purported spokesman for the Taliban, told the Chosun Ilbo, AFP and AP by phone, “’Finally tonight at 8:30, we killed one of the Koreans named Sung Sim with AK-47 gunshots.” He claimed […]
[Update: July 26, 2007] This is what I mean by “metro-elite propaganda” (h/t my former boss). The article begins well enough, but then sneaks in the following:
Some devout Christians are calling the abductees martyrs, evoking the self-glorification of extreme Islamist jihadists.
This is the kind of anti-Christian moral equivalence that bugs me. On the one […]
The 06 February Washington Post article, “N. Korea Aims to Improve on Clinton-Era Nuclear Deal,” by Glen Kessler, touches on the October 2002 Bush administration accusation concerning North Korea’s uranium nuclear program:
U.S. intelligence analysts have closely tracked suspect purchases by North Korea that they believed were intended for use in a uranium facility, but […]
Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf has proposed that both Pakistan and India give up claims on Kashmir and allow it to become independent:
“Compromise inherently means stepping back by both sides,’” Musharraf said in an interview yesterday with India’s NDTV network, according to a transcript. “Both sides have to give up their positions and step back. […]
These people just don’t give up, do they? You gotta admire their zeal (h/t Marshall Sana):
Nearly 900 Christians from South Korea are in Afghanistan to attend a peace festival despite their government’s warning that they can be attacked.
The three-day event that starts in Kabul on Saturday comes amid an increase in violence, a foreign […]
Recently I wrote of “Russia’s Foolish Alliance with China,” in which I mentioned Ilan Berman.
Berman has written an article, which explains — much more eruditely than I can — of what I call Russia’s foolish alliance with Iran. I share many of its analyses and points. Some choice bits follow.
The background:
For more than a […]
Some readers may remember what I wrote about China and Central Asia in RealClearPolitics previously.
Contrary to my advice, it seems that Putin’s Russia is heading toward an alliance with China in order to reduce American influence in Central Asia.
This Russian strategy is extremely short-sighted. By cooperating with China, Russia is hoping to retain its […]
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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