South Korean President-elect Lee Myung-Bak announced members of his transition team in the past couple of weeks. Since the news did not receive much coverage due to the holidays, better late than never as the saying goes.
Let’s start with the obvious one. Lee made history by including a foreigner, David Eldon. Eldon […]
I had a chance to appear on The O’Reilly Factor this evening to discuss the reaction to the South Korean hostage issue. First of all, I would like to thank Michelle Malkin (who subbed O’Reilly) for the opportunity.
If I looked and sounded ghastly, please forgive me, as I was on the tail […]
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 […]
A particularly irreverent former colleague (he’s a Ron Paul supporter, for whatever that’s worth) writes: “I guess South Korean Christians are the only kind left that care for the whole courage and martyrdom thing… My church, on the other hand, is content to watch Al Gore movies and sing the opening song from Pocahontas. […]
First, a little disclosure: long time readers of this blog, Joshua’s blog (One Free Korea), and the now defunct joint blog Joshua, Richardson and I created in the past (The Korea Liberator) probably remember that the joint project unraveled under a less than amicable circumstance. We had different ideas about how to run the […]
[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 […]
WaPo lumps Ayaan Hirsi Ali along with Camille Paglia and Michael Moore (!!!) as being one of “idiosyncratic, opinionated, talented, flawed, impossible… iconoclasts, troublemakers, provocateurs, opportunists, polemicists.”
What???!!!
Let’s review who Ayaan Hirsi Ali is:
She scripted an 11-minute film about the Koran and domestic abuse of women that resulted in the throat-slitting assassination of its director, […]
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 […]
Michael Fumento of Hudson Institute (which inhabits the same building as Discovery Institute’s D.C. office) forwarded me the link to his latest war reporting from Iraq, a multimedia piece that he considers his best. The article has many photographs and video clips, and documents the heroic efforts of our troops in Ramadi, a city […]
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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