According to John McCreary (author of NightWatch), U.S. officials are assisting North Korea by drafting their nuclear declaration for them:
…according to well informed analysts[,] US officials are drafting the North Korean declaration of its nuclear facilities – the handful that are being declared – which will put North Korea in compliance with […]
Apparently someone in the KPA Threat Department didn’t realize that ashes logically follow fire when attempting to make one of the standard threats sound more menacing:
North Korea threatened South Korea with destruction Sunday after Seoul’s top military officer said his country would consider attacking the communist nation if it tried to carry out […]
Is Roh insane or on drugs? It’s no longer just a rhetorical question as Roh recently made a string of comments that call into question either his grip on reality or experimentation with mind altering chemicals. And there is a huge difference between Roh and the gaffes made by Bush; Roh actually means what […]
It’s been awhile since my criminology courses, but I recall that a basic tenet is that for it to be an effective deterrent, the punishment must be appropriate and timely, a point evidently lost on South Korean officials (h/t Marmot) who are behaving more like their North Korean counterparts:
South Korea will confiscate $27 million […]
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 […]
Update 3: Hot Air has a new thread asking the question, “Was Cho schizophrenic, “mean,” or both?” The continuing trend is to focus on the individual in the States, and the ethnicity in Korea.
Update 2:
Cho Seung-hui posted a warning on a V-Tech online forum, “”im going to kill people at vtech today,” […]
Final update: Any new information will get a new post.
The WaPo has a good summary of the entire event. Also don’t miss the post on this at OneFreeKorea.
Of intererest but not related to this specific story is that of Woo Bum-Kon (우범근), a “a Korean police officer who carried out the worst incident of […]
Jerry Springer has nothing on North Korea - the rabbits aren’t going:
The offspring of the 12 giant rabbits were supposed to help to feed starving North Koreans. . . amid concerns that they have been eaten by the country’s leaders, Mr Szmolinsky will not be sending any more.
The 68-year-old breeder had been due to […]
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, […]
South Korean President Roh Moo-Hyun is probably making Kim Myong-chol, the “unofficial spokesman of Kim Jong-il and North Korea,” nervous about his position. First he defends North Korea’s decision to go nuclear:
President Roh had a press conference with members of the Internet media to celebrate the fourth anniversary of his inauguration. This day he […]
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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