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08/24 Call for assassination fuels outrage (SeattleTimes) -- Televangelist Pat Robertson's call for the assassination of leftist Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez provoked a storm of criticism yesterday, triggering condemnation from fellow religious leaders and international outrage, while the Bush administration said he was a "private citizen" whose remarks were "inappropriate."
08/24 Japan's Security Council seat less likely (SeatleTimes) -- Just a few months ago, Japan was optimistic about achieving its long-standing dream of a permanent seat on the U.N. Security Council. The government believed a draft resolution it co-sponsored to expand the council had strong backing in the General Assembly. The United States seemed supportive and U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan wanted a quick decision.
08/24 From Reagan to Clinton- U.S. Policy on NK (OhmyNews) -- Next week, if all goes according to plan, the United States will resume six-party talks with North Korea, South Korea, Japan, Russia and host nation China on the issue of North Korea's nuclear program. The parties are trying to reach agreement on a set of principles to guide negotiations that will lead to the dismantling of Pyongyang's nuclear program and the threat it poses of a destabilizing North Korean nuclear weapons arsenal.
08/21 S-N Joint Farming to Start Next Year (KoreaTimes) - South and North Korea will select a few collective farms in the North for cooperation on agricultural management early next year, a Unification Ministry official said on Sunday. South Korea will provide fertilizer aid, agricultural machinery and technology to the farms as early as February or March when the farming season begins on the Korean Peninsula, Bahk Heung-yuel, coordinator for South-North dialogue at the ministry, told The Korea Times.
08/19 American view of China (Vladivostok) -- Suifenhe, a small Chinese town located in the northern part of the country near the border of Russia, seems to exist in its sole purpose for shopping.
08/19 NPT fate tied to response to Iran, North Korea crisesBy Eric Johnston (JapanTimes) -- The atomic ambitions of North Korea and Iran offer direct challenges to the credibility of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, while the international community's response to these challenges will greatly influence global opinion as to whether the treaty itself is still viable.
08/19 Russian patrol ships head for Japan (Vladivostok) -- Two Russian patrol ships left the Far Eastern city of Vladivostok on Tuesday for the port of Niigata to participate in the joint Russian-Japanese drills, a press statement from Primorye's Department of Federal Security Service reported. The two countries' first patrol ship maneuvers scheduled for August 18 to 25 are aimed to strengthening ties between the Russian and Japanese frontier fleets.
08/19 The perversion of justice (Pravda) -- During the years in which the Socialist movements made giant strides towards creating conditions of social equality and mobility, in the case of Russia, taking a medieval society forward to the front line of development in two generations, the reactionary capitalist elitists sat quietly, waiting for their day to come. After spending trillions of dollars trying to exhaust the Socialist model, which at the same time had to fight against coup d'etats, assassinations, blockades and acts of sabotage, these reactionary elements crawled out of the floorboards at the beginning of the new millennium, incarnated in the Bush regime.
08/17 Corea's 1866 Clash With General Sherman (OhmyNews) - The General Sherman incident is significant because it was the first armed conflict between Korea and the U.S. This minor incident, in which about 10 Koreans and three Americans were killed, led to a larger conflict in 1871, in which three Americans and 243 Koreans were killed. It is commonly believed the U.S. merchant ship the General Sherman was burned and sunk in 1866 near Pyongyang. However, it is unlikely that she sank or burned down, because she had a thick iron hull, not easily burnable, and besides, she was stuck in the river mud when she was attacked and could not have sunk any deeper.
08/14 North Korean Delegation Pays Homage To South Korean War Dead in Seoul (OhmyNews) -- Paying our respects at the National Cemetery is a desire to throw off the old state of affairs and embrace amicable cooperation. -- Kim Ki Nam, secretary of the North Korean Workers' Party central committee For the first time, North Korean officials attended a Liberation Day ceremony at South Korea's National Cemetery paying homage to soldiers from the Korean War (1950-53), in Seoul Sunday afternoon.
08/14 Kim Jong-il Sounds Out Return Visit to South (KoreaTimes) -- Pyongyang might have offered to pay tribute to South Korea’s war dead in Seoul to test ``what would happen’’ if Kim Jong-il visited the South Korean capital, according to experts on Sunday.
08/14 Bush gives Iran stern warning (SeattleTimes) -- In a stern warning to Iran, President Bush said "all options are on the table" if the Iranians refuse to comply with international demands to halt their nuclear program, pointedly noting he has already used force to protect U.S. security.
08/14 America's North Korean policy has been in hibernation (SeattleTimes) -- The return of the United States to the recently reopened six-party talks to denuclearize North Korea by diplomatic means adds a new, Rip Van Winkle dimension to American policy toward Northeast Asia. Like Rip, who fell into a multiyear sleep after drinking an intoxicant provided by apparently well-meaning friends, the United States, after a party featuring the neo-conservative war on terror strategic brew, similarly displayed a protracted sleep-like insensibility toward the realities of Korea/Northeast Asia
08/14 The Untold Massacre of 5,000 Koreans by the Japanese Navy on August 24, 1945 (KWW) - On August 22, 1945, four days before the US occupation forced arrived in Japan, 4,000-5,000 Koreans who were impressed into slave labour camps by the Japanese were herded into a 4,370-ton Japanese Navy vessel – a former cruiser the Ukishima Maru, at Oinito, the Aomori Prefecture. The Japanese officers told the Koreans that they were going home and naturally, the Koreans were jubilant. Two days later, the Japanese scuttled the ship after locking up hatches. All but 80 survived this heinous massacre.
08/13 S.Korea-US drills block inter-Korean general-level military talks- DPRK (NewChina) -- The Korean People's Army (KPA) of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) on Saturday strongly condemned the projected joint military exercises by South Korea and the United States. "The US's aim is to wind up its preparations for preemptive attack on the DPRK and drive the situation on the peninsula to an extreme tension in a bid to block the positive process of reconciliation and cooperation between the north and the south and force the DPRK to accept the unjust demands raised by the US at the six-party talks," a spokesman of the KPA's Panmunjom Mission said in a statement.
08/13 NK Delegates to Honor War Dead (KoreaTimes) -- Some 30 members of the North Korean government and civilian delegation to the joint 60th Liberation Day celebrations will pay a tribute to the South Korean war dead at the National Cemetery in Seoul during their four-day stay, a top government official said Friday. This will mark the first-ever courtesy of the North expressed to the South Korean soldiers killed during the 1950-53 Korean War.
08/13 North Korea announces rare amnesty amid pressure over human rights (Yahoo) -- The country's parliament issued a decree to grant "a great amnesty" to mark the 60th anniversaries of the establishment of the ruling Workers' Party of Korea and the liberation of Korea from 45 years of Japanese colonial rule. The decree says the amnesties will go into effect from September 1, the official Korean Central News Agency said.
08/13 Anti-US Troop Demonstration (CRI) -- About 1,000 South Korean university student activists demonstrated in downtown Seoul Saturday, demanding an end to the US military presence in South Korea, reported the South Korean Yonhap News Agency. The students clashed with riot police near the US Embassy in central Seoul, but there were no reports of arrests or injuries, said Yonhap.
08/12 North Korea's Peaceful Use of Nuclear Energy (OhmyNews) -- At the first stage of the fourth-round talks, the North argued that it should be guaranteed the right for a peaceful nuclear program as a sovereign state. On the other hand, the U.S. continues its position that all the nuclear weapons and programs must be dismantled, saying that it cannot acknowledge peaceful use of nuclear program.
08/11 S. Korea, US Feud Over NK Nukes (KoreaTimes) -- North Korea should be allowed to maintain a peaceful nuclear energy program as long as it verifiably scraps its weapons development, a top South Korean official said Thursday, signaling a major split in opinion between Seoul and Washington in the nuclear negotiations. In an interview with local Internet portal Daum Media, Unification Minister Chung Dong-young argued that electricity-starved Pyongyang has the right to generate nuclear energy.
08/11 Liberation Short-lived for Unified Korea (KoreaTimes) -- Many Koreans celebrated the independence from Japan, believing that the Korean people were free to build a new Korea. They were totally unaware of the fact that Stalin and Truman had already carved up Korea and planned to install puppet governments. (A KoreaTimes interview with the KWW editor, Y. Kim.)
08/10 NK Ships to Pass Through Cheju Strait (KoreaTimes) -- North Korean civilian vessels will be allowed to pass through the Cheju Strait, waters that lie between Cheju Island and the Korean Peninsula, beginning on Aug. 15, Liberation Day. The North will also be able to take sea routes on the South’s territorial waters when its vessels have to pass the area, for example from one of its ports on the east coast to another on the west or vice versa. The same right is granted to the South as well.
08/10 Mere Pretension in Investigating Remains of Detainees in Japan (Donga) -- In December last year, Korea and Japan agreed to “resolve smoothly the issue of investigating the remains of Korean detainees” at the summit talks, but the Japanese government’s action on it turned out to be “mere pretension.” Documents of the Japanese Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC) acquired by Dong-A Ilbo on August 9 had the mere format of “requested investigation,” which was not legally binding at all.
08/10 Aerial Pictures Capture DMZ in New Light (Chosun) -- The Peace Festival 2005 will see an exhibition entitled “DMZ from Above” by the world-renowned French photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand, who became the first person to take pictures of the symbol of Korea’s division from the air. The exhibition, sponsored by the Chosun Ilbo, will last to Sept. 11 at Imjingak, a tourist site near the DMZ in Paju, Gyeonggi Province
08/09 NK Wants Peace Pact With US, S. Korea (KoreaTimes) - The U.S. should turn the cease-fire accord that ended the 1950-53 Korean War into a peace treaty to resolve the nuclear standoff on the Korean Peninsula, a major North Korean newspaper said on Tuesday. It was the first time Pyongyang’s state media outlet made any reference to the nuclear issue since the beginning of the fourth round of the six-party denuclearization talks on July 26.
08/09 Want bread? Dear Leader wants you to drink water (AsianAge) -- On an Air Koryo flight from Beijing to Pyongyang, flight attendants alternated standard safety instruction with messages such as, "The water you are drinking here is special for your health and longevity. Even if he’s very busy, the Dear Leader, the benevolent father of our people, has studied in detail the problems of distribution in our country in order to give water to everybody. If you drink it, you will feel the sense of endless love of our people for the great leader Kim Jong Il."
08/09 Osama bin Laden Looks Like Heading for Iraq (Debka) -- Coded electronic signals bandied in recent days among al Qaeda Middle Eastern elements across secret Internet sites all carry the same message: the supreme leader, Osama bin Laden, has come out of hiding in Afghanistan and set out, or is about to set out, for Iraq.
08/09 NK Wants Peace Pact With US, S. Korea (KoreaTimes) - The U.S. should turn the cease-fire accord that ended the 1950-53 Korean War into a peace treaty to resolve the nuclear standoff on the Korean Peninsula, a major North Korean newspaper said on Tuesday. It was the first time Pyongyang’s state media outlet made any reference to the nuclear issue since the beginning of the fourth round of the six-party denuclearization talks on July 26.
08/09 Want bread? Dear Leader wants you to drink water (AsianAge) -- On an Air Koryo flight from Beijing to Pyongyang, flight attendants alternated standard safety instruction with messages such as, "The water you are drinking here is special for your health and longevity. Even if he’s very busy, the Dear Leader, the benevolent father of our people, has studied in detail the problems of distribution in our country in order to give water to everybody. If you drink it, you will feel the sense of endless love of our people for the great leader Kim Jong Il."
08/09 Osama bin Laden Looks Like Heading for Iraq (Debka) -- Coded electronic signals bandied in recent days among al Qaeda Middle Eastern elements across secret Internet sites all carry the same message: the supreme leader, Osama bin Laden, has come out of hiding in Afghanistan and set out, or is about to set out, for Iraq.
08/07 Bush Policy Backfiring in Asia (Nautilus) -- Now that North Korea has returned to six-party talks, the question remains, will the Bush administration continue to watch Pyongyang arm without trying to do what South Korea and Japan think just might get it to stop: sustained diplomatic give and take? Most hard-liners in the administration are unilateralists who could care less what allies think. Negotiating is anathema to them. Others take it on faith that North Korea is determined to arm, not deal, and believe that a nuclear-arming Pyongyang will drive Seoul and Tokyo further into Washington's arms.
08/05 New Draft for 6-Way Talks on Horizon (KoreaTimes) -- Top negotiators in the six-party talks on North Korea's nuclear weapons program might consider a new draft statement of principles to denuclearize the Korean Peninsula, Seoul’s top envoy to the forum said on Friday. ``The door is open for a new draft since the trilateral meeting of the two Koreas and the U.S. (on Thursday),'' Deputy Foreign Minister Song Min-soon told reporters. ``We will try to work on the draft continually. But we have to wait and see whether we can file it with the plenary session (of top delegates).''
08/05 US Sticks to 2001 Offer for Shooting Victims (KoreaTimes) -- The controversy continues over how to settle a civilian massacre that U.S. troops committed during the Korean War at Nogun-ri, a rural village in central South Korea, as Washington considers the case closed. The U.S. Department of Defense said Thursday that it stands by its announcement in 2001, when then U.S. President Bill Clinton offered a memorial and scholarship fund. The Koreans rejected the proposal, calling it insufficient. - See also- Nogunri Incident Resurfaces (OhmyNews)
08/03 MEET SNUPPY- The First Cloned Hound (OhmyNews) -- Two Korean researchers announced early Wednesday (August 3) morning that they have become the first to clone man's best friend. Seoul National University (SNU) professors Hwang Woo Suk and Lee Byung Chun said that the dog was born April 24 in the university's veterinary hospital and is named "Snuppy," a combination of the school's acronym and the English word "puppy." Lee and Hwang said that based on research begun in August 2002 they had taken a somatic cell from the skin of a three year-old Afghan Hound and placed it an egg to produce a cloned fertilized one that was then implanted in the womb of a female of a different breed. The somatic cell was placed in the egg after removing the egg's nucleus.
08/03 DPRK defends right to peaceful use of nuclear power (ChinaPeoplesDaily) -- DPRK should enjoy the right to the peaceful use of nuclear power, said Kim Kye-gwan, DPRK's chief negotiator to the ongoing six-party Korean nuclear talks, here on Thursday. Kim, also vice foreign minister of the DPRK, made the remarks outside the DPRK embassy in China following a heads-of-delegation meeting of the talks on Thursday evening.
08/03 Accord hopes dim as North Korea talks hit day 11 (Reuters) -- Three previous rounds of talks failed to end the three-year-old crisis, and negotiators from the two Koreas, the United States, Japan, Russia and host nation China faced the prospect of another abortive outcome in round four.
08/01 US Nukes Another Obstacle at 6-Way Talks (OhmyNews) -- Every nation at the six-party talks that began July 26 is calling for a "nuclear free Korean peninsula." The Bush Administration says that the goal is not having talks but making substantial progress towards a nuclear free peninsula. Chairman Kim Jong IL says a peninsula without nuclear arms was one of the final wishes of President Kim IL Sung and that it is North Korea's goal. It is clearly noteworthy when North Korea and the United States speak with one voice about nukes and the Korean peninsula.
08/01 New U.S. Command in Japan Would Handle Korean Emergency (Chosun) -- The Yomiuri Shimbun reported Monday that a new U.S. Army headquarters (UEX) to be transferred to Camp Zama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan would assume direct command in an emergency on the Korean Peninsula. The UEX is smaller than the Washington-based U.S. Army's 1st Corps headquarters, which was initially considered for the move to Camp Zama
08/01 The General Sherman Incident of 1866 (KWW) - The General Sherman Incident is significant because it was the first armed conflict between Korea and the USA. This minor incident, in which about ten Koreans were killed and three Americans were killed, led to a larger conflict in 1871, in which 3 Americans and 243 Koreans were killed. The Korean War of 1950 saw over three million Koreans and over 30,000 Americans killed.
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