What's New at Kimsoft? August 2000


08/28 kww: Seoul Searching - Eleven years ago, my wife, our two sons and I adopted a baby girl from Korea. As she grew up, she began asking questions. When she said, 'I want to meet someone I'm related to,' we went looking. Here's what we found.

08/27 kww: Korean Celadon - Korean pottery

08/25 kww: Vying for Next-generation Fighter Project Worth $4 Billion - By Min-Seok Kim, Defense Specialist and Brent Choi, Editor/Researcher, Joong-An Ilbo

08/24 kww: North Korea Net - Information on North Korea

08/24 kww: Long-Term Uncoverted Prisoners - Home Page

08/22 kww: Who Oppose Reunification of Korea? -- Even before the eyes of the Korean people have replenished the tears shed during the August 15th reunion of long-lost mothers, fathers, brothers and sisters, dark clouds of anti-reunification threaten to pour cold water on the nascent North-South reconciliation.

08/17 kww: The Republicans for War - Aiding the Enemy: the Clinton-Gore administration, in 1994, committed not only to provide foreign aid for North Korea, but to earmark that aid primarily for the construction of nuclear reactors worth up to $6 billion - so claim the Republicans and a Republican President will reverse the thawing process in Korea unless the Korean people stand together.

08/17 kww: The Democrats for Peace - "We helped facilitate the dialogue between North and South Korea, without which the recent summit could not have occurred...Our diplomacy has helped to halt North Korea’s push for nuclear weapons. We got North Korea to stop testing long-range ballistic missiles and are also engaged in continuing negotiations regarding their testing and export of long-range ballistic missiles. The tight coordination between the United States, South Korea, and Japan is critical to our success, and we will maintain it as the two Koreas continue the dialogue begun at the recent summit"

08/15 kww: The Christian Crusade Against Our Tangun

08/13 kww: South Korean Media Heads Interview Kim Jong Il

08/12 kww: Korean-Americans Seek US Gov Help in Reunion with Separated Families

08/12 kww: South, North Koreans Set To Reunite -- "Mother, please don't get older. Mother, I wish I could stop time until the nation reunifies and we can get together again" - so wrote 66-year-old Oh, who will visit Seoul as one of 100 North Koreans taking part in four-day reunions with family members in the South. Oh won't get to see his mother, Kwak Ang-soon. She died in 1995 at age 84.

08/12 kww: "North Korea's Auschwitz" -- the inside story on the No. 14 detention center - Kim Yong was earning foreign currency as a cadre at the National Defense Department when he learned that his father had been executed on espionage charges. He was then sent to the No. 14 detention center and when he arrived there he saw "people who looked like living skeletons" and he realized that no one ever left there alive.

08/12 kww: A Letter from North Korea (Chosun Monthly) - "It was on that road that my oldest daughter breathed her last, and after that the body of my youngest daughter was found in the garbage dump at Sunchon station, leaving me in a state of total desolation. My youngest daughter, my revolutionary comrade who remained true to me to the very end, was my last blood relative in a world."

08/04 kww: The Kim Dae Jung - Kim Jong Il Dialogues - by Gen. Hwang Won Duk, Foreign Affairs and Security Advisor

08/03 kww: Pres. Clinton's Remarks at a Hillary 2000 Fundraiser Luncheon organized by Koreans at The Waldorf Astoria, New York, New York, 1:57 P.M. EDT

08/03 kww: The Truth about the Bush Family -- BZB & The Billy Jack BlackHawk Brigade

08/03 kww: The Immaculate Deception : The Bush Crime Family Exposed by Russell S. Bowen -- A retired Brigadier General who was with the Office of Security Services (OSS) and ran drug running activities on behalf of the government. This is perhaps the most shocking book written this century about treason committed by the highest leaders within the U.S. Government. This disturbing and thought provoking expose, which few American know about, shows the truth about the drug running activities in behalf of the "secret" government". You will learn about the unsavory past of George Bush and his family, and as well as the uncrupulous activities in which he has been involved.

My Love for My Countrymen in Prison - When Kim Dong Ki (now 68) was 30, he was sent to South Korea on a spy mission. He was captured and spent 33 years in a South Korean prison. Kim is one of 50 or so the long-term-unconverted prisoners to be repatriated in a few weeks.

08/02 kww: How Korea’s New Railroad Will Change Northeast Asia -- South Korea and North Korea have agreed to re-establish a rail link that has been broken for half a century. The inter-Korean rail link, while symbolic, also lays the groundwork for overland transportation links from East Asia to Europe via Russia and China. While this promises economic growth and integration in the region, it may also spur increased competition between Russia and China, as they vie for a greater share of the Eurasian shipping.

08/01 kww: Moon Myong Ja interviews Kim Jong Il - Moon, a journalist with Washington-based US-Asian News Agency, conducted on June 30 an exclusive interview with the North Korean leader Kim Jong Il. The South Korean newspaper “Daehan Maeil” carried an article based on that interview in its July 12 issue.

08/01 kww: Anti-Christ - End of Religion. The Unholy Alliance of US Presidential Candidate Bush, Rev. Moon and North Korea's Kim Jong Il - I am making serious allegations against Bush and his involvement with Right wing extremists, racists and dangerous militant organizations. Bush is corrupt; this is my claim. Bush is an offense to the blood of American patriots who fought for democratic ideals.He is also the chosen candidate of the Washington Times, and its owner, the neo-fascist cult leader Sun Myung Moon, to whose pocket Bush is deeply indebted to the tune of millions of dollars. He owes Moon a great many favors. Boyd Mars, DarkRiver Film Production.

08/01 kww: North Korea would OK U.S. presence as 'peacekeeper' (Stars & Stripes) - An analysis of the situation on the Korean Peninsula published Wednesday by the English-language Beijing Review said North Korea “possibly will make the concession in view of improved relations with the United States.” If a change in the status of American troops is realized, the analysis said, Pyongyang will move toward normalization of relations with South Korea.

08/01 kww: U.S.-ROK Security and Civil-Military Relations: The Camptown Clean-Up Campaign -- Chapter 3 of Katherine Moon's book: Sex Among Allies : Military Prostitution in U.S.-Korea Relations

08/01 kww: Itaewon, South Korea. On the town with the U.S. military - On any given night in Itaewon women in prostitution costume hang out club doors soliciting GIs; one part come on, one part contempt. An old Korean woman, hands clasped behind her back, spends the night strolling up and down Hooker Hill, approaching youn g GIs in their downy sports jackets asking "Lady?" as the GI, after questioning How much? and How old? follows her up the hill and down an alley. Later in the barracks the soldiers imitate mockingly, "Suckee, Suckee, fuck, I do everything, I go home w ith you," clinging to the full metal jacket fantasy that they're still occupying forces in the hooch village.


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