What's New at Kimsoft? March 2001 |
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03/30 kww: PYONGYANG WATCH Hyundai and North Korea: What now? - For the first time ever, North Korea on March 24 officially honored a South Korean: the late Chung Ju-yung, the larger-than-life founder of the Hyundai conglomerate, who died last week aged 85. When he was a teenager, the northern-born Chung ran off to the bright lights of Seoul, taking money his dad was saving to buy a cow. In 1998, he returned to the North with a gift of 500 cows. He got to meet Kim Jong-il and clinched a deal to run tourists to Mt Kumgang. That was the breakthrough that made the inter-Korean summit possible and set the stage for the new pan-Korean political economy that is now emerging.
03/29 kww: Domestic opposition builds to Bush's Korea policy - "Regrettable." "Serious policy blunder." "Extraordinarily irresponsible." These are just some of the responses in the United States to President George W Bush's decision to indefinitely postpone negotiations with North Korea. His administration is one of the most conservative in US history, but the decision is being met with opposition from both liberal and hard-line camps.
03/29 kww: North Korea, TV Nation (NYT) For most of the day ?presumably when there is no electrical power to spare ?there is nothing to see on North Korea's state television network. No reruns, no test patterns, nothing but static.
03/26 kww: Civilian Survivors Recall the Pain of Wartime in Korea (LA Times) Group seeks to call attention to attacks on villagers, for which they blame U.S. troops.
03/20 kww: The Tale of Two Koreas - Three South Korean films reveal another perspective of Korea's North-South struggle.
03/20 kww: USS Diachenko, APD 123 Hungnam, 12/25/50 - Crewman Describes Hungnam Evacuation
03/20 kww: The Origins of the Korean War - An Interpretation from the Soviet Archives- Evgueni Bajanov. Until the end of 1949 Stalin did not plan any aggression against South Korea. Instead he was worried about an attck from the South, and did everything to avoid provoking Washington and Seoul. In 1947-1948 Soviet leaders still believed in the possibility of unification of Korea, and refused to sign a separate friendship and cooperation treaty with North Korean leader Kim II Sung
03/20 kww: No Gun Ri survivors looking at Ehime Maru case in compensation bid (S&S) Survivors of the killings at No Gun Ri during the Korean War want the same compensation that may be given to victims of the recent Ehime Maru sinking off Hawaii. They also denounced a U.S. plan to build a monument to all Korean civilians killed during the war.
03/19 kww: PYONGYANG WATCH: They shoot people, don't they? - Yu Tae-jun was either very brave or mighty foolish. Either way, by all accounts he's now very dead - at just 33 - after being publicly executed. His crime? Defecting to South Korea from the North. His mistake? Returning - or being returned. Even in North Korea people like the unfortunate Yu should have at least one right: to know what it is they're being shot for.
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03/17 kww: Online Korea - Cyber lectures
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03/15 kww: Shadow on 'Sunshine Policy' (WP) - President Bush's shabby treatment of Kim Dae Jung of South Korea remains a mystery, but the first political returns are in: North Korea, obviously bent on rubbing in Kim's humiliation in the Oval Office, has canceled scheduled peace negotiations with Seoul.
03/14 kww: Call for Papers: The 2nd Annual Reconciliation Forum International, he 10th Washington North Korea Forum - The Institute for Strategic Reconciliation (ISR), a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit, independent think tank, will hold the 2nd Reconciliation Forum International in the Capitol as we celebrate the 10th Washington North Korea Forum, the Meeting Place of all who are concerned about peace and reconciliation in the Korean Peninsula. (See http://www.ISR2020.org for details of the Washington North Korea Forum.
03/13 kww:Pyongyang needs time to think, not talk - A goodwill gesture of US$18 million in aid from South Korea to North Korea on Monday clearly did not do the trick, with the North on Tuesday calling off four days of high-level talks just hours before they were to start. No reasons were given, but the feeling is that Pyongyang needs time to digest the hardline stance of the United States on issues on the troubled peninsula.
03/09 kww:Festering Pyongyang endangers all of Asia - The reportedly huge number of refugees fleeing North Korea raises the possibility of the collapse of the Pyongyang regime. But hence the conundrum: to stem the exodus, the world should buttress, with aid, one of its most horrible regimes. What is needed is a sophisticated, nuanced and hard-nosed coordinated policy on North Korea, not wet sentimentalism, to prevent endangering millions of its neighbors and the welfare of all of Asia.
03/08 kww: Korean-American Now in 11th Day of Hunger - Song Hak-Sam Indicted, Transferred to Seoul Detention Center
03/08 kwww: EDITORIAL Bush to Kim: Let's wait and see - US President George W Bush has told visiting South Korean President Kim Dae-jung that the US views North Korea as a threat and would not immediately resume negotiations with it. That does not mean Kim must abandon his "sunshine" policy of Seoul-Pyongyang reconciliation. There is nothing wrong with differences in policy emphasis or timing. But Kim may want to test his own belief in the North's willingness to reform instead of getting entangled in the missile defense controversy, as he did when meeting Russian President Vladimir Putin.
03/08 kww: Bush drizzles on Kim's sunshine - During an hour-long meeting in Washington, presidents George W Bush and Kim Dae-jung expressed mutual support for United States and South Korean policy, especially with regard to North Korea. However, in subsequent remarks, Bush spoke of his skepticism of the leadership in the North, seemingly reflecting a divide within his own administration on Kim's "sunshine" policy and the North's good faith in carrying out any agreements it makes for peace and cooperation.
03/07 kww: PYONGYANG WATCH Refugees: Kim's Achilles' heel? - A major American news magazine has exposed the plight of North Korean refugees, an issue that has been shamefully neglected because a lot of people wish it would just go away. If not attended to, it may become a major threat to hopes of peaceful change on the peninsula. Aidan Foster-Carter writes that North Korean leader Kim Jong-il must be pressed urgently to feed and treat his people better - because it's right, and because if he doesn't he risks reaping the whirlwind.
03/06 kww: A Road Through Seoul By Henry Kissinger (WP) - The visit of South Korea's President Kim Dae Jung to Washington this week occurs at an opportune moment. For his country, the focal point of Asian crises for a century, may now prove pivotal in the emergence of a new and more stable Asian order.
03/06 kww: The Truth About North Korea's Missile Program - Despite occasional signals to the contrary, North Korea continues to try to develop long-range missiles. But the regime of Kim Jong Il finds the path to a significant breakthrough blocked – not by U.S. efforts, but notably by the Chinese and Russian governments. The North Korean missile program is in fact primitive and unlikely to pose a threat to the United States anytime soon. Washington has apparently overstated the North's capabilities in the quest for a national missile defense.
03/06 kww: How Politics Sank Accord on Missiles With North Korea By MICHAEL R. GORDON (NYT) - As the Clinton administration's senior policy coordinator on North Korea, Ms. Sherman was prepared to fly to Pyongyang on a moment's notice. Her task there would be to clear away the final barriers to an accord that would neutralize the North Korean missile threat, which has been a central justification for the hotly debated American national missile defense project. Had she succeeded, the framework of an agreement would have been signed by President Clinton and Kim Jong Il, the North Korean leader, in Pyongyang, the North's capital.
03/05 kww: Do You Get It, Ms. Rice? by Choi Won-Ki, Joongang Ilbo - It was a long week for reporters covering the third round of inter-Korean family reunion. It was another dramatic encounter, flashing shots and heart wrenching behind stories just like the last 2 meetings. Seoul and Pyongyang has again gathered around to witness 100 families from each side laying bare the half-a-century-old wound.
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03/03 kww: The Heroes of Kwangju - New York Review of Books
03/03 kww: North Korea Explains Why Leader Chooses Guns Over Butter. By Bradley Martin - Within the last few days alone the official media treated North Koreans to such catchy propaganda slogans as: “The revolution is, in essence, a sacred struggle to defend the leader and to embody the leader’s ideas.” And: “The do-or-die spirit for defending the leader should be thoroughly embodied in one’s daily work and life.”
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03/01 kww: Re-examining "Alleged Abduction of Japanese" (Sekai Jan. & Feb.) - An earlier solution to the issue of the suspicion of abduction of Japanese by North Korea, as in any case of this kind, must be preceded by a thorough investigation of the origins of the matter as well as a serious consideration of its heart and structure.
03/01 kww: Korean-American Continues A Hunger Strike in Seoul Lock-Up Demanding Immediate Release - High Blood Pressure, Back Injury Feared to Aggravate
03/01 kww: Riding the Seoul Train - An underground railroad leads North Korean refugees to the South