What's New at Kimsoft? April 2001

04/25 kww: PYONGYANG WATCH Beaten about the Bush: US clouds Korea's sunshine It's hard to be optimistic about North Korea just now. Kim Jong-il and his peculiar realm seem to be once more headed full-steam astern, back into hermit kingdom mode. It's the crass choices of others who should know better - read George W Bush and his hard-line advisers who are a godsend to Northern hawks -who are responsible for the about-turn and insulting slap in the face of Nobel Peace Prize winner Kim Dae-jung. Confucius, meet Texas; and note who's wearing the cowboy boots.

04/17 kww: Protesters Decry Japan's New History Textbooks (LA Times) - The materials whitewash the nation's crimes against its neighbors before and during World War II, demonstrators say.

04/16 kww: New Text Reopening Old Wounds: Revisionist History in Japan Minimizes Atrocities Before, During WWII - The abduction and forced prostitution of tens of thousands of "comfort women" for Japanese soldiers during World War II did not happen. Or if it did, Japanese scholar Tadae Takubo does not want his daughter to read about it.

04/17 kww: A Prison Country A report from inside North Korea BY NORBERT VOLLERTSEN - I was a doctor with a German medical group, "Cap Anamur," and entered North Korea in July 1999. I remained until my expulsion on Dec. 30, 2000, after I denounced the regime for its abuse of human rights, and its failure to distribute food aid to the people who needed it most. North Korea's starvation is not the result of natural disasters. The calamity is man-made. Only the regime's overthrow will end it.

04/11 kww: Genocides in South Korea - Documentary evidence on massacres at Cheju, Taegu, Pusan, Taejun, Nogun-ri,,,, (above photos were taken by US military present at the killings committed by forces under UN Command)

04/11 kww: Kim Jong Il attended South Korean singer Kim Youn Ja's concert in Hamhung, North Korea

04/11 kww: Great Bulldozer (FEER) - Aidan Foster-Carter of Leeds University reveals a disastrous agricultural policy steered by Kim Jong Il, and comments on the opportunities for engagement by the EU

04/10 kww: The US and the Korean Nationalists in Siberia - 1918 -1920

04/10 kww: Shield of the Great Leader: The Armed Forces of North Korea (The Armed Forces of Asia) by Joseph S. Bermudez Jr., Joseph Bermudez

04/10 kww: KoreaInforGate

04/10 kim-spy: ElectricEye - specializes in video serving and remote video surveillance.

04/10 kww: Japanese History Textbook Raises Concerns (AsiaSource) - The approval of a controversial history textbook in Japan has prompted a wave of criticism from neighboring countries concerned about its accuracy and tone.

04/10 kww: US-China Relations - AsiaSource Special Report

04/10 kww: Keeping the Faith, Underground - N. Korea's Secret Christians Get Support From South Palm-sized Bibles written in Korean, have been printed by South Korean Christian groups to be smuggled into North Korea.

04/01 kww: UN Propaganda Leaflets Collection of Lloyd Miller - July 1951 - April 1952, US 2nd Infantry Division in Korea

04/01 kww: Kim Jong-Il's Perfect Timing? - By Won-Ki Choi, Joongahng Ilbo - What will it be - a pat on the back from Washington or big presents from Seoul? Kim Jong-il, head of the Stalinist state also known as Chairman of National Defense Commission is to make a return visit to Seoul by this year following South Korean President Kim Dae-jung's prior visit to Pyongyang. With much attention focused on Korean Peninsula the regime seems to ponder on the right time.

04/14 kww: Kim Il Sung: With the Century Memoirs KCNA online in Korean

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