What's New at Kimsoft? February 2002
|
|---|
Bush, US tanks trashing rice paddies and a Korean farmer being beaten
02/24 kww: Korea: Self-Determination Conflict Profile. By John Feffer - In the closing days of World War II, the Soviets moved in from the north and repatriated guerrilla leader Kim Il Sung as leader of the new communist state. After liberating the south, the U.S. worked behind the scenes to ensure the election of "our man in Seoul" Syngman Rhee. Nationalist attempts to reunite the peninsula, which seemed promising in the immediate postwar period, were foiled largely by Rhee's virulent anticommunism and U.S. skepticism.
02/23 kww: Bush's Far East Junket Reveals Intents to Smother DPRK with Force of Arms - DPRK Foreign Ministry, February 22, 2002
02/23 kww: How Bush Is Pushing South Koreans Apart - His hawkish stance on North Korea has further polarized the political rivals vying to replace South Korean President Kim Dae Jung
02/23 kww: ROK-U.S. Summit - What Lies Beneath - by Brent (Won-ki) Choi. On the surface Wednesday's summit between the United States and South Korea was a success, but deep inside it was a failure. President George W. Bush may have refined his words but that certainly didn't stop him from confirming his tough stance regarding Pyongyang.
South Korea women win the gold medal in the women's 3,000-meter short-track speedskating relay in Utah.
Congratulations!
02/20 kww: Bush takes a peep at 'evil' empire - United States President George W Bush on Wednesday saw firsthand North Korea, the country he has branded a part of "an axis of evil". The president was unrepentant in his views, but he did offer to hold talks with Pyongyang on security issues at any time, any place.
02/18 kww: MACARTHUR'S WAR, Korea and the Undoing of an American Hero by Stanley Weintraub - A book review by Carl Bernard. Vietnam happened, in large part, because we learned the wrong lessons from Korea. The enormous human, social and monetary costs of those two misadventures demand that we never again commit the same errors. What missteps allowed those disasters to ambush us? Ignoring history is often proclaimed to be the certain way to repeat it. Misunderstanding history will have the same effect. Weintraub's contribution may enable us to hear what history has long been screaming at us by clearly showing how General MacArthur wasted his resources and ruined his own reputation.
02/18 kww: "Bush is an incarnation of all things evil" (Chosun Ilbo) - Assembly Paralysed Amidst Mud Slinging. The National Assembly was paralyzed Monday after Millennium Democratic Party Assemblyman Song Seok-chan called US President George W. Bush "the incarnation of evil" and Grand National Party leader Lee Hoi-chang "the root of evil." Song said the "root of evil," who was plotting to win the presidential election using the "incarnation of evil," that was extending the division of the peninsula by calling North Korea the axis of evil, should be removed.
02/16 kww: US Troops Rifle a Korean Farmer: It's OK to run over 'damn gooks'? - Last week, US troops beat a Korean farmer, Woo Gyong Bok, who dared to stop them from ruining his village. He was beaten with a rifle butt and has suffered serious injuries to his head. Last year, an American officer told his troops that it was OK to run down Korean civilians of the farming village and this violence on an old farmer has angered the villagers and many other Koreans.
02/16 kww: President Bush Discusses Asia Trip in Radio Address to the Nation - "The people of South Korea have built a vibrant democracy and Asia's third largest economy. The people of the South are now reaching out to the North in a spirit of friendship and reconciliation. I support these efforts. Yet I will remind the world that America will not allow North Korea and other dangerous regimes to threaten freedom with weapons of mass destruction."
02/16 kww: UNITED STATES AND NORTH KOREA: Axis of Uncertainty - If you wondered what George W. Bush thinks of North Korea, now you know: It is "evil." Will rhetorical flourishes send the two sides into war, or prompt ground-breaking dialogue? As Bush's visit to Seoul approaches, he heads into uncharted waters
02/16 kww: Is George W ignoring George Sr's advice on Korea? - By Tim Shorrock. US President George W Bush is likely to encounter the largest anti-American demonstrations of his presidency when he visits South Korea next week. From the highest levels of President Kim Dae-jung's government to the lowest-paid industrial workers in the street, there is anger and consternation at Bush's threats to use military force to change the behavior of North Korea, which he claims is one of three countries conspiring in an "axis of evil" threatening the United States.
02/16 kww: Spies Out in the Cold - Beset by corruption and bitterness, the national intelligence agency is at a low ebb. That's bad news for the country's security
02/16 kww: Why Bush is scarier than Kim Jong-il - Axis of evil. Three little words; just 10 letters. But they certainly pack a punch. At the very least, George Bush's State of the Union speech on January 29 has heaved a mighty rock into what were already hardly calm waters. Ever since, agitated ripples have spread back and forth. Perhaps, in time, they'll die down. Then again, maybe they won't. Words are just words - but they hint at actions to come. Or are meant to.
02/15 kww: A Triangular Deal for the Summit - by Brent (Won-ki) Choi. February 15, 2002 Special advisor Lim Dong-won, dubbed the architect of sunshine policy, certainly deserves credit considering all the ideas he has put to make inter-Korean relations work. Despite the rocky turnabouts nowadays it was his imaginative power coupled with President Kim Dae-jung's perseverance that opened new relations in Korean Peninsula that seem almost impossible in the past. Compared to old North Korea policy that mainly focused on staying alert against next possible attack from North, President Kim Dae-jung's sunshine policy was a definite breakthrough that allowed new progress.
02/14 kww: The Supremo in His Labyrinth - "Kim Jong Il lives in decadent luxury and total secrecy. Now, a longtime bodyguard tells Donald Macintyre the wicked ways of North Korea's Dear Leader" - a former bodyguard
02/14 kww: The Global Nuclear Balance: A Quantitative and Arms Control Analysis - North Korea is believed to have produced and diverted sufficient plutonium for at least one, and possibly two, nuclear weapons. North Korea also possesses stockpiles of chemical weapons, which could be used in the event of renewed hostilities on the peninsula. North Korea may have a biological weapons capability. North Korea has hundreds of ballistic missiles available for use against targets on the peninsula. North Korea also has continued development of even longer-range missiles that would be able to threaten areas well beyond the region, including portions of the continental United States.
02/09 kww: Report: N. Korea preparing new long-range missile test - U.S. intelligence has detected increased activity related to Pyongyang's Taepo Dong long-range missile program including the testing of the missile's engine. A three-stage Taepo Dong-2 could deliver a several-hundred kilogram payload anywhere in the United States.
02/08 kww: The Washington North Korea Forum XII "A Roadmap to American Re-engagement with North Korea" - The Institute for Strategic Reconciliation, Inc. (http://www.ISR2020.org), a non-partisan, independent think tank, cordially invites you to attend the 12th Washington North Korea Forum to be held at the National Press Club on Monday, February 12 at 12 noon.
02/07 kww: Proliferation in the "Axis of Evil": North Korea, Iran, and Iraq - The most likely large-scale regional war scenario over the near term, which would involve the United States, would be on the Korean peninsula. North Korea has hundreds of ballistic missiles available for use against targets on the peninsula, some of which are capable of reaching tar-gets in Japan. Its missile capabilities are increasing at a steady pace, and it has progressed to producing medium-range ballistic missiles (MRBMs). North Korea also has continued development of even longer-range missiles that would be able to threaten areas well beyond the region, including portions of the continental United States.
02/05 kww: Marching together - One of the magic moments at the Sydney Olympics was seeing North and South Korea marching together and carrying the one flag. This memorable event was to be repeated at the Salt Lake Winter
Olympic - but Pres. Bush's enmity toward North Korea forced its cancellation - North Koreans are not coming.
02/05 kww: Seoul Ruling party warns against Bush stance - A ruling party leader, Kim Geun-tae, a presidential hopeful and standing adviser to the Millennium Democratic Party (MDP), voiced concerns about U.S. President George W. Bush's hard-line stance on Pyongyang yesterday, saying it should not undermine President Kim Dae-jung's efforts to promote peace and reconciliation with North Korea.
Cold War Cover-Up of Murder (LA Times) - South Korean officials knew that a man's tale of espionage in his wife's 1987 slaying was a lie. But they needed to stoke anti-Communist passions. A convenient tale, but a fabrication. The husband, businessman Yoon Tae Shik, is on trial in Seoul on charges that he murdered Kim during a quarrel over money. South Korea's former top police officer and a onetime intelligence official also are on trial, accused of perpetuating the lie for 15 years.
02/04 kim-spy: Bug Sweeps - Technical Surveillance Counter Measures (TSCM). Using The BEST Technology Available Electronic Bug sweeps to detect and eliminate electronic eavesdropping and surveillance devices.
02/04 kim-spy: Carnelian International enables businesses to function free from Risk, Conflict or Hostilities, by preventive deployment, conflict negotiation or confidential investigations. Additional services include: Business Intelligence Service, Risk Management, Loss Prevention, Confidential Investigations, Executive & Asset Protection/Recovery, and Political Risk Insurance & Assistance.'
02/04 kww: Cyber Pyongyang Web - Business
transactions, info on separated families, business opportunities, and news - operated by Korea Exchange Bank, Seoul (Korea).
02/01 kww: 'Kill 'em all' - American military conduct in the Korean War (BBC) - US commanders repeatedly, and without ambiguity, ordered forces under their control to target and kill Korean refugees caught on the battlefield.
"Kim the Snake": A Lesson in the Korean War History -Kim Chang Ryong, nicknamed 'Kim the Snake" by the Americans, was a Japanese military policeman in China, credited with the arrests and eradication of anti-Japanese leaders - both Korean and Chinese. After liberation, Kim became the head axe-man of Rhee Syngman. Kim was responsible for the death of several thousands leftist and other political opponents of Rhee. He was gunned down by his own men in 1956.
Abbreviations