What's New at Kimsoft? March 2002

  • 04/28 kww kr-war: The Truth About the Sinchun Massacre - In October of 1950, a major massacre of civilians took place in the Sinchun County. Some 35,000 residents, more than one in four, were murdered in cold blood and today, a museum in Sinchun displays grizzly evidence of the massacre for all to see. Visitors are reminded of the horrible war crimes committed by the American GIs that compare in barbarity with Hitler's Nazi Holocaust. Who killed the 35,383 residents of the Sinchun County, Hwanghae Province, North Korea?

  • 04/26 kww, kr-war: The Korean War: A 50-Year Critical Historiography, by Prof. Allan R. Millett - Scholarly research and publication in many countries has made the Korean War not only remembered, but also better understood. Material from Russia and China have been especially helpful in adding nuance and detail to now-dated writing about the war’s causes. Much more work needs to be done on Korean politics and the 1952–53 period, but in all the scholarship simply confirms the shared responsibility of all the belligerents – including the Koreans – in starting and continuing the war.

  • 04/24 kww: FM Choi's Remarks on NK-US Relations Spark Controversy (KoreaTimes) - Foreign Affairs-Trade Minister Choi Sung-hong has triggered a controversy by saying that America's toughened policy helped prompt North Korea to change its attitude toward talks with South Korea and the United States.

  • 04/24 kww: N. Korea: What a Big Stick Can Do (WP) - "Sometimes carrying a big stick works in forcing North Korea to come forward," Choi Sung Hong said last week during a visit to Washington. Choi came to town to report to the Bush administration that North Korea once again seems interested in dialogue, and he said that the administration's "stern attitude" is one -- though only one -- reason for the latest shift.

  • 04/24 kim-spy: Canadian and International Industrial Security Directorate

  • 04/24 kim-spy: Canadian Security and Intelligence Community (Privy Council Office)

  • 04/24 kim-spy: Public Safety Canada Portal

  • 04/24 kim-spy: Canadian Intelligence Community: Control and Accountability

  • 04/24 kim-spy: Department of National Defence--R&D Branch

  • 04/21 kww, kr-war: Declassified Korean War Documents - US Military Operations Research Papers

  • 04/21 kww, kr-war: New Generation Leaders in the Republic of Korea - Access this opinion survey report and analysis by William Watts, President of Potomac Associates. The report focuses on the emerging leaders in Korea and the issues they will face in positions of political, economic, and military influence. See findings of survey interviews, accompanied by analysis and interpretation of their meaning.

  • 04/18 kww: Pyongyang Opens Up With Arirang Festival - a 100,000-player jumbo show - Photos by Kim Myong Chul

  • 04/18 kww: North Korea: Understanding the Limits of Reform - by Julian Pardo de Zela. Policymakers and academics have grappled for years to explain why North Korea has fiercely resisted reforms to a rigid command economy responsible for the starvation and death of 3 million of the country’s citizens. To properly understand the policies and rationale behind Pyongyang’s actions, however, one must recognize that North Korea is more of a religious cult than an actual country.

  • 04/18 kww: Handshake marks thaw in ties between Koreas (Reuters) - Parliament leaders from North and South Korea shook hands at a forum in southern China in what the official Xinhua news agency hailed on Friday as an historic move and symbol of hope for peace and reunification.

  • 04/18 kww: Korea, U.S. to be on more equal footing, Roh says - Roh Moo-hyun, a popular contender in the ruling party's presidential primaries, said yesterday that because of the changing economic and security conditions, bilateral ties between South Korea and the United States will become more equal.

  • 04/07 kww: The North-South Joint Communiqué Pyongyang, April 5, 2002

  • 04/07 kww: US Envoy Likely to Visit NK Soon (Korea Times) - Jack Pritchard, U.S. ambassador for negotiations with North Korea, is likely to visit the North soon to meet with officials, according to a senior government official yesterday.

  • 04/07 kww: "North Should Ignore Bush and Continue What It Has Been Doing with South" - Bernard Krisher (People's Korea): Bush is “a bully in a birthday party” who suddenly disturbs the whole nice atmosphere. He doesn’t know about Korea and its people. He doesn’t know how hard Kim Dae Jung and Kim Jong Il worked to put fracture together. Madelleine Albright had talks in Pyongyang and she had a great success. She was so welcomed by Kim Jong Il. But Bush didn’t like Albright. He didn’t like Clinton. So he shattered all of this and destroyed everything the Clinton government had built up.

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