01/29 kww: North Korean Foreign Ministry Spokesperson: Legally Binding Non-Aggression Treaty is Required (KCNA) -- the Bush administration is a group of gangsters who have no qualms about breaking treaties signed by the previous administration for cheap political gains.  Thus the Bush gang broke the anti-missile defense control treaty, the Kyodo international treaty, and other world-wide agreements.  We have come to believe that the Bush gang cannot be trusted and any Bush statement or letter of non-aggression would be meaningless.  The only document we will accept is a non-aggression treaty ratified by the US Congress.   

01/29 kww: George Bush's State of the Union - Full Text  on North Korea (January 28, 2003)  -- Pres. Bush's state of the union on North Korea (full text):  "On the Korean peninsula, an oppressive regime rules a people living in fear and starvation. Throughout the 1990s, the United States relied on a negotiated framework to keep North Korea from gaining nuclear weapons. We now know that the regime was deceiving the world and developing those weapons all along."

01/29 kww: South Korea once tried to develop nuclear weapons - But shelved its plans under U.S. pressure (theStar) -- Fearful of a nuclear arms race in the region, the United States forced dictator Park Chung-hee to drop the plan, partly by threatening economic penalties for a nation that was then poor and still recovering from the 1950-53 Korean War.

01/29 kww: IRAQ NOW - N. KOREA NEXT (SkyNews) -- Tony Blair says after Saddam Hussein's Iraqi regime has been "dealt with", it will be time to confront North Korea. 

01/29 kww: North Korea?! Where Is It? (Pravda) -- So, George W. Bush delivered his State of the Union speech in Congress on Tuesday. The way how George W. Bush plans to settle the crisis about North Korea is more interesting in fact, but the American president decided not to focus attention on relations with Pyongyang at all. The reason is quite understandable: North Korea is not Iraq, there is no oil in the country, why should the USA waste much effort and nerves on it? Let it threaten with its nuclear program, this is not the problem to concentrate much attention on right now. 

01/28 Kww: Announcement:  As part of the centennial celebration, the Federation of Korean American Associations Northwest States and Advisory Council of Democratic and Peaceful Unification Oregon Sub-Council invite all interested people to a timely bilingual panel discussion on the Korean Independence Movement and the current issues in the Korean peninsula.  

01/28 kww: Nuclear Blackmail: The 1994 U.S.–Democratic People's Republic of Korea Agreed Framework on North Korea's Nuclear Program  (Hoover) -- In 1993 the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) refused to let international inspectors see whether it had secretly separated plutonium for bombs. Subsequent negotiations led to a 1994 U.S.–DPRK Agreed Framework that stopped the North's plutonium production but at heavy political and financial cost.

01/28 kww: ANALYSIS: Japan left out of loop on N. Korea (Asahi) -- At informal talks between Foreign Ministry officials of the two nations in Dalian, China, in November, North Korean diplomats said in no uncertain terms that ``negotiations with Japan were meaningless.''  Japan will not readily shift its emphasis from the abduction issue to national security concerns-which could prove costly

01/28 kww: The CIA's Secret Army (The Time) -- The US CIA has Special Operations Group (SOG) units trained to attack North Korea's nuclear facilities, presumably in conjunction with South Korea's special forces.  SOG units are believed to be operating inside Iraq. 

01/28 kww: Fabricating an Enemy: It is the Bush Administration, rather than Baghdad, which is supporting Al Qaeda -- One of the main objectives of war propaganda is to «fabricate an enemy» . As anti-war sentiment grows and the political legitimacy the Bush Administration falters, doubts regarding the existence of this "outside enemy" must be dispelled.

01/27 kww: "Sow the wind, reap the wind' (The SF Examiner) -- When the Bush administration threatened North Korea with nuclear weapons last year, it did more than ignite the present standoff in North Asia. It opened the Pandora's Box of proliferation.

01/26 kww: America's Broken Treaties with Native Indians - A Lesson for North Korea -- The Bush administration accuses North Korea of breaking the 1994 Agreed Framework, while ignoring the fact the United States broke the treaty since the day it was signed.  The US officials involved in negotiating the treaty have admitted that they had no intention of abiding by the treaty because they believed - and hoped - that North Korea would have collapsed by 2003 when the two nuclear power plants were to be completed. 

01/26 kww: Changing US perception of the Dear Leader (TheStraitsTimes) -- North Korea's reclusiveness is a major reason why fables circulate. With only dubious second-hand sources of information, the result is the distorted portrait of Mr Kim as a weirdo. And, after his country announced its intention to resume development of nuclear weapons, a dangerous weirdo. Much of the vilification comes from the American media. They are, of course, taking the cue from United States President George W. Bush, who has labeled Mr Kim a 'pygmy' and one he loathes.  But there now seems to be a rethink on the part of American commentators and analysts.

01/26 kww: An American Spy Plane Explodes in Air and Crashes -- An American spy plane exploded in the air and crashed into a business-residential section, at about 2:55 PM of January 26 (Korean time).  It occurred at Sangsin-ri, Hyang-nam-myun, Gyong-gi Province. The plane broke up into pieces, scattered over a 30m-40m area.  Fortunately, only four persons were injured, one of them seriously.  The pilot ejected from the plane, parachuted down safely. and whisked away in an American helicopter.

01/25 kww: Shock and Awe: Achieving Rapid Dominance  (US National Defense University): -- Since before Sun Tzu and the earliest chroniclers of war recorded their observations, strategists and generals have been tantalized and confounded by the elusive goal of destroying the adversary's will to resist before, during, and after battle. Today, we believe that an unusual opportunity exists to determine whether or not this long-sought strategic goal of affecting the will, understanding, and perception of an adversary can be brought closer to fruition.  "Shock and Awe" bombs are headed towards Pyongyang. It's coming.

Kim Jong Il's Candid Talk Caught on Tape -- This is a transcript of Kim Jong Il's conversation with Huh Jong Man and Suh Man Sul, two top leaders of the General Association of the Koreans Resident in Japan (Chongryon), a pro-North organization.  Some of the highlights of Kim's conversation are:  Kim Dae Jung is unusually mean-spirited.  Kim Young Sam is a dirt-bag.  Kim Ja Jung is the evilest of all South Korean capitalists.  We need superior seeds for our crops.  Bring here Japanese factories when they are closed down.  The United States is our mortal enemy and at the same time, our teacher.  We sent in the army to save the Hwanghae Steel Mills from the thieves who ran it.  I admire the capitalist legal systems. The law exams in Japan and South Korea are exemplary.  

01/23 kww: What the Administration knew about Pakistan and the North Korean nuclear program (New Yorker). -- "Bush and Cheney want that guy's head"—Kim Jong Il's—"on a platter. Don't be distracted by all this talk about negotiations. There will be negotiations, but they have a plan, and they are going to get this guy after Iraq. He's their version of Hitler."

01/22 kww: US Carrier Kitty Hawk Leaves To Monitor N Korea - Kyodo --  The U.S. aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk left its home port Thursday at the U.S. Navy base in Japan to monitor the Korean Peninsula. The 83,960-ton Kitty Hawk is expected to stand by in waters near Japan, given increasing tensions in North and South Korea following Pyongyang's announcement of its withdrawal from an international nuclear accord, and will not head for Iraq.

01/22 kww: Bolton Goes East – The Wrong Man For Korea -- John Bolton said, "There is a saying, fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. We are not going to be fooled twice." This level of sophisticated thinking aside, is John Bolton - a man with no compunction against fabricating outrageous claims and inflaming tensions with nations on President Bush's list of rogue authoritarian regimes - the kind of statesman ideally suited to deal with a paranoid authoritarian regime that may actually possess nuclear weapons and which views economic sanctions as an act of war?

01/21 kww: North Korea's IAEA/NPT Issues are Symptoms of a Problem Begging for Resolution -- World must not judge North Korea on the IAEA and NPT issue alone and should instead examine the whole picture. We must stop the US from igniting another war on the Korea Peninsula. 

01/21 kww: Negotiation through Starvation - A tale of two "Dear Leaders" (Collin Baber) -- Dear Mr. Bush, you are definitely proving yourself a friend of the Korean people this year. So friendly, that by cutting off their vital food aid, nearly 400,000 helpless innocents will die an agonizing death of cold starvation in the northern half of the peninsula.

01/20 kww: Bush's Diplomatic Disasters (MandateMagazine) -- As if conflict situations in Afghanistan, Israel-Palestine, and Iraq weren't enough diplomatic and military nightmares to contend with, the US successfully rocked the Asian-Pacific boat by naming North Korea as part of the "Axis of Evil", wreaking havoc on the rest of the word. 

01/19 kww: A Christian Cult in South Korea on Anti-North, Pro-US Crusades -- An obscure religious cult calling itself the "True Revived Church of Jesus Christ" has mounted a holy crusade against North Korea and anti-US activists in South Korea.  The cult leaders bused in their obedient flock to the Seoul City Hall Plaza by tens of thousands and held a mass prayer meeting on the 19th, for the second time in January.  The cult members burned a North Korean flag and waved the Stars & Strife in support of the US military in Korea.  

01/18 kww: The Effects of Korean Unification on the US Military Presence in Northeast Asia (US Army) -- The United States has deployed approximately 91,500 personnel to the Republic of Korea and Japan. Korean unification would be a catalyst for a major revision of the security architecture in Northeast Asia, involving not only Korea and the United States, but also Japan, China, and Russia. The groundwork needs to be laid now for maintaining a continued US presence after unification in order to fulfill our national interests.

01/19 kww: The Shape of Korea's Future: South Korean Attitudes Toward Unification and Long-Term Security Issues (RAND) --   South Koreans have been focusing on rapid economic growth while depending heavily on the United States for their security. Having achieved rapid economic growth, however, South Koreans have made efforts to be more self-reliant in their foreign and security policy. Increasing prospects for the reunification of the entire Korean Peninsula with the end of the Cold War have reinforced the trend toward greater self-reliance. 

01/19 kww: Byrd: Bush Gives U.S. 'Bully' Image (WashingtonPost) -- Sen. Robert C. Byrd (D-W. Va) criticized President Bush yesterday for giving the United States the image "of a belligerent bully," and said Bush's contrasting handling of threats posed by North Korea and Iraq revealed major flaws in his foreign policy.

01/19 kww: U.S. Criticized for Halting N. Korea Aid (WashingtonPost) -- American analysts say food shipments are being used as political pool in nuclear crisis

01/18 kww: South Korean President-Elect Roh Moo Hyun Speaks Out On Bush's Anti-North Korea Policy -- "I began to believe that US attacks on North Korea must be prevented, even if we had to stand up and face down the United States." 

01/18 kww: Contingency Plan 5027 to Defend Seoul - Is this a contingency plan or a war plan?  The US and South Korean military are busy drawing up a war plan, ostensively for the 'unlikely' event the nuclear crisis on the Korean Peninsula could not be resolved through negotiations.  In view of the current stalemate in the world-wide effort to find a peaceful resolution of the crisis, the military war planning is a bad omen for the things to come.    

01/17 kww: War Propaganda  by Michel Chossudovsky -- Military planners in the Pentagon are acutely aware of the central role of war propaganda. Waged from the Pentagon, the State Department and the CIA, a fear and disinformation campaign (FDC) has been launched. The blatant distortion of the truth and the systematic manipulation of all sources of information is an integral part of war planning. In the wake of 9/11, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld created to the Office of Strategic Influence (OSI), or "Office of Disinformation" as it was labeled by its critics.

01/17 kww: South Korea's President-Elect Rejects Use of Force Against North Korea (NY Times) --  In a determined defense of engagement with North Korea, President-elect Roh Moo Hyun today all but ruled out the use of force against his isolated neighbor, which he said was seeking a way to open up to the world. "North Korea wants to escape from its status as a rogue state," Mr. Roh said when asked why he had faith in a conciliatory approach. "I believe once those things are guaranteed, North Korea will abandon its nuclear ambitions."

01/17 kww: Accept Nuclear Reality on the Korean Peninsula (LA Times)  -- North's capability can't be stripped. U.S. must now focus on easing the risk of war.  Rather than lament how we could have or should have dealt with North Korea's nuclear-weapons ambitions -- or debate how to stop its ongoing program -- it's time to fashion a strategy that copes with the fact that the North is a nuclear-weapons state. 

01/16 kww: Kim Jong Il's 2001 Russia Railroad Odysses (HQ USCINCPAC) -- This trip allowed North Korea and Russia to continue their dialogue at a time when both countries can benefit from cooperation.  North Korea is looking for military/economic aid and an opportunity to improve its stance in future U.S.-North Korea discussions while Russia is looking for support against the U.S. National Missile Defense Program, renewed influence on the Korean Peninsula, and support for its plan to reconnect the Trans-Siberian Railway with the Trans-Korea railway.

01/16 kww: Bush's Talk of "Negotiation" Is Nothing But A Deceptive Trickery   "A sick drama to deceive the world" - A spokesperson of the DPRK Foreign Ministry.  The full text in English and Korean.

01/15 kww: US Spy Ship Pueblo May Be Coming Home -- Kim Jong Il had planned to return the spy ship captured in 1968 to Bush - but not any longer.  Bush's personal animosity toward him changes Kim's mind.

01/15 kww: Japan's Past of Wars Against Its Neighbors Haunts Japan's Foreign Affairs --South Korean president Kim Dae Jung cancelled a meeting with Japan's foreign minister upon hearing the news that Japan's prime minister Koizumi visited the Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo.  This shrine honors the memory of the Japanese war dead, including the war criminals hanged at the end of World War II as well as those pilots and submariners who mounted the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor that killed several thousands of American servicemen.  

01/14 kww: North Korea's Next Move: A Test-Flight of ICBMs with MIRVs -- North Korea has threatened to ratchet up the US-North Korea tension closer to the breaking point by implementing the 'next' option.  This threat is in response to Bush's unbroken repetition of "we will talk about denuking first and we may offer some aids later - maybe."   

01/14 kww: A Strategy for Defusing the North Korean Nuclear Crisis (Arms Control) --Faced with this crisis, which is in part of its own making, the Bush administration has been unable to craft an effective response. Such a response would avert a confrontation with North Korea; solve the mounting nuclear problem; maintain solidarity with close allies in the region, particularly South Korea; and build credibility with other key players, such as China and Russia. Formulating and carrying out this kind of strategy will be difficult, particularly for a divided administration in which some are ideologically opposed to engaging a member of the “axis of evil,” but it is not impossible.

01/13 kww: U.S. Forced North Korea's Hand  (Pacific News, Australia)   It was the United States which first voided a Geneva agreement to keep nuclear weapons capability out of North Korean hands. Now, after living under threat --at times explicit -- of U.S. nuclear attack, and after several of its recent, conciliatory moves were rejected, North Korea is speaking the only language Washington seems to recognize -- that of military might. 

01/13 kww: Misinformation on North Korea (The Nation, Thailand)  -- A massive disinformation campaign is being  waged against North Korea by the head-line hungry press of the world and the US and its allies.  The current North Korean crisis is mainly rooted in the "Agreed Framework between the United States of America and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea" signed in Geneva on October 21, 1994. Some of the key points stipulated in the agreement which are relevant to the ongoing crisis are presented. 

01/13 kww: US Special Envoy meets Roh Moo Hyun, Korea's Next President -- Kelly made it clear that the US policy on North Korea remains largely unchanged in spite of the heightened hostility of North Korea - such as its pulling out of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and its threat to renew missile test-firing.  The gap between the US and Seoul policies on North Korea remains as wide as ever.

01/13 kww: Japanese Prime Minister's Envoy Mori Critical of Roh Moo Hyun  Mori Yoshiro, a former Japanese prime minister and a special envoy of Koizumi sent to Seoul, told a group of Koreans that he was not happy with Roh's North Korea policy.  

01/13 kww: Oriental Bazaars in Ankara and Pyongyang (Debka) -- An Israeli intelligence source (Debka) suggests that North Korea's nuclear brinkmanship aims to save Saddam's regime in Iraq.  A number of Gulf oil producers have offered to compensate North Korea for America, Japanese and South Korean energy stoppages.  Bush's 'Axis of Evil' binds North Korea to Islamic nations.

01/13 kww: North Korea: South Korean Perspective (WashingtonPost) -- U.S. policy in Korea is geared toward fulfilling American interests without taking in South Korean interests," said  Paul Kim, former director of the Korean-American Peace Institute, in his discussion of the nuclear crisis on the Korean peninsula.

01/13 kww: Datasheet on North Korea's Nuclear and Missile Activities  - Nuclear Theater Initiative

01/12 kww: Dear God, We Thank Thee For The US Troops in Korea  "We pray Thou Shall Keep Them Here Forever and Ever - Amen"  Pro-US Korean hold a mass prayer meeting for the 'revival' of pro-US sentiment. 

01/11 kww: A COLD WAR COVER-UP  --  This narrative concerns the loss of a Navy P2V-5 Neptune which reportedly crashed and disappeared into the Yellow Sea while on a training mission - call sign 3 Cape Cod and piloted by Lt. Jesse Beasley. The information in this account has been gathered from various sources, but also includes theories postulated while trying to locate the missing aircraft and what remains of its crew.

01/10 kww: “What did you say?”   Last week, the Federation of Korean Industries (FKI) received a strongly worded protest letter from AMCHAM Korea (the US Chamber of Commerce in Korea), which said in part, "Anti-US sentiment must not be allowed in Korea."

01/10 kww: Pyongyang is the real victim (JapanTimes) -- Western and Japanese reactions to North Korea's recent nuclear activities and warnings have been strange.   Pyongyang makes it clear that its main aim is to get a non-aggression treaty with the United States and to revive the dialogue for normalization of relations that was promised in 1994. In that year Pyongyang agreed to mothball its plans for a plutonium-based nuclear-power facility, in exchange for the dialogue and for U.S. cooperation in providing a light-water reactor-based nuclear-power facility.

DPRK (North Korea) Quits Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty

01/08 kww: The US-North Korean Conflict - How Will It End?   The "nuclear" crisis and the missile issue are the two primary flames that are engulfing the powder keg that lie between the United States and North Korea.  The US policy of enmity toward North Korea and the US policy of preventing the spread of Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) and missiles go together, hand in hand.  The US policy is to solve the problem of nuclear proliferation, missile technology spread, and the 'last' Stalinist state' in one swoop under "nuclear and missile problem" of North Korea.    

01/07 kww: Roh's Election Victory and the Widening Gap Between the U.S. and South Korea --The December election of human rights activist Roh Moo-hyun as South Korea's next president has turned into a giant wake-up call for U.S. policymakers and foreign affairs specialists. At the same time, is it sowing the seeds for a national debate about U.S.-Korean relations that offers a unique opportunity for U.S. progressives and peace activists.

01/07 kww: How North Korea got on Bush's "Axis of Evil" List  -- Frum, the man who made the "Axis of Evil" list for George Bush admits that North Korea was added to the list on a whim.  Frum was asked by Bush to "to provide a justification for a war," specifically a war with Iraq. After much cogitation, he hit upon the idea of likening what the United States has been up against since September 11, 2001, to the villains of the Second World War. The phrase he came up with was "axis of hatred." Higher-ups changed this to "axis of evil," to make it sound more "theological." Although Frum initially intended his "strong language" to apply only to Iraq, Iran was quickly added. North Korea was an afterthought. It got stuck in at the last minute, but Frum doesn't quite explain how or why. Perhaps it was meant to echo the global span of the original (Baghdad-Tehran-Pyongyang equals Berlin-Rome-Tokyo)." 

01/06 kww: New Dynamics in U.S.-Korean Relations -- The victory of the liberal Roh Moo-Hyun in the December 19th South Korean presidential elections has been presented in the western media as a source of future tension in South Korean-U.S. relations.

01/05 kww: Land-mines Cleared and Roads Open - But no Traffic in the DMZ Anytime Soon -- The US military wants to control the traffic flow across the MDL (Military Demarcation Line). No solution in sight for this impasse.  Both North and South turning increasing hostile to the US intransigence.  

01/05 kww: National Public Radio (NPR) highlights North Korea's Official Web Site -- DPR Korea Official Web  

01/05 kww: Solving the North Korean Nuclear Crisis of 2002 -- "Peace proposals" that do not address North Korea's main concerns realistically and sincerely are wastes of time.  Both North Korea and the United States must admit that they have violated the 1994 Agreed Framework and work out a new agreement that is enforceable and verifiable - and fair to both sides.   

01/05 kww: US Soldiers Abused POWs During The Korean War   -- A young British army officer ordered to take over a prisoner of war camp during the Korean War wrote a scathing report about the treatment of North Korean prisoners held by American troops.

01/04 kww: George Bush’s Web of Lies (Pravda -Russia) - Being entangled in his own lies, the US president doesn’t distinguish any more between the reality and the illusion. Obliging brains prompt appropriate words. The other day, George W. Bush said that the USA realized perfectly well the dangers and the challenges the country faced; he added that the present-day generation of Americans was ready to carry the burden of the world’s super-power number one. “We act in the cause of peace and freedom and in that cause we will prevail."

01/03 kww: South Korea, Once a Solid Ally, Now Poses Problems for the U.S.   For half a century the United States has had no more stalwart ally in Asia than South Korea, where 37,000 American troops are stationed to protect against an invasion from the North, representing the unity of purpose between the two countries. But now South Korea has become one of the Bush administration's biggest foreign policy problems. Years of resentments over a variety of issues are boiling over in Seoul in the form of demonstrations against the United States and pronouncements by the departing and arriving presidents challenging American policies on dealing with North Korea's nuclear ambitions.

01/03 kww: Idea of the Week: How To Deal With the Rat That Roared  President Bush and his advisors have contributed to the North Korean crisis significantly with their habit of unilateralism, and with all their talk of  "preemption," which the North Koreans have correctly interpreted as applying first and foremost to themselves. Much of the recent wave of anti-American sentiment in South Korea is rooted in the belief that the Bush Administration is uselessly -- perhaps even absentmindedly -- panicking the North into what could become a revival of the Korean War.

01/01 kww: North Korea's New Year Message  - Today, we proudly look back at our victorious, glorious march under the flag of self-rule (juche) in the year just past - 2002 and face the new year filled with fresh hope.  Our Party platform and policies are correct and just,  our rank and file are united as one unbreakable, and the Korean revolution will continue its track of victories. 

01/01 kww: Targeting North Korea - For all the ballyhoo surrounding the North Korean admission of a nuclear weapons program, one salient fact has been overlooked. It never happened. No North Korean official ever made such a statement. Western news reports repeated endlessly the claim that a North Korean official admitted to a nuclear weapons program in an October meeting with U.S. Assistant Secretary of State James Kelly. No evidence was presented other than the Kelly’s assertion.

01/01 kww: 'Dear Leader' no madman  (Japan Times) - Is Kim Jong Il mad? You might not like him or his policies, but that does not mark him as much different from many other political leaders, including Bush. Bush recently welcomed as a house guest a dictator who has massacred his own people and maintains nuclear weapons targeted at allies of the U.S. and the U.S. itself; who brutally suppresses dissent; and whose record on human rights is no better than Kim's: President Jiang of China.

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