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Korea Web Special Report:  The Forgotten Glory of Koguryo.   -- Koguryo (高句麗), one of Korea's ancient three kingdoms, existed for 700 years ruled by 26 wise kings. All kings strove to better people's welfare and strengthen the military. Koguryo had to fight invaders from north and its citizens were well organized and train ed in the art of warfare. It developed unique culture and remarkably advanced educational, socio-political and military systems.

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Do you know this man?  The US Army archives show this man - a Korean in the German Abwehr captured at the Utah Beach on June 6, 1944.  He was in the Japanese Army and was captured by the Soviets in a border clash. The Soviets 'volunteered' him into the Red Army and when he was captured by the Nazi, he was impressed into the German Army.

If you have any info on this unusually unfortunate soul, please contact ysk@kimsoft.com  

Thank you.

 

 

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01/25 North Korea may have nuclear weapons: IAEA (Channel News Asia) -- The UN's nuclear watchdog says North Korea may already have developed nuclear weapons, adding that Pyongyang's programme is the most dangerous non-proliferation issue in the world. At the same time, a senior UN adviser said efforts to disarm Pyongyang could reach a "crunch" this year. 

01/25 Envoy- N. Korea Ready to Make Nuke Deal (AP) - North Korea is ready to make a deal on its nuclear weapons program but first it wants significant security guarantees and long-term economic aid, the top U.N. envoy to the communist nation said Thursday.

01/22 Nobel Prize-Winning Writer Files Petition for Prof. Song (KoreaTimes) -- Gunter Grass, a world-famous German writer, was reported to have filed a petition Jan. 6 with a Seoul court over the trial of Korean-German professor Song Du-yul.  On the petition he sent to the chief judge of Seoul District Court Lee Dae-kyong, in charge of Song’s case, Grass sought to ``prevent Korea from regressing to an anti-democratic country and let freedom of expression be secured.’’

01/22 Unmitigated Gall: North Korea's 'Bold Concession' (Cato) -- With much fanfare, North Korea has announced that it is willing to halt its nuclear program in order to revive the stalled six-nation talks. Pyongyang called its offer "one more bold concession" aimed at resolving the crisis. That description is accurate only if "bold" is a synonym for cynically brazen. The proposal contains no meaningful concession. All the North Korean regime is doing is putting old wine in new bottles.  

01/22  Too late to stop North Korea (KoreaHerald)  -- For many months now, many voices, including my own, have argued that where North Korea's nuclear program is concerned, time is not on our side. With the recent visit of the private American delegation led by Dr. John Lewis of Stanford University to Pyongyang, it is clear that time may in fact be gone to stop North Korea from becoming a full fledged nuclear power. 

01/22 State Dept. Hopes for N. Korea Talks (NYTimes) -- A State Department official expressed hope Thursday that six-party talks on North Korea's nuclear program will begin soon. Assistant Secretary of State James Kelly made the comment to reporters after meeting with South Korean Deputy Foreign Minister Lee Soo-hyuck and Japanese Foreign Minister Director General Mitoji Yabunaka.

01/22 Envoy: N. Korea Ready to Make Nuke Deal  (NYTimes)  -- North Korea is ready to make a deal on its nuclear weapons program but first it wants significant security guarantees and long-term economic aid, the top U.N. envoy to the communist nation said Thursday.

 01/21 Korean People's Victory for the Colonial History Project -- A most moving event has taken place, as the public has collected the W500 million needed for the production of a "who's who" of individuals who collaborated with the Japanese, after the 16th National Assembly cut all funding for the project.

01/21 Time May Be With N. Korea in Nuke Crisis (NYTimes) -- Time could be on North Korea's side if negotiations over its nuclear weapons lag, a military think tank said Wednesday in a report that showed the North might be able to expand its weapons-making ability in several years.

01/21 Scholar describes seeing plutonium in North Korea (MercuryNews) -- On the lower floor of North Korea's forbidden nuclear fuel reprocessing laboratory, two engineers in radiation suits entered the room carrying a big, red metal box. Inside was a wooden box, which they opened to reveal a foam container. Inside that were two glass jars, one with a greenish powder, the other holding a cone-shaped metallic object, about 1 1/2 inches long.  It was weapons-grade plutonium.

01/21 Expert: No 'convincing evidence' North Korea can build nuclear device (CNN)  -- Siegfried Hecker, a former director of the Los Alamos, New Mexico, nuclear research laboratory, said he remained unconvinced that the North Koreans could convert any such nuclear device into a nuclear weapon. Hecker, who visited North Korea's secretive Yongbyon nuclear site on January 8 as part of an unofficial U.S. delegation, was speaking to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

01/20 What I Saw in North Korea  By JACK PRITCHARD (NYTimes)  -- "Time is not on the American side," Kim Gye Gwan, vice foreign minister of North Korea, told me a few weeks ago. "As time passes, our nuclear deterrent continues to grow in quantity and quality." Those words are an indictment of United States intelligence as well as a potential epitaph on the Bush administration's failed policy in North Korea.

01/20 Pyongyang facing sanctions (JapanTimes) -- Japanese Diet lawmakers who have adopted a hardline stance on North Korea agreed Tuesday to submit bills during this legislative session that would allow the government to slap economic and other sanctions on Pyongyang. 

01/20 North Koreans starved of right to food (AsiaTimes) - North Korea has been using food as an instrument of political and economic control, says a major new report by Amnesty International. While the country has been unable to produce enough food for all of its citizens since the collapse of the Soviet Union more than 10 years ago, food supplies - both from domestic sources and from foreign aid - have been distributed primarily according to citizens' membership in three "classes", apparently based on loyalty to the state. 

01/20 American Group Says North Koreans Are Eager to Deal With West (NYTimes) -- The leader of an unofficial American delegation that visited North Korea this month said Tuesday that North Korea seemed anxious to resolve differences with the United States over its nuclear program. North Korean officials told the delegation that the Bush administration's central concern, complete and verifiable dismantlement of their nuclear weapons program, was within reach, said John W. Lewis, the group's leader, in a telephone interview. 

01/19 S.Korea Reshuffles Diplomats Over U.S. Policy Row (NYTimes) -- South Korea's Foreign Ministry reassigned a top official handling ties with the United States Tuesday following a dispute between the ministry and the president's office. In the latest fallout from a dispute over Seoul's U.S. policy, that claimed the foreign minister last week, Wi Sung-lac, director general at the North America desk, was assigned to the National Security Council at the presidential Blue House. 

Korea Web Special Report:  The Mt. Songak Battle of 1949 - A Prelude to the Korean War -- In the early morning mist on May 3, 1948, a reinforced battalion of the People's Army mounted a general attack on South Korean army position on Mt. Songak (송악산 - 松嶽山)·and occupied a large tract of land near Kaesung. The South Korean army was totally unprepared for the onslaught and was beaten back with heavy casualties.  The South Korean army poured in fresh troops and retook the lost ground after major battles that lasted five days.  Until this battle, there had been other skirmished on much smaller scales involving a few hundred soldiers on each side, but the Songak battle involved full-strength regiments on both sides.

01/19 After Depicting 'Axis of Evil': Gains and Problems (NYTimes) -- Two years after President Bush described Iraq, Iran and North Korea as an "axis of evil" — perhaps the signature phrase of his presidency — his foreign policy aides contend that his uncompromising language and willingness to use military force have changed the behavior of potential enemies. 

01/18 The Issues: Foreign Policy: Democrats Split on Security, but Agree in Faulting Bush (NYTimes) -- In a campaign where national security issues have loomed large in every debate and pancake breakfast here and in Iowa, the major Democratic candidates agree on only a handful of points: that President Bush failed to prepare for the reconstruction of Iraq, that they would rapidly replace American troops with some kind of international force, and that the White House has needlessly alienated much of the rest of the world.

01/18 U.S. Agrees to Move Its Troops Out of Seoul (NYTimes) -- The United States will move all its troops out of metropolitan Seoul over the next three years without reducing the total number of forces in South Korea, both nations have agreed. Under a plan to end the American military presence in the capital, which dates from the end of the Korean War, about 7,000 United States troops and their families will be moved to an expanded facility about 45 miles south of Seoul, said Richard Lawless, deputy assistant secretary of defense for Asian-Pacific affairs.

01/18  Bush to Outline Agenda in State of Union (WP) -- With the economy growing, the stock market rising and Saddam Hussein in custody, President Bush will frame his re-election agenda in an upbeat State of the Union address, arguing he has made America more prosperous and secure but still can do better.  

01/17 N Korea accuses South of employing weapons at border (Times of India) -- North Korea on Saturday accused South Korea of illegally deploying "artillery pieces" inside the Demilitarized Zone separating the two Koreas. North Korea 's official KCNA news agency did not provide any details of the weapons, and South Korean defense ministry spokesman Maj Kim Ki-boem rejected the accusation as a "lie"  Under a ceasefire accord, only rifles and other small arms are allowed inside the DMZ, which was created after the 1950-53 Korean War as a buffer between the two divided states. 

01/17 Japan parties agree on North Korea sanction law (Reuters) -- Japan’s ruling coalition and main opposition party have agreed to pass a law allowing authorities to limit remittances to North Korea, one of the impoverished country’s few sources of cash, reports said on Saturday.  The law is aimed at putting pressure on North Korea to resolve the crisis over its nuclear program and the issue of Japanese nationals abducted by North Korean agents decades ago, the reports said.

01/17  S. Korean Foreign Minister Resigns After Dispute Over U.S. Ties (WP) -- South Korea's foreign minister resigned Thursday in the wake of a mounting scandal involving members of his staff who have sharply criticized President Roh Moo Hyun's more independent approach toward U.S. relations.  Roh's office confirmed that the president had accepted Yoon Young Kwan's resignation.

01/17 North Korea eager to resume talks (MiamiHerald) -- North Korea displayed apparent new evidence of its nuclear deterrent to a private U.S. delegation last week but also said it was eager to resume six-nation talks on the nuclear crisis quickly, a member of the group said Thursday.

01/16 Japanese right manipulates abduction issue (KWW) -- If every political controversy has a pulse, then commentator Eric Johnston's finger is most firmly on the wrist of one: the Japanese right wing's strategy of seizing on North Korea's kidnapping of Japanese citizens to pursue a nationalistic agenda.

01/16 North Korea Says Time Not on U.S. Side  (Yahoo) -- North Korean officials told an American expert on Korea that they see no urgency in ending the impasse over its nuclear weapons programs because delays will give the country more time to expand its nuclear arsenal.

01/16 N.Korea Seen Building Nuclear Arms, Open to Deal (Yahoo) - An American envoy who made an unprecedented visit to North Korea’s nuclear complex said on Thursday he believes Pyongyang is determined to build nuclear weapons but may still be persuaded to abandon its ambitions as part of a deal with the United States.

01/15 Iraq troop rotation plan: Pentagon prepares for next war  (WSWS) -- Over 250,000 US soldiers will leave or arrive in Iraq between now and the end of May in the largest rotation of troops in a combat zone that has been attempted by the American military since World War II. The risks of the massive movement of personnel and hardware are considerable and its implications, given the record of the Bush administration, are ominous.

01/15 North Korea's Latest Con (FrontPageMag) -- How many times can someone sell the same dead puppy to the same dupes? North Korea's Kim Jong Il is currently conducting an international experiment to determine the answer to this question. The merchandise the Dear Leader is hawking isn't really a dog that won't hunt, of course--it's another phony nuclear deal.

01/15 Pentagon Advisor: ‘Blockade North Korea by Sea and Air’ (ChosunIlbo) - Defense Department advisory committee member Richard Pearle, a representative member of the Bush Administration’s hard-line “neo-conservatives,” said that North Korean must be blockaded by sea and air in order to prevent its nuclear warheads from leaving the country.  

01/13 Skepticism swirls around North Korea trip (CSM) -- A US delegation that included a noted Los Alamos expert is briefing US officials and allies this week regarding its five-day,  headline-grabbing trip to North Korea, which included a visit to a nuclear facility that was closed more than a year ago.

01/13 Holiday in Hell  (Wall Street Journal) -- It's safe to say that no country in the world is more dangerous or more shrouded in mystery than North Korea, but some people would like to see it all the same. And yet, until last month, North Korea was just about the only country in the world without a travel guide. (There hasn't been one to hell since Dante.) While only about 3,000 Westerners a year manage to finagle a visa into--and, more important, out of--North Korea, everyone would benefit from the new Bradt Travel Guide's chapters on the country's rich history and on the psychology of a government that makes Saddam Hussein's regime look enlightened.

01/13 U.S. shifting toward more diplomacy (MiamiHerald) -- George W. Bush promised a ''humble'' foreign policy when he ran for president in 2000. After the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, Bush adopted an aggressive doctrine of preemptive strikes on U.S. enemies. Now, as another election approaches, President Bush is again emphasizing cooperation and diplomacy in foreign affairs.

01/12 The lessons of Libya (Mercury) -- What are the lessons of the recent deal with Libyan dictator Col. Moammar Gadhafi to dismantle Libya's nuclear, chemical and biological weapons programs? The answer to this question, which is being debated in Washington policy circles, matters. Libya is a signpost, but one that points in very different directions for different people, illustrating how to deal with more serious threats from North Korea and Iran.

01/12 "An End to Evil" - They Want War  -- “A world at peace; a world governed by law; a world in which all peoples are free to find their own destinies: That dream has not yet come true, but if it ever does come true, it will be brought into being by American armed might and defended by American might, too.” Richard Perle and David Frum, An End to Evil: How to Win the War On Terror, pg 279. “ If the others let a minority conquer the state, then they must also accept the fact that we will establish a dictatorship.” Joseph Goebbels, Knowledge and Propaganda, 1928.

01/12 The right path in Korea (Boston) -- THE BUSH administration's recent approval of a visit by an unofficial US delegation to North Korea's nuclear reactor site at Yongbyon is good news. The promise of the visit -- planned for Jan. 6 to Jan. 10 -- can be fulfilled only if President Bush is prepared to strike the kind of deal that will be needed to rid North Korea of its nuclear weapons program.

01/12 PYONGYANG ASSERTS HARD ARMS STANCE (WPT) -- North Korea yesterday said it would be foolish for the United States to expect it to follow the example of "some Middle East countries," an apparent reference to Libya's decision to renounce weapons of mass destruction.  North Korea has been under international pressure to give up its nuclear weapons programs. But the communist regime is digging in with its hard-line rhetoric, heralding tough negotiations.

01/12 NORTH KOREA BARES NUKES (WashingtonTimes) -- North Korea said yesterday that it showed its "nuclear deterrent" to an unofficial U.S. delegation that visited the disputed Yongbyon nuclear complex, which had been closed to outsiders since the North expelled U.N. inspectors more than a year ago.

01/12 N. Korea Urges U.S to Accept Nuke Freeze (NYTimes) -- A day after showing American delegates its ``nuclear deterrent,'' North Korea marked the anniversary of its withdrawal from an international nuclear treaty by resolving to bolster its defenses against a possible U.S. attack.

01/12 Truth and Consequences (WP) -- THE CHINESE government recently suggested that it does not necessarily believe U.S. intelligence reports on North Korea's secret effort to enrich uranium for nuclear weapons. "We have no knowledge of [North Korea's] nuclear program or its capabilities. We do not know if [North Korea] has a HEU [highly enriched uranium] program," a Chinese embassy spokesman told The Post last week.

01/12 Visitors see North Korea’s nuclear capability (NYT) -- North Korea declared Saturday that it had shown what it called a "nuclear deterrent" to an unofficial delegation of visiting Americans, but officials familiar with their visit to the North's main nuclear site said they had seen the facilities to produce bomb fuel rather than an actual weapon.

01/12  Opinion Poll: Below 50 Koreans believe Bush is the worst threat to peace in Korea -- More people in South Korea believe that the United States is a bigger threat to peace in Korea than North Korea is.  The Research and Research of No Gyu-hyung, a firm specializing in public opinion polls, conducted in last May a nation-wide polling of about 800 adults in South Korea. They were asked: Who is the worst threat to peace in Korea? The poll showed  that 39% feared the US is the most likely nation to start war in Korea, whereas only 33% feared North Korea would start war. China scored 12%, Japan 8%, and 8% of those polled had no opinion or did not respond.  

01/11 N.Korea Shows U.S. Delegation (Reuters) -- North Korea said on Saturday it had shown a visiting U.S. delegation its "nuclear deterrent" and hoped this would provide a basis for a peaceful settlement of the row with the United States over its nuclear activities.

01/11 U.S. team visits main North Korean nuclear site (USAToday) -- Five Americans, including a top nuclear scientist, visited North Korea's main nuclear site this week, the first outsiders to gain access to the facility since North Korea expelled United Nations weapons inspectors more than a year ago.

01/11 Op-Ed Columnist: Wishful Thinking on Korea (NYTimes) -- The place we should really lose sleep over is North Korea, not Iraq. That's because President Bush is in effect acquiescing as North Korea builds up its nuclear arsenal.  An administration that was panicked about Iraq's virtually nonexistent nuclear programs is blasé as North Korea reprocesses plutonium, enriches uranium and gets set to produce up to 200 atomic weapons by 2010. North Korea balances its budget by counterfeiting American $100 bills, so counting on its scruples not to sell a nuclear warhead to terrorists seems a dangerous bet.

01/10 Headline:  Talk to them: Churches urge more dialogue with N. Korea (CSM) -- In a sparsely furnished apartment in Pyongyang, the capital of North Korea, the woman stood and offered her song of faith. In deep tones of conviction that touched the listening visitors seated on the floor, she sang of "the sorrows that like sea billows roll," yet "it is well with my soul."

01/10  U.S. Groups Visit North Korean Nuclear Plant (WashingtonPost) -- Two unofficial U.S. delegations to North Korea were granted access this week to a nuclear facility that Pyongyang claims is being used to produce material for nuclear weapons, sources familiar with the trip said yesterday.

01/10 China Officials to Visit U.S. to Discuss N. Korea (NYTimes) -- With momentum apparently building for fresh six-way talks on dismantling North Korea’s suspected nuclear arms programs, a Chinese delegation will visit Washington next week to discuss how to arrange a new round, officials said on Friday.

01/10 N. Korea Hints It Won’t Renounce Weapons (NYTimes) -- North Korea said Friday that it would be foolish for the United States to expect it to follow the example of ``some Middle East countries,'' an apparent reference to Libya's decision to renounce weapons of mass destruction.

01/09 Sok Chon: A Game of Men: Stone Throwing as a Serious Pastime by Robert Neff.  The walls and hills were covered with a great mass of white clothed Koreans staring down into a vacant lot in animated nervous anticipation. In harsh voices bets were made between the men, and sealed with drinks of alcohol and punctuated with hoarse laughter, while children eagerly pushed their way to the front for a better view of the impending battle.

01/09 The Tale of Korea's American Empress: Fact and Fiction Merge in the Early 1900s to Create the Story of Emily Brown by Robert Neff.  On Oct. 24, 1903, Americans were surprised to discover how much influence the United States had gained in Korea. A newspaper in Chicago broke the news that a fellow American, Emily Brown, the young daughter of the late Dr. Peter Brown, had married the Korean emperor Kojong in an elaborate wedding in August of that year. The fact is that Emily Brown was a pure fiction.

01/09 China questions US claims about Korean nuclear threat (SMH) -- China told Asian diplomats last week it is not convinced of US claims that North Korea has a clandestine program to enrich uranium for use in nuclear weapons, US officials said.  The previously unreported conversation - raising doubts about the central element in the Bush Administration's case against Pyongyang - underscores how Chinese and US aims appear to be diverging in the diplomatic effort to restrain North Korea's nuclear ambitions. China has taken the lead in organizing another round of six-nation talks, but this has bogged down over disputes about the scope and content of the negotiations. 

01/08 Film Review: North Korea: Beyond the DMZ (Workers World) -- At last a movie has been made by a U.S. film crew about North Korea that makes an effort to understand that country, not just demonize it.  "North Korea: Beyond the DMZ" is a Third World Newsreel release produced by J.T. Takagi and Hye Jung Park and edited by Dena Mermelstein. The one-hour film has been screened twice in New York theaters to capacity audiences, made up largely of young Koreans, and will be seen soon in Philadelphia and Los Angeles.

01/07 North Korea wants Japan to abandon its 'hostile' stance (JapanTimes) -- North Korea wants Japan to end its "hostile" position toward Pyongyang and put relations between the two countries on a normal course, the official Rodong Sinmun said in a commentary Tuesday.  South Korea's Yonhap News Agency said the North's official newspaper called for Japan to "respect and carry out a joint declaration" made when Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi visited Pyongyang in 2002 for talks with North Korean leader Kim Jong Il.

01/07 Dean Refuses to Stop Trying to Blame Bush for Clinton's Fiasco on North Korea (NewsMax) -- National security experts are stunned that Howard Dean, the front runner in the Democrat presidential race, would publicly display his “profound ignorance” of North Korea’s recent nuclear history, in an issue where millions of American lives could hang in the balance.  North Korea’s nuclear buildup throughout the 1990s, described as “alarming” by one highly placed Capitol Hill staffer, was due to a weak – one could say a sham – treaty engineered by the Clinton administration.

01/07 Korea: Wrong war, wrong place, wrong enemy (AsiaTimes) -- General Omar Bradley, as chairman  of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, characterized the Korean War as the wrong war, in the wrong place and against the wrong enemy. In congressional testimony on May 23,1951, he stated: "I know my own opinion was - and I think it was pretty generally held - that the chance of Russia or China coming into the war in South Korea was rather remote. There was that possibility, and it was considered, but we did not think they would be coming in to the fighting in South Korea."

01/07 A Partner in Shaping an Assertive Foreign Policy (NYTimes)  -- Condoleezza Rice, President Bush's national security adviser, stood in front of Mr. Bush's desk in the Oval Office last summer and tried to coax the president into something he did not want to face. She suggested, carefully, that the White House begin repairing the rupture with the allies over Iraq by reaching out to Germany, whose chancellor, Gerhard Schröder, had infuriated the president by campaigning for re-election on an antiwar platform. Mr. Bush, simply put, did not trust him.

 

01/07 Powell Hails North Korea for New Step (NYTimes) -- Secretary of State Colin L. Powell on Tuesday labeled as "positive" the latest offer by North Korea to suspend its nuclear programs as part of an overall nuclear agreement, saying that he hoped the offer would lead to more talks on the issue.  Appearing at the State Department after a meeting with the foreign minister of Tunisia, Habib Ben Yahia, Mr. Powell said it was "interesting" that North Korea had "in effect said they won't test and they implied they would give up all aspects of their nuclear program, not just weapons program." 

 

01/06  South Korea Sees Better Atmosphere for North Talks (Reuters) -- North Korea's offer to freeze its nuclear program should help create conditions to resume talks on the communist North's nuclear ambitions, South Korea's foreign minister said Wednesday.

01/06 N. Korean 'good guys' require U.S. assistance (USAToday) -- In The Third World War, a thriller  by British journalist Humphrey Hawksley, the United States and North Korea angrily break off  negotiations on Pyongyang's nuclear weapons program. When North Korean leader Kim Jong Il then makes a conciliatory offer — promptly spurned by Washington — a hard-line general seizes power, denounces Kim for "appeasement" and begins plotting with anti-U.S. Islamic terrorist groups centered in Pakistan. North Korea fires a missile at a U.S. base in Japan, Tokyo retaliates with nuclear weapons, and Pakistan launches simultaneous attacks on India that draw Russia, China and the United States into a global holocaust.

01/05  Americans Visit N.Korea; Pyongyang Touts Offer (NYTimes)  - A U.S. delegation flew to North Korea Tuesday, hoping to visit a nuclear complex at the heart of the North's atomic arms program, as Pyongyang pitched what it called a ``bold concession'' to restart talks.

 

01/04 DPRK accuses US of having ulterior motive behind peaceful calls (PeoplesDaily) -- The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) on Sunday accused the United States of having an ulterior motive behind its calls for dialogue and negotiation in dealing with the nuclear issue on the Korean Peninsula.  The Minju Jason, a major DPRK newspaper, said the United States was sending into South Korea a large amount of various sophisticated combat equipment. 

01/04 Nuclear arms topic of visit to N. Korea (BaltimoreSun) -- North Korea has invited American security experts and a nuclear weapons scientist for a visit next week that analysts said could provide the first close-up indication of whether the North is actively producing fuel for nuclear weapons.  The privately arranged trip will include a retired U.S. diplomat who has negotiated with the North Koreans, the former head of the Los Alamos National Laboratory and a Stanford University specialist in Asian security. 

01/04 Delegation's leader works behind scenes (MercuryNews) -- Stanford Professor Emeritus John W. Lewis lives comfortably in a twilight world between open scholarship, private diplomacy and the classified secrets of the U.S. intelligence establishment.   The political scientist put together the unofficial delegation of arms experts and Senate staffers who next week may inspect a North Korean nuclear site.

01/04 Today's Editorials: Plugging Nuclear Leaks (NYTimes) -- Now that Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi has opened Libya's previously secret nuclear facilities, the world is learning just how much of the machinery for making bomb fuel he had been able to assemble without international detection.

01/03 Bush cool to N. Korea nuke visits (TheState) --  The Bush administration — pressing for the irreversible and verifiable elimination of North Korea’s nuclear program — distanced itself Friday from planned visits there by congressional aides and private scientists. 

01/03 White House cool to N. Korea visits: Lugar aide among those planning trips the administration says 'aren't
helpful.' (IndyStar). -- The Senate Foreign Relations Committee is sending Republican staff member Keith Luse and a Democratic colleague, Frank Jannuzi. Both are East Asia experts and work respectively for committee Chairman Richard Lugar, R-Ind., and Joseph Biden, of Delaware, the panel's ranking Democrat.  A second group planning a trip consists of John Lewis, of Stanford University; Sig Hecker, of the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, a nuclear weapons research center; and Jack Pritchard, a former State Department official.

01/02  North Korea Said to Allow Nuclear Inspectors Next Week (NYTimes) -- A private delegation of American experts on North Korea, including a former White House official and a former director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory, will travel to North Korea next week for a possible visit to a nuclear weapons facility, people close to the delegation said today.

01/01 Military Analysis: Giving Up Those Weapons: After Libya, Who Is Next? (NYTimes) -- Undoing a weapons program is one of the rarest of decisions for an absolute leader.  Threatening military force is not an option. War on the heavily armed Korean Peninsula would be a calamity. No Asian ally is prepared to back a policy of confrontation. With most of the United States Army preoccupied with Iraq and Afghanistan, the United States simply lacks the military muscle to marshal a credible threat. 

 

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