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08/31 Seoul Seeks US Consent Over Kaesong (Korea Times) -- Unification Minister Chung Dong-young will Wednesday seek U.S. approval to allow the export of currently banned high-tech equipment to the Kaesong Industrial Complex in North Korea _ the final obstacle in the road to local companies moving into the inter-Korean business zone.
08/31 Republicans say US ready to take on China, North Korea (AFP) -- President George W. Bush's Republican party warned the United States would not tolerate aggression from North Korea or any Chinese military moves against Taiwan.
08/26 Martha's Story: the Dream of Korean-Cubans (Minjok) -- In January of this year, Dai Sil Kim (a film-maker) went to Cuba with a group of Koreans from New York, South Korea and Canada. It was supposed to be an educational trip to learn about Cuba. But she met Koreans in Cuba and among them a fascinating woman, Martha Lim Kim, one of the nine children of Ernesto Lim and Gudelia Kim Pack.
08/24 National Human Rights Commission of Korea Urges Abolition of National Security Law (Donga) -- The National Human Rights Commission of Korea urged the chairman of the National Assembly and the Minister of Justice to completely abolish the National Security Law after its all-member committee discussion on August 24. It is the first time that a national institution has suggested abolishing the law.
08/24 North
Korea, Eyeing Election, Issues Stream of Insults at Bush (NYT) -- North
Korea called
08/22 S Korea loses gold in men's gymnastics due to judge's error (Korea Herald) -- Officials from the International Gymnastics Federation said on Saturday (August 21) that a mistake was made with the scoring of the men's gymnastics all-around event, which cost South Korean gymnast, Yang Tae Young, a gold medal having to settle with silver, however competitor Paul Hamm from the United States gained a gold.
08/22 SK Lawmakers Caution U.S. Senators inDeclaration Against NK Human Rights Act (OhmyNews) -- South Korean politicians from the ruling Uri Party issued a statement last week stressing that a piece of legislation called the North Korean Human Rights Act of 2004, which was passed unanimously in the U.S. House of Representatives on July 21, may have dire consequences for peace on the Korean peninsula.
08/22 NK Strongly Criticizes Vietnam Over Defectors (Korea Times) -- North Korea has strongly criticized Vietnam for letting hundreds of its citizens go to South Korea last month, according to lawmakers who recently visited the Southeast Asian nation. Pyongyang was disturbed when South Korea airlifted 468 North Korean escapees from Vietnam by chartered flights in late July. It accused Seoul of kidnapping them and threatened to take unspecified retaliatory actions against South Korea and Vietnam.
08/19 US Blocking Kaesong Development Project (Korea Times) -- The U.S. government recently demanded the Korean government regulate the speed of development of the industrial complex in the North Korean border town of Kaesong, expressing worries that North Korea might use ``strategic facilities'' for military purposes.
08/19 Tokyo Urges Seoul to Keep Lid on 1965 Agreement (Korea Times) -- Park Jung-hee resold Korea to Japan.
08/18 [EDITORIAL]Family liability (Korea Herald) -- Like father, like son? In a modern democratic society, family liability is prohibited in criminal justice. A person cannot be discriminated against just because another family member has committed a criminal or other ignominious act. Such discrimination is little different from calling for the admission of guilt by association.
08/17 Last American defector in North Korea agrees to tell story (yahoo) -- The last surviving American defector to communist North Korea wants to tell his story to put a human face on the Stalinist state which he believes is unfairly vilified abroad, British film-makers said. "The US military teaches you they are evil Communists, they have horns, they have fangs, they have red faces. I never believed such bullshit. Of course, there is an ideological difference, but that is the only difference."
08/17 US troop restructuring aims to build stronger force (People's Daily) -- The planned realignment of American military forces, announced by US President Bush Monday, aims to transform the US military into a lighter, more lethal and more flexible force.
08/17 Deng Xiaoping - 100th Birthday (People's Daily) -- The father of Modern China
08/16 [NEWS ANALYSIS]Chung expected to boost inter-Korean ties (Korea Herald) -- With Unification Minister Chung Dong-young now captain of the diplomatic and security team, experts expect more government action to advance inter-Korean ties that have made little progress amid tension over the North's nuclear weapons program. Some political analysts said the National Security Council would have less power as its role of coordinating the Unification, Foreign and Defense Ministries has now been delegated to the heavyweight politician.
08/12 Australian
Foreign Minister Vindicates Kim Myong Chol Threat to Strike Australia with
Missiles (cfkap) -- Speaking in the
Australian capital of Caberra, Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer
vindicated
the year-earlier threat made by Dr. Kim Myong Chol last year that the
DPRK would readily retaliate against Australia with long-range missiles tipped
with nuclear warheads if Canberra should be part of the American military
operations to intercept North Korean cargo ships.
Responding to the KMC threat, Downer dismissed it as groundless (Australian
Foreign Ministry, July 15, 2003) (the
Age, July 15, 2003) and (ABC,
July 15, 2003). He referred to the Kim statement by name. One year
later, Downer had to retract his denial of the Kim statement admitting that North
Korea is capable of targeting Australia with a long-range missile.
08/12 Japanese Prosecution Records on Korean Independence Worriers Unearthed (Donga) -- Japan’s prosecution records on Korea’s independence groups and activists during the colonial period of 1935-36 have been unearthed. On August 13, Shin Guk-ju, the former president of Seoul’s Dongguk University, disclosed Volume 25 of the “Ideology Research Material,” which was published by the crime division of the Japanese prosecution in 1936. The cover of the booklet that Professor Shin owned was marked with a warning of “Top Secret” and “Security Clearance” and a serial number of 409.
08/11 North Korea to build new missiles using Soviet design (RussiaJournal) -- North Korea is deploying new land- and sea-based ballistic missiles that can carry nuclear warheads and may have sufficient range to hit the United States.
08/08 - [NEWS FOCUS]Korea fights to keep Goguryeo from China (Korea Herald) -- The latest cultural dispute between Korea and China over the ancient Kingdom of Goguryeo is not the first. China's Sui and Tang dynasties made several invasions on Goguryeo in ancient times but failed to conquer it, gaining the small Korean kingdom recognition as the most powerful in Northeast Asia
08/08 The Forgotten Glory of Koguryo (KWW) -- 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.
KCNA: DPRK
Foreign Ministry Denounces Vietnam for Conspiring with US, SK in Abducting North
Korean Citizens
The DPRK Foreign Ministry August 3 singled out Vietnam for harsh criticism and
branded her as sullying her national honor by conspiring the United States and
South Korea in kidnapping North Korean citizens.
North Korean pilots and the late
Ho Chi Minh, center
copyright by Kim Myong Chol
08/04 WAR.WIRE North Korea could soon be able to target US with missiles- study (SpaceWar) -- North Korea is developing a pair of new ballistic missile systems, including a sea-launched model, which could soon enable the Stalinist state to target the United States, a leading military publication said Tuesday.
08/01 No bed of roses for North Korean defectors (StraitsTimes) -- Most North Koreans go to South Korea with a vague 'South Korean dream'. But as soon as the excitement of arriving settles in, they face the realities of a free market economy in which nothing is free. Few of them succeed and, unable to integrate into the mainstream South Korean society, most end up depending on government support.
08/01 Chinese Magazine Claims Korea Was Tributary State to China During Ming and Qing Dynasties (Donga) -- Amid the brewing fury over China’s distortion of the history of the Goguryeo dynasty, one of China’s weekly magazines announced that Korea was a tributary state to China during the Ming and Qing dynasties, which may spark serious repercussions from Korea.
08/01 Modern Korean History Sparks Political Controversy (Chosun) -- Following President Roh Moo-hyun’s statement that a national project of dealing comprehensively with controversial historical problems was needed while he was receiving a report from Truth Commission, the Uri Party announced Sunday that the party would set up a "Truth and Reconciliation Committee.
08/01 'U.S. Imperialism One Big Vicious Circle' (Ohmynews) -- World-renowned American peace-activist, theologian, and scholar of "process philosophy" John Cobb is in Seoul until May 24 to participate in the "International Conference on Whitehead’s Thought and East Asian Culture." The event is organized by the Whitehead Society of Korea (www.whitehead.co.kr), a scholarly organization dedicated to the study of the thought of Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947). OhmyNews staff reporter Jang Yun Seon spoke with Cobb on Wednesday about his views on recent global developments.
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