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12/18 Japanese want tougher stance towards China, North Korea- poll  (AFP) -- A majority of Japanese want their government to get tougher with China and North Korea as support for Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi has dipped, an opinion poll showed.  Tension has been mounting between Japan and its communist neighbors amid a row over North Korea's abductions of Japanese citizens and a string of disputes with China.

12/18 Pyongyang Far From Computer Illiterate  (OhmyNews) -- There is a notion in the rest of the world that North Korea as a whole is backwards and struggling. It has little infrastructure and is for the most part computer illiterate. In a recent trip to the North I found very much the opposite, though the availability of computers seems localized to Pyongyang and they are often incapacitated by the numerous power outages that regularly affect the country. 

12/28 Seoul-Tokyo Treaty Files Set to Be Disclosed (Korea Times)  -- South Korea has decided to make public next month several important documents that were exchanged with Japan in the lead-up to the two nations’ normalization of ties four decades ago.

12/20 If North Korea collapses (Washington Times) -- With each passing day, it seems more and more likely that the current North Korean regime's days are numbered. Suspicious railroad explosions, the recent purge of a powerful relative of Kim Jong Il and an exodus of upper class elites all indicate a regime on the verge of a breakdown.

12/17 The Forgotten Nuclear Threat - Bruce Cumings -- The media claim that North Korea is trying to obtain and use weapons of mass destruction. Yet the United States, which opposes this strategy, has used or threatened to use such weapons in northeast Asia since the 1940s, when it did drop atomic bombs on Japan.

12/09 The North Korean Defector Trade: Human Rights Activists or Human Slave Traders? -- Some "Human rights" activists make windfall profits off North Korean defectors - their clients include foreign intelligence orgs, NGOs, and news media  

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