FP Passport (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA - MAY 14: South Korean Capital Defence Command soldiers take part in an anti-terrorism exercise at their Seoul military camp on May 14, 2008 in Seoul, South Korea.
Time (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
The United States last provided food aid to North Korea in 2005. Further deliveries fell apart in a dispute over a U.S. demand for close oversight of how the aid would be distributed. The United States wants assurances the food won't be diverted or used improperly by the government of Kim Jong Il.
Jezebel (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
... *sigh* at Connectedness Index: 145 EEEEEEEEEE! *fangirls*So basically Sean Penn believe Obama is Kim Jong-Il? at Connectedness Index: 261 So if you anger commenters to the point you get banned, you have a chance of getting a "column" here?*must get to work..... at Connectedness Index: 209 Best new feature ever. SINROO SMASH! at This is amazing in so many ways. But #1 reason: Princess Motherfucking...
Tammy Bruce (Free subscription) | yesterday
Kim Jong-Il. China. Fatah's Abbas to name a few of the terrorist beasts we negotiate with. I happen to agree with President Bush that negotiating with genocidal regimes and terrorists is appeasement. While most appropriately see the president's comments in Israel as a swipe at Barry Hussein Obama, Bush and his admin, led by Cindi Rice and James Baker of the now famously implemented Iraq Surrender...
Haaretz.com (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
Obama, relishing a long-distance debate with Bush on foreign policy, said the president had contributed to Tehran's rise in the Middle East by launching the Iraq war, which he said had removed Baghdad as a counterweight to Iran. The Illinois senator said Republican presidential nominee John McCain was as much to blame as Bush for what he termed a failure of U.S. policy in the Middle East. "They're...
Star Tribune (Free subscription) | yesterday
The State Department announced the agreement Friday after weeks of talks about how the food would be distributed. The United States wants assurances that food won't be diverted or used improperly by the government of Kim Jong Il. The U.N. has warned that North Korea urgently needs outside aid to avert a worse humanitarian disaster.
This Book Is For You (Free subscription) | yesterday
Following an interview with Barack Obama, Jeffrey Goldberg at the Atlantic writes : Obama told me that his sensibility was partially shaped by the books of Philip Roth. This obviously has profound implications for American foreign policy, and for shiksas, as well. And so, a reader contest. In a couple of pithy sentences, tell us what the first 100 days of a Roth-influenced Obama presidency would look...
1913 Intel (Free subscription) | yesterday
In these two articles, AEI’s Danielle Pletka and John R. Bolton bring us up to date and discuss the larger implications of developments since Kim Jong Il pledged to give up his nuclear ambitions in exchange for diplomatic recognition and foreign aid. Pletka reminds readers that since North Korea signed the 1994 accord, it has [...]
Poetry Hut Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Poetry News: — State names new poet laureate — — Readers Not Wanted: Student Writers Fight to Keep Their Work Off the Web — — New book by former NEA chairman gives vision for arts in America; Bill Ivey of Vanderbilt's Curb Center is author of Arts, Inc. — — Writer and poet Firas Saad was sentenced to four [...]
Philosophers' Playground (Free subscription) | yesterday
... that Bush himself is engaged in exactly this sort of diplomacy with fellow axis of evil leader Kim Jong Il and that the Israelis have a history of diplomatic engagement with their national enemies, not to mention criticizing a fellow American overseas after the Dixie Chicks fiasco, is nothing short of hypocritical. All of this is disturbing, but what is truly stunning is that here is George...
Michael Goldfarb - The Blog (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
... without precondition during his first year in office (he also said he'd meet with Assad, Castro, Kim Jong-Il, and Hugo Chavez--quite a summit!), as well as this statement on his website : Obama is the only major candidate who supports tough, direct presidential diplomacy with Iran without preconditions. So how about some serious, enterprising reporter asks Obama just what he and Ahmadinejad...
OneFreeKorea (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
... North Korea from the list of state sponsors of terrorism and pursue full diplomatic relations with Kim Jong Il's regime shortly after it was revealed that the North was building a secret nuclear reactor in Syria and despite its persistent refusal to fully declare and dismantle its nuclear weapons programs. Rice denounced Bush’s remarks as “partisan” and “unbecoming of a president's legacy.”...
Google Sightseeing (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
... This being North Korea however, the stadium's primary use is actually to celebrate the President, Kim Jong-il , who holds elaborate parades and displays of power here each May Day. Even more disturbingly, during the 1990s a number of army generals were apparently executed by being burned alive here. The petal-shaped structure is not the only major stadium in the city, though. Just a few...
FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
Day By Day by Chris Muir Electing Obama or Hillary will mean the State Department will CAVE to the demands of Europe, China, Russia, Saudi Arabia and other nations rather than negotiate trade and defense agreements from an American-centric perspective. Remember when Madeleine Albright, Secretary of State, under President Bill Clinton was clinking glasses with North Korea’s Kim Jong-Il and giving...
Asia Times (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
As court poet for North Korea's reclusive leader Kim Jong-il, Jang Jin-sung enjoyed all the trappings of life among the Pyongyang elite. But he traded it for a dangerous flight to South Korea, where he is now a best-selling author of poems chronicling the grueling misery of North Korean life. (May 15, '08)
