Globe and Mail (Free subscription) | 09/03/2008
Since his 1997 defection, Hwang Jang Yop has been allowed to go abroad only once
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 09/03/2008
South Korea has decided to allow a top North Korean defector and heavy critic of the communist regime to freely travel abroad, a newspaper reported Wednesday.
kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 09/03/2008
South Korea has decided to allow a top North Korean defector and heavy critic of the communist regime to freely travel abroad, a newspaper reported Wednesday.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 09/03/2008
SEOUL, South Korea -- South Korea has decided to allow a top North Korean defector and heavy critic of the communist regime to freely travel abroad, a newspaper reported Wednesday.
ROK Drop (Free subscription) | 08/29/2008
The following is a snippet of a much larger piece I wrote about four years ago after Roh came into office. After a while, I simply threw up my hands in disgust with the spy situation in Korea after Roh sent all the North Korean spies — one of them that the Japanese want because [...]
ROK Drop (Free subscription) | 08/29/2008
Like North Korea reneging on their nuclear agreement, I hope no one is surprised by the fact that the North Koreans are using the age old espionage tactic of sex for information: Prosecutors indicted a 34-year-old North Korean female defector Wednesday on charges of spying for the communist nation. The woman, identified as Won Jeong-hwa, allegedly relayed [...]
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008
The North Korean government did not attend South Korean President Lee Myung-bak's inauguration early this year because its demand for a special invitation was not met, a news report said Tuesday.
OneFreeKorea (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
You’d think that with a cast of 300 foreign policy advisors on Obama’s team alone, the Democrats could find one who has some idea of who Roh Moo Hyun was, what he stood for, and what he would not stand against. The Democrats have rolled out their 2008 platform. Party platforms aren’t widely regarded for being repositories of substance. They’re better [...]
ROK Drop (Free subscription) | 08/12/2008
The Lee Myung-bak government’s effort to remove the Roh Moo-hyun era appointees that aided in the US beef nonsense has now centered on the government’s news organ KBS: President Lee Myung-bak has discharged Korean Broadcasting System President Jung Yun-joo. Presidential spokesman Lee Dong-kwan announced at a Monday briefing that the president accepted and signed the KBS Board [...]
CNN (Free subscription) | 08/03/2008
North Korea said Sunday it will expel all "unnecessary" South Koreans from a mountain resort in the communist nation where a South Korean tourist was shot dead by a soldier last month.
kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
A South Korean court on Tuesday upheld an earlier ruling sentencing a former university professor to 18 months in jail for faking a Yale doctorate and embezzling museum funds.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
SEOUL, South Korea -- A South Korean court on Tuesday upheld an earlier ruling sentencing a former university professor to 18 months in jail for faking a Yale doctorate and embezzling museum funds.
AMPONTAN (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
SOON OR LATE, South Korea will have to choose which paradigm to apply for its relations with Japan. They have two choices, both of which can be represented by geographical entities. One choice is Busan, a city of more than three million on the southeastern part of the Korean Peninsula. It lies only 140 miles away [...]
ROK Drop (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
It is sad to see President Lee Myung-bak equating the murdering of a South Korean civilian by North Korea with the current Dokdo nonsense: President Lee Myung-bak called for national unity Wednesday to counter Japan’s claim to South Korea’s easternmost islets of Dokdo and the killing of a South Korean tourist by the North Korean [...]
MSNBC.com: Asia-Pacific (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
Type SizeSponsored byEmail To A FriendPlease fill in the following information and we'll email this link.Your NameYour Email AddressRecipient's Email AddressSeparate multiple addresses with commasMessage (optional):Lee Myung-Bak has had a very public flameout. Since taking office five months ago, 's new president—a CEO-style leader who won a landslide election last December—has seen his power base...
