[UPDATE: Location Change]
I’m back from a hiatus. Normal posting from me will resume (maybe).
Interest in Korea and U.S.-Korea relations continue to grow (at least in D.C.). Christopher Hale, a D.C. attorney with Korean expertise, says that Sejong Society is “a Korea policy-oriented group for young professionals and students” that:
has gotten off to a […]
Last December I wrote this about a Reuters piece that spoke of the possibility of relatively vast oil reserves in North Korean territory and a China-North Korean deal, although the exact area(s) were not revealed. Tuesday a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman stated that the “joint development of oil resources” would be in Yellow Sea […]
Please take the time to remember the some 10,000 allied casualties from 6 June 1944, and what they were fighting for. I had the opportunity to be there on the 50th anniversary in 1994, and it is a sight to see. It’s also a good reminder that freedom isn’t free, and that both the […]
From the Dong-a Ilbo: “President of the Families of Abducted and Detained in North Korea, confirmed yesterday at a press conference, ‘A former South Korean soldier surnamed Kim is currently staying in a third country. He crossed the North Korean border at around 10 p.m. on June 14. He joined the South Korean army in August 1951 at age 17. He is now 74 years old.’”
- #GI Korea has an excellent and lengthy post on the background, events, and aftermath of the 2002 accident where a U.S. armored vehicle killed to schoolgirls. I arrived in Korea a few days after the accident, but things didn't start to heat up until two months later, as I was returning to the States.
- #Via Reuters: “…there was strong suspicion a huge shipment of methamphetamines seized at the former U.S. navy base of Subic north of Manila this week came from clandestine drugs laboratories in North Korea.” The Joker took over Batman’s abandoned cave.
- #From TimesOnline: "THE first case of murder and suicide caused by North Korea’s new food crisis has emerged with the account of a man who killed his hungry wife and children and then took his own life in despair." This report can't be confirmed, but it is entirely plausible.
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