Hangŭl: 조선민주주의인민공화국
Romanization: Chosŏn Minjujuŭi Inmin Konghwa-guk
English: Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea
Notes: The short form is simply 조선
Hangŭl: 선군 정치
Romanization: Sŏn-gun Chongch’i
English: Military First Policy
Notes: Literally, ‘first-military’ ‘policy’
Hangŭl: 주체
Romanization: Chuch’e or Juche
English: usually translated as “self-reliance”
Joongang Ilbo: China says oil still goes to the North
Yonhap: France inspects N. Korean cargo ship
Reuters: North Korea upstages trade at APEC meeting
Kyodo: Aso attacks N. Korea at APEC ministerial meeting
VoA: SK to Back UN Investigation of Human Rights in NK
Chosun Ilbo: Seoul ‘Facing Tense Summit With U.S. Over NK’
Bloomberg: China’s […]
From VoA: “South Korea is reversing three years of looking the other way on North Korean human rights abuses, saying it will back a United Nations resolution that calls on Pyongyang in strong terms to improve its human rights record.” Also see OFK.
In an update the post on the upcoming DPRK ‘Rock Festival,’ the Guardian has a Q&A with the admin of the ‘Voice of Korea’ propaganda site, Jean-Baptiste Kim. A sample: “Your biggest misconception is that you believe North Koreans are all dying under dictatorial state and our leaders are all mad who are war […]
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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