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?The North Korea model???? WTF???
2007-10-04 00:36:00 Now, aren’t we getting a bit ahead of ourselves??? From Reuters: …President George W. Bush on Wednesday held up North Kore a as a possible model for resolving the Iranian nuclear standoff and reaffirmed a U.S. offer of talks if Tehran suspends uranium enrichment …speaking at the Chamber of Commerce in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, [Bush] called the North ... More About: North Korea , Model
South-North Summit, Day 2
2007-10-03 00:38:00 Morning: First South -North Summit Lunch: To be held at the Ongnyugwan Afternoon: Second South-North Summit Evening: Dignitaries to view the Arirang performance at the 1st May Stadium Evening: President Roh to host a dinner at the People’s Palace of Culture Today all will be revealed as to whether this was a momentous domestic political stunt or a genuine attempt to achieve unification ...
South-North Korean Summit for Stamp Collectors
2007-10-02 14:05:00 Will Roh Moo-Hyun also get into the North ’s stamp collection? I think the photography to date seems a little below stamp quality… but who knows, there is some damned nice flowers in the background… if only that suit weren’t there, but I bet they’re good with an airbrush up North… Share This More About: Korean , Stamp , South , Summit
South-North Korean Summit - Day One Souvenir Report
2007-10-02 12:55:00 A monument has already been erected at the Military Demarcation Line (MDL) to commemorate President Roh Moo-hyun’s 30m walk across the border on his way to Pyongyang. The monument is a 1.1-meter-high stone on which is written ’The Road to Peace and Prosperity’ in the handwriting of the President…. Meanwhile, the Ministry of Information and Communication said that a special postage stamp to highlight ... More About: Report , North , Korean , South , Summit
Tim Beal?s Pyongyang Report
2007-10-02 05:36:00 The latest edition of Professor Tim Beal ’s Pyongyang Report (Vol. 9, No. 4) is now available on the website. Inside this issue’s report are: Invisible WMD ? the effect of sanctions 2nd North-South summit; hopes and issues Six party Talks re-open in Beijing ?Floods and the NZ response; donations to NZ Friendship Farm Share This
German unification at 17
2007-10-02 04:22:00 As Roh heads North for the Summit, some sobering statistics have come out on Germ an unification. Apparently, around one in five Germans want the Berlin Wall back! Emnid, an opinion research firm, found that around 19 percent of respondents to a poll thought the country was better off when it was divided and 21 percent were nostalgic for ... More About: Man U
South-North Korean Summit, 2-4 October 2007
2007-10-02 00:54:00 The sounds of gunfire have ceased, but we are not yet firmly confident of peace on the Korean Peninsula. Before it is too late, we have to overcome this adverse situation and open a new front for the future of the nation… [Roh Moo-Hyun, Liberation Day Address, 15 August 2007] Share This More About: North , South , Summit , Inter-Korean Summit
VOA to increase broadcasts to North Korea
2007-10-01 23:47:00 The following is a press release from the Voice of America: —————— ;—————̵ 1; PRESS RELEASE - Washington, D.C., October 1, 2007 ? The Voice of America?s (VOA) Korea n Service today launches three new programs and transforms its Seoul bureau into a multimedia News Center. The initiatives expand VOA?s reach to North Korea ns. Share This More About: Casts , Broadcasts
Life at Gaeseong Industrial Complex
2007-10-01 12:57:00 The Ministry of Unification has an interesting article written Gwon Yong-Jin, an employee of Korea Land Corporation, who works and lives at the Gaeseong Industrial Complex (GIC). Gwon presents an account of the diverse aspects of life at the complex and how his attitudes have come to change during his one year stay: I have lived in Gaeseong for more than one ... More About: Life
Summit News
2007-10-01 07:14:00 The South-North Korean Summit is not getting much international media coverage at this stage. It seems to be inexorably connected to the nuclear talks but luckily, totally free of the controversy that surrounds the Summit in the South Korean domestic scene. USA Today leads with the headline “Historic Summit a test of North Korea’s desperation”, and reports: The three-day summit, ... More About: News , Inter-Korean Summit
Nicole Bastian on Korean unification
2007-09-29 04:00:00 There is a very good article at korea.net on economic cooperation and its role in the unification of the two Kore as. Nico le Bastian, a correspondent for the Düsseldorf based Handelsblatt financial newspaper, has written an article that is both realistic and inspiring. The article, entitled ‘Closing economic gap between the Koreas is a good idea’, supports the ... More About: Korean , N Korea
North-South Korean Summit - 4 days to go?
2007-09-29 00:53:00 Unification flags in Paju from Yonhap Photo News 28 September 2007 Share This More About: North , Korean , South , Days , Summit
New KINU Insight
2007-09-28 06:47:00 A new Korea Institute for National Unification (KINU) Insight article is now available. The article, by Cho Han-Bum, a Senior Research Fellow at the institute, looks at the implications and prospects of the Second Inter-Korean Summit. The opening lines set the tone of the article: If Kim Jong-Il kept his word of making a visit to Seoul for the ...
Personalities in Korean Unification: Kwon Ho-Ung
2007-09-28 03:38:00 Kwon Ho-Ung (aka Kwon Min), pictured on the left, was born in 1959 and attended Kim Il-Sung University. In terms of those in powerful positions in North Kore a today, he is relatively young. In 1998 he was Bureau Chief for the Beijing branch of the Committee for Asia-Pacific Peace and in 1999 he became both the Bureau Chief for Europe and Americas in ... More About: Korean , Personalities , N Korea
Second advance team heads to North Korea
2007-09-27 11:14:00 The Ministry of Unification has stated that a second advance team consisting of 34, mostly security, protocol and communications specialists have left for North Korea to prepare for the 2-4 October South-North Korea n Summit. Their aim is to visit the venues and accommodation centres to ensure North Korea has implemented the requests previously made by South Korean officials. ... More About: Team , Inter-Korean Summit
Korean peninsula in human form
2007-09-27 01:39:00 Young people from 23 Asian countries make a formation resembling the Kore an Peninsula at a resort in Gyeonggi Province on Saturday (Aug. 11) where they gathered to participate in 2007 Youth Camp for Asia’s Future. I wonder how they handled the placing of three young people on Dokdo? Were Japanese youths allowed to stand there? And ... More About: Human , Form
South-North Korea Summit commentary
2007-09-26 10:34:00 Korean.net has a good commentary on the upcoming North -South Korean Summit by Jae H. Ku, the director of the US-Korea Institute at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. The commentary plays it straight down the line, warning against using the Summit for domestic political purposes while at the same time recognizing the tremendous opportunity that ... More About: Commentary , Korea , North Korea
Enjoy the chuseok holiday!!!
2007-09-26 02:37:00 Let’s hope everyone has a great chuseok holiday!!! During this chuseok there is even more to celebrate. There is only six days to go until the South-North Korean Summit! Whether you support the policy behind it or not, the Summit will be only the second ever meeting of the leaders of the two Koreas - a ... More About: Holiday , Enjoy , Inter-Korean Summit
ROKG South-North Korean Summit web-portal
2007-09-26 00:04:00 The South Korean Government South-North Korean Summit portal which has been set up is well worth a read. It contains an introduction to the Summit, unification policy documents, great images and interestingly enough, samples of coverage by foreign media on the Summit. Hopefully the entire resource will be archived given its importance in terms of both ... More About: Portal
North Korean ?relevant material? in Syria were Nuclear engineers???
2007-09-25 01:33:00 There seems to be one possibility that has been overlooked by most analysts in the Syria -North Korea connection ? the possibility that the ?relevant materials? taken by Israeli commandos before the facility was destroyed, were in fact North Korean engineers. Sure it?s pure speculation, but so is just about every other report on the Syria-North Korea ... More About: Nuclear , Engineers
The Six Party Talks game - play if you can?
2007-09-24 11:44:00 After discussions with several North Korea specialists, I have come to agree with their conclusion that the current Six Party Talks are merely a diplomatic game from which North Korea will exact every possible concession, before closing up shop and heading home. Quite simply, the final goal of the Six Party Talks process, namely complete, verifiable, and ... More About: Play , Game
Park Chung Hee on unification
2007-09-23 13:35:00 Ironically, Roh Moo-Hyun has inherited his current capacity to negotiate with North Korea from Park Chun g-Hee. Park, believed the key to unification of the nation was in building up the South to match and exceed the North. “In all fields of endeavour, political, economic, diplomatic, social and cultural, our achievements must be overwhelmingly superior to those ...
Plan for 2-4 October inter-Korean Summit
2007-09-21 11:19:00 Yonhap has reported on the possible schedule for the 2-4 October inter-Korean Summit . The schedule includes: 2 October morning, Roh to cross inter-Korean border, via western section DMZ 2 October day, Roh to be greeted by Kim Yong-Nam on outskirts of Pyongyang 2 October day, Roh to undertake talks with Kim Yong-Nam at Mansudae Assembly Hall 2 October day, ... More About: Inter , Plan , Inter-Korean Summit
Summit Accomodation
2007-09-21 01:34:00 Accomodation for the Second South-North Summit has been worked out according to the ROKG. At a press conference on 20 September it was stated that: President Roh Moo-hyun will stay at the Paekhwawon State Guest House. Paekhwawon, is an official state residence reserved for visiting heads of state and was used by Kim Dae-jung, during the first inter-Korean summit ... More About: Accomodation , Inter-Korean Summit , Dati
Secret contacts and unification history
2007-09-20 01:54:00 Today, when one learns of secret contacts between North and South Korea the idea of illicit money springs to mind. How much money was promised to North Korea? Was the summit bought with tax payer’s money? But secret contacts have been part and parcel of North-South relations since day one. The July 4 South-North Joint Communiqué 1972 ... More About: History , Secret , Tory , Contacts
OFK interview with Andrei Lankov
2007-09-19 06:12:00 One Free Korea has a must read interview with Andrei Lankov. Check it out!!! “Some people see all these exchanges as a ?reward? to Pyongyang. But it is not [a] reward. The goals of these policies are, first, to shatter the foundation of dictatorship, and, second, to facilitate the evolution of the country after the unavoidable ... More About: Interview
Korean unification and Nostradamus
2007-09-19 01:22:00 I was told last night by someone in a soju tent that Nostradamus predicted Kore an unification will occur when: ”pestilence falls from the sky and the false prince leaves the land of the two brothers to defend his persian harem” I couldn’t find any such predictions on the net, but its always useful to hear random crap like ...
Middle powers and the Korean peninsula
2007-09-18 12:31:00 Comments posted by Baltimoron on this site have forced me to read more about the role of middle powers in Kore an affairs. Do they really have a role to play? Does South Korea’s position as a middle power change anything with respect to Korean unification, and peninsula affairs in general? First of all, what are middle powers? ... More About: Middle , Peninsula , Powers
Fukuda and Aso on Korea
2007-09-18 01:45:00 Yasuo Fukuda and Taro Aso, vying for leadership of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and certain election to the Prime Ministership, have expressed their views on Kore a during a visit to Osaka. Both candidates will seek to resolve the abduction issue, and recognize the importance of this to the Japanese voting public. However, true to their colors, ... More About: N Korea
Six Party Talks postponed, but why?
More articles from this author:2007-09-17 11:26:00 The Six-Party nuclear talks scheduled to commence 19 September 2007, have been postponed. Japan’s NHK has stated that China was unable to obtain Pyongyang’s consent for a new round of talks. Kyodo has quoted a South Korean official as stating that the North wants to hold the talks after the inter-Korean Summit scheduled for 2-4 October, and Bloomberg is ... 1, 2, 3, 4 |
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