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  • N.Korea says South's Web ban violates freedom(blackest pot calling kettle black)

    01/26/2007 4:36:16 PM PST · by TigerLikesRooster · 35 replies · 605+ views
    Reuters ^ | 01/26/07
    N.Korea says South's Web ban violates freedom Fri Jan 26, 10:40 AM ET North Korea said on Friday the South Korean government was violating the public's basic right to information by blocking access to Web sites sympathetic to the North. South Korea has denied access to more than 30 Web sites that it has designated "pro-North Korea" since 2004, including the North's official KCNA news agency's Web service and sites operated outside. "This is a fascist action against democracy and human rights as it infringes upon the South Koreans' freedom of speech and deprives them of even their right to...
  • South Korea: Too Much Activism? (pro-North leftwing in tailspin)

    11/21/2006 6:04:11 AM PST · by TigerLikesRooster · 10 replies · 706+ views
    Newsweek ^ | 11/27/06 (issue date) | B. J. Lee
    South Korea: Too Much Activism? The country's idealistic '386 generation' helped usher in democracy, but has bungled its political opportunity. By B. J. Lee Newsweek International Nov. 27, 2006 issue - Song Young Gil and Won Hee Ryong epitomize South Korea's 386 generation—the dynamic group of activists who took it upon themselves to transform the country. They gained political power in their 30s, helped to usher in democracy in the '80s by ousting a military regime, and were born in the 60s. Like America's anti-Vietnam War generation, the 386ers demanded greater economic equality and more social justice. Six years after...
  • S. Korea: Roh Under Fire Over Wartime Command Withdrawal(not going down quietly)

    08/10/2006 5:24:36 PM PDT · by TigerLikesRooster · 8 replies · 527+ views
    Chosun Ilbo ^ | 08/10/06
    Roh Under Fire Over Wartime Command Withdrawal Korea Could Take Back Wartime Troop Control in Five Years: MinisterPillar of Korea-U.S. Military Alliance 'for the Scrapheap' Look Around Before Dismantling the Pillar of Our Security U.S. 'Wants Shot of Wartime Command Sooner' Korea, U.S. in War of Nerves Over Troop ControlU.S. Flags More Troop Cuts in Korea Staking National Security on Semantics Roh Says Korea Could Handle Wartime Control 'Now'Roh Turns Deaf Ear to 16 Former Defense Chiefs Sixteen former defense ministers and nine retired generals on Thursday expressed dismay at President Roh Moo-hyun’s remarks in an interview Wednesday that...
  • S. Korea: Marine Veteran's Association to Organize Crack Unit to Guard MacArthur's Statue

    09/17/2005 6:32:01 AM PDT · by TigerLikesRooster · 16 replies · 549+ views
    Dailian ^ | 09/16/05 | Kim Young-wook
    /begin my translationMarine Veteran's Association to Organize Crack Unit to Guard General MacArthur's Statue   3,000 Marine vets held a rally at Freedom Park, vowing to guard the statue 16 Branches of Marine Veteran's Association to organize patrol squads... as well as a rapid response unit2005-09-16 10:28:53 A Marine vet at 'The Rally to Safeguard General MacArthur's Statue',Sept. 15, 2005(by Chung Sun-shik from dailian.co.kr) While the controversy continues over removing General MacArthur's statue, the Marine Veteran's Association decided to resolutely defend the statue starting from Sept 15, the 55th anniversary of Inchon Landing, which could escalate the tension between conservative organizations and radical...
  • S. Korea: 9-year-old Son of 'Flower of Unification,' Drowns (a tragedy rich in irony)

    07/22/2005 1:11:50 PM PDT · by TigerLikesRooster · 7 replies · 614+ views
    Chosun Ilbo ^ | 07/22/05
    /begin my summary9-year-old Son of 'Flower of Unification,' Drowns Seoul, Yonhap News 2005.07.22  Lim Soo-kyung  The son of Lim Soo-kyung(age:37,) aka 'Flower of Unification,' drowned in Philippines while playing in a swimming pool. She touched off a firestorm of controversy by visiting N. Korea and attending Pyongyang Festival in 1989, defying S. Korea's travel ban.  Her son, 9 years old, drowned in a swimming pool at a resort in Cebu, Philippines, at 2pm on July 21. He was on a ESL class in Philippines along with 30 other kids of similar age. The class was being held at the...
  • S. Korea: Clashes Feared Over MacArthur Statue in Incheon (pinkos to be spanked this time)

    07/15/2005 7:33:32 AM PDT · by TigerLikesRooster · 12 replies · 770+ views
    Chosun Ilbo ^ | 07/15/05
    Clashes Feared Over MacArthur Statue in Incheon Fears of a violent clash mounted Friday after progressive civic groups wanting a statue of U.S. General Douglas MacArthur in Incheon pulled down and conservative groups determined to protect it to the very end announced simultaneous Sunday demonstrations in the city’s Freedom Park. One pro-unification civic group told police it will hold a rally in front of the MacArthur statue from 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. on Sunday. The gathering, which it expects to attract 100 people, will call for the expulsion of the U.S. military and the toppling of the statue....
  • S. Korea:Update on Pyongtaek Riots near Camp Humphrey(violence,celebration,playing victim)

    07/13/2005 7:54:46 AM PDT · by TigerLikesRooster · 17 replies · 2,915+ views
    The Future Korea Weekly ^ | 07/13/05 | Kim Sung-wook
    S. Korea: More on Pyongtaek Riots near Camp HumphreyA Photo Summary Anti-American rioters acting up on July 10th. You see them using steel pipes, wire-cutter, bamboo sticks, hooks, and ropes. Steel pipes(or rods) anti-American rioters used, taken by a right-wing veteran's organization, "Colonel Association" Some rioters celebrating at their "battlefield" and having their picture taken afterwards   Lefties whining afterwards for being "attacked" by riot police, parading one of "the wounded" in a wheelchair.
  • Kim Jong-il's Trinity: N. Korean Subversion in S. Korea

    11/27/2004 6:48:31 AM PST · by TigerLikesRooster · 19 replies · 1,525+ views
    /begin my translation Kim Jong-il's Trinity: N. Korean Subversion in S. Korea I recently met in a foreign country a N. Korean defector who used to work at S. Korean section of N. Korean intelligence. According to him, Kim Jong-il characterize the main principle of N. Korea's S. Korean operation as 'trinity.' It allegedly originates from the Kim Jong-il's instruction that N. Korean intelligence, pro-North (non-governmental) elements in S. Korea, and S. Korean government should make up the unbreakable trinity which would lay siege on those willing to fight for S. Korea(comment: conservative activists.) If the N. Korean outfit, Unification...