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Article: Good Intentions, Bad Idea HONOLULU: Some unsolicited advice to professors, congressmen, former diplomats and anyone seeking a Nobel Peace Prize nomination: If you really want to help resolve the nuclear standoff on the Korean Peninsula, stay home. Such delegations are always well intentioned but generally not very helpful in actually resolving the crisis. True, former President Jimmy Carter's mission to Pyongyang in 1994 did help save the day, moving the Clinton administration and Kim Il Sung, father of North Korea's current leader, back from the brink of sanctions and possibly war. But 2004 is not 1994 and heads...

NORTH KOREAN 'ELECTIONS' HELD YESTERDAY: KIM JONG-IL "RE-ELECTED" WITH A (SURPRISE!) 100% TURNOUT AND 100% OF THE POPULAR VOTECommunist North Korea TV yesterday (via NNN Japan TV feed) broadcast a series of live and recorded reports from around the country showing a cult-like, mass-brainwashing exercise called 'general elections" for the 11th Supreme People's Deputies.The link to the stream video streams (MEDIA PLAYER FORMAT) are here: 300k stream: http://www.bcast.co.jp/cgi-bin/yahoo/news.asx?cid=20030804-00000034-nnn-int-movie-000&media=wm300k 56k stream: http://www.bcast.co.jp/cgi-bin/yahoo/news.asx?cid=20030804-00000034-nnn-int-movie-001&media=wm56k FReepranslation/Explanation of the Video: The short and chilling report, in Japanese and Korean, (based on communist Pyongyang TV yesterday) shows staged mass dancing before DPRK polling places, shows...

[Report by Freeper "AmericanInTokyo" from the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), 31 May 2003.]This is a quick, frontline report for the readers of Free Republic, provided by "AmericanInTokyo". An investigative visit was conducted Saturday (yesterday) by myself and about 25 others to the sensitive/tense Joint Security Area (JSA) just north of Seoul, Korea, which is maintained jointly by the North Koreans and the US/ROK military at the village of Panmunjom on the Korean DMZ at the 38th Parallel.The trip was significant in view of recent escalating tensions between North Korea and the United States (and South Korea) in terms of North...

[South Koreans Burn A North Korean Flag] Title: "Pro-American Crowd Now Finding Its Voice in South Korea as Nuclear Standoff Intensifies" Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea Not long ago, angry chants of "murderous American GIs" and the somber flicker of anti-U.S. candlelight vigils once filled the downtown streets of Seoul.But as tension builds over North Korea's suspected nuclear weapons program, pro-American rallies are drawing big crowds in the South Korean capital."The majority has been silent too long," said Kim Bum-soo, who is helping organize a major pro-U.S. demonstration March 1 urging Washington to keep its troops here. Supporters hope...

This is just developing as of 11:20 p.m. tonight, Eastern Time, February 20th. (It is already February 21 in Asia). This developing story apparantly is not on any major English outlets yet.Fuji Television Network in Japan (FNN) reports with a headline that it has been revealed that yesterday's dangerous and provocative incursion by a North Korean MIG-19 figher jet into South Korean airspace across the DMZ and over the Yellow Sea, occurred at the approximate same time as another, separate incursion by some (did not specify how many) North Korean Korean People's Army ground troops, also into South Korea across...

It seems like an attack on North Korea could come in the next year or so. Place your bet as to when the attack will begin. Whoever gets closest to the date and time wins. Attack time must be specified in Month, Day, and Year For specifying any hour, don't forget to specify what time zone you are referring to. There is no decision on a prize to be awarded yet except for bragging rights.(with thanks to Freeper Momaw Nadon).