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Kerry's Korea-gate mess
Boston Herald ^ | September 26, 2004 | Editorial staff

Posted on 09/25/2004 10:05:52 PM PDT by NewMediaFan

On the one hand we have a major television network racing to broadcast news about 30-year-old ``documents'' - now proven to be fraudulent - all in an effort to discredit President Bush [related, bio]. On the other hand we virtually have all of the networks ignoring a real, fresh-as-today, scandal involving the Kerry campaign's fund-raising.

The Associated Press reported this past week that a South Korean national who met with John Kerry's fund-raisers and discussed setting up a new political group for Korean-Americans was actually an intelligence agent for South Korea.

Chung Byung-Man, a counselor official in Los Angeles prior to being shipped back home in May, was, in fact, a member of South Korea's National Intelligence Service, the equivalent of our CIA.

Chung's campaign fund-raising activities would be in violation of the 1963 Vienna Convention that prohibits foreign officials from interfering in the internal politics of the host nation.

The Kerry campaign insists it knew nothing about Chung's real position until informed by the Associated Press. But the AP reported it was alerted to meetings between Chung and the Kerry campaign and to Chung's real identity by Democratic donors and fund-raisers who were uncomfortable with Chung's activities. Chung was registered with the Justice Department as a foreign intelligence agent on U.S. soil...

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TOPICS: Editorial; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: chung; chungbyungman; diplomat; diplomats; donors; fundraising; intelligenceagent; johnkerry; johnnychungkerry; kerry; kerrycampaign; nk; nkorea; northkorea; sk; skorea; southkorea; spies; spy

1 posted on 09/25/2004 10:05:52 PM PDT by NewMediaFan
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To: NewMediaFan
I'd look one layer deeper.

North Korea would want Kerry elected, why would South Korea be funding anything for Kerry?

(By the way, if this were Bush's campaign money, would the MSM be ignoring it?)
2 posted on 09/25/2004 10:11:14 PM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but Kerry's ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: Robert A. Cook, PE

IIRC, the current SK government believes that buying off NK is the best method of maintaining peace.

Which candidate is more likely to agree to return to the Clinton years of bribing NK to keep the peace?


3 posted on 09/25/2004 10:15:39 PM PDT by swilhelm73 ("I think you can be an honest person and lie about any number of things" -- Dan Rather)
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To: NewMediaFan
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A tangled web.

Need to learn more before adding to the John F. Kerry Timeline.
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4 posted on 09/25/2004 10:16:47 PM PDT by christie (John F. Kerry Timeline - http://www.archive-news.net/Kerry/JK_timeline.html)
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To: Robert A. Cook, PE
North Korea would want Kerry elected, why would South Korea be funding anything for Kerry?

Kerry Flip-Flops on Korea Troops

5 posted on 09/25/2004 10:20:23 PM PDT by Polybius
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To: swilhelm73

True, Kerry would return to bribing NK.


6 posted on 09/25/2004 10:21:41 PM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but Kerry's ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: swilhelm73
Which candidate is more likely to agree to return to the Clinton years of bribing NK to keep the peace?

Which candidate is more likely to do absolutely nothing, while the NWO siphons billions in graft to its coffers, and while the foes of the USA grow stronger?

7 posted on 09/25/2004 10:24:05 PM PDT by Mad_Tom_Rackham (CBS's story is sinking faster than Uncle Ted's Oldsmobile.)
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To: Mad_Tom_Rackham

Uh...isn't the answer the same to your question as mine?


8 posted on 09/25/2004 10:32:07 PM PDT by swilhelm73 ("I think you can be an honest person and lie about any number of things" -- Dan Rather)
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To: swilhelm73

My answer wasn't meant to counter yours. Of course, the answer would be any cowardly Democrat. Kerry is the current nom de postal.


9 posted on 09/25/2004 10:49:23 PM PDT by Mad_Tom_Rackham (CBS's story is sinking faster than Uncle Ted's Oldsmobile.)
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To: Mad_Tom_Rackham

Ah, ok, I read your question as a counter, not an addendum.

As great as the internet is, communication over it still has some drawbacks in clarity. ;)


10 posted on 09/25/2004 10:51:56 PM PDT by swilhelm73 ("I think you can be an honest person and lie about any number of things" -- Dan Rather)
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To: NewMediaFan

Well I am convinced Mc Carthy was right, he didn't go after the dems party though, just hollywood.


11 posted on 09/25/2004 10:57:38 PM PDT by longfellow (You're either with US or from Hollywood! Ultimateamerican.com)
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To: piasa

Ping.


12 posted on 09/25/2004 11:49:45 PM PDT by Fedora
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To: Robert A. Cook, PE
North Korea would want Kerry elected, why would South Korea be funding anything for Kerry?

This particular intelligence agent has ties to a previous South Korean president who is described in one article as "disgraced."

13 posted on 09/27/2004 11:54:28 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude Adjustments Offered Here Free of Charge)
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