A careful but still harrowing account by Laura Ling and Euna Lee of their five months in North Korean prisons, their attempts to eat some of their notes and video … [Keep reading >>]
“A North Korean cargo ship shadowed by a United States Navy destroyer was reportedly steaming toward Myanmar on Sunday, posing what could be the first test of how far the … [Keep reading >>]
” North Korea adamantly denied for seven years that it had a program for making nuclear weapons from enriched uranium.
But on Saturday, a few hours after the U.N. Security Council … [Keep reading >>]
The February 2009 U.S. Department of State’s Report on North Korea cited this in section 1.c.
The penal code prohibits torture or inhumane treatment; however, many sources continued to confirm their … [Keep reading >>]
“China suspended government exchanges with North Korea after Kim Jong-Il’s regime last week tested a nuclear device and fired short-range missiles, Yonhap News said.
“China has halted plans to send … [Keep reading >>]
“Pyongyang today lashed out at both Seoul and Washington, warning that it would attack South Korea if any of its ships were intercepted as part of a U.S.-led initiative to … [Keep reading >>]
Monday morning brings the unwelcome news that North Korea has tested another nuclear device, followed by the firing of three 80 mile missiles into the western Pacific. Measurement and … [Keep reading >>]
North Korea is going to shoot one of it’s medium long range ballistic missiles, a Taepodong-2, some time next week. As currently believed to be configured it has a … [Keep reading >>]
North Korea has placed a long-range missile capable of reaching the US on a launch pad as the Stalinist state prepares for what it claims is a satellite launch in … [Keep reading >>]
Very interesting story from Sidney, Australia, about the recent North Korea-US nuclear agreement — on, then off, then on again.
Mike Chinoy, the former CNN chief Asia correspondent and author of … [Keep reading >>]
Pretty interesting to see Republican Peter Hoekstra on CNN saying that he and others felt used by Administration in its revelation to Congress that North Korea had helped Syria build … [Keep reading >>]
The mildly good news of the day is that North Korea says it will return to the 6-Party talks about its nuclear plans that fell apart last month. One … [Keep reading >>]
An avidity to punish is always dangerous to liberty. It leads men to stretch, to misinterpret, and to misapply even the best of laws. He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.
Tom Paine
---"Dissertations on First Principles of Government," 1795
Republican Gomorrah: Inside the Movement that Shattered the Party, by Max Blumenthal.
