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Today's Fresh Blogs...| The Never-Ending (Yawn!) Unification Dream |
| Published: August 10, 2007, 8:58 am |
| Tags: Wmd, Business Economy, East Asia, Politics, Dprk, Japan, Korea, Koreas, North Korea, Nukes, Politics, Roh Moo Hyun, Rok, Six Party Talks, South Korea, Summits, Wmd |
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| Why Should Seoul Care? |
| Published: August 7, 2007, 7:09 pm |
| Tags: Religion, Central Asia, East Asia, Politics, Afghanistan, Central Asia, Korea, Mike Pocock, Missionaries, Npr, Politics, Rok, South Korea, South Korean Hostages, Taliban |
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| Another Crossroads Seoul Leaves Behind |
| Published: August 30, 2007, 10:31 pm |
| Tags: Central Asia, East Asia, Afghnistan, Bundang, Canada, Central Asia, Germany, Ghazni, Kabul, Missionaries, Pakistan, Rok, Saemmul Presbyterian Church, Saudi Arabia, Seoul, South Korea, South Korean Hostages, Taliban |
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| Just Like 2002, Only Five Years Later |
| Published: September 5, 2007, 6:58 am |
| Tags: East Asia, Usa |
| Both Pyongyang and Tokyo call it “progress”, but both have done this before. When Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi met North Korea’s Kim Jong-il in September, 2002, Kim gambled by confessing to the abduction by “rogue Special Forces elements” of Japanese nationals in the 1970’s and 1980s, hoping for Japanese |
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| Not Going Away Well |
| Published: September 6, 2007, 8:37 am |
| Tags: East Asia, Politics |
| Here’s not one but two ways South Korean politics is just too much fun for even the Republic’s health. Firstly, there’s the Blue House threatening to sue the opposing party’s presidential candidate for defamation. “We can no longer tolerate the groundless accusations of Lee Myung-bak and the GNP of election |
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| Children Are Watching |
| Published: September 6, 2007, 7:09 am |
| Tags: South Asia, Military, Southeast Asia, East Asia, Usa |
| but: At the center of Asia’s new strategic landscape is the warming relationship between New Delhi and Washington?and, to a lesser extent, India and Japan?after decades spent on opposite sides of the Cold War divide. China isn’t the only issue drawing them closer?the nations also have increasingly entwined economies and |
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| The Limits of Unilateral Concessions |
| Published: September 7, 2007, 5:45 am |
| Tags: East Asia |
| to compromise, they at least should scream at the cameras or act badly! del.icio.us Tags: japan, north korea, dprk, tokyo, pyongyang, six party talks, ulan bator, abductions alternate frame of |
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| The Puddle Not Worth Naming |
| Published: September 7, 2007, 12:31 am |
| Tags: East Asia, Politics, Subscriptions |
| to the habit of placing East Sea and Sea of Japan in the same space. The third country, involved, Russia, doesn’t seem to care, but “Sea of Russia” sounds grotesque. It’s your choice. I like East Sea/of Japan (moving the stroke according to which state I’m mentioning). But, perhaps The Economist is right: |
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| The Indispensable Idiot |
| Published: September 6, 2007, 10:50 pm |
| Tags: Business Economy, Law, East Asia |
| States, China, India and East Europe with the aim of becoming the fifth biggest carmaker by 2010. Hyundai this week cut its 2007 U.S. sales target by 8.1 percent amid concerns that the subprime mortgage crisis is weighing on consumer demand there. The company also cut its 2007 sales forecast in China by 16 percent on sluggish demand. |
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| What’s a Little Pollution Between Friends |
| Published: September 11, 2007, 6:52 am |
| Tags: Environment, Russia, East Asia, Amur, Beijing, China, Compensation, Hu Jintao, Riverine Pollution, Russia, Songhua, Sungari, Vladimir Putin |
| for polluting its Far Eastern rivers, according to The Jamestown Foundation. Russian Natural Resources Minister Yuri Trutnev traveled to China August 31-September 4, but apparently failed to convince Chinese officials to conclude a treaty on the protection of trans-border rivers, which would regulate how compensation for damages should |
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| Better Than Hollywood |
| Published: September 11, 2007, 6:19 am |
| Tags: Russia, Military, East Asia |
| The Chinese and Russians held an anti-terror exercise in the Moscow region between September 4 to 6. The scenario sounds oddly familiar and unrelated to “al-Qaeda-linked terrorism”, according to The Jamestown Foundation, yet Beijing and Moscow still managed to improve upon history. The “crisis” in the scenario was |
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| No Tears for Abe |
| Published: September 12, 2007, 8:25 am |
| Tags: East Asia, Politics, Asia, Constitution, Dpj, Elections, Ichiro Ozawa, Japan, Ldp, Msdf, Politics, Shinzo Abe, Taro Aso, The Economist |
| hope for a true ally in Northeast Asia (if taro Aso stumbles). TPR’s DeOrio is sarcastic enough to wonder if the whole drama was just a staged “job swap” between Abe and Foreign Minister Taro Aso. Robert Koehler will miss a steady source of “good blog material“. The Economist offers more than a few damning reasons |
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| The Loving Father Defense |
| Published: September 12, 2007, 2:51 am |
| Tags: Law, East Asia, Politics |
| To put such nonsense into a legal opinion is its own insult: Hanwha Group chairman Kim Seung-youn went home with his jail sentence suspended 124 days after he was arrested in May for his role in a mafia-style revenge attacks on a group of bar workers who had injured his son in a brawl. The Seoul Central Court suspended the tycoon’s |
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| The Mistake that Won’t Die |
| Published: September 12, 2007, 2:39 am |
| Tags: East Asia, Politics |
| Why can’t Roh Moo-hyun just take a hint! Some predict Roh will plunge into politics right away. “Even after my tenure ends, I won’t take my hands off issues involving politics and the press,” he has said. If the next government proves less than enthusiastic about changing the presidential term in office, he says, he |
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