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• Pyongyang’s Younger Generation

  Published: October 2, 2007, 9:48 pm

  Tags: Business Economy, East Asia, Politics, Brent Choi, Dprk, Joongang Daily, Kim Jong Il, Korea, Mt Geumgang, Pyongyang

  with tour guides he met at Mt. Geumgang (Note: this is my romanization habit) in 1998: At first the visitors and guides gave basic introductions and began talking about non-contentious issues like the weather. After “testing the waters”, the North Korean guides then began to ask about South Korea’s political situation

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• A Deadly Mt. Geumgang Vacation with the Girls

  Published: July 11, 2008, 10:07 pm

  Tags: East Asia, Military, Politics, Dprk, Korea, Lee Myung Bak Park Wang Ja, Mt Geumgang, Rok

  Two issues here: the shooting incident itself; and, the Lee administration's response. Firstly, Park Wang-ja, from Nowon district in Seoul and a mother of one, suffered two gunshot wounds in the chest and hip and died from respiratory failure. The tourist was strolling at a beach near the resort when the accident took place, the ministry spokesman

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• Just How Different North and South Koreans Are

  Published: July 14, 2008, 7:56 am

  Tags: East Asia, Energy, Military, Politics, Russia, Korea, Lee Myung Bak, Mt Geumgang, Park Wang Ja, Rok, Six Party Talks

  After thinking about it, I think a student might have said it best, although at the time I thought the notion was daffy: the North sent a political message. Whatever that message might be is beyond me, or even those students today. Chosun Daily exhausts its wits. This is stubbornness goes beyond the realms of reason. [...]

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• Mendacity Alert

  Published: July 17, 2008, 8:23 am

  Tags: Business Economy, East Asia, Politics, Dprk, Hyundai Asan, Korea, Mt Geumgang, Park Wang Ja, Rok

  - the company running the Mt. Geumgang junkets, and also Pyongyang's preferred official South Korean entity - has changed the facts surrounding the death of South Korean tourist Park Wang-ja last week.. The details were given in a press conference at Hyundai Asan's headquarters in Gye-dong, Seoul on

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• Blame It on the Girl

  Published: July 22, 2008, 8:04 am

  Tags: East Asia, Military, Politics, Dprk, Korea, Mt Geumgang, Rok

  but blaming the Mt.Geumgang «incident» on a 17 year-old female conscript might just count as an attempt at a diplomatic solution. The ruling-party official speculated that North Korea has been intentionally spreading the rumor about the young female soldier to placate public opinion in the South by making the shooting look

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• Infighting Until Irrelevant

  Published: July 22, 2008, 7:33 am

  Tags: East Asia, Politics, Wmd, Dokdo, Japan, Lee Myung Bak, Liancourt Rocks, Mt Geumgang, Nukes, Six Party Talks, Takeshima

  on separate issues, the Mt. Geumgang shooting «event», Liancourt Rocks, and six-party talks. Which is to say, President Lee Myung-bak can't put his departmental ducks in a row. One problem is that government agencies are taking uncoordinated steps. Kwon's remarks on linking Dokdo with

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