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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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| Don’t Discount the Need for Korean Union |
| Published: September 13, 2007, 10:57 pm |
| Tags: Military, East Asia, Politics, Usa, Asia, Bruce Klinger, Gnp, Lee Myung Bak, North Korea, Rok, South Korea, The Heritage Foundation |
| unification will affect ROK-US relations. I don’t think he recognizes how much some sort of inter-Korean economic community is more important for Seoul than it is for the US, or the North Korean issue itself. For instance, Grand National Party presidential candidate, former Seoul Mayor Lee Myung-bak, has presented a plan for |
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| ROK-US Relations Running Hot and Cold |
| Published: September 18, 2007, 9:38 pm |
| Tags: Academia, Business Economy, East Asia, Politics, Asia, Beijing, China, Free Trade, Fta, Japan, Korus, Rok, South Korea, The Brookings Institution, Wonhyuk Lim |
| Panel 1 of the CNAPS Joint Forum on "Economic Integration in East Asia and Its Implications for Japan and the United States" highlights Wonhyuk Lim's views on the KORUS FTA. It's a tricky choice between regional economic integration and political alliances against Beijing. |
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| A Korean Kind Of Vacation |
| Published: September 25, 2007, 6:32 am |
| Tags: East Asia, Politics, Dmz, Dprk, Korea, Rok, Unification |
| This is hardly my kind of vacation. But, it’s Chuseok. alternate frame of change Related PostDeja Vu, With Nothing Else to ShowHappy Thanksgiving! |
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| That Familiar Smell in Seoul |
| Published: October 1, 2007, 7:24 am |
| Tags: East Asia, Politics, Abductions, Dprk, Kim Jong Il, Korea, Roh Moo Hyun, Rok, Summit |
| dramatic part of the DPRK-ROK summit that starts tomorrow. It just proves “passion” exists on all wings of the ideological spectrum. alternate frame of change Related PostThe Axis of CrazyA Korean Kind Of VacationThe Ever-Thinning Dollar DefenseTim Johnson in the DPRKForgotten and |
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| Limping Where Others Soared |
| Published: October 2, 2007, 7:52 am |
| Tags: East Asia, Politics, Dprk, Joint Economic Community, Kim Yong Nam, Pyongyang, Roh Moo Hyun, Rok Kim Jong Il, Summit |
| accounts of the second DPRK-ROK summit in Pyongyang, I can’t help but think Jack Kim is a better writer. Choe’s account, working from similar notes, clearly lacks…something? Oh, yes, bite! Compare Kim’s opening graphs… Roh Moo-Hyun has billed his first trip to the communist North as a chance to end animosity born |
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| The Details of a Peace Regime |
| Published: October 2, 2007, 9:25 pm |
| Tags: Academia, Books Movies Media, Business Economy, East Asia, Politics, China, Council On Foreign Relations, Don Oberdorfer, Dprk, Japan, Korea, North South Summit, Rok, Six Party Talks, Song Min Soon |
| is also available), the ROK Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade says at the Council of Foreign Relations is his definition of a “bold and strategic move” or a “first move”. And then, there’s just the lie of omission about the Roh administration’s, and, generally, progressives’ concept of joint |
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| Jack Pritchard at the Korea Society |
| Published: October 3, 2007, 3:24 am |
| Tags: East Asia, Usa, Wmd, Diplomacy, Dprk, George W Bush, Jack Pritchard, Kim Jong Il, Korea, Korea Society, Roh Moo Hyun, Rok, Second North South Summit, Six Party Talks |
| Former Bush administration Special Envoy to the DPRK, Charles L. “Jack” Pritchard delivered a speech on August 9, 2007 (plugging his new book) at The Korea Society (mp3 file): In recent years, North Korea?s pursuit of a nuclear weapons capability has gone from being a disturbing prospect to a frightening reality. The Six-Party |
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| As Always, Optimistic and Skeptical about the Koreas |
| Published: October 4, 2007, 7:56 am |
| Tags: Business Economy, East Asia, Politics, Usa, Wmd, Beijing, China, Choi Su Hon, Chris Hill, Declaration For Advancement Of South North Korean Relat, Dprk, Human Rights, Japan, Jay Lefkowitz, Kim Jong Il, Korea, Nukes, Peace Prosperity, Pyongyang Prc, Roh Moo Hyun, Rok, Security |
| few days, the Second DPRK-ROK Summit and the latest installment of the Six Party talks in Beijing. As usual the ball is in Pyongyang’s end of the court, and even I won’t place bets, at least not on one prediction. In Pyongyang, not even ROK President Roh Moo-hyun can get respect (and, who’s really complaining?). During the |
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| DMZ Dreaming |
| Published: October 4, 2007, 10:21 pm |
| Tags: Business Economy, East Asia, Law, Dmz, Dprk, Korea, Property Speculators, Rok |
| Perhaps a former minefield is not the best place to put a golf course. But then, how many sane people would buy property, if the Demilitarized Zone between the two Koreas were cleared? I mean, that is, if there weren’t a good return on profits? “A golf course will take more than 10 years,” said a potential buyer, Park Jae Yong, |
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| Chris Hill on Charlie Rose |
| Published: October 4, 2007, 11:04 pm |
| Tags: Books Movies Media, East Asia, Usa, Beijing, Charlie Rose, China, Chris Hill, Cvid, Dprk, Japan, Korea, Prc, Red Sox, Rok, Russia, Six Party Talks, Yongbyon |
| Ambassador Christopher Hill discusses his last gig in Beijing, and there’s not much controversial to add - except about his love for the Red Sox - until the last few minutes. Hill endorses the argument, that the Koreans did not play a role in their own division. And then, he talks briefly about why the US has abandoned its previous |
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| The Lighter Side of Inter-Korean News |
| Published: October 8, 2007, 7:47 am |
| Tags: Books Movies Media, East Asia, Lf Recommended, Politics, Usa, Wmd, Axis Of Evil, Colbert Report, Comedy Central, Dprk, George W Bush, Kim Jong Il, Korea, Nukes, Rok, The Onion |
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| Searching for the (South) Korean El Dorado |
| Published: October 10, 2007, 7:56 am |
| Tags: Books Movies Media, East Asia, Lf Recommended, Busan, Dpek, Films, Kim Seung Ho, Korea, Korean War, Movies, Piff, Pusan, Pusan International Film Festival, Rok |
| Mt. Sahwa is obviously pro-ROK (at one point, a son buries his father in the Taegukgi), but the South Koreans are on the side of motherhood and putting divided families separated by Communist perfidy back together. Those modern Commies just don’t know what good in this world: a village in the hills with your family, and all that’s |
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