not too much

Korea comment -- archives

01 Jan - 31 Dec 2008
01 Jan - 31 Dec 2007
01 Jan - 31 Dec 2006
01 Jan - 31 Dec 2005

Topics

James

James@not too much

Search

Other stuff

not too much includes Snap Shots which previews linked pages, etc. To turn Snap Shots off, click the Options icon in the upper right corner of a Snap Shot and select Disable.

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License.

Korea comment

A Faustian failure (31 Dec 08)
Adrian Hong co-founder of Liberty in North Korea (LiNK) describes negotiations with North Korea as "a Faustian failure" (IHT 26 Dec 08).After five years of effort the much-vaunted "Six Party ...

An iolatrous hunger for praise (13 Dec 08)
The North Korean leadrship deliberately uses idolatry to place itself at the centre of the people's spiritual affections as well as their economic political and social life. DailyNK.com reports that ...

Mission to Pyongyang : partnering with the devil? (18 Nov 08)
In Christianity Today (18 Nov 08) Ruth Moon asks "Will U.S. diplomatic shift and [Franklin] Graham visit help Christians?""As long as the Kim Jong Il regime and its successors remain ...

Obama and the Sunshine Policy (18 Nov 08)
Once again by B. R. Myers writes with clarity and sense about North Korea. (The Atlantic 14 Nov 08). "To hope that a new administration in Washington can build trust ...

Hair temper (24 Oct 08)
Mainichi Japan reports (20 Oct 08) that while watching a football between Kim Il-sung University and Pyongyang University of Railways North Korean leader Kim Jong Il lost his temper and ...

Reality required in dialogue with Pyongyang (01 Oct 08)
The South Korean National Assembly Research Service forecasts that Obama would seek a direct Washington-Pyongyang dialogue in an attempt to resolve the nuclear standoff while encouraging China to play an ...

North Korea : understanding not speculation (26 Sep 08)
Andrei Lankov columnist for the Korea Times says that all the theories and speculations about Kim Jong-Il and future leadership of North Korea leadership are "based on the thinnest of ...

Let them eat noodles (23 Aug 08)
Choson Shinbo a Japan-based pro-North Korea newspaper reports that North Korean scientists have developed a new kind of noodle made from corn and soybeans that leaves people feeling fuller longer ...

No Korean unity symbols at this Olympics : politics overrules (10 Aug 08)
In the 2000 and 2004 Olympics the two Koreas marched together in the same uniform and under the blue and white "unification flag" (pictured) as a symbol of their common ...

The deep suffering of North Korea's children (22 Jul 08)
North's Korea's huge army has absolute priority over civilians in its call on resources. Yet Chloe Jane Simons semi-finalist in The Guardian's International Development Journalism Competition shows in her piece ...

Use a long spoon with Kim Jong Il (16 Jul 08)
From Wall Street Journal Asia 15 Jul 08So the Bush Administration wants to do a nuclear deal with North Korea. For a reminder of the nature of the regime it's ...

George Bush and Yongbon Maskirovka (01 Jul 08)
John Bolton of the American Enterprise Institute laments "The tragic end of Bush's North Korea policy." "Nothing" he says "can erase the ineffable sadness of an American presidency like this ...

Crossing (06 Jun 08)
Based on the life of a North Korean defector and his family director Kim Tae Gyun's Crossing is an account of the hardships of North Korean refugees as they ...

From Raijin by rail (03 Jun 08)
One day it might be possible to take a train from Seoul to London. Russia and North Korea are planning a joint railroad venture. This from Russia profile:When North Korean ...

The glimmer is a firefly (17 May 08)
Jang Jin-sung (a pseudonym) was formerly former court poet to North Korean leader Kim Jong-il and has become a best-selling author and media sensation in South Korea where his poems ...

Preventing another Arduous March as starvation begins (13 May 08)
Recently published Issue 6 of Asian Rights Journal says that "Three countries in the Asia Pacific Region are on the list of those countries globally facing a food crisis the ...

Famine for the common people of North Korea (30 Apr 08)
In North Korea rice has reached 2 500 North Korean won (US$1) per kilo nearly triple the usual price in spring. Food distribution was partially stopped recently even in Pyongyang ...

Why I write on the DPRK (19 Apr 08)
Readers of these pages will have noted the appearance lately of items on North Korea. There are so many places and situations where there is human suffering and violation of ...

Millions of North Koreans face hunger again, while the Dear Leader plays with trains (17 Apr 08)
North Korea is facing another food crisis this year and will likely need large food donations from the international community to avoid large scale hunger the U.N. World Food Program ...

Tension in the blue hut (14 Apr 08)
An interesting picture this; a fresh-faced North Korean soldier gazes at South Korea's new President Lee Myung-Bak as Mr Lee visits the negotiation hut on the demarcation line at Panmunjom. ...

UN staff declines North Korean Olympic propanda (06 Apr 08)
The United Nations has withdrawn its staff from the Olympic torch run in North Korea amid concerns that the relay will be used as a propaganda stunt.The decision followed a ...

Prayer and the powder keg (31 Mar 08)
Christians are not supposed to pray for the death of their enemies. Perhaps I might be excused in two cases: Kim Jong-Il and Robert Mugabe. Mugabe may yet be deposed ...

Rabbit pie for the leaders and no football for the masses (26 Mar 08)
Retired German truck driver Karl Szmolinsky breeds the world's biggest rabbits. Der Spiegel (22 Mar 08) says he has overcome the hurt of last year when it appears that North ...

Dear Leader lives well (22 Mar 08)
In a country of abject poverty where millions have died of malnutrition and starvation and where large concentration camps can be found North Korea's 'Dear Leader' Kim Jong Il lives ...

Pyongyang discord (16 Mar 08)
You shall have no other gods before me. You shall not make for yourself an idol whether in the form of anything that is in heaven above or that ...

The worst place in the world to be a Christian (04 Mar 08)
After the justifiable euphoria surrounding the NY Philharmonic's recent concert in Pyongyang it's salutary to note that according to religious freedom watchdog Open Doors North Korea remains the worst place ...

Arirang and the NY Philharmonic (26 Feb 08)
It was a special experience to see and hear live the New York Philharmonic's concert in Pyongyang last night. The program was carefully chosen . . . the two national ...

The hellish state of North Korea (14 Feb 08)
I am glad that Mr Michael Danby Member for Melbourne Ports spoke up Australia's Parliament this week on North Korea.Perhaps it is because of my family background that I often ...

Toward Peace in Korea conference (24 Oct 07)
Peace initiatives and reconciliation on the Korean Peninsula will be the subject of a worldwide Anglican peace conference 14-20 November when more than 150 Anglican leaders ecumenical guests and other ...

North Korea's barbarity (23 Jun 07)
North Korea was accused of gross crimes against humanity in a report released recently by Christian Solidarity Worldwide. The report North Korea: a case to answer -- a call to ...

Railroading Korea (19 May 07)
James is in Korea for a family visit. Each time he is there something interesting seems to happen between North and South. When we were there together there was small ...

Wisdom on North Korea (12 Oct 06)
Jimmy Carter writes with wisdom in the New York Times (11 Oct o6) on "Solving the Korean stalemate". He makes it clear that North Korea is not the only party ...

So there! (09 Oct 06)
This picture published by Chosun Ilbo seems to encapsulate North Korea's mood. I'm no apologist for the North Korean régime but it's easy to understand its thinking "You've got ...

Hermit nation (03 Mar 06)
Picture of the Year International has some wonderful pictures often stark and upsetting frequently beautiful. Because of my connections with Korea I am attracted to a series of twelve photographs ...

Religious persecution: the culprits (18 Nov 05)
If you want to lose your breakfast read the accounts of revolting executions of religious believers by the North Korean regime as described in a report on North Korea released ...

Anglicans support reunification (of Korea, that is) (28 Jun 05)
At the Anglican Consultative Council currently meeting in Nottingham the Revd Abraham Kim of The Anglican Church of Korea spoke of the concern created by North Korea's announcement that it ...