Will the real Kim Jong Il please stand up? The idea of Kim Jong Il has become commodity. There is a reality inside North Korea, and there is another outside. Which is real and which is simulation? For the past half decade an excess of images, simulations and caricatures of the North Korean leader have bombarded us. The media of excess has repeated the mantra of simulation in bold headlines, in news-print...
This past week had a pretty good online show down between two of the most well known names in the North Korean human rights issue, Joshua Stanton and Christine Ahn. Most ROK Drop readers should know Joshua as the blogger who write the One Free Korea blog that is one of my Must Read links [...]
The New Yorker has a brief audio slide show narrated by Barbara Demick on the 90s North Korean famine and its effect on Song Hee-suk, a woman who subsequently defected to South Korea in 2002 (via). Here's a review of...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration would be willing to hold bilateral talks with North Korea but only if certain conditions were met, the president's top adviser on Asia said on Friday.
Professor Elaine Kim UC Berkeley (Image from East Bay Express ) Robert Koehler of the The Marmot's Hole has posted a short blog entry siding with Joshua Stanton of One Free Korea against Christine Ahn, who accuses Stanton of 'red-baiting' her in having called her a "North Korean apologist" several years ago. The accusation comes in an article favorable to Ahn published in the East Bay Express...
Kim Jong Il, the top leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), visited two chemical plants in the southern Hamgyong province, the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported Friday. He urged the Vinalon Complex to set up well-managed working process and the Hungnam Fertilizer Complex to finish its coal gasification project at an earlier date. The KCNA didn't disclose the date...
According to the Foreign Policy blog quiet progress is supposedly being made with negotiations with the North Koreans: Despite initial reports that next to nothing was accomplished during last week’s discussions between U.S. and North Korean officials in New York and San Diego, an administration official told The Cable that substantial progress was made in behind-the-scenes [...]
Christine Ahn is feeling picked on, reports the Oakland East Bay Express, an alt-lefty rag with a room-temperature circulation. Writer Kathleen Wentz informs us that Ms. Ahn guards the privacy of her views jealously when she’s not on CNN, a book tour, the lecture circuit, or hectoring congressional staffers: As a longtime peace activist and progressive, [...]
Here's proof that yaoi will in fact take over the world. And to think I limited myself to slashing the U.S. cabinet. This is a fan vid for a Japanese erotic game based on the premise of dating a world...
We live in a world with a lot of musical debate and discourse. Too much, even. My aim with TBE is to be like good pair of Bose headphones and filter out that static, bringing you only the best sounds. With that said, I come across a lot of tracks that are highly anticipated, or getting hyped out the ass, but…
Monday morning quarterbacks aren’t restricted to sports. The world is full of backseat drivers. And when it comes to how a country is run, there are plenty to choose from. While many a person has speculated how wrathful their very own administration might be, a new game finally gives people the opportunity to find out for sure. To be fair, there are other ways to test your skills as supreme...
Former prisoners describe harrowing ordeals as UN prepares to scrutinise North Korea's human rights record In the nine months after his arrest on espionage charges, Guang-il Jung was beaten by North Korean security guards with a thick wooden club. He still bears the scars on the back of his head. In the course of beatings, the guards broke all his teeth, leaving him toothless for four years. To deprive...
In the clip you're about to see, Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong-il lock lips to the theme song of an erotic video game. That's sort of the punchline. Here's how we got there: "My Boyfriend Is the... 1 Vote(s)
Nuclear Proliferation: An Unflinching North Korea - By Dr. Abdul Ruff Colachal ****** Nuclear proliferation is being caused by literally every nuclear power in the world in one way or the other. Today North Korea and Iran are seen by USA and its allies as posing threat to them and world peace. But nuclear ambitions of these two powers are admitted by the UNSC as normal. USA has repeatedly warned against...
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