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Doing Business in the DPRK
Who knew that Kim Jong-il’s second son was such a fan of Eric Clapton?
Special Envoy Discusses North Korea by WikiLeaks A January 11, 2010 meeting between Special Envoy Robert King and Foreign Minister Yu Myung-hwan as described in a confidential cable communication from the US Embassy in Seoul to the Secretary of State in Washington, DC. Yu asserted that Kim Jong-il would visit China in late January or […]
From a cable sent this past February, published on WikiLeaks.org along with thousands of other classified State Department communication cables. Long live the Internet! C O N F I D E N T I A L SEOUL 000248 SUBJECT: A/S CAMPBELL DISCUSSES DPRK FUTURE WITH EXPERTS Discussion Summary: A group of five ROK opinion leaders […]
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“the last snarls of a dying dictatorship”
With the recent publication of secret US Embassy Cables by WikiLeaks, the largest ever release of confidential documents into the public domain, I began to wonder if US State Department and Chinese Embassy officials discussions on North Korea were included. Of course I wasn’t the only one.. The New York Times today published an excellent […]
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North Korea’s (recent) Military Parade
This was just too good not to relay. Given major headlines today, the rhythm of their blind marching seems even more cryptic, and confronting with chaos. A big shout out to Mr. Burrows, wearing a suit and tie over there at craigburrows.com. He made a great short out of several original pieces of video from […]
As the time steadily rises down on my stay here in Korea, I find less and less worth writing about here on the blog. Strange, because there has been a lot going on lately. I’ve been interested in North Korea given the recent headlines, and I watched a bizarre 60 minute movie yesterday called Welcome […]
I am imagining the questions people will ask me about this year when I return home. “You were in Korea? Hope it wasn’t the North, He he he!” Unless you’re Bill Clinton, you can’t simply go to North Korea. I’m not sure why anyone would want to anyways, given their record of hospitality. Aijalon Mahli […]
There have been two Korea’s since the end of World War II; The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North) and the Republic of Korea (South). This past weekend on our trip to Seoul, we toured a small part of the Demilitarized “buffer” zone (DMZ) between the two countries. It was Friday he 13th, and just […]