Will a North Korean Attack Win the Yellow Sea for China?
Is the Yellow Sea a Chinese lake? Under ordinary circumstances, I’d understand China’s complaints about a U.S. naval exercise in an inland sea near its shores. It’s not as if I’d want Chinese ships in...
View ArticleCarnival of the Revolutions, 29 August 2005
Welcome to the Carnival of the Revolutions edition for August 29th. Hosting next week’s edition (Sept. 5) will be Thinking-East; next up (Sept. 12) is Quid Nimis. Updates added, typos fixed. East Asia...
View ArticleMinister of Historical Amnesia
Updated again Nov. 3; thanks to reader usinkorea for the hat tip; thanks to the Marmot for linking and to his readers for stopping by. Once again, anti-Unification Minister Chung Dong Young has opened...
View ArticleKey Congressional Staffers Speak Out on Free Speech, FTA
First, the obvious: the prognosis is bleak for the six-party talks. This from Democratic staffer Frank Januzzi. Januzzi spins this as Congress and the President (read: Republicans) avoiding...
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Breaking the Blockade
[Update: Andrei Lankov has a must-read piece on radio broadcasting in the Asia Times Online.] Where there is demand, there will be a supply, and the trickle of alternative information to North Korea,...
View ArticleThugwatch
Now, they’re intimidating the opposition press: Chosun Ilbo honorary chairman Bang Woo-young (78) was attacked by two men in broad daylight on his way home from the family graveyard in Uijeongbu. After...
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First Act, Last Laugh, Part 2
I have a message for whomever tried to stop “Yoduk Story” from playing in Seoul: read, weep, and know that you have failed. “Whomever,” according to producer Jung Sung-San and the daily Chosun Ilbo...
View ArticleGerry Bevers, Tokdo, and the Heckler’s Veto
Kind words about your thoughts mean all the more when they come from someone like Kevin Kim, a/k/a The Big Hominid. Kevin, who reads and writes in fluent French, speaks fluent Korean, and creates art...
View ArticleThe Freedom of the State’s Press to Deceive the People Shall Be Abridged
[Updated below] In the wake of a court’s decision ordering a retraction of a distorted, sloppy, and false MBC report that triggered massive anti-government protests, Lee Myung Bak is moving to clean...
View ArticleIn South Korea, a political realignment
When President Park speaks of reunification as a “jackpot,” she is seizing an issue that the left had “owned” for at least a dozen years. Ten years ago, the left could draw crowds of candle-carrying...
View ArticleSouth Korea’s illiberal left: authoritarians in the service of totalitarians
Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media...
View ArticleSony Pictures should go after North Korean hackers’ Chinese enablers
Since the weekend, several of you have e-mailed me about “suspicions” — and really, I don’t think they went further than that — that North Korea may have hacked Sony Pictures and leaked unreleased...
View ArticleMeet the “Libertarians” who would surrender our liberty & our security to Kim...
I doubt that America has fully come to terms with the damage done to its freedom of expression by the Sony cyberterrorist attack of 2014, or by the increasing willingness of Muslim supremacists to...
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