| Home page To receive this publication via e-mail, click here. THE NORTHERN KOREA REPORT: NOVEMBER 1, 2004 Dragon in the Dark: How and Why Communist China Helps Our Enemies in the War on Terror is now available: here, at Amazon, or at 1-888-280-7715. Our statement on why northern Korea must be liberated can be found here. TOP STORY: STALINIST REGIME CROSSES NORTHERN LIMIT LINE AGAIN MARITIME BORDER CROSSED FOR SIXTH TIME IN TWO AND A HALF YEARS Naval vessels from Stalinist-controlled northern Korea crossed the maritime border (a.k.a. the Northern Limit Line) into the waters of the democratic Republic of Korea (�South� Korea). ROK naval vessels �fired warning shots� (BBC) at three SCNK vessels, which then retreated back across the NLL � �after nearly an hour� (Voice of America via Epoch Times). This is the sixth time in just under two and a half years that the Stalinist regime has crossed over the sea border � which it refuses to recognize (see 7/1/02, 7/8/02, 6/2/03, 6/9/03, 9/2/03 and 7/19 NKRs). This time, the Stalinists blamed fishing boats from Communist China, saying their navy was �checking on the Chinese fishermen.� WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION NEWS COMMUNIST CHINA AND DEMOCRATIC KOREA TELL U.S. TO SOFTEN UP ON SCNK Communist China, in response to Secretary of State Colin Powell call to Stalinist-controlled northern Korea to return to talks on its nuclear weapons program (BBC), publicly told the U.S. to �adopt a flexible and practical attitude on the issue� (Washington Times). The dovish government of democratic �South� Korea made similar comments (Cybercast News). There have been three rounds of six-party talks on SCNK�s nuclear ambitions, which include the Stalinist regime itself, Communist China, Japan, the U.S., Russia, and �South� Korea. The only tangible results of the talks have been substantial American concessions (see 10/21/02, 12/8/03, 12/22/03, 6/7, 6/28, 9/20, and 9/28 NKRs). PRC INISTS TALKS COULD STILL HAPPEN THIS YEAR Meanwhile, Communist Deputy Foreign Minister Wu Dawei told PRC-run media that another round of talks �could resume by the end of November� (Voice of America via Epoch Times). Stop the SCNK Nuclear Power Plants: Are the plants dead or aren�t they? You can make sure they don�t come back! Use this China e-Lobby fact sheet and tell the President to kill the power plants from the 1994 agreement that SCNK broke. REFUGEE NEWS . . . COMMUNIST POLICE SEIZE SIXTY REFUGEES FROM SAFE HOUSES Communist China seized sixty more SCNK refugees from Beijing safe houses, in what �could be the first indication� (BBC) of its publicly announced �zero tolerance� (United Press International via Washington Times) policy toward refugees from the Stalinist regime. Communist China, an SCNK ally for over fifty years, forcibly returns any refugee it finds. The refugees are likely already on their way back to SCNK, unless Communist police decide to rape and/or sell them instead (see 1/14 Update). Once back in the Stalinists� clutches, the returnees face prison, torture, and/or execution (see 5/13/02, 5/20/02, 5/28/02, 6/18/02, 7/29/02, 9/9/02, 9/16/02, 1/20/03, 7/12, 7/27, 8/2, 9/7, 10/4, and last NKRs). OTHER AMERICAN-RELATED NEWS U.S. TROOPS MOVE AWAY FROM DMZ The United States began its withdrawal from the demilitarized zone (DMZ) separating the democratic Republic of Korea (�South� Korea) from Stalinist-controlled northern Korea (BBC). Most of the troops will move south, within the ROK; a third of them are being redeployed outside of the peninsula (see 6/1, 6/7, 6/14, and 10/11 NKRs). HUMAN RIGHTS AND INTERNAL NEWS REPORTERS WITHOUT BORDERS LABELS SCNK AS MOST REPRESSIVE MEDIA REGIME Reporters Without Borders measured press freedom in 167 nations �based on a survey of journalists and human rights activists� (BBC). In dead last is none other than Stalinist-controlled northern Korea. Also reporting: Washington Times OTHER REPUBLIC OF KOREA (�SOUTH� KOREA) NEWS ROK TROOPS FIND HOLE CUT INTO DEMILITARIZED ZONE Border guards from the Republic of Korea �found a hole in the wire fence that forms the southern boundary of the demilitarized zone (DMZ) separating the two Koreas� (CNN). The ROK is investigating who may have made the hole � either Stalinist agents going south, or someone seriously deluded going north. COMMENTARY/ANALYSIS Nicholas Eberstadt, of the American Enterprise Institute, examines in Policy Review the future, and recent past, of Stalinist-controlled northern Korea. Donald MacIntyre, Time Asia, attempts to argue that the American lack of concern over the ROK�s experiments with infinitesimal amounts of uranium and plutonium are undermining efforts to end Iran and SCNK�s nuclear ambitions (see 9/7 and 9/14 NKRs). Check out the Communist China and the Terrorist War page. Sign the petition for an American boycott of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. Miss an Update, Week's Links, or a Northern Korea Report? Find it via our home page. Feel free to forward this to anyone you think would be interested in receiving it. Anyone who wishes to join (or unsubscribe or change their address) can send his/her name to [email protected]. Please feel free to send any news on Communist China or Stalinist-controlled northern Korea that you find to the same address. |