| Home page To receive this publication via e-mail, click here. THE NORTHERN KOREA REPORT: OCTOBER 4, 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: KIM JONG-IL�S DOCTOR REPORTEDLY CAUGHT TRYING TO DEFECT COMMUNIST CHINA SEIZES UNNAMED PHYSICIAN According to the Republic of Korea newspaper Munhwa (cited by Voice of America via Epoch Times), the doctor to Stalinist-in-chief Kim Jong-il attempted to flee Stalinist-controlled northern Korea. Police for Communist China arrested him and he �was being questioned intensively by Chinese security authorities before being returned to Pyongyang.� Communist China �insists North Korean asylum seekers are illegal migrants and not refugees,� and thus sends them home, �where many are reportedly forced into labor camps, tortured or even executed.� This has forced hundreds of thousands of refugees into nonperson status in Communist China. PRC police often rape and then sell � that�s right, sell � female refugees (see 1/14 Update). In the case of Kim�s doctor, the consensus is his return to SCNK will certainly mean death. OTHER NEWS ON COMMUNIST CHINA�S ROLE OVER FORTY SCNK REFUGEES MAKE IT TO CANADIAN EMBASSY IN BEIJING Forty-four refugees from Stalinist-controlled northern Korea (SCNK) used homemade ladders to climb the walls of Canada�s Embassy in Beijing. Many of the refugees were disguised �as construction workers� (CNN), which gave them cover to bring the ladders. Still, one refugee was seized by Communist police. Also reporting: VOA via Epoch Times Communist China immediately asked Canada to �hand them over to the Chinese side to handle� (BBC). Canada has, to date, refused to turn them over. PRC Assistant Foreign Minister Shen Guofang actually had the audacity to say the Communist regime would �handle them in accordance with international law, domestic law and humanitarianism.� Many refugees try to enter the Beijing embassies of democratic nations or third countries in the hope going from there to democratic Korea, and no longer worry about being seized by Communist police, who will even kill refugees to stop them (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, and 9/6 NKRs). AMERICAN SCHOOL IN SHANGHAI GIVES BACK NINE REFUGEES Communist China had more success with the Shanghai American School, which, under a �pre-arranged contingency plan� (CNN), handed nine SCNK refugees over to PRC police. The school is run by American expatriates and �teaches a U.S. curriculum, typically to the children of American citizens.� The school obviously teaches appeasement well. COMMUNISTS SHUT DOWN SOURCE OF COLUMN CRITICAL OF SCNK Communist China has stopped publishing of Strategy and Management, in response to an article in the magazine ripping SCNK (see 9/6 NKR). While the issue with the piece was never published, the article was printed in the ROK Korean Daily. Report: Epoch Times WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION NEWS U.S. TELLS SCNK TO DO ITS TALKING AT THE SIX-PARTY TABLE The United States demanded that Stalinist-controlled northern Korea �stop boasting about its nuclear deterrent and return to talks aimed at resolving the drawn-out crisis sparked by its violations of international agreements� (Cybercast News). SCNK made the boast last week (see last NKR). Also reporting: Voice of America via Epoch Times There have been three rounds of talks on dismantling SCNK�s nuclear weapons program. They have included the Stalinist regime, its longtime ally Communist China, Russia, Japan, democratic Korea, and the U.S. The talks have led only to American concessions (see 12/8/03, 12/22/03, 6/7, 6/28, 9/20, and last NKRs). 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. OTHER AMERICAN-RELATED NEWS SCNK BECOMES ISSUE IN BUSH-KERRY DEBATE, BUT NO ONE SAYS �LIBERATION� Democratic Presidential nominee John Kerry repeated his earlier call (see 6/7 and 8/23 NKRs) for one-on-one talks with Stalinist-controlled northern Korea �which put all of the issues, from the armistice of 1952, the economic issues, the human rights issues, the artillery disposal issues, the DMZ issues and the nuclear issues on the table� (BBC). President Bush insisted that bilateral talks would �cause the six-party talks to evaporate� and �mean that China no longer is involved in convincing, along with us, for Kim Jong Il to get rid of his weapons� (CNN). The talks also include democratic Korea, Russia, and Japan. Also reporting: Cybercast News Ironically, Bush�s argument � given the U.S. concessions the six-way talks have wrought (see 12/8/03, 12/22/03, 6/7, and 6/28 NKRs) � was the best ammunition against the talks. However, Kerry�s assertion that the 1994 Agreed Framework was working, despite SCNK�s uranium weapons program (see 10/21/02 NKR), was equally maddening. Of course, neither the President nor Senator Kerry would even discuss the possibility of liberating the suffering people of northern Korea. U.S. BEGINS SEA OF JAPAN PATROL The United States Navy �has started patrolling the Sea of Japan/East Sea� (Washington Times, last item) in reaction to �concerns of a North Korean missile test� (see last NKR). SENATE PASSES NORTH KOREA HUMAN RIGHTS ACT The U.S. Senate joined the House of Representatives (see 7/27 NKR) in passing the North Korea Human Rights Act (their title). The Senate �added a provision requiring the president to appoint a human rights envoy to North Korea to monitor the human rights situation� (Cybercast News), which means the measure will have to pass the House again. Even so, the passage of the bill was hailed by human rights activists. They took issue with the stand of several member of the ROK�s ruling, dovish Uri Party, who worried about �negative impact on inter-Korean relations.� The ROK�s more hawkish opposition Grand National Party supports the measure. OTHER REPUBLIC OF KOREA (SOUTH KOREA) NEWS AL QAEDA PUTS ROK IN CROSS HAIRS Al Qaeda is targeting the Republic of Korea. The worldwide terrorist group, in an audio tape �urged Muslim youths to attack the United States and its allies, including South Korea� (Washington Times, third item). The ROK responded, in part, by moving to �tighten immigration checks to prevent possible terrorists from entering the nation.� IAEA HEAD IN SEOUL Mohamed ElBaradei, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, �arrived in Seoul to discuss South Korea's nuclear experiments after last month's inspections� (Washington Post, fifth item). The ROK admitted enriching a tiny amount of uranium, and reprocessing a similarly infinitesimal amount of plutonium (see 9/7 and 9/14 NKRs). COMMENTARY/ANALYSIS ON JOHN KERRY�S SCNK POLICY John Derbyshire, National Review Online columnist (and Member since 2002), is not happy with John Kerry�s public position on SCNK (second item in column, see also 6/7 and 8/23 NKRs); neither is James Robbins, also of NRO. The editors of the Washington Post are less than happy with either candidate, but like Bush and Kerry, they are silent on liberation. MORE ON STALINIST-CONTROLLED NORTHERN KOREA AND THE UNITED STATES Bradley Graham, Washington Post, examines the debate behind SCNK�s missile capabilities, and the U.S. missile defense system deployed last week in part to counter it. Kari Huus, MSNBC, rehashes the abysmal conventional wisdom on the Stalinists� nuclear ambitions. Eric Baculinao, NBC (via MSNBC), finds democratic Korea unhappy with the President Bush (although there was no poll numbers to back it up). He also finds SCNK �does not necessarily prefer a Kerry presidency.� What would lead the Stalinist �analyst� to hint at such a thing? This quarter once again cites the 12/8/03, 12/22/03, 6/7, and 6/28 NKRs. ON COMMUNIST CHINA�S ROLE Kate Pound Dawson, VOA (via Epoch Times) talks to several analysts who remind us that Communist China is helping itself, not the U.S., in the SCNK nuclear talks. Check out the Communist China and the Terrorist War page. Sign the petition for an American boycott of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. 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