| Home page To receive this publication via e-mail, click here. THE NORTH KOREA REPORT: JANUARY 5, 2004 Dragon in the Dark: How and Why Communist China Helps Our Enemies in the War on Terror is now available! My book detailing Communist China�s history of aiding terrorist states, Saddam Hussein, the Taliban, and al Qaeda can be ordered can be ordered here, at Barnes and Noble, or at Amazon. � D.J. McGuire Our statement on why northern Korea must be liberated can be found here. TOP STORY: NK SHIP MINES HAVE �DISAPPEARED� FROM HIGH-SECURITY BASE SCORES OF MINES BELIEVED TO BE PART OF AL QAEDA �ARMADA� An American spy plane (assuming World Net Daily had a typo in calling it a �plan�) �discovered scores of acoustic sea mines had disappeared from a high-security naval base in North Korea.� The mines �may be aboard an armada of terror ships Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida network has purchased and formed into a terror armada over the past year.� If true, it would be the first public link between the Stalinist regime � a charter member of the axis of evil � and al Qaeda. Communist China � the North�s fifty-plus-year-ally � paid upwards of $10 million to the terrorist group for unexploded American cruise missiles in 1998 (see 10/24/01 and 1/30/02 Updates). OTHER WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION NEWS DELEGATION FROM U.S., BUT NOT ADMINISTRATION, MAY VISIT YONGBYON FACILITY Meanwhile, An unofficial American delegation will visit North Korea, and apparently examine its nuclear weapons program. The trip, scheduled to begin tomorrow and last all week, does not include any government officials, and the Bush Administration �played down� (Washington Post) the trip. Also reporting: Washington Times, Cybercast News Stop the North Korean Nuclear Power Plants: Construction on the nuclear power plants from the 1994 agreement has been suspended for one year, but the plants have not been cancelled. Use this China e-Lobby fact sheet and tell the President to kill the power plants from the 1994 agreement that North Korea broke. OTHER AMERICAN-RELATED NEWS AUTHORS CALL FOR A BLOCKADE OF NORTH KOREA David Frum (Member since 2003) and Richard Perle call for �a Cuba-style military blockade and overt preparations for war� (London Telegraph) against North Korea if the Stalinists do not agree to �the complete and immediate abandonment of its nuclear programme (UK sp).� The authors make the call in their new book, An End to Evil: How to Win the War on Terror. It�s one of the toughest policy recommendations Washington has heard on the Stalinist regime. Sadly, the authors believe, �Such steps, with luck, will prompt China to oust its nominal ally, Kim Jong-il, and install a saner regime in North Korea.� Perle was once retained to help the now-dead Hutchison Whampoa-Global Crossing deal. NORTH KOREA ACCUSES U.S. OF SPYING North Korea �accused the United States of conducting more than 180 aerial sorties in December to spy on the communist country� (BBC). According to the Stalinists� news agency, U2 surveillance aircraft conducted the missions. One of them may have noticed the missing mines in the Top Story; that would explain why the North is so touchy about them. DEAN SLAMS BUSH AGAIN ON NORTH KOREA Democratic front-runner Howard Dean repeated his criticism of President Bush for not entering bilateral negotiations with North Korea. Dean has gone on record saying the Stalinists regime should be treated as a normal country (see 12/15/03 NKR). Report: Washington Post NEWS ON COMMUNIST CHINA�S ROLE SOUTH KOREAN HELD AS STALINIST PRISONER OF WAR FOR 50 YEARS FINALLY HOME Jeon Yong-il, a South Korean veteran who escaped North Korea after being held as a prisoner of war by North Korea for 50 years, is finally home �after a secret deal between the governments in Seoul and Beijing� (London Telegraph). Communist China captured Jeon late last year (see 11/24/03 NKR). The North is still holding 300 South Koreans as POWs. OTHER SOUTH KOREA NEWS ILLEGAL ROH CAMPAIGN MONEY HITS $5 MILLION The amount of illegal campaign funds allegedly raised by President Roh Moo-hyun�s 2002 campaign was at least $5 million, a number over the minimum Roh himself set for his resignation. The dovish Roh vowed to quit if his campaign �received more than one-tenth of the illegal political funds his opponent raised� (Washington Post, third item). Roh�s opponent, Lee Hoi-chang, admitted to taking $42 million in illegal campaign cash, and offered to go to prison himself (see 12/15/03 NKR). COMMENTARY/ANALYSIS ON PAKISTAN AND NORTH KOREA The editors of the Washington Times note Pakistan�s troubling history with North Korea, including nuclear and missile cooperation, but still contends that Pakistan is �a long-term partner, rather than as just a counter-terror ally.� Perhaps they didn�t notice, but in reality, Pakistan is neither of them. ON NORTH KOREA AND INTERNATIONAL FOOD AID Masood Hyder, the United Nations humanitarian coordinator in North Korea, makes a pitch for more food aid to North Korea in the Washington Post. While Hyder at least addresses the concerns of many about the Stalinists stealing the food, he largely dismisses them. ON PERLE AND FRUM�S BOOK Lawrence Kaplan, of The New Republic, reviews the aforementioned An End to Evil: How to Win the War on Terror by Richard Perle and David Frum (Member since 2003, see Other American Related News) in the Washington Post. 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 North Korea Report? Find it via our home page. Feel free to forward this to anyone you think might be interested in receiving it. Anyone who wishes to join can send his/her name and e-mail address to [email protected]. 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