| Home page To receive this publication via e-mail, click here. THE NORTHERN KOREA REPORT: DECEMBER 6, 2004 Dragon in the Dark: How and Why Communist China Helps Our Enemies in the War on Terror is now available here (or call1-888-280-7715). Our statement on why northern Korea must be liberated can be found here. TOP STORY: STALINIST REGIME SAYS U.S. MUST END �HOSTILE POLICY� After meeting with U.S. officials last week, Stalinist-controlled northern Korea repeated its decision �its determination not to rejoin multiparty nuclear disarmament talks until Washington drops what Pyongyang calls a �hostile policy�� (Voice of America via Epoch Times). Also reporting: BBC There have been three previous rounds of the now-suspended six-party talks, which have included Stalinist-controlled northern Korea, the ROK, Communist China, Russia, Japan, and the United States. Outside of U.S. concessions and Stalinist hyperbole (see 10/21/02, 12/8/03, 12/22/03, 6/7, 6/28, 9/20, and 9/28 NKRs), the talks have not produced much. OTHER WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION NEWS ROH MOO-HYUN SAYS TALKS SHOULD RESTART Roh Moo-hyun, dovish President of the Republic of Korea (�South Korea�), �called on all sides to kick-start six-party talks to persuade North Korea to cooperate on its nuclear program� (Washington Post). Roh also �voiced concern about influential US circles who, he said, were calling for regime change in North Korea� (BBC). As for the �influential US circles,� Roh give no specifics, likely because the calls for liberation of northern Korea from within the U.S. are, in fact, few and far between. Roh even went further in his dovishness, and actually criticized those who were helping his fellow Koreans escape the Stalinist regime (Cybercast News). Also reporting: VOA 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. OTHER NEWS ON COMMUNIST CHINA�S ROLE LEFTIST LAWMAKER SAYS U.S. TROOPS IN ROK COULD BE USED TO PROTECT TAIWAN Roh Hoe-chan, a National Assemblyman from the ROK�s leftist Democratic Labor Party, accused the U.S. of planning to use the troops in the ROK to protect Taiwan. The ROK government �dismissed Mr. Roh's remarks as �utterly untrue�� (United Press International via Washington Times); the U.S. government concurred. OTHER AMERICAN-RELATED NEWS JENKINS FEARED STALINISTS WOULD FORCE HIS DAUGHTERS INTO ESPIONAGE Charles Robert Jenkins told Time Asia that he left Stalinist-controlled northern Korea to �get my daughters out� (BBC), and very much expected a long stint in jail for deserting the U.S. Army and defecting to SCNK in 1965. Jenkins, who married Japanese abduction victim Hitomi Soga, said the regime �wanted us to have children so they could use them later.� For more on the plight of Jenkins, Soga, and other Japanese abduction victims, see the 9/23/02, 9/30/02, 10/7/02, 10/14/02, 10/21/02, 10/28/02, 11/18/02, 12/19/02, 5/24, 7/19, 7/27, 8/10, 10/11, and last NKRs. COMMENTARY/ANALYSIS ON SCNK�S NUCLEAR AMBITIONS The editors of National Review find in Europe�s efforts to negotiate with Iran on the latter�s nuclear ambitions several dangerous parallels with the hideous 1994 Agreed Framework. William Rusher, in World Net Daily, finds �grim choices� for the Bush Administration on SCNK � but refuses to look at liberation as an option. CHARLES ROBERT JENKINS The soon-to-be-former Army sergeant who defected to the Stalinist regime talked to Jim Frederick of Time Asia, who described him as �a man on the verge of collapse, his voice cracking as he recalls painful memories.� Although he admits he voluntarily went to SCNK, he now despises the regime that tortured him for 40 years. Even Jonah Goldberg, National Review Online, found Jenkins so beaten down that �forty years of hell in North Korea seems to have been a pretty good punishment for his actions.� ON COMMUNIST CHINA�S ROLE Fabian Hammer, on his blog, details ties between the People�s Republic and its fellow Communist regimes, including Stalinist-controlled northern Korea. Fifty-four years ago this week, Mao sent in Communist Chinese troops to preserve the Kim Il-sung regime, and keep northern Korea in terror. Maureen Zebian, Epoch Times, remembers. 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. |