| Home page To receive this publication via e-mail, click here. THE NORTH KOREA REPORT: JUNE 7, 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: KERRY CRITICIZES BUSH; WANTS BILATERAL TALKS WITH NK LOWER U.S. TROOPS LEVELS ALSO OK FOR DISCUSSION, BUT NOT HUMAN RIGHTS Senator John Kerry, Democratic nominee for President, criticized President Bush�s policy on North Korea, and called for bilateral talks with the Stalinist regime on its nuclear weapons program. Kerry also said he was willing to discuss �reducing U.S. troop levels and even the reunification of the two Koreas� (Cybercast News). It should be noted that the rights of the people of northern Korea were not on Kerry�s list of subjects, nor was anything else that might upset Stalinist-in-chief Kim Jong-il. Kerry also justified the bilateral talks, using the 1994 Agreed Framework as evidence of �a process - albeit a flawed one - for accountability.� This �process� allowed North Korea to develop a full-blown uranium development program not only for Stalinist use, but also for export to Libya, before the U.S. confronted the regime in October 2002 (see 10/21/02 and last NKRs). Of course, President Bush is also continuing talks with the regime that have led to nothing but American concessions (see 7/14/03 and 12/22/03 NKRs). Neither the President nor Kerry has called for the liberation of the people of northern Korea. WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION NEWS RUSSIA SIGNS ONTO PSI President Bush�s lone bright spot on North Korea � the anti-terrorist Proliferation Security Initiative (see 7/14/03 and 12/22/03, and last NKRs) � took a major step with the addition of Russia to the group. However, given Russia�s ties to the other in-all-but-name target of the PSI � Iran � the direction of this step is still unclear. Report: Cybercast News Russia joins the U.S., Australia, Great Britain, France, Germany, Japan, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Turkey, Canada, Norway, Denmark, and Singapore as members of the PSI. Stop the North Korean 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 North Korea broke. HUMAN RIGHTS AND INTERNAL NEWS GERMAN INSTITUTE OPENS IN PYONGYANG Germany�s Goethe Institute �has opened a branch in the North Korean capital of Pyongyang� (BBC). The institute will supposedly be open to all in the North without any restrictions. However, the institute is completely cultural, so there will be nothing political in nature � which is probably why the Stalinist regime agreed to it in the first place. OTHER SOUTH KOREA NEWS MILITARIES AGREE TO HOTLINE, OTHER MEASURES . . . The militaries of Stalinist North Korea and democratic South Korea agreed to measures �reducing military tension� (BBC). Among the things to which they agreed in principle were �a telephone hotline between the rival navies.� They also agreed to �share radio frequencies and agree on visual signals.� Also reporting: CNN . . . INCLUDING ROAD LINKS AS SOUTH KOREA PROMISES MORE FOOD AID A few days after the military agreements, North and South Korea also �agreed to formally open newly-built roads through the military buffer zone that divides the two countries� (BBC). The South also �promised 400,000 tonnes (UK sp) of food aid.� Whether the link agreement was conditional upon the aid was not discussed in the story. SOUTH KOREAN LEGISLATORS GOING TO CHEN�S INAUGURAL THREATENED BY PRC In a move angering South Koreans of all political stripes, Communist China �to bully lawmakers from South Korea into staying away from last month's inauguration of Taiwanese President Chen Shui-bian� (Cybercast News). The PRC sent �phone and fax messages to lawmakers and their party leaders� telling the guests not to show up. According to Chosun Ilbo, �an information officer at the Chinese Embassy said the mission �would remember� the decision of those lawmakers who ignored the request and went to Taipei.� How charming. COMMENTARY/ANALYSIS ON THE AMERICAN TROOP REDUCTION Jonathon Marcus, BBC, examines some of the reasons for America�s plans to reduce the troop deployment in South Korea (see last NKR). The BBC also surveyed the reactions of the South Korean media. ON COMMUNIST CHINA�S ROLE Louisa Lim, BBC, talks to North Korean refugees hiding in Communist China, and finds that �most people in the Hermit Kingdom now disliked� Stalinist-in-chief Kim Jong-il, and life as a nonperson in the PRC �was as filled with fear as life back home.� Their tale cries out for liberation for the people of northern Korea. 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 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 North Korea that you find to the same address. |