| Home page To receive this publication via e-mail, click here. THE NORTH KOREA REPORT: MARCH 8, 2004 Listen to the Chinascope, hosted by D.J. McGuire: Tuesday midnight EST or Wednesday 2PM EST (tape delay), on WXEI 95.3 FM in Crestview, FL, or here. 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: NORTH KOREA WANTS U.S. TROOPS OUT OF SOUTH KOREA STALINISTS LINK TROOP WITHDRAW TO DENUCLEARIZATION, WHICH IT ALSO BLASTS North Korea is moving the goalposts again. The Stalinists added a new condition for ending their nuclear weapons program: American troops �withdrawing completely and verifiably� from South Korea (BBC). The North also called U.S. demands for an end to its nuclear weapons development �the logic of robbery.� The U.S. promised the North economic aid and security guarantees if it ended its nuclear ambitions under the �coordinated steps� plan during the latest round of nuclear talks (see 12/8/03 and last NKRs). The regime continues to build and hide nuclear weapons, and the U.S. says nothing about of liberation. Also reporting: Voice of America via Epoch Times, HK 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 WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION NEWS PRESIDENT BUSH HINTED PATIENCE �COULD RUN OUT� DURING BEIJING TALKS President Bush personally sent word to the North Korean nuclear arms negotiators in Beijing �that the administration's patience in diplomatically seeking North Korea's dismantling of its weapons program could run out� (Washington Post). In fact, �the message was not subtle: The administration's goodwill could run out, and all options were still on the table.� If the President is indeed considering bringing liberation back �on the table� � and given what Secretary of State Colin Powell said the next day, a shaker of salt is in order (CNN) � perhaps he could make more Americans aware of it, such as those of us who have been pushing for him to emphasize liberation for years (we know who we are). OTHER AMERICAN-RELATED NEWS KERRY GETS KIND WORDS FROM STALINIST MEDIA The media of Stalinist North Korea has �reported in glowing terms� (Financial Times, UK) speeches by presumptive Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry, apparently believing �victory for the Democratic candidate on November 2 would lead to a softening in US policy towards the country's nuclear weapons programme (UK sp).� It should be noted that this quarter has serious problems with both President Bush and Senator Kerry on North Korea, and while Kerry has at times sounded more dovish, the Bush Administration�s actual policies have largely made this a distinction without a difference. NEWS ON COMMUNIST CHINA�S ROLE FEMALE NK REFUGEES SUFFER HORRORS ON PRC SIDE OF THE BORDER For North Korean refugees escaping to Communist China �some nightmares don't go away � they merely change dimensions� (Washington Post). This is especially true of women, many of whom �are sold into temporary or long-term service as sexual slaves or suffer other kinds of sexual or physical abuse, often inside entertainment clubs.� How can this happen? In large part, it is due to Communist China�s policy of sending back every North Korean refugee it can find � despite the fact that repatriation usually means death for the refugees. As a result, North Korean refugees are basically nonpersons in the PRC, at the mercy of unscrupulous locals. HUMAN RIGHTS AND INTERNAL NEWS NORTH KOREANS NOW ALMOST A FOOT SHORTER DUE TO STARVATION Malnutrition in North Korea has led to the entire population becoming shorter, by an average of eight inches by age 17. More worrisome, a number of nutritionists believe the aggregate intelligence of the people trapped in northern Korea is being affected by the Stalinist regime and its aftereffects. Report: Los Angeles Times via Seattle Times DRUGS NEWS STATE DEPARTMENT FINGERS NORTH KOREA AS DRUG DEALING REGIME A State Department report declared North Korea�s drug trade �a conspiracy between officials at the highest levels of the ruling party/government and their subordinates to cultivate, manufacture, and/or traffic narcotics� (BBC). Among the evidence cited was the Stalinist heroin shipment seized by Australia in 2002 (see 4/28/02, 5/5/02, and 5/12/02 NKRs). SOUTH KOREA NEWS ANONYMOUS DEATH THREATS COME TO NORTH KOREAN DEFECTOR Hwang Jang-yop, the highest-ranking Stalinist to defect from North Korea (see 11/3/03 and 11/10/03 NKRs) has had his life threatened by around �a dozen� (BBC) note-senders. Two other defectors were also the subject of death threats. ROH MOO-HYUN FACES POSSIBLE IMPEACHMENT EFFORT South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun faces a possible impeachment vote for explicitly endorsing the Uri Party � the faction that left the Millennium Democrats to support him � in next month�s parliamentary elections. Such a thing is illegal in South Korea. Report: BBC SOUTH KOREA TO BEGIN BUILDING INDUSTRIAL PARK IN NK LATER THIS YEAR Under an agreement signed last week, �South Korean firms will be able to start work later this year in a joint industrial park in North Korea� (BBC). The amount of money this would put in Stalinists hand was not mentioned in the piece. COMMENTARY/ANALYSIS PARAPUNDIT CALLS FOR LIBERATION �Undermining the North Korean regime ought to be a major US foreign policy goal. That the Bush Administration is not trying very hard to reach the people of North Korea is a major continuing US foreign policy mistake.� This is how Randall Parker, Parapundit founder and Member since 2003, finishes his well-written analysis of the Stalinist famine and its effects. ON THE NUCLEAR TALKS Susan Jakes, Time Asia, actually called the result of last week�s Beijing�s talks �an improvement,� but even she noted, �while talks drag on, (NK) can quietly continue developing nuclear weapons.� ON NORTH KOREA�S NUCLEAR WEAPONS Arnaud de Borchgrave, editor at large of the Washington Times, calls on Pakistani dictator Pervez Musharraf to come clean about his knowledge of Abdul Qadeer Khan�s nuclear technology deals with North Korea. ON SOUTH KOREA Maura Fogarty, Voice of America (via Epoch Times), examines the stakes in South Korea�s parliamentary elections, which take place next month. Lee Edwards, of the Heritage Foundation, laments the lack of media recognition for South Korea�s contribution of troops to Iraq, in National Review Online. ON COMMUNIST CHINA�S ROLE David Piper, Fox News, takes some na�vet� on Communist China and extends it to North Korea: �it seems to want to change but its leaders just don�t know how to do it without the regime collapsing like a house of cards when its people find out what the reality is.� Since when is the collapse of a brutal, Stalinist regime a bad thing? 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]. 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